Meşhur Kimden Albania

Martin is a curious boy, but because of his personality, he often has misunderstandings with his parents, siblings, and teachers.

Agron, a new chairman of the district executive committee, feels encircled by authority of his mother in law, Frosa and some relatives and friends, which want to make use of Agron's position for their own interests.

A hybrid experimental documentary that explores the act of observation as both process and philosophy. The film unfolds through five interlinked "dimensions": language, image, space, time, and feeling.

In a nursing home the elderly deal with their past.

Mondi, a schoolboy, is good at lessons but he is rather impulsive. His young and inexperienced teacher fails to see him for what he really is and in a sort of way contradicts him. While his father follows closely the positive inclinations of his son and helps him to form his personality.

Twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival. Held in a detention center, he was ordered to draw a Serbian commander’s portrait to save his life.

Mentor Hasa, a senior officer of the State Security, finds himself from a "spy" into a tapped man and his life takes a dramatic turn. His last wish to his son, Martin, is that his story is told to the whole world.

This movie is set at the start of World War II, with little shepherds on the green slopes of an Albanian mountain range featured as intrigued, distant observers of the Italian army and their prey, the partisan fighters who are hiding in the homes of the villagers. Even the Albanian police who are supposed to be helping the Italians do not betray the resistance fighters when they see them. The children watch as the hunter and hunted play out their drama below, not understanding that the scenes are more real than their own hunt for the five-legged rabbit that is supposed to be living in these hills. As the tragedies of war mount, the children start to become more involved - at one point they steal the weapons from some drunken Italian soldiers, nearly leading to a disaster on their part. Time and events rapidly unfold, and it soon becomes apparent that their innocence will not last for long because their own existence is threatened in a way they are just beginning to understand.

Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock with the help of Jovalin. Will broken shoes and an umbrella suffice for the 4-day walk?

In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.

A young reporter discovers a problem while investigating a farm and decides to write an exposing article on it, which many people try to prevent from being published.

An ear of wheat is taken by a bird.

A young boy living in a house of women must race to save a woman who is teaching him Serbian, so that he can continue the search for his missing father.

A lazy man wants to become a sportsman in order to have a normal 5-hour per day job. Many comical situations arise.

A former volunteer in the Kosovo war returns to Albania to pursue a career in the police force. In the country's chaotic and corrupt capital city, Tirana, the ex-soldier turned cop and ends up solving the crime he committed.

After the foreign specialists leave, engineer Lulëzim is left in charge of building the Fierza Hydroelectric Power Station.

"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.

At the turn of the century, a 9-year-old boy and his mother travel to the capital city to undergo a medical procedure.

Flori returns to Tirana after a long absence, confronting his past and the consequences of his actions. He tries to mend relationships with his family and face justice, while the mafia has infiltrated key institutions like the police and politics. This puts Flori in a difficult position, where he must make crucial decisions for his own future and that of his loved ones.

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.