Mahalla e Maceve 2024
Short animated film created in Akademia e Animacionit - Gen 7 (2024)
Short animated film created in Akademia e Animacionit - Gen 7 (2024)
We watch the story of a taxi driver named Tazi, who lives every day in the same monotonous routine. He constantly becomes jealous of other drivers who seem to have more vibrant and interesting lives. While he is driving and continuing his usual route, we discover an interesting twist. Tazi is in the taxi with another version of himself, the passenger who represents his alter ego. This passenger begins to take control and rebel in traffic. In the end, an accident occurs and we discover that everything was just a brief moment of imagination where Tazi has created this other alter ego to escape his daily monotony.
On the way to the city, where he is the city itself, Piti, although he resists, is encouraged into a process of change, where he is introduced to a rejected version of himself, in order to return whole.
A poetic short documentary that revives the history of the Antifascist Front of Women and its literary activism in Kosovo. Village women read and re-interpret archival feminist texts aloud, connecting past struggles and publications with contemporary experiences of gender, visibility and cultural memory in rural Kosovo. The film interrogates representation and the “female gaze” while giving voice to women who carry this history into the present.
At a Prishtina ad agency, twenty female cleaners come together for a focus group about a new bleach product. Fatime, a domestic worker from the outskirts of town, shares a story that captures the attention of Elvira, the agency's head. Elvira offers her a job and Fatime, exhausted from years of informal labor, accepts.
A reality of the country, a poor country with no record of having had any material wealth hidden in the past, yet a country with a large number of people who dig in this place for more than 23 years hoping to find treasure. This documentary shows the psychological aspect of people who illegally burrow into the mountains, not noticing the real beauty and treasure they possess – the natural beauty of the country.
When a twenty-three year old Kosovar man attempts to illegally migrate to the European Union, an Albanian filmmaker decides to follow him on his journey. On the way, the doc maker reflects on his own past and the intentions behind the film he is making.
Small parts of a teenager’s life recorded within two years with a mobile phone, intertwined with her friends and her thoughts about herself, the present and the future in Kosovo.
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.
Kosovo 1999. In the Midst of the deportation of civilians during the war, a father must choose between his daughter’s life and death in order to save her form the horror.
A taxi dispatcher performs his usual work but not all calls are simple…
Kosovo in 1990. Two Serb policemen terrorize an Albanian rural community by forbading them to paint red color elsewhere and obstruct their gatherings.
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.
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.
An elderly couple comes to the aid of a young maid from their son, but the elder daughter does not like her and decides to investigate by revealing that she hides a terrible secret that pertains to her intimate life regarding the elderly family.
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.
Home and comfort can often be found in things that shame, trap, and damage us. Leaving that home can be difficult, but having it as a poltergeist that follows you around proves to be even harder.
Toni, a neglected and spoiled 10-year-old boy, tries in every way to look like the idols that inspire his lonely days.
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.