On the Verge of Life 1985
Two young people, Ardi and Rina, like each other. They are at the very first steps as adults in their lives. The film deals with social problems and the role of the society in the education of the youth.
Two young people, Ardi and Rina, like each other. They are at the very first steps as adults in their lives. The film deals with social problems and the role of the society in the education of the youth.
Azem, a hotel security guard, drifts through a quiet, uneventful routine. Cut off from his home and family, he finds solace in the stillness of his job, until a brief encounter with a hotel resident unsettles the calm he’s built.
When real life and spirituality meet it creates a magical reality, just like this documentary. See through the eyes of spiritual beings, in a world where you can use magic for the greater good. A film for the positive power of magic, showing you magic does not have to be evil.
Behind a news site screen, Lola, a journalist driven by clicks, hunts for sensational footage. Empathy is absent; reality is edited and shared fast. In the streets, tension brews—an old debt turns into a threat, a car defies a “NO PARKING” sign, teens rap for social media, and a man breaks down. All collide.
In the 1960s after Albania's break with the Soviet Union, the country became an unlikely satellite of communist China (Newsweek referred to the alliance as ‘Mediterranean Maoists’). Enver Hoxha called the bond between the two countries the ‘coming together of the 702 million’, China being the 700 million, Albania representing the two. In exchange for its chrome exports and introducing the 1971 resolution that got China into the United Nations, Albania received sustaining economic and military support. This short documentary focuses on the Chinese table tennis team’s friendship visit, which soon began to sour after US president Richard Nixon visited Beijing.
This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha bristled at Khrushchev’s suggestion that the Albanian leader attempt reforms and back off from the demigod status accorded to the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Within a year, Albania would create shock waves in the communist universe after Hoxha denounced Khrushchev at a 1960 Moscow party congress.
Short film about an older man that's out and talking to people.
It revolves around a clown (as a metaphoric figure for an average citizen) whom finds himself in a wrong place at the wrong time and undergoes as a victim of someone else's crime.
The real life story of a blind woman with no home, living her four sister’s pact of keeping her at their respective residences for a month each.
A sad love story between Agron and Lena will be the next story that grandfather Beni will tell to his niece Rona.
Destiny in a postman's bag. The postman is about to start the most important mission of his life. After reaching to an unusual dwelling, he searches for the four fingered person to deliver an errand. His fate and the past of other inhabitants lie in his bag.
Rikard, after being swindled out of his home by his own son, relies on the kindness of his daughter, Ema, and her husband, Lorenc who offer him a cabin dwelling in the 'Accursed Mountains.'
Life of my grandfather, an elderly man living with dignity in post-communist Albania despite his troubled past.
In this touching and humorous documentary, four Kosovar couples share how they deal with chores, child raising, freedoms and infidelity. How have roles changed and what are the limits to modernity in the sacred union of marriage?
Toni, a neglected and spoiled 10-year-old boy, tries in every way to look like the idols that inspire his lonely days.
Set during World War I. An Austro-Hungarian expedition sets an archaeological site in the ancient city of Apollonia. The experts of this expedition want to steal ancient monuments, but the villagers of the area oppose them.
This movie is set at the start of World War II, with little shepherds on the green slopes of an Albanian mountain range featured as intrigued, distant observers of the Italian army and their prey, the partisan fighters who are hiding in the homes of the villagers. Even the Albanian police who are supposed to be helping the Italians do not betray the resistance fighters when they see them. The children watch as the hunter and hunted play out their drama below, not understanding that the scenes are more real than their own hunt for the five-legged rabbit that is supposed to be living in these hills. As the tragedies of war mount, the children start to become more involved - at one point they steal the weapons from some drunken Italian soldiers, nearly leading to a disaster on their part. Time and events rapidly unfold, and it soon becomes apparent that their innocence will not last for long because their own existence is threatened in a way they are just beginning to understand.
Rrahman Fetahu and his two brothers in arms survive during the Yugoslavia war between Serbia and Kosovo.
Shpend dreams that his mother wishes to see him before she dies...
A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.