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A group of partisan girls and women go on a journey in order to take part in the first Congress of the Anti-Fascist Women in Berat.

A disaffected mechanic and his unemployed wife face a harrowing several days when their daughter suddenly disappears.

Azem, a hotel security guard, drifts through a quiet, uneventful routine. Cut off from his home and family, he finds solace in the stillness of his job, until a brief encounter with a hotel resident unsettles the calm he’s built.

A tragicomedy in which an old man has two sons but neither of them, influenced by their wives, want to keep him. In the end, they decide to marry him off to an old woman, to free their houses of him.

A group of people attempt to flee religious persecution in Enver Hoxha's Albania, with tragic results.

An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.

"Pashtriku" follows the story of two sisters as they revisit the holy mountain of Pashtrik.

When ex-Yugoslavia began to fall apart, the Serbian regime banned Kosovar Albanians from participating in public life. Albanian employees across public institutions were fired. Albanian media outlets were closed down. Many elementary and high schools were closed to Albanian students and the entire university system was shut down. During the 1990's in Kosovo, teaching resumed in private apartments, houses and basements stores. This documentary shows how a parallel society and reality was organized. It shows how segregation and apartheid became the norm. Besa Luci and Mathieu Jouffre wrote the script for this challenging film together. In it people are in a relaxed atmosphere: eating, drinking, chatting and revisiting vividly one of the most exciting as well as tragic periods in the history of Kosovo.

Three young people from Prishtina discuss what's it like to not be able to travel due to visa liberalization issues in Kosovo and what it means for them to have never been on an airplane.

In Kosovo, two young men walk in the ghostly space of an abandoned construction worksite. Toni and Bleri evoke memories of a scarcely joyful past, as well as their dream to leave the country in search of a better life. Emigration seems to be the only possibility of a future, but how do you get into the Schengen Area when you do not have a visa or an employment contract and when you come from a region that current geopolitics have relegated to the fringes?

Film about the 1968 folkloric festival in Gjirokastra.

Intervista seeks to deal in microcosm with the issue of how Albanian communist-era elites have sought to justify their roles in the now-discredited regime that ruled the country for nearly half a century. This brief film offers some poignant vignettes of contemporary life in Albania... [and] also underscores the reluctance of Albania's former Communist elite to confront its past. Both the quality of its content and its length make Intervista a potentially valuable instructional resource

This is a tale of family issues that emerge due to a shift in lifestyle upon moving to a new country, driven by a strong aspiration to improve their circumstances. Shaqa and Selvia opt to challenge their sense of "morality" in pursuit of a brighter future. Conversely, Giovanni's unintentional involvement steers their chosen path in an unforeseen direction. However, their journey does not culminate as they initially anticipated.

Home is a feeling, they say, but where is home, when you are not allowed to feel at home even within your own body and mind? As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.

The different skin colours of the multicoloured creatures cause their peaceful coexistence to gradually collapse under the weight of discrimination and jealousy – despite the fact that their similarities far outweigh their differences.

The year is 1943. At his last breath, partisan Gani asks his friends to make sure that his daughter Sherka is married on the date set in advance for her wedding. Once the wedding ceremony starts, they find out that the bridegroom is a collaborator of the invaders. Sherka decides to cancel her wedding and joins her father s friends in their struggle for the liberation of the country.

Games and precautions in winter from the perspective of a child.

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.

When real life and spirituality meet it creates a magical reality, just like this documentary. See through the eyes of spiritual beings, in a world where you can use magic for the greater good. A film for the positive power of magic, showing you magic does not have to be evil.

Fran, a woman who has chosen to live as a man, following the tradition of Albanian “Burrnesha.” To become a mother to her orphaned niece, Fran must make a difficult decision between preserving her status as a “man” or relinquishing it to reconnect with the maternal feelings she has long suppressed. When the time comes to move forward, her niece’s choice forces Fran to confront her deepest fears: to keep the child close or to give the young girl wings to fly.