Edon Rizvanolli

Acting

Edon Rizvanolli

Born 1972-03-23 · Prishtina, Kosovo

Edon Rizvanolli is an actor and filmmaker from Prishtina, Kosovo based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Acting credits

Black Lotus poster
6.5

An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.

Black Lotus

2023

The Kukumi poster
5.3

Story happens in the first days after NATO troops enter Kosova. After the signing of the military agreement in Kumanovo, in the house of the retarded, the guards and employees leave their places and flee. Inmates are all retarded but they have a special philosophy of life, they have their wishes and their dreams. Being free gives them a chance to make dreams come true, but they are confronted with a reality and environment, which in one way or another is very different. From the moment of getting out the fences, they are conflicted with people that call themselves free. Gradually this conflict roughens and with it degenerates the meaning of freedom. There are three main characters, Kukum, Mara and Hasan.

The Kukumi

2005

The Marriage poster
6.2

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.

The Marriage

2017

Moloch poster
6.0

Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.

Moloch

2022

The Odyssey of Joy poster
NR

Lis, a 10-year-old boy, whose father is a missing person from the Kosovo war, lives cramped in a small apartment with his family during early 2000. Trying to forget a secret only he knows, Lis joins a French trio of clowns who are in Kosovo to entertain the children of the land. Soon enough Lis will learn that reality will catch up with everyone, and he will have to face his suppressed emotions.

The Odyssey of Joy

2025

None poster
NR

Through the eyes of Era, a resilient yet fragile woman, the audience is introduced to a dystopian reality where victims and perpetrators of violence are intertwined, and the boundaries between guilt and innocence become blurred.

None

Early Birds poster
5.9

The neo-noir thriller EARLY BIRDS tells the story of the two wildly different women Annika and Caro, who become embroiled in a web of unpredictable events following a night out on the town. As the two flee together from the police, drug dealers and themselves, they're confronted by the collision of two worlds: their personal freedom and unrelenting violence.

Early Birds

2023

Unwanted poster
8.4

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

Unwanted

2017

Amsterdam Undercover: Death in the Princes' Canal poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amsterdam Undercover: Death in the Princes' Canal

2018

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Die Patin von Privonice poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Der Kroatien-Krimi: Die Patin von Privonice

2021

Amsterdam Undercover: Risen from the dead poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amsterdam Undercover: Risen from the dead

2018

The Tower of Strength poster
9.0

A persecuted child finds shelter in the house of the enemy. The host faces an awestruck choice: to save the child's life and his own integrity - or risk losing his family to a group of armed kinsmen.

The Tower of Strength

2024

Please Rise poster
NR

A short political drama about a committee that is formed to choose a new national anthem after a fictional country goes through a revolution.

Please Rise

2023

No artwork available
5.7

When a Dutch family drives back home from a holiday in Germany and stops at a rest area, it is already clear this is probably their last trip together. But then a marital crisis, the heat, restless hormones and suppressed frustrations unexpectedly interlock.

P

2014

Das Meer ist der Himmel poster
6.0

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.

Das Meer ist der Himmel

2024

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Six alternative rock bands discuss life in UN-administered Kosovo five years after the NATO intervention, reflecting on issues from ethnic tension in the region to the popularity of turbo-folk.

Shuffle - Politics, Bullshit and Rock 'n' Roll

2005

No artwork available
NR

Six alternative rock bands discuss life in UN-administered Kosovo five years after the NATO intervention, reflecting on issues from ethnic tension in the region to the popularity of turbo-folk.

Shuffle - Politics, Bullshit and Rock 'n' Roll

2005

Unwanted poster
8.4

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

Unwanted

2017

Unwanted poster
8.4

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

Unwanted

2017

Unwanted poster
8.4

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

Unwanted

2017

I Believe the Portrait Saved Me poster
NR

Twenty-five years after his abduction during the Kosovo War, painter Skender Muja recalls a pivotal moment of survival. Held in a detention center, he was ordered to draw a Serbian commander’s portrait to save his life.

I Believe the Portrait Saved Me

2025