Visar Morina
Germany, Kosovo, Slovenia, Albania, North Macedonia, Belgium
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2026
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130’
Hatixhe and Shaban, a couple in their 40s, live in a village in Kosovo with three daughters and share the household with Shaban’s two brothers and their mother. They make a living with their 12 cows. They get by reasonably well until one day the cows get stolen by their own brother and they are forced to move to Pristina, looking for work and a place to stay. A journey into a hypercapitalist society begins.
Original title
Shame and Money
Chromaticity
Color
FoRM
Fiction

DIRECTOR

Visar Morina was born 1979 in Pristina, Kosovo. He graduated in Film Direction from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (Germany) in 2010. His films premiered at Berlinale, Sundance, Locarno and Karlovy Vary. His debut feature BABAI won Best Director at Karlovy Vary IFF 2015. Morina was listed as Variety’s 10 Europeans to Watch in 2020. SHAME AND MONEY premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic.
FILMOGRAPHY
Exile (2020); Babai (2015)
CREDITS
DIRECTOR
Visar Morina
SCREENPLAY
Visar Morina, Doruntina Basha
CAMERA
Janis Mazuch
EDITING
Joëlle Alexis
PRODUCER
Fabian Altenried, Sophie Ahrens, Kristof Gerega
MUSIC
Mario Batkovic
CAST
Astrit Kabashi, Flonja Kodheli, Kumrije Hoxha
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Burim Arifi
PRODUCTION
Schuldenberg Films
RIGHTS HOLDER
The Yellow Affair