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When ex-Yugoslavia began to fall apart, the Serbian regime banned Kosovar Albanians from participating in public life. Albanian employees across public institutions were fired. Albanian media outlets were closed down. Many elementary and high schools were closed to Albanian students and the entire university system was shut down. During the 1990's in Kosovo, teaching resumed in private apartments, houses and basements stores. This documentary shows how a parallel society and reality was organized. It shows how segregation and apartheid became the norm. Besa Luci and Mathieu Jouffre wrote the script for this challenging film together. In it people are in a relaxed atmosphere: eating, drinking, chatting and revisiting vividly one of the most exciting as well as tragic periods in the history of Kosovo.

When it left, death didn't even close our eyes centers on the testimonies of laborers working in Kosovo’s construction industry. They attest to how this precarious and unregulated labor market has serious human costs to those that have to seek its employment. Speaking of how they are expected to work hours—from 12, 13, 15, even up to 24 hours—and in conditions far beyond prescribed regulations or normal human expectations. One of the primary consequences is a high rate of injury, which then precludes future work in the industry—some workers even admit that they would rather face death than lose the ability to earn a living.

A group of people attempt to flee religious persecution in Enver Hoxha's Albania, with tragic results.

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.

Nowadays, human race, all it wants is to eat, eat everything, and in a selfish world keep everything only to themselves. But things are about to take a different turn when the intelligent youth aspires to freedom and bright future.

In Kosovo, two young men walk in the ghostly space of an abandoned construction worksite. Toni and Bleri evoke memories of a scarcely joyful past, as well as their dream to leave the country in search of a better life. Emigration seems to be the only possibility of a future, but how do you get into the Schengen Area when you do not have a visa or an employment contract and when you come from a region that current geopolitics have relegated to the fringes?

This movie is set at the start of World War II, with little shepherds on the green slopes of an Albanian mountain range featured as intrigued, distant observers of the Italian army and their prey, the partisan fighters who are hiding in the homes of the villagers. Even the Albanian police who are supposed to be helping the Italians do not betray the resistance fighters when they see them. The children watch as the hunter and hunted play out their drama below, not understanding that the scenes are more real than their own hunt for the five-legged rabbit that is supposed to be living in these hills. As the tragedies of war mount, the children start to become more involved - at one point they steal the weapons from some drunken Italian soldiers, nearly leading to a disaster on their part. Time and events rapidly unfold, and it soon becomes apparent that their innocence will not last for long because their own existence is threatened in a way they are just beginning to understand.

A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.

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.

The story begins with a shot of an old craftsman with his back to the camera. Not by chance. He, as well as two other craftsmen who work with wood, has life turned its back on them. After many years of successful sell of their products, today, in the modern way of life, their survival is threatened.

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

The story of some girls in a colossal moment

Women of Liberty is a testimony and a chronology of war, resistance and great sacrifice of Kosovo women as a crucial part of Albanians’ movement for freedom and independence.

Fahrije, an elderly Albanian woman in Kosovo, shares her life story through a conversation with her granddaughter, the director. She recalls her childhood, the abrupt end of her schooling, and her arranged marriage.

A young artist and her mother share a candid conversation in their studio, a space where art, memories and unspoken emotions come to life. Through their dialogue, they explore the bond that unites them, the peace they find in creativity and the moments that shape them.

Berisha family from Prizren, Republic of Kosovo are the heroes of this documentary film. They are six members, Nebi – the father, Zelije – the mother and four children, Valbona, Valon, Valmira and Diellza. Besides Valbona, the other children of this family from the age of 7-8, have completely lost their sight due to a disease that causes the extinction of the eye stem cell.

This film is dedicated to the girl who died in June 2016 in Prizren, Xheneta Gashi. This film is about the kids living in the same circumstances as Xheneta did, and also it’s about the miserable economic situation of Kosovo.

A film that remained unfilmed because the patient lying in the department of Hematology in CUCK affected from Leukemia gave up. A conversation about this film between a tutor in a Film School and a student.

Arianit, a 17 year old boy from Korisha village, spends a day walking on stilts. During this time he talks with his friends about their concerns for the current situation in Kosovo.

Director Karamuço ponders the notion of national identity as freezing Kosovars, taped during the recent cold snap, give wildly differing opinions about their country’s controversial blue, white and gold national symbol. Funny and telling, the film brilliantly threads an extraordinary sequence of a teacher explaining the flag to her wide-eyed kindergarten students.