Mateo Çili

The film tells a turbulent year, 1997 in Albania, through the stories of a group of friends. On the thread of memories, real images and archival images and staging will alternate to draw a portrait of a generation, before, during and after the events that have marked their lives. The film goes beyond the news and allows the viewer to approach in a more intimate and profound way the experience of the protagonists, reviving their past on the screen. A coming of age film with semi-documentary tones, which help to bring the facts narrated back into the reality of our days.

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In a thermal bath town that withstands mass tourism, a builder and his surveyor partner start up an ambitious project: converting twenty abandoned hotels into luxury residences for wealthy retired people. The lack of financial support from the banks and investors triggers a domino effect in their destiny that forever subverts reality.

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Homeless veterans Lilli and Aníbal find a baby in the dumpster on Christmas Eve. Although he looks healthy, they decide to take him to the nearest hospital, where they discover that no one else can see him.

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An african little girl keeper of ancestral Voodoo secrets in the center of Turin. An albanian gang dedicated to morbid extreme practices in the popular district of Rome. Monsters from ancient Japan in modern Japan. The secret of the spicy kebab an egyptian small shop hidden in the alleys of Genoa and more strange things...

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Two young girls, a hot, stifling summer, the desire to run away from a small provincial town. Luisa is full of life, uninhibited, unconventional. Renata is dark, angry and in need of love. The lives of two young women is a tale of blackmail, of a love betrayed, of violence: Luisa uses her Albanian boyfriend, Bilal; Renata uses Luisa’s body to orchestrate her revenge. Both want to leave the small community where they have grown up among village festivals and independence gatherings, helpless families and new generations of migrants targeted by those who feel increasingly threatened. Luisa, Renata and Bilal will risk loosing themselves, loosing a precious part of themselves, of those they love, ultimately loosing their own lives.

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In the suburbs of Milan, a traveler wanders aimlessly in a country that is foreign to her. In her moment of despair, she stops at a church where a familiar melody plays through a song that her grandmother left her as a memento.

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