Flora, a journalist in a Western country, comes to her homeland to trace the early life/identity of Mother Teresa or Anjeza Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, to produce a feature. But soon she will face the surprise of her own identity. Two different lives, in search of their identities, so badly effected by the past, during the communist system.
Hava's brothers decide to divide their paternal property. According to traditional customs, the right to inheritance belongs to male descendants only whereas Hava has no right to inherit. The eldest brother is obligated to find a husband for his sister. Hava must be married and live at her husband's house.
Garip, a 40-year-old doctor leaving in Germany faces the depth of his imagination and subconciousness.
A normal day in Psychiatric Hospital in Shtime. Images that cannot be seen elsewhere, wrong prejudices, a lot of words by the patients, but still there is a huge silence.
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.
We watch the story of a taxi driver named Tazi, who lives every day in the same monotonous routine. He constantly becomes jealous of other drivers who seem to have more vibrant and interesting lives. While he is driving and continuing his usual route, we discover an interesting twist. Tazi is in the taxi with another version of himself, the passenger who represents his alter ego. This passenger begins to take control and rebel in traffic. In the end, an accident occurs and we discover that everything was just a brief moment of imagination where Tazi has created this other alter ego to escape his daily monotony.
Primary school student Lani knows the value of money, but he values education above all. As part of the Roma minority, he tries to follow his own path, apart from the community around him. When the petty gangster Balja refuses to pay him and his friend Keno for their labour at his scrapyard, they take matters into their own hands, forcing Lani to confront his morals and choices.
Berna, a young woman weighed down by unspoken trauma, moves through the neon-lit streets of Prishtina, haunted by a menacing spectre from her past. As she attempts to navigate her bleak existence, a series of violent encounters forces her to confront her deepest fears.
A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.
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.
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!
Kosovo in 1990. Two Serb policemen terrorize an Albanian rural community by forbading them to paint red color elsewhere and obstruct their gatherings.
Home and comfort can often be found in things that shame, trap, and damage us. Leaving that home can be difficult, but having it as a poltergeist that follows you around proves to be even harder.
Lake Fierza, high mountains on both sides and a small boat that breaks the silence of this small part of the world. Some movements can be seen. From a distance, the boat looks at people coming down from the top of the mountains and patiently waiting for the only transport that connects them with the rest of the world, almost unknown to them.
Set during World War I. An Austro-Hungarian expedition sets an archaeological site in the ancient city of Apollonia. The experts of this expedition want to steal ancient monuments, but the villagers of the area oppose them.
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.
Sala didn’t paint the Tirana facades in Dammi i Colori (Give Me the Colors), in his current show. Others did, as part of an ongoing project initiated by Edi Rama, the city’s mayor and a former artist.
Short film about an older man that's out and talking to people.
A movie that talks about the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, that meets a local villager.
An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.
