Vergine giurata
Laura Bispuri, 2013Sworn Virgin is a journey inside femininity told in its complexity and contradictory forms.
Hana Doda, still a girl, escapes from her destiny of being a wife and a servant, a future imposed on women in the inhospitable mountains of Albania. She appeals to the old law of the Kanun and takes an oath of eternal virginity, becoming, in this way, a "sworn virgin." She turns into a man, takes up a rifle and becomes Mark, Mark Doda. In exchange for this sacrifice, Hana is considered at the same level of the other men of the village. After more than ten years spent in the solitude of the mountains as a man, she becomes though and she changes her character to deal with the hardship, the cold and misery of life, until something happens that awakens her again? Hana decides to change her life and painstakingly regain her body. She knows that leaving the mountains is the price she has to pay to be able to go back to living. She begins a journey through which she will revisit her past and exhume memories and feelings that she had been forced to bury in oblivion.