Fan Noli’s Dream USA
Director/Producer: Ilir Ikonomi
Duration: 15 min
Documentary based on the book Apostle (Part One) by Ilir Ikonomi, spanning over Noli’s first 14 years in America from 1906 to1920, when he left the US to go to Albania.
Albanian Virgin – Germany Belgium, Albania, Kosova
Duration: 120 minutes Luana, a young girl in the mountains of Albania, contends with the traditional social role and her inner inclination to challenge and rise above it.
Inane – Albania
Duration: 90 minutes – The shadows of the past haunt Sara, a windowed wife, who is visited by her long lost love.
Open Door – Albania
Duration: 78 minutes – Two sisters embark on a husband-finding search in Albania where they must clarify the pregnancy of the younger sister before going back home to their father, a man beholden to tradition.
I Love Tropoja – Albania
Duration: 90 minutes – A bank agent gets a promotion except that means he has to relocate to Tropoja, believed to be one of the most dangerous towns of Northern Albania.
Stars of the Future – Albania
Duration: 90 minutes – In a nursing home, the daily routine is disrupted by a newcomer who is placed there on a re-education charge by the authorities.
Love, Lies, and Newspaper -USA
Duration: 86 minutes -The attempt of two people to find their soulmates in the modern era by going through advertisements and newspapers.
Hive (Zgjoi) – Kosova
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to raise her kids in a patriarchal society while having to make a crucial decision. Winner of three main Sundance Film Festival Awards 2021
Sofia – Albania
Duration 1 hour 33 minutes – A young Serbian girl visits Albania in search of the roots of an old story about her Grandpa during the war of 1941. She falls in love with an Albanian – starting “an impossible” relation between two nations divided by war.
SHORTS
A Child – Kosova
Duration: 20 minutes – A couple who is trying to conceive bring to surface husband’s hesitation for fertility testing.
Uninvited – USA
Duration: 20 minutes – Fleeing the chaos and unrest, a group of Albanians cross the Southern border with Greece and end up in the (merciless) hands of the Greek patrol unit.
Hospitality – USA
Duration: 15 minutes
Mikpritja explores the theme of forgiveness as a man comes to New York seeking to avenge his family and gets an invite by the very person he intended to take out.
The Shot – USA Albania
Duration: 20 minutes – An Albanian farmer is seeking immortality by a photograph. He is in for a surprise that could cost him his life.
Waves – Albania
Duration: 15 minutes
The sacrifices of immigrant sailors in Albania’s waters
Ismail’s Dilemma – USA
Duration: 30 minutes- In Nazi occupied Albania, Ismail, a poor peasant, who is sheltering two Jewish men at home, is torn between “Besa” the code of honor and protecting his family, as the Nazis come looking for them in the village.
The Feast of the Grave – Kosova
Duration: 15 minutes – A lonely man living on top of a hill finds himself under the ruins of an earthquake – an ominous sign for what is to come.
DOCUMENTARIES
Bekim Fehmiu – Albania Kosova
Duration: 60 minutes – The life and film career of the greatest Albanian actor from Kosova, Bekim Fehmiu, through interviews and clips of his movies.
Doda – North Macedonia
Duration: 85 minutes – The Viennese scholar and groundbreaking scientist, Frantz Baron Nopcsa, who was nearly crowned King of Albania, and whose experience and adventures were intertwined with his partner and secretary, Bayazid Elmas Doda.
The Bride with the Black Veil – Albania
Duration: 52 minutes – Musine Kokalari – the profile with some dramatization of a pioneer of democratic ideals and one of the first women to draft a political manifest. She was deemed a threat by Albania’s communists and received a harsh sentence
Light, Gjon Mili – Albania
Duration: 30 minutes – Albanian born photographer, Gjon Mili, best known for his work published in Life magazine, experimented with strobe light photography and light painting photography. His collaborations with Picasso have produced over thirty iconic images.
The Letters of Independence – Albania
Duration: 52 minutes – The declaration of independence by the brilliant minds who created the first alphabet of the Albanian language in the city of Manastir in 1908.
Our Lady of Shkodra – Great Britain, Albania
Duration: 60 min
Butterflies – Albania
Duration: 90 minutes
The untold story of 21 women in the concentration camps f communist Albania
ANIMATIONS
Ethnophobia – Albania, Greece
Duration: 15 minutes – Survival, clash and symbiosis all accompanied by bursts of joy and pain as a result of man’s internal need to pick out and exaggerate differences even though similarities are obviously greater.
Exit 2 The Game – France
Duration: 13 minutes – Exit follows a Pencil that gains consciousness while in the factory and looks everywhere to find the exit to his freedom. Inadvertently, it makes some terrifying realizations.
The Dream – USA
Duration: 5 minutes – Inspired by Mjaftore Keraj poem “The wave girl”. Through the technique of metamorphosis, a flying bird turns into a boy who falls in love with the girl of the waves. With playful imagination, the boy, now an old man, dreams of her swept away in eternal longing love.
SPARK – USA
*Not in Competition
Duration: 88 minutes
The story of a silent hero’s struggles for justice.