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On the way to the city, where he is the city itself, Piti, although he resists, is encouraged into a process of change, where he is introduced to a rejected version of himself, in order to return whole.

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.

Fran, a woman who has chosen to live as a man, following the tradition of Albanian “Burrnesha.” To become a mother to her orphaned niece, Fran must make a difficult decision between preserving her status as a “man” or relinquishing it to reconnect with the maternal feelings she has long suppressed. When the time comes to move forward, her niece’s choice forces Fran to confront her deepest fears: to keep the child close or to give the young girl wings to fly.

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.

This film is about the domestic violence. A boy tells about the violence he experienced and is still experiencing in his family; where the father violates physically his mother.

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 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.

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

Kosovo in 1990. Two Serb policemen terrorize an Albanian rural community by forbading them to paint red color elsewhere and obstruct their gatherings.

The film explores the issue of Ambiguous Loss through the testimony of 5 women who lost male members of their families during the war in Kosovo and suffered years of anguish searching for their remains.

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.

A small village during World War II. Due to deep poverty, some villagers engage in trade of goods, contraband, across the mountain border. A great gap opens between the villagers and those fighting the enemy.

"Pashtriku" follows the story of two sisters as they revisit the holy mountain of Pashtrik.

A passionate puppet-maker and his sick son live in a remote house. The boy can hardly sleep because he is afraid of the King in Black. The father is convinced that these are just fever dreams – until locked doors suddenly burst open.

Follows two Albanian coal miners: Rakip, reluctant to retire, and Ben, freshly graduated from high school and uncertain of his path in life.

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.