Honeymoons to have weeklong run in New York

TIRANA, August 18 – Goran Paskaljevic’s newest film, Honeymoons (2009), will have a weeklong run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) from September 9 through 15, 2010, the museum said in a statement. 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, 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 coproduction – a 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.
Honeymoons is produced and directed by Goran Paskaljevic. It was written by Paskaljevic and Genc Permeti and shot in Serbia, Albania and Italy.