Acting
Albania, 1996. Mira lives in Elbasan with her two sons while her husband works illegally in Greece. Struggling to make ends meet, she invests in a pyramid scheme, hoping for a better future. When close friends migrate, mira grows desperate and sells their apartment to reinvest, moving in with her parents. But the scheme collapses, the country falls into chaos, and mira loses everything. Her teenage son toni becomes violent, eventually arming himself during a riot. Fearing for their safety, Mira decides to flee Albania with her sons. After a dangerous journey, they arrive in Thessaloniki—lost, without Arben, but finally together. At the luna park, they find a fleeting moment of peace.
The film tells the story of an impossible love story in the mid-1980s in Albania, during the period of changes in the Socialist Camp of the Eastern Bloc and is based on a story of the same name by Teodor Keko. In it, a piece of life is cut off from two young people with dreams, energy, integrity, who complement each other very well but the society in which they live does not accept this relationship. The film seeks to enter the absurd psychology of the time in which these two individuals stand gracefully. The couple, who temporarily takes on the attribute of a landmark, will become the 'polar star' of Gon, who discovers through her, his choices. A meeting after many years between them reopens not too distant wounds of Albanian society.
Mentor Hasa, a senior officer of the State Security, finds himself from a "spy" into a tapped man and his life takes a dramatic turn. His last wish to his son, Martin, is that his story is told to the whole world.
A student that gets murdered. A young detective that tries to solve the case. A whole society that finds out about her problems underneath.
Handsome Albanian villager Arben wants to marry Etleva, daughter of a neighboring clan, but her father has promised her to another man who is offering a 10,000€ bride price. But when it turns out Etleva is carrying Arben's child, the pressure is on for him to come up with the dowry before the baby is born -- and before her brothers take revenge for the dishonor he has brought their family. Fleeing to Berlin without papers, experience or knowledge of the language, Arben soon learns the ways of survival.
Leon, from Frankfurt, returns to his native Albania after 20 years to scatter his deceased grandfather's ashes in the sea and is forced to confront his past and the family he never wanted to see again.
