Director’s Statement:

A CUP OF COFFEE AND NEW SHOES ON takes place in today’s Tirana. The story is a strong existential drama with a social background on two identical twin brothers facing their limited life choices. I feel challenged by the idea to make a film that deals with fundamental questions: what happens to a human being when he/she is completely immersed into darkness, not being able to communicate with the others and the world? What happens to a human being when all his windows of perception are irreversibly walled? The most important challenge for me is to visually show the unbearable violent separation of two identical twin brothers in a subtle and minimal way. As screenwriter and director, I want to honestly show the progressive immersion of two human beings into a deep silenced darkness. The two main characters are set mostly in indoor locations. In terms of style, I aim at adopting a realistic approach by purifying the cinema language from its conventional artifices.