Caan ah Ka soo Albania

The story of some girls in a colossal moment

Women of Liberty is a testimony and a chronology of war, resistance and great sacrifice of Kosovo women as a crucial part of Albanians’ movement for freedom and independence.

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.

When people asked me about my trip to Tirana and the situation in Kosovo, I was drawn to explore more. Arriving in the city, I was intrigued by a Funeral Home and wanted to understand its significance and religious background. Tirana is home to three major religions living side by side, and I wanted to capture this coexistence. In my search for answers, I found that the feeling of loss is universal. Despite our differences, the shared experience of mourning connects us all, and this common thread is at the heart of my work.

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.

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.

Berisha family from Prizren, Republic of Kosovo are the heroes of this documentary film. They are six members, Nebi – the father, Zelije – the mother and four children, Valbona, Valon, Valmira and Diellza. Besides Valbona, the other children of this family from the age of 7-8, have completely lost their sight due to a disease that causes the extinction of the eye stem cell.

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.

A film that remained unfilmed because the patient lying in the department of Hematology in CUCK affected from Leukemia gave up. A conversation about this film between a tutor in a Film School and a student.

Arianit, a 17 year old boy from Korisha village, spends a day walking on stilts. During this time he talks with his friends about their concerns for the current situation in Kosovo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nora (20), an immigrant single mother is exploring alternative ways to avoid deportation from Czech Republic, after her asylum is refused.