Primary school student Lani knows the value of money, but he values education above all. As part of the Roma minority, he tries to follow his own path, apart from the community around him. When the petty gangster Balja refuses to pay him and his friend Keno for their labour at his scrapyard, they take matters into their own hands, forcing Lani to confront his morals and choices.
Berna, a young woman weighed down by unspoken trauma, moves through the neon-lit streets of Prishtina, haunted by a menacing spectre from her past. As she attempts to navigate her bleak existence, a series of violent encounters forces her to confront her deepest fears.
A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.
The film weaves together the stories of four young adults born in Kosovo and raised in Switzerland. Relying on the use of the director’s personal archives from before and after the war, it explores the delicate position between past and present that characterizes young adults of immigrant descent.
Kosovo in 1990. Two Serb policemen terrorize an Albanian rural community by forbading them to paint red color elsewhere and obstruct their gatherings.
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.
A group of people attempt to flee religious persecution in Enver Hoxha's Albania, with tragic results.
Short film about an older man that's out and talking to people.
Within a short time, Namik disturbs the optimistic atmosphere of a group of welders, which is also reflected in his private life.
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.
Rrahman Fetahu and his two brothers in arms survive during the Yugoslavia war between Serbia and Kosovo.
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.
A normal day in Psychiatric Hospital in Shtime. Images that cannot be seen elsewhere, wrong prejudices, a lot of words by the patients, but still there is a huge silence.
An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.
A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance. Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn to gold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around the mountain of Ljuboten.
"Pashtriku" follows the story of two sisters as they revisit the holy mountain of Pashtrik.
In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?
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.
