• Feature Film
  • Drama

Man of the House

In order to become a mother to the young and motherless niece, Fran, who although born a woman, lives the celibate life of a man, has to make the hard choice of either continuing to maintain the status of a “man”, or give it all up and reconnect with the feminine maternal feelings that she has suppressed for so long.

Data

Genre
Drama
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Minority coproduction
Format
DCP, 110
Release
27.02.2026
Distribution
Ellly Films GmbH
Funding Film Institute
80.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs
69 %
Share of total production costs
10 %
Co-production

Lissus Media (AL), Akran Creative (GR) & Thumbs up (XK), 48%, Palomar Production SPA (IT, 23%), Peglanje Snova (HR) & Manufactura (MK), 14%

International funding

Albanian National Center of Cinematography (ANCC), Kosovo
Center of Filmography, MiBact, Croatian Audiovisual Centre
(HAVC), North macedonia Film Agency, Eurimages

Funding program
ÖFI
Status
before release
Film location
Albania
Shooting time
February - March 2023
Days of shooting
30
Completion
Winter 2023/2024
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut
Credits
Production
Ellly Films GmbH
Producer Austria
Elly Senger-Weiss
Director
Andamion Murataj
Script
Andamion Murataj
DOP
Astrid Heubrandtner
Sound engineer
Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Sound design
Darko Spasovsk
Costume design
Stela Laknori
Set design
Durim Neziri
Green Film Consultant
Elly Senger-Weiß
Cast
Drita Karaga (Fran), Astrit Alihajdaraj (Adriani), Alesia Ruci (Zana), Bislim Mucaj (Anton), Basri Lushtaku (Ganiu)
Production manager
Dritan Huqi
Television investment
Greek Nationale Television ERT

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