The Forgiveness of Blood

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A powerful, richly textured look at a modern Albanian family caught up in a blood feud.Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet caf. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old law in Albania (still in place today), this entitles the dead man's family to take the life of a male from Nik's family as retribution. His uncle in jail and his father in hiding, Nik is the prime target and confined to the home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Laej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business.

CAST: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi

DIRECTOR: Joshua Marston

RUN TIME: 1 hr 49 min