Helena was five years old when the Kosovo War began in February of 1998. She and her family were forced to flee their homes as Serbian soldiers swept the countryside, massacring ethnic Albanians and destroying their land. «Days of War» is a meditation on these experiences of war and displacement.
The movie tells a story that how one man that mistreats water without being aware that water is missing for one kid in other place.
“What if women could move a house?” In “As If Biting Iron” (2019), Rizaj uses the medium of film to challenge this very question as we witness the walls of a brutalist building, situated in the forests of Kosovo, being moved by the forces of over 100 anonymous women. Pushing against the deadweight of the concrete, the burden of oppression literally and figuratively comes undone.
Four women, four heroines, who share a common fate. They have been brutally stricken by misfortune. It is not their shared past that brought them together, but it is “Hope” that keeps them alive, encouraging them to move on. “Hope” presents the different but powerful stories of Ferdonije, Auntie, Makfirete and Valentina. Although life can sometimes be very difficult, one must always try to find something to hold onto. Without hope, these four characters’ lives would have ended a long time ago. “Hope” has a power that even magic does not.
A young man named Toni has been hired by Simon, a stern construction manager, to tape up job advertisements around the city.
In the film "Composition" the plot is not classically constructed but from a subjective emotional state of the filmmaker himself, a condition that includes memories and scenes of our everyday life that follow us in the form of a mix between poetry, humor and nostalgia. The Balkan atmosphere dominates but it all turns into a universal message of love where the man and everything dear around him merge into one.
The Albanian transition has obliged Loro Shestani to give up: his wife is dead, his daughter is a refugee in Italy and has forgotten her roots, the sea does not offer fish any more. Loro has passed over the middle of his life and he has understood that his life is in vain, he is not prepared to accept this new world. He shares his solitude with his pigeons.
A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.
Games and precautions in winter from the perspective of a child.
On the verge of Kosovo’s declaration of independence, MARIA, a teenage girl from a poor family in Northern Albania is sold off as a bride to MILAN, a 50-year-old Serb from a remote village in Kosovo. Maria must decide if she will accept this new life or fight back and choose her own fate.
A young man in his late teens uses his sway in the family to cover for his cousin.
A year has passed since Blin mysteriously vanished without a trace. His girlfriend Dea, urged by her best friend Rrita, decide to travel together for the first time in Berlin to party for one night, hoping to find closure amidst strangers. Their desire to blend in the rave scene quickly turns into a nightmarish encounter of haunting familiarity. As the lines between reality and illusion blur, Dea comes face-to-face with a drag queen who bears a striking resemblance to someone from her past. In the midst of this surreal encounter, Dea is facing a life altering decision to break free from the past or remain trapped in its shadows.
Din unfortunately, like many others, was sexually raped during the war, the truth had already begun to emerge and this condition was weighing on him emotionally, having difficulty facing his wife and the society regarding this tragic reality.
The story begins with a shot of an old craftsman with his back to the camera. Not by chance. He, as well as two other craftsmen who work with wood, has life turned its back on them. After many years of successful sell of their products, today, in the modern way of life, their survival is threatened.
In a small village in Kosovo, Flora and Venera are two inseparable friends who spend their days playing. Their lives change when Venera receives the news that her father has decided on her marriage. Flora, who dreams of a different future, sees this as a threat to her life of freedom and the special bond with her friend. While Venera faces pressure from family and tradition, Flora tries to dissuade her from the decision, while preserving the friendship and dreams they share.
The story of some girls in a colossal moment
A poetic short documentary that revives the history of the Antifascist Front of Women and its literary activism in Kosovo. Village women read and re-interpret archival feminist texts aloud, connecting past struggles and publications with contemporary experiences of gender, visibility and cultural memory in rural Kosovo. The film interrogates representation and the “female gaze” while giving voice to women who carry this history into the present.
Women of Liberty is a testimony and a chronology of war, resistance and great sacrifice of Kosovo women as a crucial part of Albanians’ movement for freedom and independence.
This documentary shows high school students in the place where they poof their problems away, the place where they enjoy breaking the school rules.
