Zymber Kelmendi

Arban is a 12-13-year-old boy who falls in love with a young and attractive salesgirl called Aida who works opposite his father’s business where Arban often goes to help out. But Aida has no intention of attracting the young teenager, and Arban’s love leads to fierce jealousy of anyone close to Aida, as well as against his own father, Luan. Luan’s business is going well, but to increase the number of his customers Luan secretly goes out every night to throw nails on the streets. Arban discovers this by accident and suspects his father is going to see the beautiful Aida. One day his father falls into his own trap and has an accident. He spends six months in hospital, and after this Luan decides to follow the right path...

Agron disappeared for years during the war, missing in action and presumed dead. When he suddenly re- turns home one night, his family are shocked: How will they tell the others about his return? Many projects have been undertaken in the village in the name of Agron’s ‘heroic death’. If he shows up alive it will create many problems for the beneficiaries of the project: his family is receiving financial help as the family of a martyr and has raised loans on the basis of this income. Now Agron has two choices: either to show up in public or to wait for the projects to end. A month passes and Agron is at home while a statue is being erected in the local schoolyard. He has made his decision...

In a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.

Without a doubt, one of the oldest occurrences of mankind is suicide, however, this film presents a different manner of this negative phenomenon in developing societies. Meti, a male of around 50 years of age, married with three children, decides to commit suicide twice from his monotony of life and his inability to care for his family. On the other hand, being fixated on the exact date, day, and hour, Meti leaves far away from his home, never to find exactness.... He does not commit suicide. There is always a reason to live...