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Balkan sworn virgins (in Albanian: burrnesha) are people who are assigned female at birth and who take a vow of chastity and live as men in patriarchal northern Albanian society, Kosovo and Montenegro.
Sep 10, 2022 · Balkan sworn virgins are a very odd yet intriguing custom from the rural regions of Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro. In a nutshell, when a head of a strict patriarchal family would die without leaving a male heir, one daughter would become a man.
Mar 19, 2015 · With Alba Rohrwacher, Flonja Kodheli, Lars Eidinger, Luan Jaha. Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
- (1.2K)
- Drama
- Laura Bispuri
- 2015-03-19
In a rugged, impoverished world where women are treated as chattel, some women escape their hard, gender-determined fate by claiming the status of “sworn virgins” before a dozen male elders, after which they don male garb and live as men.
Apr 22, 2016 · After posing as a man for 14 years, a woman (Alba Rohrwacher) travels from Albania to Italy to reconnect with her estranged sister (Flonja Kodheli) and...
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- Alba Rohrwacher
- Laura Bispuri
- Drama, LGBTQ+
Dec 10, 2022 · As a 23-year-old woman living in the mountains of north Albania, she made a decision that would change her life. She swore a vow of celibacy and promised to live the rest of her life as a man ...
After more than ten years spent in solitude in the mountains as a man, she becomes brutish and she transforms to survive the hardship, the cold and misery, until something returns to awaken her again... Hana decides to change life and painstakingly regain her body.
