Alban Ukaj

Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but without prospects. Luana’s father promised her in marriage to someone else when she was a child. When her father finds out about Luana and Agim’s love, he is furious and immediately arranges for his daughter to be married to the man he chose for her. Luana faces a dilemma: to flee with her lover to Germany, risking being caught by the communists and probably killed, or stay loyal to her family. A poignant love story set in dark times shaped by pressure from old traditions. A deeply human tale about freedom, which is the greatest good even if the price is loneliness.

A former volunteer in the Kosovo war returns to Albania to pursue a career in the police force. In the country's chaotic and corrupt capital city, Tirana, the ex-soldier turned cop and ends up solving the crime he committed.

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.

편찮으신 할머니와 살고 있는 고아 소년 파루크는 주로 고철 조각을 모으거나 사소한 범죄들을 저지르며 매일을 보낸다. 어느 날 그는 정치권력을 가진 부유한 집안의 소심한 십대 소녀 모나를 만나게 된다. 모나는 더 이상 견딜 수 없을 정도로 지독한 집에서 뛰쳐나오기를 꿈꾸고, 피난처를 찾는다. 그러다 그녀와는 전혀 다른 세상에서 온 파루크에게 마음을 열게 된다.

An idealistic ham radio operator is trapped in a besieged town and struggles to survive the madness around him.

1995년 세르비아군에 쫓기던 보스니아인들이 UN 캠프로 피신을 한다. UN군 통역관 아이다는 남편과 아들이 캠프 안으로 들어오지 못한 상태임을 알게 된다. 그들을 살리기 위해 동분서주한 끝에 무사히 캠프로 들어오지만 진짜 문제가 벌어진다. UN군은 보스니아인을 해치지 않겠다는 약속을 믿고 세르비아군을 캠프로 진입시킨다. 세르비아군은 약속과 달리 보스니아 남자들을 따로 분류해서 어딘가로 끌고간다. 아이다는 남편과 아들을 살리기 위해 다시한번 안간힘을 쓴다. 발칸반도에서 벌어진 인종학살은 상상조차 힘든 일이지만 실제 있었던 사건이고 그런 만큼 사건의 진상을 파악하는 것은 중요하다.

A police officer Hamza has to work that night even though his wife has gone into labour, because the police are short-staffed. To make everything worse, it seems that people showing up at the station have decided to prove the old belief about the mysterious powers of the full moon and its influence on human behaviour. In the course of that one night, representatives of all the absurdity and tragedy of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina parade through the station and somehow help Hamza get ready for a new life.

In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.

During a troublesome shooting of a short art film about a war crime at the location where it took place, three young independent filmmakers discover they are being watched by a stranger.

Tica (Birdy) a war orphan arrives to Sarajevo with his newborn daughter urgently needing surgical procedure. Facing his new appalling reality, Tica embarks into the night where demons of the past are always ready.

Bekim and Anita are getting married, but Anita is unaware that Bekim is still in love with his best friend Nol. The Marriage charts the emotional predicament of the man who has strong feelings for two persons. There is great pressure to marry and only mild support for LGBTQ rights in Kosovan society, so Zeqiri’s film, which unashamedly puts same-sex and heterosexual passion on the same plane, is a forceful step in the right direction, as well as a dynamic portrait of romance and deception in the shadow of war.

Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.

Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The directors skilfully exploit the genius loci of the desolate landscape and, aided by a period score and beguiling long shots, they flawlessly evoke the atmosphere of a place where the past still encroaches upon people’s lives.

Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging

루나와 아마르 부부는 그들의 사랑을 가로막는 모든 장애물을 극복하려 최선을 다한다. 멀리 떠났다 돌아온 남편, 아마르가 신앙심 깊은 인간이 되어 돌아오자, 루나는 모든 것을 의심하기 시작한다. 그녀는 과거의 아픈 상처에 힘들어하며 사랑에 대한 회의를 품게 된다.

Suddenly a moment from the past, a shard of memory can surge, overwhelming the senses. Crystal snowflakes land precariously on pale birch trees, civilians shudder from the cold, soldiers in heavy jackets give orders.

Mahir is married to Geraldine for three years and still they have no children. So Mahir becomes convinced that he is pregnant. From that moment, he keeps throwing up.

사랑하는 남자친구가 있지만 법적으로 클로디가 남편인 로나. 로나는 단지 벨기에 시민권을 얻기 위해 클로디와 위장결혼을 했다. 처음부터 사랑이란 감정은 존재하지 않았던 그들의 결혼... 클로디와 이혼을 준비하는 로나. 그러나.. 로나는 이혼을 준비한다. 러시아인과 결혼해 그에게 시민권을 얻게 해주는 대가로 거액의 돈을 받기로 했기 때문이다. 그러나 남자친구와 식당을 운영할 꿈을 꾸며 행복해하는 로나에게 언제부턴가 클로디의 모습이 하나씩 눈에 들어오기 시작한다. 처음에는 클로디에게 냉정하고 삭막했던 로나지만, 어느 순간 그에게 알 수 없는 묘한 감정을 느끼게 되는데….

The director's fascination is the parallel world which exists behind the doors of big shopping malls. It is as if behind those doors everyday human problems do not exist. Yet, as we spend money, we all have to go back, through the same door, back to reality.

Sarajevo in 1992. Vedran, a once famous musician, tries to shelter his family from the madness of war. He hides them in his old house and goes out of his way to give them a normal day to day life. For a while he manages to keep the war at a distance, but when his daughter gets pregnant Vedran wants to give her a proper wedding in the old town hall

During the riots of 1997 in Albania the retired photographer PETRO travels from his hometown Gjirokastra to the capital Tirana. He has taken pictures of a killing with his Super-8-camera and wants to get the film developed. Petro doesn't know that he shot material that shows how a TV-camera causes the death of a man and his granddaughter in order to get a good story. Unfortunately Petro meets this cameraman - BERTI - on the trip to Tirana. When the film is finally developed Petro gets to know the truth - and he knows his life is in danger! After many adventures on the road he tries at last to present the film to the public. But he must realize that the material was stolen. So only Petro knows the truth while the media spread lies about the deaths of Girokastra.

Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment.

A man earns his first paycheck by driving his motorcycle, for the pleasure of rich people, through a mine field in Bosnia.

Set in Kosovo in 1990 at a time of political volatility as Yugoslavia is breaking apart, ERA tells the story of 17-year-old Era, a rebellious Albanian girl who has fallen in love with Betim, a man stuck between two worlds on account of his having an Albanian father and a Serbian mother. Era is forced not to see him for a while until the situation calms.