Dorina 2023
Dorina is an average girl with an obsession about her looks. Everything changes when she is faced with invasive attention that leads her to transform against social norms.
Dorina is an average girl with an obsession about her looks. Everything changes when she is faced with invasive attention that leads her to transform against social norms.
Molly (30), a very successful woman in life and career, married to a man but meanwhile had an affair with a girl (Shane 34) ,where she found herself and her freedom in the masochistic love they experienced together. While everything was going well, Molly decided to express her feelings to Shane and leave her husband for her. Shane was afraid of serious relationships, gets cold feet and decides to leave Molly, in a way that makes Molly believe that she is dead.
A young couple, struggling with infertility, faces family pressure to adopt a boy, but when the only boy available is disabled, they must choose between tradition and the love that transcends it.
"Gjuha e re" is an attempt to capture the communicative exclusion experienced by an Albanian immigrant in Greece. It is minutes of anger towards the dominant languages of a place. An untranslated poem with "bad accent" and "fake" words.
An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.
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.
Three individuals share their unique experiences of losing someone close. Despite their different relationships and circumstances, their stories reveal a common pattern in coping with grief.
"ARTISTRY" explores AI's impact on music creation, showcasing AI's speed and precision in composing and mixing. It examines AI's innovative capabilities and efficiency while questioning its ability to replicate the authenticity and emotional depth of human musicians. The film invites viewers to reflect on technology's role in music and the unique qualities of human creativity.
On the way to Brezovica, two skiers reunite. Along the way, they reminisce about the years they spent together, bringing to light the overlooked problems that come with the sport.
A girl wakes up in her nightmare about her unspoken trauma.
The documentary "Escapee" unfolds the story of Shkurte Krasniqi, who ran away from her home in Vranoc at the age of 17 due to her family discontinuing her education. Shkurte recalls the most challenging moments of her life on the train to Peja, which she took for the first time when she pursued her university education in Pristina. This conversation between Shkurte and her niece serves as a symbol of resistance against the denial of the right to education, which is still denied to 10% of girls in Kosovo today.
In the 90s, when the Serbian government forcibly removed students for opposing the curriculum, my grandfather and volunteers built new desks, ensuring education in Kosovo.
The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.
Can one have a private space in public? This question would put up for discussion the meaning that private space takes in a public sphere. In Albania, this question would be understood as a request to share one's privacy with other people. The overlapping of the visuals of the filmed people with the audio from the room of the filming person represents the smooth but unnecessary and unwanted entrance of a person into another person's life.
a film by Sara Xhengo
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.
This documentary is a "small study" on social and cultural changes that grew during the time of us growing up. It's a personal perspective of young individuals on music and the phenomena of "tallava" in it. We believe that "tallava" is an adopted form of music implanted in the Balkan folk. We see this as reflection political and social events that took place during the last 15 years, time in which this specific type of music developed. This film would be platform for various thinkers, musicians and "tallava" performers to share their ideas on the short and long term effect of this social/cultural phenomenon. The aim of this documentary is to portray the influence and the causes of this music in the global culture of the region. Also this documentary is a personal journey of a generation to understand in a larger scale what are the consequences advantages of this kind of media representation.
Fran and Verka are the sole inhabitants of Vërnakollë - the place they first met many years ago, got married and have been living ever since. After the 1999 war in Kosovo, everyone but Fran and Verka left the village. Their story is a testament to the unbreakable bonds that tie us to what we call home and to where we belong.
A shy girl moves to a small town to stay with her cold aunt. She gets taken care of by a rebellious teenager who also doesn't want anything to do with her.
Leti is a teenager who starts to change into a new character in order to impress her friend Dona, who is very compelling to her. Her tendency to lose herself in this new persona leads to unexpected consequences.