I wipe the dust from the marble, passing my hand over my mother's face. She looks beautiful in the engraved black-and-white portrait.
Photo by Sevdije Kastrati
Around the graves, the plastic flowers, those gaudy imposters, stand out against the surrounding greenery, so bright and stiff, destined to fade under the sun, their plastic slowly leaching into the soil.
Antoneta Kastrati
Antoneta Kastrati is a filmmaker whose work explores memory, war and its aftermath. Her debut feature film, “ZANA,” premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
This story was originally written in English.