DokuFest

As thousands of men, women and children attempt to get into Europe, a comfortable English family sets out on what appears to be a holiday.

Kosovo is not a very big country and not everyone knows what Ballet is. In a small town called Prizren is the first school of Ballet which gives a concert annually. Tiredness, difficulties and sacrifices that ballerinas go through is in the end rewarded by the applause of art lover audience.

In this documentary we experience a childish spirit of a boy named Ergys, who is a beggar from Albania but he has been in Prizren for a while. His elder brother, new companion, friends who not always are good with him, and that little hope which keeps him alive are everything he has. His days are almost always the same. But what he misses, are his parents. Regardless everything else he has the spirit of a child like all his peers have, and tries to find the joy in everything and in every instant.

Skiamakhia- a battle against imaginary enemies, fighting your shadow.

Arianit, a 17 year old boy from Korisha village, spends a day walking on stilts. During this time he talks with his friends about their concerns for the current situation in Kosovo.

A Balkan road movie in the truest sense. This doc portrait follows a weary bus driver who, despite the lingering divisions, manages to keep connection between the two cities alive. For many passengers, the idea of crossing to the other side brings fear and dread. For Stanislav, this is just everyday routine.

An attempt to make a short film about a traditional Kosovar face painter in an ethnic Bosnian village.

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.

A house burned down sixteen years ago, yet the smoke remains.

Kosova Trans, a short about an 18 year old female transgender in Kosovo. Her journey, her struggles, her transformation.

With a film to shoot in the near future, a director develops something more than a professional bond with his actor. When they go together to a rave party, things take an unexpected turn. Delusion or truth, the two end up with no answers.

The story is based on a life of a friend who not surprisingly doesn’t feel comfortable to show her face. Trough scenes we tried to show her life and her strength but without the words.

A film made by accident about a guy who gets stuck in Prizren with a dream to become a filmmaker. He finds this place (SHKA) and starts video logging. By the end of the night he gets a film in his hands.

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.

Giulia, is a 18 years old girl, living and dreaming in Tirana. Her passion lives on two wheels and her challenges begin with the first step she takes out there in the world.

Small parts of a teenager’s life recorded within two years with a mobile phone, intertwined with her friends and her thoughts about herself, the present and the future in Kosovo.

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.

In the domestic abuse shelters of Kosovo, live women who have suffered unspeakable physical, emotional and sexual violence. An anonymous interviewee’s story plays against footage of the capital, Prishtina, giving voice to those who have remained silent till now.

A film that remained unfilmed because the patient lying in the department of Hematology in CUCK affected from Leukemia gave up. A conversation about this film between a tutor in a Film School and a student.

Two friends have a daily conversation where they emphasize the influence that music has had in their friendship.