[Ëmbëlsirat vijnë nga Lindja / The Sweets come from the East]
S y n o p s i s
Two elderly Albanian spouses visit their son, who has been living in Bucharest for over two decades. A bilingual writer, he also has a high position in the academic field. His parents bring lots of sweets and jam jars from home, but also an old shoebox containing several well-kept pieces of paper the son wrote when he was still in high-school.
The meeting between the parents and the son is characterized by a humour that can also be perceived as a well-controlled explosion of longing and tenderness towards one another, but also towards the bygone Balkan life. One could even have the impression that a life apparently deprived of elementary freedoms, pressured by a dictatorship's attempts to formalize the human being, can be incredibly artistic.