Besim Kurti
Directing
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Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Lamerica
As Nazi's arrive in his village, an Albanian peasant is torn between protecting his family or saving two Jewish men he's been hiding for a year.
Ismail's Dilemma

The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
Chico

Little Fatmir, whose parents have worked in a construction site, dreams of building himself a town. In his efforts to make his dream a reality, the kindergarten teacher and a workman who brings in working tools for all his friends, assist him. Within the courtyard of a kindergarten, the newest town in the world is thus erected, where children's dreams and characters are revealed.
The Newest City in the World

Film inspired by the harsh winter of 1985. The film follows two storylines: the story of a young girl who studies to become a nurse and the story of some pilots who have to make a delivery.
Whiteness

A group of children pass the vacation in the shore of Adriatic. Among them is also Detini a self isolated and shy boy. His friends play with him so he thinks to leave them. But his close friend Gjini helps him to recover and integrate with the others.
On Holidays

A small village during World War II. Driven by misery some peasants smuggle goods across the mountain frontier. Thus an ever-greater gap opens between them and those who are fighting the invaders.
Three Persons Overpass the Mountain

Blerta, captain of the volleyball team, loves Miri, the driver of the cooperative. The nephew of the cooperative chairwoman is also called Miri and he lives in Tirana. Uan Suka, a servile troublemaker, convinces the farther of Blerta to engage his daughter with the nephew of the chairwoman. The confusion solves when the nephew of the chairwoman comes in the cooperative.
Blerta's Engagement

Events come through medieval haze in a fantozmagorik city. Under the rocky roofs and the murky wall a frightening mixture of wildlife with fragile hatreds with renewed love of death. Metaphors have to say that power abuse has the same essence but different performances.
Sakos’s Wedding

World War II. Even children contribute to the anti-fascist resistance. They write slogans on kites, so that the fascists cannot remove them.
The Kites

Film set during the Albanian Renaissance, focusing on a group of Albanian outlaws fighting against the Ottoman Empire.
The Cloaks in Wax

The film follows Astrit, a young pilot who has just finished the aviation school.
Traces in the blue sky

Mondi, a schoolboy, is good at lessons but he is rather impulsive. His young and inexperienced teacher fails to see him for what he really is and in a sort of way contradicts him. While his father follows closely the positive inclinations of his son and helps him to form his personality.