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.

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.

Somewhere in an abandoned motel, where walls are covered in political slogans reminiscent of a forgotten era, robot workers have been hired to rebuild something that seems impossible to fix. Rage has taken over the working site as it seems the only thing that makes the robots smile is the anger that fills the stories they tell one another. After one of them decides to speak out, she gets reset and sent back to the factory where she was made.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.