Animation tribute to Henri Matisse and the fauvist movement he started (fauvism). “Les Fauves” is crafted to recreate the paintings of the famous French artist. Through various animation techniques and real-life footage, the film is a tribute to life, art and all the innocent people killed by blind violence of any kind. Restored by the Central State Film Archive and the Center of Contemporary Art Harabel, financed by ABI Bank
Amel is an actress who seeks for her destiny in an audition organized by a foreign production. Finally she gets announced that she got a part in the movie. Amel feels lucky, however, is she going to have the same luck also in the world of movies? Her path towards an acting career will be difficult.
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.
A dramatic depiction of honor, family feuds and thousand-year-old traditions. In Albania, the tradition of avenging an injustice according to the motto "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" still lives on. This has led to people being trapped in their homes for fear of being murdered due to a family feud.
Merita (35), an elegant wife who knows nothing about her husband's fate, decided to defend her only daughter Tringa (7), from the director and the workers, giving her body, until she decided to leave the country to secure her daughter's life.
After the death of Alban’s brothers in the fire that burnt down their home, the entire family suffers from a shock, mental disorder and extreme poverty. Of all the family members, Alban has been affected the most by this tragedy.
A normal day in Psychiatric Hospital in Shtime. Images that cannot be seen elsewhere, wrong prejudices, a lot of words by the patients, but still there is a huge silence.
This film is about the domestic violence. A boy tells about the violence he experienced and is still experiencing in his family; where the father violates physically his mother.
In rural North Macedonia, a determined woman begins a quiet revolution. Inheriting her father’s job as a van driver, she opens new possibilities for the women around her.
"Ferdonija" follows the story of the woman from Gjakova with the same name, who lost all her family members during the war and now after a decade there is still no news about them and the circumstances of their disappearance or murder. Filmed over two years, this documentary recounts the spiritual suffering, daily challenges, stigma and social pressure that this woman experiences, and tries to shed light on the consequences that history has left on its survivors.
Several weeks before her wedding, Anna is diagnosed with cancer. Her fiancé John faces a dilemma – whether to tell Ana the truth about her illness or go ahead with the plans for their wedding...
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.
In a weather of unexpected rains, work is suspended at the dam of an important hydropower station and the safety of the project is jeopardized. The situation weighs heavier on the chief designer, eng. Ilir, who together with his comrades does his best to come out of this difficult situation.
After midnight, Lena (37) scared and fleeing, meets Genti (11) in an underpass at the center of the city. After they get to know each other, they talk about the reasons of them being there.
A woman returning home to her daily routine and solitary life starts getting lost in daydreams. Through flowing imagery and a home movie aesthetic, her inner fears play out on-screen.
An Albanian TV movie directed by M. Shanaj.
Victoria is an irresponsible employee at the German embassy in Kosovo. She makes a ghetto life. She gave a one year visa only because a guy from Kosovo had sexual intercourse with her. She was dismissed from the embassy, and by chance, they see each other in the airport as they travel to Germany.
The story and the characters are fictional. The movie is about the violence and the crime within a city; a city run by a group of gangsters. Killings, violence and drugs are some of the characteristics of this city, whose fate is in a gangster's hands. But, in the mean time we have the good in it, the good that is making Trim leave this gang. It's Trim's love, Ana. Trim's main challenge is to make it out of this city and live free.
Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.
