India, Feb. 2 -- Kosovan filmmaker Visar Morina's Shame and Money plays out like a searing indictment of the economic disparity that has become so palpably real in the world today. This is a story about the crushing indignities, daily struggles and the systemic dismantling of a working-class family forced to confront their realities every single day. How much more can they possibly endure until they break? Wrenching and told with confidence, Shame and Money plays out like a moral anticapitalist thriller. (Also read: A mother fights the system to protect and preserve a mountain in unforgettable doc | Sundance Film Festival review)

Morina's third feature, after Babai and Exil, begins like a slow-burner. At the dinner table, the lines are d...