Women Without Wings

The Canada/Albania feature film,  "Women Without Wings", starring Katya Gardner, Micheline Lanctôt, Besa Imani, Gjovalin Gjoni, and Alfred Trebicka, was presented at the Montreal Film Festival 2002, Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival 2002 (international discoveries section), the Victoria Film Festival, the Edmonton International Film Festival, the Tiburon Film Festival (California), the Newport Beach Festival (California), the Bergamo Film Meeting (Italy), the Houston Worldfest (Texas), the Atlantic Film Festival and the International Festival of India in New Delhi.

This film about Albanian virgins (women who live out their lives as men) has been released theatrically at the Cinema Le Clap in Quebec City; the Kino Xenix in Zurich, Switzerland; the Carlton Cinema in Toronto and the Côte des Neiges Cinema in Montreal. The film premiered on November 27, 2003 in Tirana, Albania and recently on November 22, 2007 in Prishtina, Kosovo.

   "eminently watchable curiosity, amazing scenery, stone-age twists on family values and standout supporting performance by Micheline Lanctôt"
Variety, September 17, 2002

"histoire peu ordinaire faisant écho à la solidarité feminine"
La Presse, Montréal, August 26, 2002

"Try it" (***/5 stars)
The Movie Times

"an excellent and very important film for us in Serbia"
Borislav Andelic, film critic, Vecernje Novosti, Belgrade

"Une franche découverte que ce film de Nicholas Kinsey
ou se chevauchent le drame sociale et le récit de guerre,
la fiction et le documentaire"
Cinéma Le Clap, Quebec

Winner  of a silver Remi award
in a feature film category
at the Houston Worldfest 2003