Original Title: Zbardhje

English Title: Bleach

Production Phase: Pre-Production

Completion: 2026

Budget: €900,000.00

Estimated Length: 100 minutes

Director: Kaltrina Krasniqi

Screenplay: Doruntina Basha

Producer: Ares Shporta

Production Company: Vera Films (Ks), Code Blue Production (Montenegro), Dream Factory (MK), Family Affair Films (NL) and Slingshot Films (Italy)

Synopsis

In an ads agency in Prishtina, 20 female cleaners are in a focus group, sharing thoughts on a new bleach product the agency is branding. Fatime, a domestic worker from the outskirts, shares a story, which draws the attention of Elvira, the agency’s head, who offers her a job as a cleaner. Fatime has grown exhausted by informal work in other people’s homes, so she eagerly accepts. Soon she finds herself at a luxury residence in the coast, changing bandages on Elvira’s body recovering from liposuction. Elvira is adamant: nobody must know. Fatime is loyal. Having a powerful, successful woman dependent on her, instills a devotion she feels only for her closest friends. Unaware, she crosses a line. An incident tarnishes this newfound friendship so badly that Fatime, the believer of cleanliness, the expert stain remover, cannot seem to know how to bleach out. Her truth is not valid in a world where what she sees as friendship is an illusion created by manipulative dynamics of social class.

Producer’s Contact: 

Ares Shporta

M: +383 44 284 142
E: [email protected]