The Forgiveness of Blood tells the story of two sparring Albanian families whose conflicts lead to a death in one clan shortly after the movie begins. The fallout from that bloodshed is the film’s ...

Joshua Marston’s follow-up to Maria Full of Grace (2004) lacks his debut feature’s sense of momentum and urgency; it’s intelligent, well-intentioned, and largely inert. A teenage brother and sister in ...

There is no blood seen in "The Forgiveness of Blood." But blood courses through this film about a feud between two Albanian families that begins when a dispute over a road leads to a killing. The ...

Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of Grace. His sophomore effort, The Forgiveness of Blood, ...

Nik is a carefree Albanian teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become ...

Nik is seventeen and is in his last year at high school in northern Albania. Something of a go-getter, Nik has decided that, as soon as he has his school graduation in his hands, he wants to open an ...