To Want, To Need, To Love

2017 | 90' | Documentary

Three young people – an artist couple on the verge of a breakup and the filmmaker’s apathetic brother – visit three cities over three months as part of an ambitious and transformative art project that creates musical and performance pieces inspired by the question, What do you believe in?

Travelling from Pristina to Belgrade to Zurich, each one tries to answer this central question in their work and their lives, only to have more questions spring up:
Can a person change? How do you create your own inner universe? What is your purpose? There’s power and pleasure in participation, whether as an artist, spectator or person simply questioning the world.

To Want, To Need, To Love provides a close encounter with creativity and shows how love is the energy behind all forms of art, creation and curiosity.

CREDITS

Edona Vatoci
Arbër Salihu
Genc Hasanaj
 
Director / Camera: Ilir Hasanaj
Editing: Isabella Kohl
Production: Rina Kika
Transcription: Njomza Dragusha
Music: Arbër Salihu
Sound Design: Tomor Kuçi
Sound: Dren Suldashi
Colorgrading: Valentin Huber
Title Design / Credits: Arvan Berisha

FESTIVALS / AWARDS

Kosova, Prizren Dokufest 2017 – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
Canada, Toronto Hot Docs 2018
Montenegro, Ulçin Seanema 2018 – WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD
USA, Palm Springs American Documentary And Animation Film Festival 2018
Portugal, Porto Porto/Post/Doc 2018
Switzerland, Solothurn Solothurner Filmtage 2019

PRESS

Kosovo 2.0 – Watching your life on the big screen
Kosovo Cinematography Center – Premiere at HotDocs

 

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