Popilè Soti nan Albania

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.

When an actor leaves a project just before production, the director tries to finish his film without a protagonist while simultaneously contemplating about the nature of cinema and the imminent environmental destruction of his planet.

Toni, a neglected and spoiled 10-year-old boy, tries in every way to look like the idols that inspire his lonely days.

Theoretician Apostol Sacco writes articles and gives lectures on free love of youth at a time when a major conflict going on in his family.Conflict resolved through sitcom.

Within a short time, Namik disturbs the optimistic atmosphere of a group of welders, which is also reflected in his private life.

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.

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...

While the temperament of the minor Shukria is slowly developing, she shows us the primitive way of thinking of the patriarchal society and the role of the woman at that time until now. The story takes place in a little village in Kosovo. From her view, we are in a sort of “Paradise on Earth” where she meets her sister, her mother then even herself attempting to stop her marriage.

With a film to shoot in the near future, a director develops something more than a professional bond with his actor. When they go together to a rave party, things take an unexpected turn. Delusion or truth, the two end up with no answers.

After a devastating earthquake, five lives are buried beneath the rubble-a mother and her child, a young man struggling to stay calm, and two strangers forced to trust each other. As time runs out, their only hope is rescue. If it comes.

Short animated film created in Akademia e Animacionit - Gen 7 (2024)

Behind a news site screen, Lola, a journalist driven by clicks, hunts for sensational footage. Empathy is absent; reality is edited and shared fast. In the streets, tension brews—an old debt turns into a threat, a car defies a “NO PARKING” sign, teens rap for social media, and a man breaks down. All collide.

The two Albanian street performers and close friends, Besi and Rafael, have been traveling through Italy for years with their mime and acrobatics act as Ping and Pong. Sometimes they have trouble with the police, but more often they receive enthusiastic applause from their audience, who are eager to have their picture taken with the two likeable performers.

three sparks is an intimate picture of village life in Albania, crafted in gratitude by a guest. Mexican/American artist Naomi Uman lived and documented life in rural Ukraine. Inspired by having seen her experimental non-fiction films portraying village life, she was invited to create a portrait of life in rural Albania. This took her to Rabdisht, a village perched high in the mountains, where people farm the rocky, vertiginous land.

The film deals with themes of life through the eyes of a gravedigger who is tested when he comes across some property when opening the grave of a pauper.

During WW2 partisans try to hide from their enemies, while old villagers mourn the deceased of the war.

Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.

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

A young man in his late teens uses his sway in the family to cover for his cousin.