Gbajumo Lati Albania

The journey of a young man, trying to find himself.

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.

Ajshe is the same age as my grandmother. Ajshe’s story is nearly identical to the story of most women her age. In the past, the present and the future, one has many choices but when it comes to marriage, there can be only one.

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.

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.

Dardana meets an interesting DJ in a party, and she spends the night with him. The next day she meets her friend that tells her that the DJ is infected with HIV. Her weeks and months pass and she finds out the truth when it’s late…

A pianist infected with HIV, falls in love with a young ballerina with whom he wants to have a serious relationship. They decide to spend the night together, but with the girl insisting to have non protected sexual relations the pianist has doubts about the right choice…

The film’s title “Are You Everybody?” was a common expression, and first greeting to fellow Kosovan people, when they saw each other for the first time after the war. It was a quick way of finding out whether there was anybody lost from their family. In June 1999 Lala Meredith-Vula (whose father is from Kosova) was invited by the British Red Cross to go in to Kosova shortly after the liberation and end of the NATO bombing. She witnessed the country torn and desolate gradually come back to life again. It is an artist’s deeply personal study about people surviving adversity and carrying on. The film shows the indomitability of the human spirit.

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.

Surrounded by problems, Agim suddenly has an idea for survival. But his morbid idea is his doom…

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.

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.

Nora (20), an immigrant single mother is exploring alternative ways to avoid deportation from Czech Republic, after her asylum is refused.

The film deals with Rron, a young Albanian boy from Kosovo who faces his expectations of going illegally to Germany.