Edition: 2008

Selected by the Festival: BILAN DU FILM ETHNOGRAPHIQUE PARIS 2007, Paris, France

Award winner: PRIZE BARTOK

Year of production: 2006

Country of production: Albania

Production: Bi-optic / Anemon

Set in: Albania, Greece

Duration: 68'

Film: Color

Directed by: Bernard Lortat-Jacob, Hélène Delaporte

The «Lost Country» is Tchameria in the northern part of modern day Greece, which Muslim Albanians had to leave after the war. A land which is both sung of and mourned with deep nostalgia in Albania. The film follows Shaban Zeneli, an Albanian singer visiting Tchameria and expressing his nostalgia in song with his companions.