Flowers of Love 1988
This fantasy film is one of the early productions of Kosovar cinema that seeks to express the inner and poetic dimensions of love and nature.
This fantasy film is one of the early productions of Kosovar cinema that seeks to express the inner and poetic dimensions of love and nature.
Year 1995 During the Serbian occupation of Kosovo, in the absence of telephone lines for the Albanian population, a local mayor (chairman of the five Albanian villages) of one part of Kosovo, must give an interview to an English newspaper, but to do this he should move up to a telephone pole, and connect a camera phone just to realize the interview.
Early years after the war. The bourgeoisie is falling, and they are being taxed for their profits during WWII. Abdyl is an accountt who helps the bourgeoisie and fascist collaborators by hiding their gold in his home and manipulating documents.
Asim, one of the sons of an old engine driver, has gone astray: he does not like to work and is not happy with the modest place he has in life; he even reproaches his father for not having "profited more from life" and for having failed" to secure a cozy future for his children". His other son, Kujtim, is a modest worker.
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.
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.
2001 Albanian Film
Follows two Albanian coal miners: Rakip, reluctant to retire, and Ben, freshly graduated from high school and uncertain of his path in life.
Film about the 1968 folkloric festival in Gjirokastra.
Helmet, a young queer looking for intimacy is obsessed by a cruising spot located around the parking Rent a car Relax. He's hanging around there days and nights, but intimidated by his desire, he connects clumsiness and provocations towards the place's keeper: calling and hanging up on her, stealing from the lost and found box, spying... One night, a fight between two cruisers occurs in one of the cars and the guard intervenes. Helmet comes to help her.
After his father is killed, a young boy decides to join the partisans and fight in the war.
Three friends, hanging around in a cafe, make plans on where to go. Empty coffee cups on the table show that they have been there some time. Affected by the monotony, they begin to tease each other and passersby.
The film unfolds the reality in a communist country in the 1970s through the eyes and wise ways of an ordinary gypsy. The events take place in a small town in Albania. Besides the well-organized civilized life, a strange Gypsy community is settled in the town. The calm flow of their life is troubled by the birth of a child. The son, who is the ninth child in this Gypsy family, will bring joy not only to his family, but to the entire gypsy community. What could possibly trouble the strong communist establishment of the time? A child is born but not an ordinary one. His name is Mao Tse Tung. A gypsy Mao Tse Tung in the 1970s.
At the turn of the century, a 9-year-old boy and his mother travel to the capital city to undergo a medical procedure.
The sequel to The Love in the Damned Mountain (1997).
Film about the 5 Heroes of Vig, who died in a bloody battle during the National Liberation War.
While the temperament of the minor Shukria is slowly developing, she shows us the primitive way of thinking of the patriarchal society and the role of the woman at that time until now. The story takes place in a little village in Kosovo. From her view, we are in a sort of “Paradise on Earth” where she meets her sister, her mother then even herself attempting to stop her marriage.
A disaffected mechanic and his unemployed wife face a harrowing several days when their daughter suddenly disappears.
A young bride tasked with the trivial errands for her in-laws whilst her husband is in Greece, stumbles across a dead woman’s body whilst fetching the water from the fountain. Pushed to the side both the in-laws proceed to talk to the local news lying about finding the body and revelling in the attention they’re getting. A battle amongst the villagers to get coverage in the news ensues, and the actual crime itself becomes overshadowed. We see the young bride coveting the hair slide from the victim.