Sarabande started as a personal documentary about the classical music virtuoso Petrit Çeku who back in 2014 was about to record the Bach Cello Suites in Spain. During the process of making the film it altered course and became a road movie, examining borders and the potential illegality of traversing these...
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!
Agron and Marjeta are happily engaged until in a trial presided by Agron, two people accused of theft reveal facts that implicate Marjeta's father. Agron is torn between love and duty.
This film is about the domestic violence. A boy tells about the violence he experienced and is still experiencing in his family; where the father violates physically his mother.
The documentary shows the tour of performances throughout Albania by the national folk song and dance ensemble.
"The Actors of Cannes" is a documentary film project that showcases a painful part of Kosovo’s history – the spring 1990 school poising of 8400 students by the Serbian government. The mass poisoning of Albanian Kosovars targeted students, teachers, citizens, even young children in preschools.
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.
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.
A young man named Toni has been hired by Simon, a stern construction manager, to tape up job advertisements around the city.
In the Socialist Paradise (It Never Rains) is a reflection on how propaganda during Albania’s dictatorship infiltrated every aspect of life from public spaces to the most intimate corners of everyday existence. Through this work, filmmaker Ermela Teli explores how state-controlled art shaped individual beliefs, relationships, and self-awareness.
The film titled 'Plisi' elaborates on the story of an Albanian elder who lives in New York and who never drops the bill from the head. As he wakes up from a bad dream where he turns into a strange creature, as the wind removes the crack from his head, he decides to tell his nephews about the importance of the plis that he holds.
A girl and the peculiar interaction with her doll.
Home is a feeling, they say, but where is home, when you are not allowed to feel at home even within your own body and mind? As I Was Looking Above, I Could See Myself Underneath unveils intimate stories of LGBTQ persons from Kosovo, going through their unceasing search for a safe place that allows them to be.
Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof and in great harmony. One of the finest examples of ethnographic film to come from this region, it has been called a ‘spiritual portrait of the nation’.
A translator at the conference of communist parties witnessed the biggest break between the two communist parties. The dramatic events in the military conflict take place on a naval base in Albania, which the Soviets did not dare to adopt. Based on a novel by Ismail Kadare.
Aleksandër Moisiu, or Alexander Moissi or perhaps Alessandro Moissi (1879-1935) was an Albanian born stage and screen actor who performed all over the world. He was an actor with subtle resonances, effectively touching the tragic characters, establishing himself in those with the most intimate and delicate notes. Streets are named after Alexander Moissi in Berlin, Salzburg and Vienna, where also a monument was unveiled in 2005.
Agron is a circus clown who is hassled by the circus animals. Shemshedin thinks they should send these animals away, and so many hilarious situations ensue.
A young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.
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.
Border guards discover footprints in the snow near the border and become suspicious.
