Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro.
Co-produced by France Télévisions, RTBF, Tribu Films and WIP, with the participation of ERT.
With the support of the CNC, the French Community of Belgium and the General Council of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Audience Award at Faito Doc Festival 2008 (Italy), Festival des Cultures en Méditerranée de Bastia 2008, Festival de Salerno 2008 (Italy), Special Mention at Festival San Benedetto del Tronto 2008 (Italy), FIPA 2009, Festival Int. de Ciné de Huesca 2009 (Spain), Best European Documentary of Eastern Europe Award at the Astra Film Festival 2009 (Sibiu, Romania), Best Film Award in the Human Life section at the Festival Cinema e Diritti of Naples 2009 (Italy), Festival Traces de vies 2009 (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Special Award at the Prishtina Film Festival 2009 (Kosovo), 7th Eyes and Lens Ethnographic Film Review of Warsaw, Grand Prix Documentaries of Creation at FIFDH Paris 2010, Festival Adriatico Mediterraneo 2010 of Ancona (Italy), Festival of Anthropological Cinema Contro-Sguardi of Perugia (Italy), Festival of Mediterranean Cinema of Brussels 2010, International Festival DerHumALC of Buenos Aires in Argentina, Festival Etnofilm Cadca (Slovakia), Festival Int. Film Festival of Ankara in Turkey.
Other broadcasts: Rain TV LLC (Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgistan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine), KTO, SRF (Switzerland).
Distribution WIP.
Shkodër, Northern Albania. In 1991, Luce’s son was murdered. Following the turmoil in the country and through the personal and spiritual experience of this woman who decided to forgive her son’s murderer by following the “Besa” provided by the Kanun of Lek Dukajin, we take a historical, religious and social journey in today’s Albania.
Today, “the forgiven” considers Luce as a new “Mother”: thanks to her, he is completely rehabilitated in front of the society… Luce is now a peace mediator to help other families engaged in the process of the “blood law”.
DVD edition by Les Productions du Lagon and ClapOsud.