Hearts That Do Not Age 1977
Azem has retired after 30 years working as a truck driver. However, he still hasn't gotten used to this quiet lifestyle. His friends help him go through this important moment of his life.
Azem has retired after 30 years working as a truck driver. However, he still hasn't gotten used to this quiet lifestyle. His friends help him go through this important moment of his life.
"Sons of Cain" is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (Kanun) still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code meet and discuss the story of Cain and Abel. Creating their own dream space, partially consciously and partially not, they create an analogy between their own stories and Bible stories. Stuck on the fine line between reality and forgetfulness, this is one of the few chances they have to come to grips with their traumas and emotions.
A divorced and unemployed middle-aged pianist, Oliver lives by himself in a small, modest studio, pushing through life even as he faces impossible financial challenges. On a day like any other, on his way to a job interview, Oliver witnesses a minute and clever pickpocket at work on a bus. He is mesmerized by the thief and can't take his eyes off him, to learn how he does it. As his financial situation worsens, Oliver becomes the perfect copy of the pickpocket he met on the bus.
Mondi, a schoolboy, is good at lessons but he is rather impulsive. His young and inexperienced teacher fails to see him for what he really is and in a sort of way contradicts him. While his father follows closely the positive inclinations of his son and helps him to form his personality.
After seven years in prison, a mother wants to meet her children and ask for forgiveness. Meanwhile older son has to make a lifetime decision, to forgive his mother for murdering his father or to give up of getting back his missing mother’s love
A group of young people decide to go camping in a deep mountain area where they come into contact with an evil stuck from the past, as a result they fall prey to it and are involved in a carnage where many of the members of the group lose their lives. Group leader Tony leads the survivors on an impossible revenge.
According to the law of physical elimination of stray dogs in exchange of a small monetary reward, two middle-aged Albanian ex-hunters, Nikolin and Enver, take a nocturnal journey throughout the city, which is soon interrupted by an unexpected turn of events.
Rikard, after being swindled out of his home by his own son, relies on the kindness of his daughter, Ema, and her husband, Lorenc who offer him a cabin dwelling in the 'Accursed Mountains.'
the troubles of a few remaining people in nearly abandoned villages, after the fall of communism.
A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance. Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn to gold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around the mountain of Ljuboten.
Pandi has been recruited by foreign agents in order to collect information about a military plant where his friend Servet works. To achieve his goal, Pandi blackmails Servet with an old shell, used by Servet to accidentally injure a friend during the military service.
Documentary about the Albanian writer.
Having fled Albania over 30 years ago, Agim and Erjon have led different lives. Their father's last wish brings them back. There they have to confront their past, their fragile relationship and a country that has changed as much as they have.
Lana is abandoned by her fiancee only seven days before her parents are set to come and visit from Greece. During this frantic week, Lana reconnects with her old boyfriends hoping to find a possible substitute.
Can heartbeats be “reactionary”? Yes, if they are the only sonic element on a montage-heavy documentary about the war dead. Made just before Enver Hoxha’s cultural purges in 1974, Dhimitër Anagnosti’s formalist, wonderfully edited affair will finally premiere in a restored version after its completion forty-two years ago.
Flori returns to Tirana after a long absence, confronting his past and the consequences of his actions. He tries to mend relationships with his family and face justice, while the mafia has infiltrated key institutions like the police and politics. This puts Flori in a difficult position, where he must make crucial decisions for his own future and that of his loved ones.
A taxi driver takes advantage of a sleeping passenger while he keeps the taximeter running. He drives around town to scam the passenger. However, something sinister will change the taxi driver’s perspective.
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.
Two young directors, Ilir and Sandri, are working on a new film, which deals with events from World War II.