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The film deals with Rron, a young Albanian boy from Kosovo who faces his expectations of going illegally to Germany.

A couple, Besnik and Linda live with Besnik's mother Xheva, who's partially immobile and needs constant assistance. One day they have to go to the ministry to testify that Xheva is alive, otherwise they lose her pension. The road there is not easy and will change their lives dramatically, in ways they never imagined.

A documentary about the life and work of architect and urban planner Rexhep Luci and about Prishtina, the city he loved and the city where he was murdered in September 2000. The documentary tells his personal and professional relationship with the city, from his commitment to urban growth during the Yugoslav era to his determination to prevent unauthorized construction in the post-war period. His niece, Besa, through intimate conversations with Rexhep’s family and colleagues, as well as by following an architectural intervention on the street that bears his name, takes us on a journey through his life and the urban development of Prishtina. The documentary explores what stops an architect.

Mara, a teenage girl goes through a traumatic experience but with the help of her two sisters, she seeks revenge.

“Wires Crossed” follows the story of two girls, reunited after a complicated past. This intimate phone call reveals their emotions, thoughts, and journey during the time when one was struggling with addiction, and how they reached forgiveness and formed a new friendship between them.

Three different women talk about their relationship with makeup, its mundaneness, what it reflects, and how it affects them.

The two Albanian street performers and close friends, Besi and Rafael, have been traveling through Italy for years with their mime and acrobatics act as Ping and Pong. Sometimes they have trouble with the police, but more often they receive enthusiastic applause from their audience, who are eager to have their picture taken with the two likeable performers.

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.

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?

Found footage compilation of Albania’s turbulent 20th century history is also a bitter and telling essay on the nation’s worship of personality cults and a warning of false prophets to come.

“Survival and School” is a beautiful story about the bad and evil times. An oasis of peace in war time. A nylon school built in the Berisha Mountains (Kosova) that had gathered around 200 pupils of the surrounding villages. The fate of people seen in the twenty-year-old authentic and timely shooting in quite different circumstances reveals the best the bad fate of man.

Three young people from Prishtina discuss what's it like to not be able to travel due to visa liberalization issues in Kosovo and what it means for them to have never been on an airplane.

Made during the violent civil unrest that rocked Albania in the 1990s, directors Nova and Faja have handcrafted a searing vision in which a demonic appearance brings chaos to a quiet hamlet.

Through stark, intricate animation, Those Who Drown Cling to Foam illustrates the devastating personal account of a family forced to flee their home during the 1999 NATO bombings of Kosovo.

The film deals with themes of life through the eyes of a gravedigger who is tested when he comes across some property when opening the grave of a pauper.

“What if women could move a house?” In “As If Biting Iron” (2019), Rizaj uses the medium of film to challenge this very question as we witness the walls of a brutalist building, situated in the forests of Kosovo, being moved by the forces of over 100 anonymous women. Pushing against the deadweight of the concrete, the burden of oppression literally and figuratively comes undone.

Four women, four heroines, who share a common fate. They have been brutally stricken by misfortune. It is not their shared past that brought them together, but it is “Hope” that keeps them alive, encouraging them to move on. “Hope” presents the different but powerful stories of Ferdonije, Auntie, Makfirete and Valentina. Although life can sometimes be very difficult, one must always try to find something to hold onto. Without hope, these four characters’ lives would have ended a long time ago. “Hope” has a power that even magic does not.

Nowadays, human race, all it wants is to eat, eat everything, and in a selfish world keep everything only to themselves. But things are about to take a different turn when the intelligent youth aspires to freedom and bright future.

The Albanian transition has obliged Loro Shestani to give up: his wife is dead, his daughter is a refugee in Italy and has forgotten her roots, the sea does not offer fish any more. Loro has passed over the middle of his life and he has understood that his life is in vain, he is not prepared to accept this new world. He shares his solitude with his pigeons.