La Beauté de l'Âne

After her father Asllan has lived in exile for sixty years, Dea returns with him to Makermal. This Kosovar village that was once his home was destroyed in the war, leaving only the stories of the survivors. Together with the remaining villagers, Swiss-Kosovar director Dea Gjinovci and her father embark on a search for traces of the past and are confronted with the collective scars of a community. THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY is a moving meditation on the fragility of memory, blending documentary reality with an almost fairy-tale-like visual language. (Festival information, Zürich HRF 2026)