Albanian video A three-part drama which alternates between London and Macedonia. In Part 1, "Words," a young Macedonian monk protects a runaway Albanian girl. In Part 2, "Faces," focuses on a love affair in London. Part 3, "Pictures" is set back in Macedonia where a bloody ethnic conflict is brewing. The first film made in the newly independent Republic of Macedonia, Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain crosscuts the stories of an orthodox Christian monk (Grégoire Colin), a British photo agent (Katrin Cartlidge), and a native Macedonian war photographer (Rade Šerbedžija) to paint a portrait of simmering, entrenched ethnic and religious hatred about to reach its boiling point. Made during the strife of the war-torn Balkan states in the nineties, this gripping triptych of love and violence is also a timeless evocation of the loss of ...