Caan ah Ka soo Albania

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.

If my daughter did not keep the honour of the family, this bullet gives the right to her husband to take her life, the first night of the wedding!

While reading the diaries of his grandfather, imprisoned during the dictatorship of Hoxa in Albania, the director recognises the pigeon outside his window that kept him company during his incarceration. A short circuit that leads him to reflect on the open wounds of family history.

The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostudio and sent into internal exile. In 1967, Stratoberdha directed a local theater play in which the economic five year plan was placed in a coffin. He was then jailed for the next two decades. Urime Shokë Studentë! is one of the surviving documentaries of Viktor Stratoberdha’s all too short career.

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.

2001 Albanian Film

The film titled 'Plisi' elaborates on the story of an Albanian elder who lives in New York and who never drops the bill from the head. As he wakes up from a bad dream where he turns into a strange creature, as the wind removes the crack from his head, he decides to tell his nephews about the importance of the plis that he holds.

Adelina, a quiet hotel waitress, develops a deep obsession with a mysterious guest who has been staying at the hotel for a long time. Drawn deeper into his world through sensitive observations and fleeting moments, her growing obsession drives her to make decisions that jeopardize her job.

The calm and ordinary life of a forgotten village is disturbed with the arrival of three prostitutes in the village’s bar, owned by two pimp brothers. The men, despite the efforts of their wives to stop them, spend all their time in the village’s bar, spending their last money on alcohol and sex. Chaos overcomes the village school; its devotees abandon the mosque. Only two youngsters benefit from all this mayhem, by realizing their love affair, forbidden by their parents. At the end, the women start upraising. Consequently, the bar is burnt down and the village looks that it will return to normality.

A story of three Albanians who meet on the Albania-Kosovo-Macedonia border. Each of them wants to flee their country, but where will they go?

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...

Irena, a young physicist, along with two of her colleagues, undertakes an important study far from home. She goes for a health check-up at the city hospital and learns that she suffers from leukemia. After recovering from her spiritual depression, she begins to come to terms with reality, appreciating every second of her life and the love she tries to avoid.

Two kids, Zana and Miri, play every afternoon in the garden by their house. They are often careless and damage the flowers of the garden.

House With a Voice tells the story of six Burrneshas who, for different reasons, have decided to take on the social role of men. They have done this to circumvent patriarchal structures, to avoid misogynistic attacks, to support the family economically, to avoid compelled marriage and to be free. Our characters communicate with us intimately as they talk about their lives and bring us closely into their personal journey. They speak about freedom and oppression, about the promise of sacrificing their lives for the sake of their families’ survival. But also about the breaking of gender barriers and the power of the human mind to decide who we want to be.

Elteva, an employee at the State Bank, begins to notice the economic damage caused by the operations of a district state enterprise headed by Martini, whose management is following an incorrect economic line. She finds herself at a crossroads, as the bank’s director is also a close associate of Martini. At one point, she asks herself why everyone seems to be against her. As if this were not enough, during this time a doctor suspects that she is pregnant. Elteva’s boyfriend, a football team coach, abandons her. Seeing the situation, Astrit takes the matter into his own hands to investigate the causes of the economic decline of the enterprise led by his colleague. He helps Elteva, with the assistance of a professor, to determine her diagnosis. Feeling guilty for the distress he caused her, her boyfriend Adi asks for her forgiveness. Now, she feels relieved of all the concerns that had been troubling her.

Aleksandra is in constant conflict with society's norms and her own self. Every day, she rethinks how she ought to act in the modern world and what sort of impression she makes. I AM NOT JUST A… is an honest portrait of our reality.

A simple car ride reveals the emotions and thoughts that arise when you're alone on the road.

A successful businessman womenizer has to find a solution when all three women that he is having an affair with happen to be in the same house at the same day.

A story about a mountain man and his struggle to save the forests of the Rugova Mountain from over-logging and environmental destruction. As we learn the stories of his youth, growing up in those mountains with his brother, we begin to understand the history behind Fatos’ frustration.

A disaffected mechanic and his unemployed wife face a harrowing several days when their daughter suddenly disappears.