Selman Lokaj

Dans un petit village d'Albanie, le blocage par une famille, d'un chemin, va faire dégénérer les relations entre deux familles. Jusqu'au meurtre d'un membre du clan ennemi, qui ne peut pas rester impuni...

An old man with Alzheimer's goes out of his house, on a cold winter day, he fails to make his way back home.

The year is 37 BC. A young Liburnian Volsus is taken by a Roman unit to help in what at first seems a simple task of collecting taxes, but the encounters with local Illyrian tribes soon lead to unexpected turns of events, as they show more resilience to subjugation than meets the eye. We see their archaic, emotional world of quaint and brutal laws and traditions through the eyes of this youngster, regarded by the Romans as a primitive barbarian, and gradually come to understand that their world is not all that different from our own.

In 1999 the Rahmanis and their three children emigrated to Switzerland during the NATO bombing in Serbia. After years of living in their new homeland, the family faces the prospects of deportation. Desperate to stay, Rasim - the father of the family and an ex- music teacher - masterminds the making of an Albanian Dance Troupe in order to garner signatures of support from the community… The War is Over is an intimate narrative that reflects the common immigrant experience in the age of globalization. Can a good man hold up under the excruciating pressures of war, exile and deportation? Will he be able to rebuild his life abroad and make sense of it?

A young Albanian immigrant and his French fiance decide to pay a surprise visit to his native village. Their surprise turns sour when his family learns the true reasons behind their son's return.

En 1990, dans une région reculée de l’Albanie, un prisonnier politique est transféré du jour au lendemain sans savoir ni où ni pourquoi. La voiture qui le transporte tombe en panne au cœur de la montagne. Le prisonnier fait connaissance avec ses deux gardes, responsables dévoués au parti communiste albanais.

Far from his hometown, Beqir spends most of his time in front of the typewriter machine rather than with his wife. Nostalgic for his homeland and his people, he is no longer at peace with himself, so by writing his memoirs he tries to unveil something important, something he hides from his wife and even himself.