Tape 2020
A young man named Toni has been hired by Simon, a stern construction manager, to tape up job advertisements around the city.
A young man named Toni has been hired by Simon, a stern construction manager, to tape up job advertisements around the city.
Three young people visit three cities over three months as part of an ambitious and transformative art project that creates musical and performance pieces.
During their residency in Kosovo, directors Meray Diner and Dafina Daka uncovered harrowing accounts of sexual violence used systematically as a weapon of war. More than physical assault, these acts were aimed at breaking families and silencing generations. Na Thojshin Lutko Moja draws on the testimonies of Kosovar women survivors to explore the hidden emotional aftermath shame, isolation, and the cost of breaking the silence. The film reclaims a collective memory often denied, offering a powerful portrait of resilience.
Sarabande started as a personal documentary about the classical music virtuoso Petrit Çeku who back in 2014 was about to record the Bach Cello Suites in Spain. During the process of making the film it altered course and became a road movie, examining borders and the potential illegality of traversing these...
The journey of a young man, trying to find himself.
Kosovo is not a very big country and not everyone knows what Ballet is. In a small town called Prizren is the first school of Ballet which gives a concert annually. Tiredness, difficulties and sacrifices that ballerinas go through is in the end rewarded by the applause of art lover audience.
Small parts of a teenager’s life recorded within two years with a mobile phone, intertwined with her friends and her thoughts about herself, the present and the future in Kosovo.
BESA vividly portrays how individual Muslims, Christians and Jews of Balkan Peninsula were able to overcome their ethnic and religious hatred in an intense hardship time of World War II. All this resulting in escape and survival of Irene, a Jewish woman running from Nazi prosecution.
Set during the Kosovo war, Train follows the story of Jeton a young man who finds himself forced onto an overfill train carriage with a group of fellow refugees. Jeton and his fellow passengers are draw together through the fear of death that they have witnessed all around them. Suddenly when the train stops, Linda a young mother asks for the front door to be open as the heat and lack of air is suffocating her baby. This request leads to a confrontation that forces all the terrified passengers to decide whether to risk death through opening the door and saving the baby or leaving it shut and saving themselves.
A love of creating the special circumstances and ending in tragedy.
A journey over time. Depicting different states of mind. Making visible, the invisible. Giving voice to the voiceless. A journey through the mind.
During the transition years of Kosovo, Bujar decides to follow his dreams to become an actor. After a couple of years, his small world back home experiences heavy rain and darkness with a single hope, to find the light at the end of the tunnel.
Mara, a teenage girl goes through a traumatic experience but with the help of her two sisters, she seeks revenge.
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.
Based on a real story that took place in Shkodër, a German captain who returns to Albania and is given his clock back from a local watchmaker (sahatçi) after 30 years. The film takes place in modern days, where an Austrian boy (Anton) goes after an Albanian student (Teuta) to Albania after being refused by her to spend the holidays together. The boy is supported by his grandfather, who gives him an envelope to read only after arriving in Albania.
Follows two Albanian coal miners: Rakip, reluctant to retire, and Ben, freshly graduated from high school and uncertain of his path in life.
A group of young people decide to go camping in a deep mountain area where they come into contact with an evil stuck from the past, as a result they fall prey to it and are involved in a carnage where many of the members of the group lose their lives. Group leader Tony leads the survivors on an impossible revenge.
Home is a feeling, they say, but where is home, when you are not allowed to feel at home even within your own body and mind? As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
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.