Lost Days 2010
Short film about an older man that's out and talking to people.
Short film about an older man that's out and talking to people.
If my daughter did not keep the honour of the family, this bullet gives the right to her husband to take her life, the first night of the wedding!
Life of my grandfather, an elderly man living with dignity in post-communist Albania despite his troubled past.
While reading the diaries of his grandfather, imprisoned during the dictatorship of Hoxa in Albania, the director recognises the pigeon outside his window that kept him company during his incarceration. A short circuit that leads him to reflect on the open wounds of family history.
The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be one of the country’s most promising filmmakers. But after being denounced in 1956, he was expelled from the Kinostudio and sent into internal exile. In 1967, Stratoberdha directed a local theater play in which the economic five year plan was placed in a coffin. He was then jailed for the next two decades. Urime Shokë Studentë! is one of the surviving documentaries of Viktor Stratoberdha’s all too short career.
Bujar, a youngster, is manipulated by a kosher Imam in joining terrorist groups fighting in Syria. He secretly joins the war and then asks his older brother Agron to send Bujar’s wife Mimoa to Syria too.
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.
A taxi driver takes advantage of a sleeping passenger while he keeps the taximeter running. He drives around town to scam the passenger. However, something sinister will change the taxi driver’s perspective.
War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.
Documentary about the Albanian writer.
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.
A story of three Albanians who meet on the Albania-Kosovo-Macedonia border. Each of them wants to flee their country, but where will they go?
The protagonist of the film, Robert Berisha (I.Rexhepi), an Albanian-American, a well-known businessman from America, returns to live and invest in Kosovo. When Robert and his company start building a textile factory, everything will change in his life. A gang favored by Beka (E.Petrovci) will suddenly kidnap his daughter and demand a million euros for her head. After the intervention of the police, the arrest of the perpetrators of this crime is achieved and then the successful completion of investments in Kosovo can be continued.
Toni, a neglected and spoiled 10-year-old boy, tries in every way to look like the idols that inspire his lonely days.
Irena, a young physicist, along with two of her colleagues, undertakes an important study far from home. She goes for a health check-up at the city hospital and learns that she suffers from leukemia. After recovering from her spiritual depression, she begins to come to terms with reality, appreciating every second of her life and the love she tries to avoid.
A middle aged man is going to his hunting cabin in the middle of nowhere. After the loss of his wife, his only company is his hunting dog. The silence is broken by an escaped prisoner. The man faces a dilemma: help or report them?
A sad love story between Agron and Lena will be the next story that grandfather Beni will tell to his niece Rona.
The calm and ordinary life of a forgotten village is disturbed with the arrival of three prostitutes in the village’s bar, owned by two pimp brothers. The men, despite the efforts of their wives to stop them, spend all their time in the village’s bar, spending their last money on alcohol and sex. Chaos overcomes the village school; its devotees abandon the mosque. Only two youngsters benefit from all this mayhem, by realizing their love affair, forbidden by their parents. At the end, the women start upraising. Consequently, the bar is burnt down and the village looks that it will return to normality.
After seven years in prison, a mother wants to meet her children and ask for forgiveness. Meanwhile older son has to make a lifetime decision, to forgive his mother for murdering his father or to give up of getting back his missing mother’s love
Adelina, a quiet hotel waitress, develops a deep obsession with a mysterious guest who has been staying at the hotel for a long time. Drawn deeper into his world through sensitive observations and fleeting moments, her growing obsession drives her to make decisions that jeopardize her job.