My Father (2013)

¿Qué podría ser peor para un padre que la impotencia cuando al otro lado de una llamada de móvil oye cómo secuestran a su hija? Esta es la pesadilla que se hace realidad para Bryan (Liam Neeson), un espía retirado que sólo tiene unas horas para recuperar a su hija, que ha sido secuestrada por una peligrosa banda especializada en la venta de jóvenes adolescentes.

Aunque ya está retirado, Bryan Mills se ve obligado a utilizar todos sus recursos y habilidades de agente de la CIA para salvar tanto la vida de su mujer y de su hija como la suya propia. El padre de uno de los secuestradores albaneses que lo tuvieron en jaque en el primer film jura vengarse y aprovecha las vacaciones de la familia Mills en Estambul para llevar a cabo su plan. Una vez más parece que subestiman al ex agente de la CIA.

Tres trágicas historias de amor que se entrelazan para ilustrar los efectos devastadores de la guerra y de aquellos que, sin quererlo, se han visto obligados a participar en ella. Dos de los relatos están ambientados en Macedonia, que se encuentra al borde de la guerra civil, y el otro se sitúa en Londres.

Tras un matrimonio de conveniencia con un drogadicto, Lorna, una joven albanesa, está a punto de conseguir la nacionalidad belga. El plan es de su novio Fabio e incluye también provocarle una sobredosis al joven belga para que Lorna quede viuda y pueda casarse con un ruso que también quiere obtener la nacionalidad belga. Lorna no está de acuerdo con Fabio, ella prefiere solucionar el problema pidiendo el divorcio. Lorna y su novio están ahorrando para realizar su sueño: abrir un bar.

Año 2004. Nenad, de 10 años, es el único alumno de su clase. El pequeño lee una redacción sobre su abuelo Voja, su único amigo, que se está muriendo. Más que un difícil momento familiar, esta situación conlleva otra de naturaleza política y religiosa: hay que dar los últimos sacramentos al abuelo con un cura ortodoxo y enterrarlo en un cementerio situado en territorio "enemigo". Y es que la familia vive en un enclave serbio cristiano en medio de una gran comunidad albanesa musulmana en unas condiciones difíciles marcadas por los trayectos en vehículos blindados bajo la protección de la comunidad internacional, los cortes de electricidad, los robos de ganado y los desplazamientos por el enclave serbio en carros de caballos.

A woman who is raped and gives birth to a child in war torn Kosovo, struggles to keep her child.

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records changed hands. Albania’s Nobel-nominated novelist Ismail Kadare wrote two of his most famed masterpieces, Kështjella (The Castle) (1970) and Kronikë në gur (Chronicle in Stone) (1971) during this period. The rock'n'roll and jazz arrangements featured in this concert documentary were the pretext that brought about the end to the artistic thaw. Several performers seen in the festival were sent to prison or internal exile. The portly, smiling music conductor, Gasper Çurçia, was later accused of forging bus tickets and executed.

Sokol is a middle-aged Kosovar Albanian who, together with his family, emigrates from Kosovo to Turkey, and faces the foreign and unknown world. After some time he becomes homesick, eventually leaving his last will he gave to his son that when he dies, his bones will be returned to his native country. He dies near of a cliff at the Black Sea coast. In his native village, the news that Sokol has been returned from emigration are being spread.

Para satisfacer los deseos y necesidades de los padres, un matrimonio es arreglado entre Gjino, de 14 años, y Marigen, de 20. Gjino obedece a regañadientes, pero Marigen, que ama a otro, intenta varios métodos tortuosos para librarse de este bizarro contrato.

A tough-as-nails burglary crew from the streets, a Cuban cartel, heavy into voodoo, ruthless Albanian gangsters, and a blood diamond deal that erupts into all out violence. This throws the criminal underworld into chaos. Double-crosses and brazen gangland executions entwine everyone in a street war that plays out to an explosive ending.

A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.

A driver is tasked with sending weapons illegally to the partisan soldiers.

Little Bledy lives with his father in a small apartment in Tirana. The boy learns by accident that the father is going to marry a completely unfamiliar woman for him. This news causes him a shock. Nevertheless, when he meets Zana, his father's girlfriend from work, he is increasingly convinced of the need for changes in the family ...

Stolen Kosovo is a Czech language documentary by director Václav Dvořák (b. 1948), about the Serbian–Albanian conflict in Kosovo. The documentary describes the situation, first in a short overview of the history of the area, followed by the 1990s conflicts and bombing of Serbia by NATO forces in 1999 and ending with the situation after the Kosovo War. The documentary focuses on the 1990s in the time of Slobodan Milošević's rule as well as on numerous interviews of Serbian civilians and, less, of Albanian insurgents against the Milošević regime.

Kosmet in the fall of 1944. The Partisans have successfully liberated the town of Prizren from occupying Germans,and Ramiz Leshi, a brave and cunning KNOJ captain, has to liquidate the remainder of the local Quislings, called Balists. They are led by a ruthless, German-trained soldier Kosta and by Ahmet, the brother of the famous Captain. As Ramiz is trying to get Ahmet out of the gang and hunt down the rest of the Balists, 2 new girls arrive in town. One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.

Zeka's only son is killed in the war. All that is left to him is a house full of women, his wife, daughters and grand daughter, but no son to continue his legacy. Consumed with great pain he escapes into amnesia and begins to hope that his son is alive and will soon come home. One day a stranger comes in the village carrying coffins from across the border. Curious about the bodies Zeka invites him to sleep over. The night falls down along with the demons that will push Zeka into madness and make him a killer. Alienated from all the world he continues to wait for his dead son while his young daughter waits for him to be her father again.

An adaptation of the J.P. Sartre story "Le Mur". What goes on in his mind and what happens outside when he has left only few more hours left to live. The existential dilemmas of a prisoner condemned to death from a repressive regime for his participation in a resistance movement and his friendship with the leader of this resistance. When all seems lost and he has already given up the most unlikely coincidence changes the course of events and his life.

A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.

Historia de la vida del afroamericano Jackie Robinson, legendario jugador de béisbol que rompió las barreras raciales, tras firmar con los Dodgers de Brooklyn bajo la dirección del ejecutivo Branch Rickey. La participación de Robinson en la gran liga de béisbol supuso el fin de una era de segregación racial en este deporte.

En el año 2009, en aguas internacionales a 145 millas de la costa de Somalia, en el cuerno de África, el buque carguero “Maersk Alabama”, al mando del capitán de la marina mercante estadounidense Richard Phillips, fue abordado y retenido por piratas somalíes, siendo el primer barco norteamericano secuestrado en los últimos doscientos años.