Popolare A partire dal Albania

Mentor Hasa, a senior officer of the State Security, finds himself from a "spy" into a tapped man and his life takes a dramatic turn. His last wish to his son, Martin, is that his story is told to the whole world.

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.

Adelina, a quiet hotel waitress, develops a deep obsession with a mysterious guest who has been staying at the hotel for a long time. Drawn deeper into his world through sensitive observations and fleeting moments, her growing obsession drives her to make decisions that jeopardize her job.

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.

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.

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?

Three young people visit three cities over three months as part of an ambitious and transformative art project that creates musical and performance pieces.

A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.

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

An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.

Three young people from Prishtina discuss what's it like to not be able to travel due to visa liberalization issues in Kosovo and what it means for them to have never been on an airplane.

Film about the 1968 folkloric festival in Gjirokastra.

If my daughter did not keep the honour of the family, this bullet gives the right to her husband to take her life, the first night of the wedding!

The real life story of a blind woman with no home, living her four sister’s pact of keeping her at their respective residences for a month each.

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.

The film is of the action genre and deals with the already known phenomenon of tribute in Kosovo, robbery and financial blackmail.

Silvi's husband dies in an accident. For a period of time, she loses interest in life. However, life goes on, and Silvi recovers. She falls in love with Ardi, but discovers that he is an accomplice in a theft of state property. She is the only witness, so Ardi asks her to stay silent, which leads to Silvi falling into a moral dilemma.

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.

On the way to the city, where he is the city itself, Piti, although he resists, is encouraged into a process of change, where he is introduced to a rejected version of himself, in order to return whole.