Forgiveness Of Blood (2011)

I just watched this movie (called "Falja e Gjakut" in Albanian.) The film is about how a family deals with being part of an Albanian Family Feud in a small town. There are really two main characters: Nik (played by: Tristan Halilaj) and his sister Rudina (played by: Sindi Lacej.) Their father and uncle get into an arguement with a neighbor over access to some land and the neighbor is killed. The uncle goes to jail while the father goes into hiding in another town. This opens the Albanian Family Feud. I don't understand everything about the codes of the Feud, but according to the movie, the other family is allowed to kill any male member of the immediate family that committed the murder. Nik and his little brother are forced to stay at home in hiding. This isolation causes Nik to stop going to school and the girl he likes in town stays away. Rudina, as a female, now has to take on all the responsibilities (ie leaving school to earn a living for her family.) The movie doesn't say if the feud ends. The father is caught by the police and released  (but now has to stay hidden in his house) and Nik is forced to leave his family forever. I had never heard of the Albanian Family Feud until I got this movie. It seems like a big waste of time on everyone's part. The family of the dead person has to spend all their time trying to kill and revenge the death while the family of the murderer has to spend all their time hiding and hoping they won't be killed. It seems that the officials condone the Family Feuds rather than allowing law and order to rule the land. The schools even send teachers to the houses of the hidden to continue their studies. The film does show the desperation that it places on the young (Rudina has to mature much faster and Nik has to hide for something he never did.) It was an interesting movie on a topic I knew little about.