Blodsbånd

The Norwegian film Blodsbånd (literary meaning "Blood relationship" or "Blood ties") is the story about a young boy - Mirush - who lives in Kosovo with his mother and older brother Armend. Armend have saved some money in order to go to Norway but he is killled in a car accident so Mirush finds the money and a map of Norway and without telling his mother, he leaves Kosovo in order to go to the land of the fjords.
His father works at a restaurant there and Mirush finds it and the day after he is given a work at the restaurant without telling his father that he is his son. Obviously he has not seen his son since he was a very small child.

In Kosovo Mirush was a good basketball player and he also gambled on winning and he continues to do so in Norway. It is just that he finds a gold watch belonging to the Albanian mafia, steals it and uses it when gambling with other boys when playing basket. He wins and gets quite a good amount of money but he does not want to return the gold watch to the mafia. A waiter, Frode, finds out that Mirush has stolen the watch and beg him to leave it back but Mirush refuses. 
The mafia thinks it is Frode who has stolen it and breaks his fingers!

A film not depicting Mirush as a very nice person, to say the least and of course it could be intepreted as a critique and accusation of dishonesty among Kosovo people, if one overinterpret the film. Dishonest "Kosovians" and an Albanian mafia. The Norwegians seem honest? A real depiction of the Norwegian society or a critique against the immigrant policy or what? Well, judge for yourselfs.

The director is Marius Holst.