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Vlora, an acting student, is chosen for the lead role in Sophocles’ play Antigona. The premiere receives significant attention, but less for Vlora’s portrayal of her character as for her undressing on stage. Vlora’s father is ashamed and forbids her from continuing with the play. Living in a conservative society the only person who supports Vlora is her younger brother. Vlora finds herself caught between her career and her family, and as she fights to defend her acting role, she learns she is fighting for her future.

A story about life of Sureya Imami - the first Albanian music teacher in Macedonia.

A documentary that deals with the topic of migration and migrant workers. This topic is explained through the people who are interviewed. Among the interviewees is muslim priest, a French researcher who talks about Albanian emigrants and migrant workers, and four migrant workers who are pensioners.

Primary school student Lani knows the value of money, but he values education above all. As part of the Roma minority, he tries to follow his own path, apart from the community around him. When the petty gangster Balja refuses to pay him and his friend Keno for their labour at his scrapyard, they take matters into their own hands, forcing Lani to confront his morals and choices.

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.

“Six More Days of Bread” is a conceptual short film that revisits Albania’s centennial celebration in 2012, when a 500m² cake was placed in Skanderbeg Square, causing a surreal and chaotic public spectacle.

Pirlo, a boy in the bloom of youth, wants a prostitute for his birthday. Unfortunately, Pristina is not the best place for these kind of things, since it is not a metropolis. Do not worry, Pirlo will save Pristina

Trapped in a vicious cycle of personal disappointments and unfulfilled fantasies, a man-the head of a household-suddenly decides to give up everything: his job, responsibilities, and social life, to pursue a long-abandoned dream of becoming a boxer. Convinced that this is the way to reclaim control over his life and the respect he's lost, he embarks on a solitary and difficult journey toward a dream that no longer recognizes him.

Shpend has a dream that his mom is on deathbed, but she cannot pass away without seeing him first. Before they execute the deserters, the commander of garrison finds out the reasons behind Shpend’s desertion, and he is ready to offer him two additional days to go home to meet his mom, if Shpend gives him the word to return.

Kosovo is not a very big country and not everyone knows what Ballet is. In a small town called Prizren is the first school of Ballet which gives a concert annually. Tiredness, difficulties and sacrifices that ballerinas go through is in the end rewarded by the applause of art lover audience.

A pianist infected with HIV, falls in love with a young ballerina with whom he wants to have a serious relationship. They decide to spend the night together, but with the girl insisting to have non protected sexual relations the pianist has doubts about the right choice…

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.

On the anniversary of his wife's death, Anton prepares the ritual of distributing red roses, but a group of children steals his bag. Without the courage to continue, he decides to leave a rose with his neighbor Sofia, a woman who had warmed his life. Desperate, he stops in front of her house, but Sofia, touched by his sadness, sends him a cake with a warm note. The cake reminds Anton that, sometimes, small gestures of kindness can replace roses.

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.

Katërmbëdhjetë vjeç dhëndër (English: A Bridegroom at Fourteen) is an Albanian play by Andon Zako Çajupi. The four-act comedy was written in 1902 and published posthumously in 1930. The work, which was considered a critique on the custom of arranged marriage, was adapted to film in 1987.

“Wires Crossed” follows the story of two girls, reunited after a complicated past. This intimate phone call reveals their emotions, thoughts, and journey during the time when one was struggling with addiction, and how they reached forgiveness and formed a new friendship between them.

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

Life of my grandfather, an elderly man living with dignity in post-communist Albania despite his troubled past. 

Three different women talk about their relationship with makeup, its mundaneness, what it reflects, and how it affects them.

Once a young widow, Nadie is under constant scrutiny from her rebellious sisters-in-law. But then a self-portrait from her past emerges and calls her way of life into question.