Honeymoons to have weeklong run in New York

New York, August 11 – Goran Paskaljevic’s newest film, Honeymoons (2009), will have a weeklong run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from September 9 through 15, 2010. Honeymoons, the first Albanian-Serbian film co-production, follows two couples, one in Albania, the other in Serbia, who decide to leave their respective countries to realize their dreams in Western Europe. They soon find themselves trapped between their countries’ past and their future lives together.
With Honeymoons, which was shot in part in Tirana, Albania, Serbian filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic (who was the subject of a midcareer retrospective at MoMA in 2008) became the first director to make a Serbian-Albanian coproductionء courageous endeavour given the current antipathy between the two countries. Paskaljevic, who was himself exiled during Slobodan Milosevic’s rule, remains an unsentimental humanist who believes in crossing borders both national and metaphoricalءnd he makes such crossings the subject of Honeymoons. In a “new” Europe that strives to free itself from frontiers, two unrelated, loving couples must leave their hometowns, but they find their efforts to move forward unexpectedly stymied by national boundaries. Honeymoons is produced and directed by Goran Paskaljevic. It was written by Paskaljevic and Genc Permeti and shot in Serbia, Albania and Italy.