Алдартай Хаанаас Albania

Short animated film created in Akademia e Animacionit - Gen 7 (2024)

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.

Fahrije, an elderly Albanian woman in Kosovo, shares her life story through a conversation with her granddaughter, the director. She recalls her childhood, the abrupt end of her schooling, and her arranged marriage.

Tingëllimë is a conceptual film focused on the idea of what makes a home. It raises questions about something we experience every day but rarely stop to reflect on deeply. Is it the people, the walls, or something else that truly makes a house a home?

A young artist and her mother share a candid conversation in their studio, a space where art, memories and unspoken emotions come to life. Through their dialogue, they explore the bond that unites them, the peace they find in creativity and the moments that shape them.

A hybrid experimental documentary that explores the act of observation as both process and philosophy. The film unfolds through five interlinked "dimensions": language, image, space, time, and feeling.

Tringa, Jeta, and Atdhe have never left Kosovo. In their twenties, they’ve spent their lives imagining the world through screens, grounded by visa restrictions. When they finally board a plane for the first time, the reality they encounter is far from what they imagined. Yet something shifts. In the space between departure and return, they begin to understand that growing up isn’t about where you go, but who you become along the way.

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.

Garip, a 40-year-old doctor leaving in Germany faces the depth of his imagination and subconciousness.

Is it possible to grasp the meaning of the future by accepting only the present and leaving the past behind? A delicate medley of these notions, regarding the historical and cultural background of Albania. Does the youth dare to be disturbed?

Director Karamuço ponders the notion of national identity as freezing Kosovars, taped during the recent cold snap, give wildly differing opinions about their country’s controversial blue, white and gold national symbol. Funny and telling, the film brilliantly threads an extraordinary sequence of a teacher explaining the flag to her wide-eyed kindergarten students.

Dardana meets an interesting DJ in a party, and she spends the night with him. The next day she meets her friend that tells her that the DJ is infected with HIV. Her weeks and months pass and she finds out the truth when it’s late…

Surrounded by problems, Agim suddenly has an idea for survival. But his morbid idea is his doom…

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.

The film is about a man (Arben) suffering from a traumatic event from his youth during the Kosovo war. He overcomes the past and looks toward the brighter future….

Agim Kryeziu, a 65 year- old, physics professor in gymnasium high school, is in his last day of teaching. His students and the school staff is preparing a farewell party for him. Everything is going perfectly well, when a night before his retirement, he experiences one of the technology tricks from his students, so we find him in the hospital “fighting for life”.

Music, its history, evolution and impact make up the core of this documentary. Beginning with archaic instruments that produced various sounds to technologically savvy ones as a result of fast-paced development, music is, and indeed always was, an inseparable part of all lively activity. It has inspired the emancipation of nations, cultures, societies, and especially those whom are touched by its rhythm and electrifying nature. Those living in the midst of these musical currents, of which some are presented during this documentary, express inherent beauty, complexity, soulfulness, uniqueness, and sweetness.

A love of creating the special circumstances and ending in tragedy.

Kurrizi, a residential and commercial complex in the Dardania neighborhood, which was built between the 1970s and the 1980s, became a hotspot for the youth in the 1990s – especially for Albanians, who under the Milosevic regime were completely excluded from institutional and cultural life.

A story of four people developing over time. Representing a constellation of selves. Defined by who they are or what they do. Affected by choices, states and stages. Made of many layers and potentialities, of dreams and realities. A story of expectations, limits and outcomes.