CUP OF COFFEE, NEW SHOES ON
WILL MAKE YOU FEEL THANKFUL
Since Hollywood is still celebrating Thanksgiving, I thought I could show you something from Europe that will really make you count your blessings and feel
thankful for all the little things you are probably taking for granted. Albanian drama A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON is currently competing over at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
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| The movie had world premiere in Tallinn |
This year's Albanian Oscar entry is a deeply emotional drama, set in the capital of Albania - Tirana. Agim and Gëzim, identical and inseparable twins in their thirties, have a strong bond of brotherly love. They are both deaf, but this doesn’t get in the way of their everyday life. One day they receive the diagnosis that they will also lose their sight, and they are confronted with their changing
relationship to the world.
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| It is this year's Oscar Entry from Albania |
Two leads, Portuguese twins Edgar and Rafael Morais, who are not really deaf, spent six months learning Albanian sign language. They've got the roles after an extensive international audition. The film was inspired by the story of two real Belgian twin brothers, both 45-year-old shoemakers from the town of Putte, who back in 2013 put on a new pair of shoes and had a cup of coffee with their relatives before saying goodbye to them and leaving to get euthanised after finding that they will become blind too after already being deaf. The movie is a co-production between Albania, Greece and Portugal.