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"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.
A young artist and her mother share a candid conversation in their studio, a space where art, memories and unspoken emotions come to life. Through their dialogue, they explore the bond that unites them, the peace they find in creativity and the moments that shape them.
After the assassination of his brother, Leke situation changes dramatically. He is recruited in gang activities, in the same group as his deceased brother. Leke takes his brother’s place. In addition, the burden of vengeance is present, he wants to kill his brother’s assassin.
The film is about Agu, a bear sanctuary guardian who sees his world overturned the night he visits his girlfriend. Lost and without a way out, he finds a resurgence of life when Tina, a young charming woman with many dreams, magically appears in the neighboring apartment.
A woman who is raped and gives birth to a child in war torn Kosovo, struggles to keep her child.
Blending archival footage, haunting melodies, and digital reconstructions, Hyjnesha në Fron traces the echo of loss across Kosovo's turbulent history. A musical, visual essay shaped by absence, which resurrects physical memory through 3D reconstruction, showing how history persists even when its material proof has vanished.
A short documentary focusing on the narratives and lives of 5 different women of different generations, offering an anthropological overview of traditions, customs and gender relations in Kosovo.
A drama set in Kosovo, centered on a man's spiritual struggle between love and hate, vengeance and forgiveness. Personal tragedy brings Flamur back to his native Kosovo. There, in his homeland, he begins to wrestle with his memories, guilt, and instincts towards revenge- as well as the cyclical chain-reaction of violence and conflict he was brought up in.
Kosovo, 1994. A family of 6 on their way to a picnic in the suburbs hears on the radio that the Serbian police are only allowing 3 passengers per vehicle. This is where it all begins: the panic, the discord, and the deep shock of this family.
Kosovo 1999. A line of refugees stops at a Serbian checkpoint. Serbian paramilitaries pull Adem and two boys, his son and his grandson, out of the car. Adem tries to pay for the children's lives, but he doesn't have enough money. They tell him that he can only save one child with this money. He must decide which one to save.
A clash of two cultures, one primitive and the other exotic wild and cunning, but both of them with a violence and crime story, will face with each other in a house.
Engaged and happily in love, these two girls bravely tell the story of their mutual life as a lesbian couple in Kosovo.
A short visit to dad...
A documentary about the life and work of architect and urban planner Rexhep Luci and about Prishtina, the city he loved and the city where he was murdered in September 2000. The documentary tells his personal and professional relationship with the city, from his commitment to urban growth during the Yugoslav era to his determination to prevent unauthorized construction in the post-war period. His niece, Besa, through intimate conversations with Rexhep’s family and colleagues, as well as by following an architectural intervention on the street that bears his name, takes us on a journey through his life and the urban development of Prishtina. The documentary explores what stops an architect.
Tringa, Jeta, and Atdhe have never left Kosovo. In their twenties, they’ve spent their lives imagining the world through screens, grounded by visa restrictions. When they finally board a plane for the first time, the reality they encounter is far from what they imagined. Yet something shifts. In the space between departure and return, they begin to understand that growing up isn’t about where you go, but who you become along the way.
Ermira, Sara, Besiana and Iliriana are teenage girls who play soccer for the female soccer club in Kaçanik called Kaçanikasja (Kaçanik girl), the first ever female soccer club that has been recently founded in town, making the girls the first ever players of the club. What is their reality, what are their dreams, how long are those dreams going to last in a poor country where female soccer is not a priority?!
A young boy living in a house of women must race to save a woman who is teaching him Serbian, so that he can continue the search for his missing father.
After her father Asllan has lived in exile for sixty years, Dea returns with him to Makermal. This Kosovar village that was once his home was destroyed in the war, leaving only the stories of the survivors. Together with the remaining villagers, Swiss-Kosovar director Dea Gjinovci and her father embark on a search for traces of the past and are confronted with the collective scars of a community.
A young man in his late teens uses his sway in the family to cover for his cousin.
A police officer steals some money from an international judge of a special court in Kosovo. The money was a bribe for the judge. Now the officer faces a dilemma – whether to keep the money and deny everything or figure out a way to return the money for his own family’s safety.
Together with Vincent Moon, an independent filmmaker from Paris, who is known for his music videos for indie rock bands as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, REM or Arcade Fire, we traveled with the help of the scholarship from the Music Board Berlin to my country Kosovo to find and record nearly forgotten old folk songs. We were interested in a particular type of folk songs - that of women farmers. A lot of women never had the opportunity to go to school and learn how to read and write, and for these women, these songs were the only way to express themselves. We recorded women with and without a high school education, women of different religions and ethnics.
Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, whose life is disrupted by her husband's suicide who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.
Recording a 24-hour period throughout every country in the world, we explore a greater diversity of perspectives than ever seen before on screen. We follow characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages that explore the progression of life from birth, to death, to birth again. In the end, despite unprecedented challenges and tragedies throughout the world, we are reminded that every day we are alive there is hope and a choice to see a better future together. Founded in 2008, it set out to explore our planet's identity and challenges in an attempt to answer the question: Who are we?
Nowadays, human race, all it wants is to eat, eat everything, and in a selfish world keep everything only to themselves. But things are about to take a different turn when the intelligent youth aspires to freedom and bright future.
Everything starts when the daughter of Caka (Naser Berisha) is accused and in the absence of a breakthrough, he chooses to co-operate with Bablok, a Mafia, to save his daughter, who has only 72 hours of life. These two, after deciding to plunder a bank, so that Caka can provide the healing money for the girl. Caka is betrayed by Babloku. In the midst of swearing and murder, where martial arts are lacking, everything ends when the Police Commander (Meda) arrests Caka after killing Bablok, who besides betraying him and leaving him on the road to death, had killed him and his wife (Diellza Kolgeci), whose daughter escapes when her reindeer herd re-payer Gold Ag sends her abroad with the help of a friend (Labinot Tahiri).
A former boxer battling heroin addiction is forced to sell off his fortune and confront the ghosts of his past to settle a mounting debt.
In 1999, as the war in Kosovo reaches its peak, Arben, a teenage boy with dreams of becoming a basketball player, is devastated when Serbian forces burn his village and kidnap his grandfather Isa. Alone in the mountains, he is rescued by a KLA fighter Lumo, who trains him to become a valuable soldier.
A taxi dispatcher performs his usual work but not all calls are simple…
The driver of two human traffickers ends up unknowingly helping his clients drive his kidnapped daughter outside the country.
A soon-to-be-bride takes one last night to try something she's always wanted to in Paris, a passionate affair reaches its breaking point in the suburbs of America and two 'friends' finally have a long-postponed conversation about their previous romantic encounter. An anthology of short films from female filmmakers about lesbian and LGBTQIA+ relationships.
The film documents the “school-house” (house-school) system in Kosovo during the 1990s, when Albanian language education was suppressed by the regime and students and teachers were barred from official school premises. Private homes, garages, basements, etc., were converted into schools to continue education in Albanian. It includes first-hand accounts from young people today, who for the first time are confronted with and reflecting on that history and how those experiences shaped identity, memory, and resistance.
Nora (20), an immigrant single mother is exploring alternative ways to avoid deportation from Czech Republic, after her asylum is refused.
Dorina is an average girl with an obsession about her looks. Everything changes when she is faced with invasive attention that leads her to transform against social norms.
On October 14, 2014, the two Eastern European countries of Albania and Serbia faced off on the soccer field in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. With Albanian fans not permitted to attend the game due to purported safety concerns, the stadium full of Serbian fans echoed racist chants and death threats. Tensions rose to a boil when a drone carrying an Albanian flag flew above the players and onto the field. Angered fans rushed the field, attacking the Albanian players, forcing the match to end. A history of political tensions, war, and sport is explored as we follow the journey of the Albanian national team on their first appearance in a major tournament.
Twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival. Held in a detention center, he was ordered to draw a Serbian commander’s portrait to save his life.
Lena and Ardi have to get married. As immigrants in America they agree to an arranged marriage by their old fashioned parents, who desperately want to keep the traditions. The comic and lovely moments between them start when they make another arrangement. Living for them selves too. Until it lasts. Based on true story.
"Ferdonija" follows the story of the woman from Gjakova with the same name, who lost all her family members during the war and now after a decade there is still no news about them and the circumstances of their disappearance or murder. Filmed over two years, this documentary recounts the spiritual suffering, daily challenges, stigma and social pressure that this woman experiences, and tries to shed light on the consequences that history has left on its survivors.
Shpend dreams that his mother wishes to see him before she dies...
In an ordinary family, Bora lives with her mother Eda. Recently, the family now has another child, Dalmati, Bora has made some postcards, and has decided to share them with the people in the neighborhood, to share her joy with others, for her brother. Bora It will stop at the door of each family. Along the way, she meets different groups of people, each with their own problems. And in each case, her reflection, the positivism and the warmth she gives, makes those people change the previous approach.
Kosovo, 2019. Corruption and unemployment have made it impossible for Shpëtim to find a job. Things get more complicated when he has to take care of his daughter as well, and does not have a proper place to live. After many attempts to solve his situation, and experiencing repeated deceptions, Shpëtim decides to migrate to Germany illegally in his search for a better life.
Jeton, a 10-year-old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the 4th floor. Neighbours and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable.
“Gjama” is a rarely practiced mourning ritual that was performed by Albanian men throughout the centuries. By shouting specific phrases and acting out a strict choreography, it is a way of paying respect to the deceased but also overcoming grief and pain over the loss of a loved one. Through the documentation of the re-enactment of the ritual, Zgjim Elshani seeks to recover fragments of the practice in the communities where this form of collective grieving is still a way of overcoming loss. By doing so, the project intends to rethink collective grieving and what it means to publicly display emotions in a male-headed society.
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’.
Three gangsters are forced to steal a diamond in exchange for their lives.
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.
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.
The end of the shift finds nurse Ajkuna conversing with a colleague. He's acquired the information she was looking for: a link to an organ trafficking circle. As she goes through various encounters with strangers and acquaintances, and wrestles with her daughter’s impending graduation, Ajkuna begins to see herself imploding.
Liki, a boy from Prishtina, comes to the village to his uncle Sheqa. His acquaintance with life in the town and life with uncle Sheqa and aunt Gjyli brings comic situations that reveal their differences and similarities.
Skiamakhia- a battle against imaginary enemies, fighting your shadow.
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.
Shoemaker is based on true events, taking place in the 90’s in the town of Gjakova, Kosovo, where political issues start getting worse and worse, in this way drastically affecting the life of the inhabitants. The story is told through the eyes of Edoni, whose mother dies leaving him at his age of 5 alone with his helpless father. The story passes over a decade and at his age of 15 he starts work at a shoemaker store to support him and his drunken father. His story narrates violence, child abuse, and overloaded work, yet also few beautiful moments he has with his lovely girlfriend, Riga.
In Kosovo, two young men walk in the ghostly space of an abandoned construction worksite. Toni and Bleri evoke memories of a scarcely joyful past, as well as their dream to leave the country in search of a better life. Emigration seems to be the only possibility of a future, but how do you get into the Schengen Area when you do not have a visa or an employment contract and when you come from a region that current geopolitics have relegated to the fringes?
Lume as a wife and mother, is left alone in two different period times, for different existential reasons. She hates the war, but she is forced to fight.
A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance. Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn to gold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around the mountain of Ljuboten.
Little Genti wants a puppy. He expresses his wish at the family gathering, after his Roma coeval Xeni shows at the door, with his stray dog friend Aaj. This brings up a fired up discussion among the grown ups. After a quick disapproval, discussion changes its path into a clash of generations, conflict between traditional beliefs and new contemporary way of life. Ignored by grownups and despite his mother's disapproval, Genti joins Xeni and Aja on the street, continuing to find his new puppy-friend.
A war hero confronts his post war life in the new Kosovo.
Samuel 10 years old Roma boy living in Konik Camp on the outskirts of Podgorica, Montenegro. His parents flees the Kosovo war in 1999 and have been living there ever since. Every day Samuel goes to school on the bus. All the Roma children were going to school in the camp, isolated from the rest. Not very long this have change, and we fallow Samuel on his way to school, his and his fallow friends interactions with his new teachers.
When Erza, Erenik and Andi's ideas get rejected, they discuss how their films could play out through Betmeni, Ketwomeni and Ridlleri. Through humorous tones and playful settings, their film accomplishes to portray three very special narratives.
The sequel to The Love in the Damned Mountain (1997).