Early years after the war. The bourgeoisie is falling, and they are being taxed for their profits during WWII. Abdyl is an accountt who helps the bourgeoisie and fascist collaborators by hiding their gold in his home and manipulating documents.
A father who is old and on his death bed calls his elders son, Bardhi. He advises his son that effort and hard work will ensure him a better future for his family. For the old man, land is everything. Just after the father dies, the younger son, Lis, turns up in the village. Lis has lived for eight years in the west European county and has lost contact with his family. The real reason he has returned is to sell off some of the family's land to pay off his debts to some characters from the underworld.
A clash of two cultures, one primitive and the other exotic wild and cunning, but both of them with a violence and crime story, will face with each other in a house.
A guy thinks that he has finally found the girl of his dreams. She is beautiful, honest and they communicate with each other just fine. But, none of this will impress him anymore because she is infected with HIV.
Bjondi, a man around 35 years, faces with schizophrenic symptoms as a result of a bad story happened in his family. The death of the only daughter and the loss of his wife, forces Bjondi to give a duty to his friend Sam to find his wife's killer.
This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha bristled at Khrushchev’s suggestion that the Albanian leader attempt reforms and back off from the demigod status accorded to the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Within a year, Albania would create shock waves in the communist universe after Hoxha denounced Khrushchev at a 1960 Moscow party congress.
Sokol, a young man, joins Bajram Curri's troops in the Democratic Revolution of 1924.
Kosovo, 2019. Corruption and unemployment have made it impossible for Shpëtim to find a job. Things get more complicated when he has to take care of his daughter as well, and does not have a proper place to live. After many attempts to solve his situation, and experiencing repeated deceptions, Shpëtim decides to migrate to Germany illegally in his search for a better life.
By 1980, Albania had broken with all the world’s superpowers. The isolation pushed the country into a corner. Industrial production slowed to a virtual standstill. Lines grew for bread, meat and milk. To inspire the typical socialist worker, this Kinostudio production highlighted the achievements of a model labourer who’s met his work goals thirty years into the future. Director Musliu ironically mirrors much of the ridiculous rhetoric that filled most of the era’s state-controlled media.
Set in an area between the Yugoslavia and Albanian border in the year 1968, an idealist teacher wants to cross the border to Albania, where he believes he will find a state of ideal communism.
A group of kids want to go to their teacher's house during the Teachers Day.
A hybrid experimental documentary that explores the act of observation as both process and philosophy. The film unfolds through five interlinked "dimensions": language, image, space, time, and feeling.
It narrates the sad story of several characters during the war in Kosova 1998-1999. "The Code of Life" is based on the conflict between the humane and the inhumane sides. "Code of Life" is sequenced into three dramaturgical points of view, which interlink with each other as the film progresses, and as we come closer to the end everything falls into its place. The movie ends with the triumph of the humane side.
A young man named Toni has been hired by Simon, a stern construction manager, to tape up job advertisements around the city.
In a nursing home the elderly deal with their past.
Young Kristo lives in a village at the edge of gorgeous Lake Prespa, a body of water divided on the borders of three Balkan countries Albania, Macedonia and Greece. In order to support his family, Kristo has become a small-time marijuana smuggler, using his boat and knowledge of the lake waters to transport drug packages from the Albanian to the Macedonian side.
At the center of the film is a patriot photographer, who sees how the city moves on the eve of invasion by focusing his camera at the heroic resistance of the people.
Sarabande started as a personal documentary about the classical music virtuoso Petrit Çeku who back in 2014 was about to record the Bach Cello Suites in Spain. During the process of making the film it altered course and became a road movie, examining borders and the potential illegality of traversing these...
Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.
In 1908, some Albanian pseudo-patriots form a club, claiming that they are working for the good of Albania. Each of them has a dream: to be famous and immortal. One of them is Dr. Adhamudhi, a self-proclaimed healer and linguist, who has created a new Albanian alphabet he is waiting to sell to Skëndo Bey, owner of the Thessaloniki Club. Thinking highly of himself, Adhamudhi wants to know what will people say about him after his death. Zeneli, the servant of Skëndo Bey, takes this chance and plays a joke on Adhamudhi's exhausting desire for fame and immortality.
