Luna Park (2024 film)
2024 Albanian film
Luna Park is a 2024 drama film co-written and directed by Florenc Papas. The film set in 1997 Albanian civil unrest, focuses on a mother and son's hardship. It had its premiere at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival on 4 November 2024. It was nominated for the Greek Minority Co-Production Film Award at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards.
The film was selected to represent Albania in the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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Set against the backdrop of Albania’s 1997 Albanian civil unrest, Luna Park traces the agonising journey of Mira, a single mother from Elbasan, Albania, and her young son Toni. Mira, desperate to secure a future, becomes entangled in high-risk investments and a brief romance with Berti, a charismatic figure behind a dubious financial scheme. As the nation descends into chaos following the collapse of pyramid schemes, mother and son are forced to flee. Their escape leads them to the Greek border, where danger and separation await. Alone in a foreign land, Toni embarks on a search for the father he never knew, finding a fragile sense of peace near the shuttered Luna Park, a haunting emblem of lost innocence and fragile hope in a fractured world.
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