Director Karamuço ponders the notion of national identity as freezing Kosovars, taped during the recent cold snap, give wildly differing opinions about their country’s controversial blue, white and gold national symbol. Funny and telling, the film brilliantly threads an extraordinary sequence of a teacher explaining the flag to her wide-eyed kindergarten students.
Moving, personal doc captures the filmmakers fifty-four year old immigrant Kosovo mother as she attempts to pass an all-important German language test. Painter and video artist Zeqiri frames a cold and unforgiving Austria through the window of his mother’s apartment as she struggles through the difficult words and phrases.
Year 2005 Kosovo has been liberated 10 years ago by NATO forces under the leadership of USA. NATO forces now have complete control of the security situation in the country, but are not physically present in every town in Kosovo. Many Kosovars who have been waiting for liberation by NATO and the United States after the war are desperate when they realize that liberation bu itself will not solve all their problems, but can solve only the problem of security. There are those who are still waiting.
Consequences flowing from the consequences. Some women raped during the war in one village in Kosovo from Serbian army, cope with the consequences of rape, several years after the war. Lushe a woman raped during the war confessed for the newspaper about what happened during the Kosovo war. Village troubled by this news, it brings new consequences as e result of the phenomenon.
The story takes place during the time of the last war in Kosovo, within the basement of a house, which turns out to be the home of a Serbian policeman. He holds isolated an Albanian doctor called Agron. Agron`s only goal is escaping from the basement and joining his family. But he will be faced with staggering psychological challenges from the Serbian policeman who keeps Agron within the basement through violence, for a very special reason.
BESA vividly portrays how individual Muslims, Christians and Jews of Balkan Peninsula were able to overcome their ethnic and religious hatred in an intense hardship time of World War II. All this resulting in escape and survival of Irene, a Jewish woman running from Nazi prosecution.
Agim Kryeziu, a 65 year- old, physics professor in gymnasium high school, is in his last day of teaching. His students and the school staff is preparing a farewell party for him. Everything is going perfectly well, when a night before his retirement, he experiences one of the technology tricks from his students, so we find him in the hospital “fighting for life”.
Set during the Kosovo war, Train follows the story of Jeton a young man who finds himself forced onto an overfill train carriage with a group of fellow refugees. Jeton and his fellow passengers are draw together through the fear of death that they have witnessed all around them. Suddenly when the train stops, Linda a young mother asks for the front door to be open as the heat and lack of air is suffocating her baby. This request leads to a confrontation that forces all the terrified passengers to decide whether to risk death through opening the door and saving the baby or leaving it shut and saving themselves.
Music, its history, evolution and impact make up the core of this documentary. Beginning with archaic instruments that produced various sounds to technologically savvy ones as a result of fast-paced development, music is, and indeed always was, an inseparable part of all lively activity. It has inspired the emancipation of nations, cultures, societies, and especially those whom are touched by its rhythm and electrifying nature. Those living in the midst of these musical currents, of which some are presented during this documentary, express inherent beauty, complexity, soulfulness, uniqueness, and sweetness.
Two acting students discover the real face of the industry they're trying to be part of.
Kurrizi, a residential and commercial complex in the Dardania neighborhood, which was built between the 1970s and the 1980s, became a hotspot for the youth in the 1990s – especially for Albanians, who under the Milosevic regime were completely excluded from institutional and cultural life.
A story of four people developing over time. Representing a constellation of selves. Defined by who they are or what they do. Affected by choices, states and stages. Made of many layers and potentialities, of dreams and realities. A story of expectations, limits and outcomes.
A journey over time. Depicting different states of mind. Making visible, the invisible. Giving voice to the voiceless. A journey through the mind.
During the transition years of Kosovo, Bujar decides to follow his dreams to become an actor. After a couple of years, his small world back home experiences heavy rain and darkness with a single hope, to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
The film deals with Rron, a young Albanian boy from Kosovo who faces his expectations of going illegally to Germany.
When the municipality of Lipjan decided to remake the river that runs through the village of Janjeva, it was done without consultation with its inhabitants. We tried to get answers from the officials but couldn't get through, we were, however, able to see the construction. In lieu of a dialogue, this is our comment on what they did.
Mara, a teenage girl goes through a traumatic experience but with the help of her two sisters, she seeks revenge.
Dorina is an average girl with an obsession about her looks. Everything changes when she is faced with invasive attention that leads her to transform against social norms.
Molly (30), a very successful woman in life and career, married to a man but meanwhile had an affair with a girl (Shane 34) ,where she found herself and her freedom in the masochistic love they experienced together. While everything was going well, Molly decided to express her feelings to Shane and leave her husband for her. Shane was afraid of serious relationships, gets cold feet and decides to leave Molly, in a way that makes Molly believe that she is dead.
A young couple, struggling with infertility, faces family pressure to adopt a boy, but when the only boy available is disabled, they must choose between tradition and the love that transcends it.
