Private Project

Sheets

A family surviving in a totalitarian dystopia is faced with the dilemma of reporting a family of immigrants who suddenly their seek help or preserve human dignity by endangering their own safety.

  • Evi Gjoni
    Director
  • Evi Gjoni
    Writer
  • Genc Permeti
    Writer
    Honeymoons, Seven Days, No Country for Fairytales
  • Sven Dagones
    Writer
    Light Falls
  • Elida Rasha
    Producer
    Broken Bridges, Seven Days
  • Tristan Halilaj
    Key Cast
    "Gent"
    Forgiveness of Blood, The Flying Circus
  • Melihate Qena
    Key Cast
    "Gjera"
    Aga's House
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, Drama
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    55,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Albania
  • Country of Filming:
    Albania
  • Language:
    Albanian
  • Shooting Format:
    Dig ita
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Trieste Film Festival
    Trieste
    Italy
    January 26, 2023
    World Premiere
    Audience Award For Best Short and Special Mention Jury Award for Best Short
Director Biography - Evi Gjoni

Evi Gjoni is a film and tv director. She studied film and tv directing , as bachelor and master program in the University of Arts in Tirana. She started by working as assistant director and script supervisor in different international film projects and television.

Her debut short as director and screenwriter “Sheets” financed by the National Centre of Cinematography of Albania had its premiere at Trieste International Film Festival and won The Audience Award and Special Mention Jury Prize.

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Director Statement

“Sheets” is a film describing a story of a dystopian situation. Fear of the unknown and from authorities bump together, giving us the conflict of the characters themselves, who at the same time have to face two kinds of challenges, the satisfaction of being alive and the obedience to limitations in their normal life. The climax will be when an emigrant family appears in their backyard asking for help. Now the family has a difficult decision to make. The slow pace of the camera is something which illustrate the elements of an apathetic society far from being alive. At certain moments the noise of governmental vehicles and their sirens transmits the feeling of death as in "Seven Seals". And the voice of the telephone installed which communicate with family will be like the very character of death in Bergman's masterpiece.