Foreign trailer for Honeymoons, which screened at the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Honeymoons is set in contemporary Albania, Serbia, Italy and Hungary. We follow the fortunes of two young couples, one Albanian and the other Serbian, who leave their respective home countries to break from their overbearing families and the past, seeking a better life in Western Europe. But migrating to Europe is not always what they dream it might be and problems ensue at the border. Trouble awaits the Albanian couple when they arrive in a southern Italian port and takes over when the Serbians cross the Hungarian border by train. Like many young people from the Balkans, they find themselves as second-rate citizens and being made to pay for the mistakes of previous generations. With no word of the relations between Albania and Serbia or of the current political context in the Balkans, the filmmaker strives to draw out commonalities between the two very similar societies, without sparing criticism of the EU.