In post-communist Albania, two Italian con artists establish a fictitious shoe factory to embezzle government funds. When their elderly Albanian figurehead disappears, the younger accomplice sets out to find him, embarking on a journey that confronts him with the country's poverty and troubled past.
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the troubles of a few remaining people in nearly abandoned villages, after the fall of communism.
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Portrays the lives of families and other loved ones left behind when husbands, fathers, brothers and children, because of desperate economic conditions in Albania, travel as far as America, looking for work and economic security.
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Donika Sara is the director of an important enterprise. Unexpectedly her husband has an accident. She has to choose between her social life and her duty as a wife.
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The story of a father, originally from the village, and his city-raised wife, who try to make their daughter a star of classical music. The comedy ironically portrays the inferiority complex that comes from years of isolation.
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A young reporter discovers a problem while investigating a farm and decides to write an exposing article on it, which many people try to prevent from being published.
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Events come through medieval haze in a fantozmagorik city. Under the rocky roofs and the murky wall a frightening mixture of wildlife with fragile hatreds with renewed love of death. Metaphors have to say that power abuse has the same essence but different performances.
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A historical drama focusing on the days leading up to Albania's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire in November 1912.
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Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also helps his town's communist unit.
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In post-communist Albania, two Italian con artists establish a fictitious shoe factory to embezzle government funds. When their elderly Albanian figurehead disappears, the younger accomplice sets out to find him, embarking on a journey that confronts him with the country's poverty and troubled past.
the troubles of a few remaining people in nearly abandoned villages, after the fall of communism.
Events come through medieval haze in a fantozmagorik city. Under the rocky roofs and the murky wall a frightening mixture of wildlife with fragile hatreds with renewed love of death. Metaphors have to say that power abuse has the same essence but different performances.
The two Albanian filmmakers Vani and Kaçi are invited to attend the Venice International Film Festival. They have been close friends since childhood until now on their 60's. At the beginning of the trip from Bari to Venice, they meet two actresses who working in the adult movies industry. From this moment on, the four of them continue the trip to Venice together wich brings a lot of turmoil for the unequal travel company of two conservative Albanians and two open-minded ladies with such different views of life.
Nebi Surreli lives in poverty along with his mother. Doing small jobs to earn a living, he also helps his town's communist unit.
Donika Sara is the director of an important enterprise. Unexpectedly her husband has an accident. She has to choose between her social life and her duty as a wife.
Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000€ bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.
Taulant is a 4 year old only child, who is lonesome and wants a sister. However, despite his request, his parents keep ignoring him. Slowly, his parents start listening to him more and decide to consider his request more seriously.
A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.
A historical drama focusing on the days leading up to Albania's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire in November 1912.
On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim.
A young reporter discovers a problem while investigating a farm and decides to write an exposing article on it, which many people try to prevent from being published.
Portrays the lives of families and other loved ones left behind when husbands, fathers, brothers and children, because of desperate economic conditions in Albania, travel as far as America, looking for work and economic security.
Xhino is a rookie police officer with one objective in his life: to make his late father proud. His career will make a big turn once he meets for the first time his new partner, the infamous detective Maksimilian Murati.
Sixty years after the nuclear devastation, a few survivors cling to life in a ruined industrial zone. Ten-year-old Niko lives with his grandfather Lexi, convinced that their territory is a "paradise" worth defending. Lexi indoctrinates Niko to hate the rival survivors across the railroad tracks. A violent confrontation with a feral child triggers a brutal conflict in which the children serve the adults' power struggles. As the adults' violence escalates, Niko realizes that Lexi is not the man he thought he was. The arrival of Xeni's family reveals that borders are a prison, and escape threatens deadly consequences for the children.
In a high-stakes reality show set within a grueling military barracks, ten contestants push their physical and psychological limits for fame, only to realize the true danger lies in the hands of the manipulators behind the camera.
The story of a father, originally from the village, and his city-raised wife, who try to make their daughter a star of classical music. The comedy ironically portrays the inferiority complex that comes from years of isolation.
Year 1943. A group of soldiers, carrying an injured comrade, are trying to reach the hospital.
An Albanian emigrant is caught in Amsterdam among the promise and allure of the sin-filled city.
Niko, an unemployed teacher, lives with his wife and daughter in post-communist Albania. Another son, who went to Italy to seek his fortune, regularly sends money home but does not reply to his letters. To find out why, Niko sets off for Turin, where a dramatic truth awaits him.
