Populär Vun Albania

Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010), at the time an international star in Yugoslav theater and film. Before his trip to Albania, Fehmiu had appeared in the popular Italian television smash The Odyssey (1968) and the Cannes-winning I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967). Dokufest will also feature a photo exhibit of recently-discovered still images taken during Bekim Fehmiu’s Albanian visit.

As Nazi's arrive in his village, an Albanian peasant is torn between protecting his family or saving two Jewish men he's been hiding for a year.

In the early '90s, the Yugoslavian Government cancelled the autonomy of Kosovo, dissolved its Parliament and closed down the National Television. All institutional life was reorganized by the new authorities, while the majority of the citizens responded with peaceful demonstrations. During this terrible time, Fadili, who works as an archivist, has to choose between two options, knowing that both of them are wrong. He therefore involuntarily and unwillingly "swallows" the shame, endures the pressure bearing down from all sides and puts up with the bad reputation for only one reason: to provide for his family.

After living in various European cities, militant Besim Pepa comes back in Albania during the years 1932-1936. Here, he is persecuted and imprisoned, so he has to emigrate again.

A quiet routine unfolds in an absurd world, where a man drifts between dreams of dancing to disco hits with the love of his life and the reality of working as a gravedigger in a cemetery.

It documents a traditional event that took place on St. George’s Day in Dragash, Kosovo.

Having fled Albania over 30 years ago, Agim and Erjon have led different lives. Their father's last wish brings them back. There they have to confront their past, their fragile relationship and a country that has changed as much as they have.

A TV drama made in Yugoslavia.

Agron and Marjeta are happily engaged until in a trial presided by Agron, two people accused of theft reveal facts that implicate Marjeta's father. Agron is torn between love and duty.

World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.

Film set in three different times. In the beginning, Miti is killed while defending his land. Then, the film focuses on his son Gjergji who fights against the Italian forces. In the end, the land is redistributed by the agrarian reform.

An Albanian boy accidentally releases a turkey and must get it back in time for New Year's Eve dinner.

The film speaks of the fate of soldiers who go to war as mercenaries and return dead. Village girls wait and wait for their fiancé to return from war and finally get married to others. A Vizier tries to marry a beautiful young woman who is tired of long wait and husband soldier.

A family surviving in a totalitarian dystopia is faced with the dilemma of reporting a family of immigrants who suddenly seek their help or preserve human dignity by endangering their own safety.

Zana and Bardhyl are two students in love with each other. Through the spiritual ups and downs of this love the film reveals their dreams and desires, likes and dislikes. With these characters more or less of the same age, which have their differences, the film delineates the portrait of the student youth.

Harizi lives in the town of Ksamil. His cousin Seferi goes to live there too, but after a while, shows signs of laziness and tries to falsify his reports. Hariz must find the force to expose his cousin's behavior.

Three best friends, sworn virgins, get into a fight with local boys. When things get rough, they are saved by a girl in the making.

Separated as children, twin sisters Hana and Dana grow up in opposite worlds, one in peace and the other in crime. When their paths cross inside a criminal empire, the truth about their past threatens to destroy them both.

Story about local fruitcake who keeps being assured in human callousness.