Trapped in a vicious cycle of personal disappointments and unfulfilled fantasies, a man-the head of a household-suddenly decides to give up everything: his job, responsibilities, and social life, to pursue a long-abandoned dream of becoming a boxer. Convinced that this is the way to reclaim control over his life and the respect he's lost, he embarks on a solitary and difficult journey toward a dream that no longer recognizes him.
Shpend has a dream that his mom is on deathbed, but she cannot pass away without seeing him first. Before they execute the deserters, the commander of garrison finds out the reasons behind Shpend’s desertion, and he is ready to offer him two additional days to go home to meet his mom, if Shpend gives him the word to return.
This film is dedicated to the girl who died in June 2016 in Prizren, Xheneta Gashi. This film is about the kids living in the same circumstances as Xheneta did, and also it’s about the miserable economic situation of Kosovo.
Small parts of a teenager’s life recorded within two years with a mobile phone, intertwined with her friends and her thoughts about herself, the present and the future in Kosovo.
A film that remained unfilmed because the patient lying in the department of Hematology in CUCK affected from Leukemia gave up. A conversation about this film between a tutor in a Film School and a student.
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.
Director Karamuço ponders the notion of national identity as freezing Kosovars, taped during the recent cold snap, give wildly differing opinions about their country’s controversial blue, white and gold national symbol. Funny and telling, the film brilliantly threads an extraordinary sequence of a teacher explaining the flag to her wide-eyed kindergarten students.
Moving, personal doc captures the filmmakers fifty-four year old immigrant Kosovo mother as she attempts to pass an all-important German language test. Painter and video artist Zeqiri frames a cold and unforgiving Austria through the window of his mother’s apartment as she struggles through the difficult words and phrases.
A chronicle of the parallel school system in Kosovo during the 1990’s when Albanians were expelled from learning institutions by the occupying Serbs. The filmmaker Bukoshi interviews former students who vividly recall the extraordinary and often dangerous lengths they went to pursue a basic education.
Consequences flowing from the consequences. Some women raped during the war in one village in Kosovo from Serbian army, cope with the consequences of rape, several years after the war. Lushe a woman raped during the war confessed for the newspaper about what happened during the Kosovo war. Village troubled by this news, it brings new consequences as e result of the phenomenon.
The story takes place during the time of the last war in Kosovo, within the basement of a house, which turns out to be the home of a Serbian policeman. He holds isolated an Albanian doctor called Agron. Agron`s only goal is escaping from the basement and joining his family. But he will be faced with staggering psychological challenges from the Serbian policeman who keeps Agron within the basement through violence, for a very special reason.
BESA vividly portrays how individual Muslims, Christians and Jews of Balkan Peninsula were able to overcome their ethnic and religious hatred in an intense hardship time of World War II. All this resulting in escape and survival of Irene, a Jewish woman running from Nazi prosecution.
The film is about a man (Arben) suffering from a traumatic event from his youth during the Kosovo war. He overcomes the past and looks toward the brighter future….
Agim Kryeziu, a 65 year- old, physics professor in gymnasium high school, is in his last day of teaching. His students and the school staff is preparing a farewell party for him. Everything is going perfectly well, when a night before his retirement, he experiences one of the technology tricks from his students, so we find him in the hospital “fighting for life”.
Set during the Kosovo war, Train follows the story of Jeton a young man who finds himself forced onto an overfill train carriage with a group of fellow refugees. Jeton and his fellow passengers are draw together through the fear of death that they have witnessed all around them. Suddenly when the train stops, Linda a young mother asks for the front door to be open as the heat and lack of air is suffocating her baby. This request leads to a confrontation that forces all the terrified passengers to decide whether to risk death through opening the door and saving the baby or leaving it shut and saving themselves.
Music, its history, evolution and impact make up the core of this documentary. Beginning with archaic instruments that produced various sounds to technologically savvy ones as a result of fast-paced development, music is, and indeed always was, an inseparable part of all lively activity. It has inspired the emancipation of nations, cultures, societies, and especially those whom are touched by its rhythm and electrifying nature. Those living in the midst of these musical currents, of which some are presented during this documentary, express inherent beauty, complexity, soulfulness, uniqueness, and sweetness.
Two acting students discover the real face of the industry they're trying to be part of.
Kurrizi, a residential and commercial complex in the Dardania neighborhood, which was built between the 1970s and the 1980s, became a hotspot for the youth in the 1990s – especially for Albanians, who under the Milosevic regime were completely excluded from institutional and cultural life.
A story of four people developing over time. Representing a constellation of selves. Defined by who they are or what they do. Affected by choices, states and stages. Made of many layers and potentialities, of dreams and realities. A story of expectations, limits and outcomes.
A journey over time. Depicting different states of mind. Making visible, the invisible. Giving voice to the voiceless. A journey through the mind.
