FULL PROGRAMME LINK: https://www.bronxworldfilm.org/guidebwfcycle
MANHATTAN SCREENINGS: La Nacional – 239 West 14th Street (Jan. 12, 13)
BRONX SCREENINGS: Andrew Freedman Home (Jan. 17) Sankofa Haus (Jan. 18)
New York, New York. Dec. 25, 2025. – A double bill of films with Kosovo as their subject comes to New York City City January 11-18, 2026 in Manhattan and The Bronx as headliner for Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2026, the flagship art house film and multiarts event that pioneer presenter Bronx World Film has held every winter since its founding in 2011. This year’s marqueé boasts of 22 films from 16 countries, among them a world premiere, two US premieres, five NYC premieres, an avant-première and its first incursion into horror films.
The headline feature film I, Father (“Un ‘Ati”) comes from an Albanian-language adaptation of Hamlet for the stage titled Princi I, by award-winning filmmaker Mark Norfolk. The cast is led by Makfire Miftari and Besim Ajeti, both prominent stage and screen artists in Kosovo. Makfire — also Executive Producer as CEO of Filma-KS, together with Norfolk’s Prussian Features — is from a distinguished family of intellectuals. Besim founded Goddess on a Throne Festival in Prishtinë, the first in that young nation’s history. The film, shot in Gjilan village on a shoestring in under a week, is a milestone for Kosovo art house.
The documentary Kosovo: The Cry of Man is Singing is an episode from BYU-TV’s “How I Got Here” series directed by Jim Morrison IV. It tells the story of Naser who, as a young journalist, witnessed war atrocities in his homeland of Kosovo. Now, with his fifteen-year-old son Ander feeling like his father has unresolved pain around his experiences, they take a homecoming trip to Kosovo not as father and son, but as friends and equals.
Bronx World Film has been at the forefront of promoting Albanian and Kosovar cinema since its earliest days, believing that the worldview and history of these nations and peoples carry valuable lessons of resilience, respect for historic memory, language, honor and community. It thanks the various venues hosting Bronx World Film Cycle, Winter 2026 and those who support the organization’s work as it celebrates its fifteenth anniversary.