Endless Words 1986
Bardhyl and Magdalena are newlyweds. At first they go along fine, until Bardhyl starts getting influenced by his neighbors' words.
Bardhyl and Magdalena are newlyweds. At first they go along fine, until Bardhyl starts getting influenced by his neighbors' words.
Aziz, a renowned gangster is chilling on a bar with his friend when he suddenly sees an ex-girlfriend who she blows an unknown powder to his face. Aziz wakes up in a hotel room and doesn’t know what happened last night and how he ended up there. Aziz experiences wild hallucinations and he is very confused and wants to know what happened to him last night. As he was questioning his friend about what happened to him last night, Aziz receives a mysterious call which the caller explains what happened last night and he was a victim of a drug called scopolamine, a drug that made Aziz the slave of the unknown caller.
The end of the shift finds nurse Ajkuna conversing with a colleague. He's acquired the information she was looking for: a link to an organ trafficking circle. As she goes through various encounters with strangers and acquaintances, and wrestles with her daughter’s impending graduation, Ajkuna begins to see herself imploding.
Film set on the 8th of November 1941, the day the Albanian Communist Party was founded.
The film focuses on a shepherd and his herd of goats, and the love he has for his job.
Set in an area between the Yugoslavia and Albanian border in the year 1968, an idealist teacher wants to cross the border to Albania, where he believes he will find a state of ideal communism.
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.
In 1968, Horizonte Te Hapura, directed by Viktor Gjika, one of the pioneers of Albanian moviemaking, broke new ground. Its subject matter was contemporary, rather than being a historical piece or an action drama set among the partisans of World War II. In the story, a dockworker sees that a crane, a crucial piece of shipyard equipment, is being endangered by a violent storm, and despite considerable danger to himself works to save it. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Lis, a 10-year-old boy, whose father is a missing person from the Kosovo war, lives cramped in a small apartment with his family during early 2000. Trying to forget a secret only he knows, Lis joins a French trio of clowns who are in Kosovo to entertain the children of the land. Soon enough Lis will learn that reality will catch up with everyone, and he will have to face his suppressed emotions.
A wounded Greek partisan is helped by Albanian partisans and hidden in the house of an old woman, but his life is still in danger due to the presence of Nazis.
Three best friends, sworn virgins, get into a fight with local boys. When things get rough, they are saved by a girl in the making.
A lazy man wants to become a sportsman in order to have a normal 5-hour per day job. Many comical situations arise.
In the north of communist Albania, in an isolated mountain village, the life of a family will change forever. Patriarchal norms and traditions have transformed the inhabitants. Shpresa, only 17-year-old, suddenly reveals she is pregnant from a secret love affair. Shpresa's mom does her best to stop her daughter in giving birth to this baby. Sokol, Shpresa's father, unaware of his daughter's pregnancy, asks for the help of the village nurse, Theresa, as he thinks Shpresa is severely ill. The girl's mother puts the nurse ahead of an accomplished fact, to abort the child, who would permanently stain the family with shame, even if it risked her daughter's life.
the troubles of a few remaining people in nearly abandoned villages, after the fall of communism.
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.
"Sons of Cain" is set in a small village in northern Albania. In this place time is suspended and the severe rules of an old code (Kanun) still dictate the life and death of the inhabitants. A group of seven children obliged to live under this code meet and discuss the story of Cain and Abel. Creating their own dream space, partially consciously and partially not, they create an analogy between their own stories and Bible stories. Stuck on the fine line between reality and forgetfulness, this is one of the few chances they have to come to grips with their traumas and emotions.
After World War II, the communist party of Albania must rebuild the country and implement the agrarian reform.
The day after a wife murdered her husband, the incident is discussed in a beauty salon were a soon to be wife is in a rush to get ready for her wedding.
Deputy director Koli wishes to replace the pensioned director, but is preoccupied that Vjollca, the chairwoman of the planning branch, will get the promotion instead.
The real life story of a blind woman with no home, living her four sister’s pact of keeping her at their respective residences for a month each.