Only the Devil Hates Water

A young restaurateur, on a way of finding herself through religion, meets an older homosexual man enclosed in his pessimistic world. Through a brief encounter, both of them will wonder if their lives could have been different.

Story about a 10 year old Albanian Muslim kid, Arben who decides to participate in a religious competition organized by his school in honor of the Christian holiday Epiphany, in order to get the 10.000 denars award and help his little brother who is very sick.

Adela (11), a Romani girl from Skopje, lives in a ghetto with her mother and older sister, Zara. When her family faces a financial crisis, Adela’s mother is sure that the only solution is to sell Zara at the bridal market. Adela can’t accept this destiny for her older sister and takes matters into her own hands. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she decides to join a skateboarding contest even though, in her culture, skateboarding is frowned upon for girls. The only way she can learn how to skate and have a chance to win the contest is if she befriends the gang of skater girls from her school. Adela starts navigating between the two different cultures, where she finds herself caught between two very different models of femininity.