Alban Ukaj

After losing their livelihood in a village, a Kosovar family is forced to move to the capital in pursuit of a place in a hypercapitalist society.

Temmuz 1995 yılında Bosna’da İngilizce öğretmeni olan Aida Selmanagic, Srebrenica’nın küçük bir kasabasında Birleşmiş Milletler’in tercümanı olarak çalışmaktadır. Sırbistan ordusu bu küçük kasabayı ele geçirdiğinde Aida’nın eşi ve iki oğlu da BM kampında sığınma arayan binlerce vatandaş arasında yer alır. Aida, Sırp ordusu iktidara geldiğinde siyasi müzakerelerin bir parçası olur ve gittikçe daha korkutucu olan bilgileri tercüme etmek zorunda kalır. Aida ailesini kurtarabilecek midir yoksa onları ölüme terk etmesi mi gerekecektir?

Afrika'dan yalnız seyahat eden genç bir erkek ve genç bir kız, yenilmez dostluklarını Belçika'daki sürgünlerinin acımasız koşullarına karşı korumaya çalışır.

Belgeselci geçmişleri sayesinde, Belçika’daki kent yoksulluğuna dair keskin ve özenli gözlemlerini gerçekçi, aşırı duygusallıktan uzak bir drama yaratmak için ustalıkla kullanabilen Jean- Pierre ve Luc Dardenne, kararlı bir izleyiciye her zaman paha biçilmez ödüller sunan ender yönetmenlerden. Yaşadıkları yer olan Seraing’in dışında çekmeyi tercih ettikleri ilk film olan Lorna’nın Sessizliği’nde, bu kez daha kalabalık olan Liege kenti, hayatlarını hiç de dürüst olmayan yollarla sürdürmeye çalışan göçmenlerin zorlu hikâyesinin arka planını oluşturuyor. Filmin başında, Arnavut bir kadın olan Lorna’yı cüzdanındaki paraları sayarken görürüz; olan bitenin maddi altyapısını sürekli hatırlatır nitelikteki bu sahne, film boyunca tekrar edilir....

Bekim and Anita are getting married, but Anita is unaware that Bekim is still in love with his best friend Nol. The Marriage charts the emotional predicament of the man who has strong feelings for two persons. There is great pressure to marry and only mild support for LGBTQ rights in Kosovan society, so Zeqiri’s film, which unashamedly puts same-sex and heterosexual passion on the same plane, is a forceful step in the right direction, as well as a dynamic portrait of romance and deception in the shadow of war.

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

Mahir is married to Geraldine for three years and still they have no children. So Mahir becomes convinced that he is pregnant. From that moment, he keeps throwing up.

Set in Kosovo in 1990 at a time of political volatility as Yugoslavia is breaking apart, ERA tells the story of 17-year-old Era, a rebellious Albanian girl who has fallen in love with Betim, a man stuck between two worlds on account of his having an Albanian father and a Serbian mother. Era is forced not to see him for a while until the situation calms.

It is the third year of the war and Sarajevo people are tired and nervous. A ceasefire has been announced. In a building with six apartments, a young couple is waiting for a renovation. The whole neighborhood is excitedly waiting for the birth of a new baby. Roma play and sing under windows.

Suddenly a moment from the past, a shard of memory can surge, overwhelming the senses. Crystal snowflakes land precariously on pale birch trees, civilians shudder from the cold, soldiers in heavy jackets give orders.

Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging

Bosnalı yönetmen Jasmila Zbanic'in filminde, genç bir adam ve sevgilisinin ilişkileri sınanıyor. Aşk, birliktelik ve fedakârlık üzerine çarpıcı bir yapım… Luna ve Amar iki yıldır birliktedir. Çocuk sahibi olmaya çalışan çift, başarılı olamayınca, nedenin Amar olduğu ortaya çıkar. Bu durum karşısında derin bir sarsıntı geçiren Amar içmeye başlayınca işinden olur. Toparlanması için arkadaşları tarafından şehir dışındaki Jablanica gölü yakınında geçici bir işe yerleştirilir. Burada Müslüman Wahhabi'lerin yaşamına sempati duymaya başlayan Amar, buraya yerleşip bu hayat tarzını benimsemeye karar verir. Peki, Luna onunla gelecek midir?

The director's fascination is the parallel world which exists behind the doors of big shopping malls. It is as if behind those doors everyday human problems do not exist. Yet, as we spend money, we all have to go back, through the same door, back to reality.

An idealistic ham radio operator is trapped in a besieged town and struggles to survive the madness around him.

A group of spunky seniors launch an armed rebellion against the employees of their retirement home, where they’ve been subjected to years of abuse and humiliation. Abandoned by their loved ones and left with nothing to lose, they stage an insurrection that grabs headlines, shocks the country — and proves that it’s never too late to find something worth fighting for.

Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but without prospects. Luana’s father promised her in marriage to someone else when she was a child. When her father finds out about Luana and Agim’s love, he is furious and immediately arranges for his daughter to be married to the man he chose for her. Luana faces a dilemma: to flee with her lover to Germany, risking being caught by the communists and probably killed, or stay loyal to her family. A poignant love story set in dark times shaped by pressure from old traditions. A deeply human tale about freedom, which is the greatest good even if the price is loneliness.

Sarajevo in 1992. Vedran, a once famous musician, tries to shelter his family from the madness of war. He hides them in his old house and goes out of his way to give them a normal day to day life. For a while he manages to keep the war at a distance, but when his daughter gets pregnant Vedran wants to give her a proper wedding in the old town hall

Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.

Portrait of a strong and independent woman who hides a painful past.

A police officer Hamza has to work that night even though his wife has gone into labour, because the police are short-staffed. To make everything worse, it seems that people showing up at the station have decided to prove the old belief about the mysterious powers of the full moon and its influence on human behaviour. In the course of that one night, representatives of all the absurdity and tragedy of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina parade through the station and somehow help Hamza get ready for a new life.

What could be a beautiful fairy tale for some - boy meets girl - could also be the beginning of a horror film for Faruk. The young man is crushed between the dark world of his criminal cousins in Sarajevo and the discovery of love. The film powerfully visualises and contrasts a harshness and tenderness experienced and dreamed.

On the day of an inauguration to head the family business Stane confronts marriage, love and patriarchy.

Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment.

Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The directors skilfully exploit the genius loci of the desolate landscape and, aided by a period score and beguiling long shots, they flawlessly evoke the atmosphere of a place where the past still encroaches upon people’s lives.

A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time

Follow the intertwining stories of four strangers who are bound together by a violent event.

After discovering a dead body in the National Museum, Inspector Edib and Mido are called to the crime scene. But the disappearance of the body and the hidden motives of the Museum lead them to a web of corruption and international crime.

Two years after the Bosnian war, a town that is slowly rebuilding itself must whip together a democracy when it's announced the U.S. President Bill Clinton might be paying a visit.