Adem Karaga

15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.

In a village where everyone left, Redjo stays behind, he becomes the heart of Sllupkovo. A heartwarming comedy celebrating community resilience. Everybody Calls Redjo, the village hero.

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.

Afrim and Kenan meet after many years reviving childhood memories. The calamity that Afrim suffers puts Kenan in a very difficult situation. Is Kenan willing to sacrifice everything to stay close to his childhood friends. Now, both are looking for memories, but in different forms!

Aida, 45 years old, city hall manager in a small Southern Albanian town by the shore of Ochrid Lake has to fight against the infernal machine of a corrupt system, of which she’s a herself a part of, when her teenage son Mark becomes involved in a rape scandal that could send him to jail.

Three Macedonian women have to contend with control over their bodies, tradition, loyalty, pregnancy and adoption. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. The three bittersweet stories, one medieval, two contemporary, mirror and contrast one another, exploring themes of love, trust and motherhood.

A father who is old and on his death bed calls his elders son, Bardhi. He advises his son that effort and hard work will ensure him a better future for his family. For the old man, land is everything. Just after the father dies, the younger son, Lis, turns up in the village. Lis has lived for eight years in the west European county and has lost contact with his family. The real reason he has returned is to sell off some of the family's land to pay off his debts to some characters from the underworld.

After a rough night out protesting in the city, Kosta and Maja fall in the hands of the police. Their lives will change forever.

Story about a vengeance, about the secrets we carry and the roles we play.

Syla, a tortured former political prisoner from Kosova, realizes that his political idealism destroyed his life. After twenty years of mundane life in London, he returns home to confront his troubled past.

A young man is searching for the war to free his country and establish freedom. Instead of war he finds the love of his life.

A story of three Albanians who meet on the Albania-Kosovo-Macedonia border. Each of them wants to flee their country, but where will they go?

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.

In a decaying apartment, three friends become pawns in a charismatic stranger’s perverse psychological game, turning their sanctuary into a claustrophobic battlefield where loyalty is the most dangerous weapon.

With death beside him, a young man returns home, where a clash with his powerful cousin forces him to confront fate.

Lovebirds

A young porn star returns to her hometown after ten years absence, to say goodbye to her dying father. Simultaneously, the otherwise quiet life of the locals is disrupted by a series of ghastly murders. A hard-boiled detective with a troubled history and his new partner arrives from the capital to investigate the killings. However, the mayor and the local police try to conceal the cases as unrelated accidents, afraid that this might affect the tourists’ attendance to the upcoming carnival, an important economic asset for the entire region. The detectives find their own moral beliefs challenged as they unravel a long-buried secret, confronted with an enemy that hides behind the mask of innocence.