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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