“Are you fine with not sleeping at night?” an employer asks a candidate for a lowly security guard position, late in Kosovan director Visar Morina’s new film “Shame and Money.” The question refers simply to the job’s antisocial hours, though it’s one that various characters in this stoic, slowly lacerating look at economic desperation and exploitation in contemporary Europe could stand to be asked, for a variety of reasons. Broke and anxiously navigating the urban menial employment market after having to abandon the family farm, middle-aged Shaban (Astrit Kabashi) is lying awake most nights, whether he’s working or not. Meanwhile, those higher up the capitalist food chain probably aren’t tossing and turning nearly as much as they should be.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Sundance’s world cinema competition, Morina’s third feature sees him turning his focus back to his homeland, after his excellent,…
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