Ermira, Sara, Besiana and Iliriana are teenage girls who play soccer for the female soccer club in Kaçanik called Kaçanikasja (Kaçanik girl), the first ever female soccer club that has been recently founded in town, making the girls the first ever players of the club. What is their reality, what are their dreams, how long are those dreams going to last in a poor country where female soccer is not a priority?!
A man in Mitrovica City (Kosovo) in his 50s claims he is Hitler, although he doesn’t support Hitler’s legacy. He says nature has bestowed upon him to become the living Hitler. This image has brought him financial benefits as well, as he charges 40 euros for photography. He adds that despite that fact that he has a controversial face, he gains much respect in his hometown Mitrovica. Even KFOR soldiers, NATO’s peacekeeping force, pay him respect by visiting him from across Kosovo to photograph him.
A taxi dispatcher performs his usual work but not all calls are simple…
Tirana’s second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state of limbo, silent and timeless. Built with over a million point clouds after scanning the entire stadium, this posthumanist film-poem is the result of a first contact with the perennial wildflowers that had sprouted in the abandoned fields of the stadium.
“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.
Three different women talk about their relationship with makeup, its mundaneness, what it reflects, and how it affects them.
Follows two Albanian coal miners: Rakip, reluctant to retire, and Ben, freshly graduated from high school and uncertain of his path in life.
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.
44 years after the name of Albania’s dictator was painted on the Shpirag mountain, a group of villagers take the effort to climb the mountain and change the letters by overwriting a new word, referring to the past dictatorship and the current government.
The documentary has a descriptive nature and aims to promote the natural beauty and values of the mountain Sharr in the Macedonian part.
Home and comfort can often be found in things that shame, trap, and damage us. Leaving that home can be difficult, but having it as a poltergeist that follows you around proves to be even harder.
Conceived as a political pamphlet, developed in a rhetorically grotesque vein, the film deals with the activity and the shameful end of the traitor organization of Balli Kombetar during WW2 in Albania.
Toni, a neglected and spoiled 10-year-old boy, tries in every way to look like the idols that inspire his lonely days.
A story about a mountain man and his struggle to save the forests of the Rugova Mountain from over-logging and environmental destruction. As we learn the stories of his youth, growing up in those mountains with his brother, we begin to understand the history behind Fatos’ frustration.
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.
Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.
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.
Kosovo in the spring of 2000. Winter is over but in a meteorological sense only. Ruins and pain. The marks of devastation in the sunny landscape. Wounds that never heal, the hesitating , vague gestures of a new beginning. Paradoxes. In black and white, with the broken images of memory imprints in color. Two words: deca and fëmijët , they mean children in Serb and Albanian. These expressions have no place in the irrational dictionary of war. It is the children though who are the most defenseless victims of this war governed by mad hatred. Their suffering has become an indelible chapter of the chronicle at the end of the century, the dawn of the new millennium. Besarta, Violeta, Edmond and Valdrin, Miljana and Jelena are Albanian and Serb children, the film tells their story in black and white with color Super 8 images shot by the children themselves.
Over 750,000 bunkers were build in Albania for a war that never came. Building them drained vital resources and crippled Albanian industry. Presently, Albanians struggle to put the abandoned hollows to productive, creative use.
Destiny in a postman's bag. The postman is about to start the most important mission of his life. After reaching to an unusual dwelling, he searches for the four fingered person to deliver an errand. His fate and the past of other inhabitants lie in his bag.
