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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

In the Kosovo village of Rubovce, twenty kilometers south of the capital, Prishtina, a wall built two decades ago in a small primary school still separates the young Albanian and Serbian students. Nineteen year old filmmaker Polic and cinematographer Luma use their probing camera to create an intense, moody and elegiac atmosphere.

Is it possible to grasp the meaning of the future by accepting only the present and leaving the past behind? A delicate medley of these notions, regarding the historical and cultural background of Albania. Does the youth dare to be disturbed?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This film is about the domestic violence. A boy tells about the violence he experienced and is still experiencing in his family; where the father violates physically his mother.