פאָלקס פון Albania

Albania and neighboring Yugoslavia officially broke ties in 1948. But in 1971, the Hoxha regime was honored to welcome the ethnic Albanian actor Bekim Fehmiu (1936-2010), at the time an international star in Yugoslav theater and film. Before his trip to Albania, Fehmiu had appeared in the popular Italian television smash The Odyssey (1968) and the Cannes-winning I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967). Dokufest will also feature a photo exhibit of recently-discovered still images taken during Bekim Fehmiu’s Albanian visit.

After a disagreement with his teacher, a young boy runs away.

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

Llano Bleta's individualistic spirit for a more comfortable life for himself makes him cut ties and trample on the sentiments of his loved ones and coworkers. This moral degradation in also evident in his new job.

Considering their country as a place that conditions to make movies are deplorable, two actors discuss how to make a successful film. One of them is realistic, while the other one is in dreams.

An Albanian thug makes his way to the top of the mafia empire.

In 1930s Albania, revolutionary student Kujtimi uses his camera to capture the poverty and oppression under King Zog’s regime. Moved by what he sees, he risks surveillance and persecution to spread progressive communist ideas and rally fellow citizens toward social change.

Based on a true story, set during the drainage of the Maliq swamp.

The film is of the action genre and deals with the already known phenomenon of tribute in Kosovo, robbery and financial blackmail.

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among them, there's an old man whom they call "Daja" (uncle), who fought along with the youth.

Luka and his wife are transferred in a northern city. In their first trip, their car gets stuck in the snow.

Three generations of an Albanian family struggle to survive their totalitarian regime when a friend returning from America is mistaken for a spy.

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.

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

A young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.

Met Sokoli is a young pioneer who fights against a band of saboteurs entering Albania.

As Nazi's arrive in his village, an Albanian peasant is torn between protecting his family or saving two Jewish men he's been hiding for a year.

Several weeks before her wedding, Anna is diagnosed with cancer. Her fiancé John faces a dilemma – whether to tell Ana the truth about her illness or go ahead with the plans for their wedding...