My Lake

MY LAKE, or "my movie", although it is a cinematic narrative in itself, is quite simply an ordinary story, natural for its extraordinary reality, unnatural for Albanian society. For about three decades this same leitmotif has continued played out in one form or another. Drug trafficking, money - Children are born and raised with an atypical moral code where making money to lift you out of poverty, by illegal means, somehow makes you a man. It makes you somebody.