Bryan is een overbezorgde vader, die gescheiden is van zijn vrouw. Als zijn dochter naar Parijs wil staat hij dit met tegenzin toe. Als ze dan in handen komt van vrouwenhandelaren, reist hij naar Parijs af om haar te zoeken, waarbij zijn bij de Geheime Dienst opgedane ervaring goed van pas komt...
CIA agent Bryan Mills gaat met zijn gezin op vakantie in Istanbul. Eenmaal daar is de vader van een van de kidnappers, die Bryan vermoord heeft toen hij zijn dochter Kim probeerde te redden, uit op wraak. Hij neemt Bryan en zijn vrouw in gijzeling. In een poging om gered te worden doet Bryan een beroep op Kim.
Dit oorlogsdrama bestaat uit drie delen : In het eerste deel 'Words' wordt de jonge monnik Kiril, die een gelofte van stilte heeft afgelegd, geconfronteerd met een voortvluchtig Albanees meisje Zamira. Een wraakzuchtige bende valt het klooster binnen op zoek naar haar.
Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is een jonge Albanese vrouw die samen met haar vriend Sokol een eigen snackbar wil openen in Luik. Om dit te realiseren gaat ze in zee met Fabio (Fabrizio Rongione), een misdadiger die haar betaalt om een schijnhuwelijk aan te gaan met Claudy (Jérémie Renier), een junk
In een kleine Servische enclave in Kosovo woont de tienjarige Nenad met zijn vader Vojislav en zijn zieke opa Milutin. Behalve hen zijn de orthodoxe priester Drazha en een dertigjarige leraar de enige Serven in de omgeving.
A woman who is raped and gives birth to a child in war torn Kosovo, struggles to keep her child.
A short documentary about a small village in the city of Ulcinj, that has 3 bridges.
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 One of them is Lola, a bar singer with a questionable agenda, and the other is Vida, a withdrawn music teacher from Belgrade.
A small group of extreme Albanian nationalists are hunted by Yugoslav security services.
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.
A mockumentary about four people and their idiosyncratic ways of saving the planet.
A documentary exploring sexism and patriarchy in Kosova.
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.
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.
To meet the desires and needs of the parents, a marriage is arranged between 14-year-old Gjino and 20-year-old Marigo. Gjino reluctantly obeys, but Marigo, who loves another, tries various devious methods to free herself from this bizarre marriage agreement.
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.
A driver is tasked with sending weapons illegally to the partisan soldiers.
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.
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.
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 ...