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Three individuals share their unique experiences of losing someone close. Despite their different relationships and circumstances, their stories reveal a common pattern in coping with grief.

"ARTISTRY" explores AI's impact on music creation, showcasing AI's speed and precision in composing and mixing. It examines AI's innovative capabilities and efficiency while questioning its ability to replicate the authenticity and emotional depth of human musicians. The film invites viewers to reflect on technology's role in music and the unique qualities of human creativity.

On the way to Brezovica, two skiers reunite. Along the way, they reminisce about the years they spent together, bringing to light the overlooked problems that come with the sport.

A girl wakes up in her nightmare about her unspoken trauma.

The documentary "Escapee" unfolds the story of Shkurte Krasniqi, who ran away from her home in Vranoc at the age of 17 due to her family discontinuing her education. Shkurte recalls the most challenging moments of her life on the train to Peja, which she took for the first time when she pursued her university education in Pristina. This conversation between Shkurte and her niece serves as a symbol of resistance against the denial of the right to education, which is still denied to 10% of girls in Kosovo today.

In the 90s, when the Serbian government forcibly removed students for opposing the curriculum, my grandfather and volunteers built new desks, ensuring education in Kosovo.

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

Can one have a private space in public? This question would put up for discussion the meaning that private space takes in a public sphere. In Albania, this question would be understood as a request to share one's privacy with other people. The overlapping of the visuals of the filmed people with the audio from the room of the filming person represents the smooth but unnecessary and unwanted entrance of a person into another person's life.

a film by Sara Xhengo

Milazim, Fatmir and Liridon are veteran manual labourers who experienced accidents in their workplaces in Kosovo, Europe's youngest country. In this poetic experimental documentary tribute to a now almost extinct class of people, Ilir Hasanaj gives voice to gentle, sincere and dignified, but almost invisible individuals, who fell prey to harsh and primitive capitalistic machinery and policy in the Balkans.

This documentary is a "small study" on social and cultural changes that grew during the time of us growing up. It's a personal perspective of young individuals on music and the phenomena of "tallava" in it. We believe that "tallava" is an adopted form of music implanted in the Balkan folk. We see this as reflection political and social events that took place during the last 15 years, time in which this specific type of music developed. This film would be platform for various thinkers, musicians and "tallava" performers to share their ideas on the short and long term effect of this social/cultural phenomenon. The aim of this documentary is to portray the influence and the causes of this music in the global culture of the region. Also this documentary is a personal journey of a generation to understand in a larger scale what are the consequences advantages of this kind of media representation.

Fran and Verka are the sole inhabitants of Vërnakollë - the place they first met many years ago, got married and have been living ever since. After the 1999 war in Kosovo, everyone but Fran and Verka left the village. Their story is a testament to the unbreakable bonds that tie us to what we call home and to where we belong.

A shy girl moves to a small town to stay with her cold aunt. She gets taken care of by a rebellious teenager who also doesn't want anything to do with her.

Leti is a teenager who starts to change into a new character in order to impress her friend Dona, who is very compelling to her. Her tendency to lose herself in this new persona leads to unexpected consequences.

Patriarchal times in northern Albania gave birth to a phenomenon - the replacement of the man at the head of the household by a woman. These are masculine times, in which the woman is only tasked with taking care of the household and raising the children. But, locked in these social roles, girls emerge, ready to abandon their female identity and follow the path of honor. They want to be respected women with the power of a man, not for themselves, but for others. They give up marriage and sexual relations. They choose to live as men. The fall of the regime opened the country to the modern world, but neither communism nor the emerging democracy succeeded in changing the age-old traditions in the isolated mountainous regions of Albania. In the Cursed Mountains, to the north, the last sworn virgins in Europe today live a man`s life.

A realistic history of the children growing up on the streets of Kosovo and doing hard work in order to survive. The story revers the likes of Besarta, Drenusha, Kosovare and Fitim, who, having no choice, work under dangerous circumstances until the late hours.

44 years after the name of Albania’s dictator was painted on the Shpirag mountain, a group of villagers take the effort to climb the mountain and change the letters by overwriting a new word, referring to the past dictatorship and the current government.

Found footage, visual postcards written in the 1990s on VHS, fragments of a new life abroad passed on, sent by planes or buses to Kosovo, and pictures sent back from the country. Hugs on platforms, cars leaving, weddings and birthdays. Dancing and tears: lots of tears of joy and despair. Repeatable situations create chronicles of torn lives, uncertainty, and suspended existences.