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02/06/2026

WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Kino Kosova Film Festival – 7th edition in Bern
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This year’s theme, “Where Is Everybody?”, draws inspiration from the famous Fermi Paradox - the unsettling question of how a universe so vast, so ancient, and so full of possibility can appear so silent. If intelligent life should be out there, why can’t we see it? Why does nobody answer?
We bring this question back to Earth.
In a world filled with injustice, conflict, inequality, and suffering, we find ourselves asking a similar question: Where is everybody? How is it possible that so much wrong can happen so easily, so quietly, so continuously while so many remain passive observers? The silence of the universe becomes a metaphor for the silence of society. Just as we search the cosmos for signs of life, we search our own communities for signs of courage, empathy, and responsibility.
This theme invites filmmakers and audiences to look at the gap between what should be and what is. If the universe can feel empty, perhaps it is because we have not learned how to fill it - with action, with accountability, with a collective voice that refuses to stay quiet.
Through cinema, we confront the void. We question the passivity. We challenge the silence.
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12/05/2026

🎬I Have Never Been On An Airplane
Directed by: Redon Kika
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📆Screening: 16.05 • 15:00
📍Location: Riffraff
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🎫Link in bio for tickets and more information!
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Tringa, Jeta, and Atdhe have never left Kosovo. In their twenties, they’ve spent their lives imagining the world through screens, grounded by visa restrictions. When they finally board a plane for the first time, the reality they encounter is far from what they imagined. Yet something shifts. In the space between departure and return, they begin to understand that growing up isn’t about where you go, but who you become along the way.
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10/05/2026

🎶Join us this Friday for a special live concert with ZWADA followed by a DJ set from ejatoni ✨
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ZWADA brings an intimate and energetic mix of indie, pop, punk and lo-fi sounds from Prishtina, performed by Suada Abazi, Lum Veseli, Orges Kurtaj and Korab Uka. They refuse strict categorization and prioritize musical flow and experimentation. Suada writes close-to-the-ear melodies with simple, meaningful lyrics layered over sophisticated song structures.
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After the concert, ejatoni takes over with atmospheric electronic grooves and Albanian cultural voices and polyphonic singing. Inspired by legendary performers such as Irma Libohova, Ardian Trebicka and Nazif Çela, he explores how traditional Albanian sounds can be reimagined through modern electronic production.
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Come dance, listen and spend the night with us🔥🤩🥳

10/05/2026

Meet the artist: Ilir Hasanaj
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The director of 🎬WORKERS’ WINGS will be joining us for the screening, followed by a Q&A 🎥
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📆 15.05 · 16:10 📍 Riffraff
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🎫Link in bio for tickets and more information!
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Ilir Hasanaj is a filmmaker with roots in both Kosovo and Switzerland, embodying a unique blend of cultural influences. He honed his craft with a degree in Film from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and has since created documentaries that resonate globally.

Ilir’s film Workers’ Wings earned him the prestigious Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024. Since then, the film has continued to travel around the world, winning numerous awards at prestigious international film festivals.
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09/05/2026

Meet the artist: Anita Morina
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The director of 🎬SOS will be joining us for the screening, followed by a Q&A 🎥
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📆 15.05 · 16:10 📍 Riffraff
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🎫Link in bio for tickets and more information!
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Anita Morina is a Kosovar-Croatian writer, director, and producer. After completing her Master’s in Film and Television Production in Cambridge, UK, she had her start in television before moving into the film industry. In the same year, she premiered her two shorts, One Woman Film and SOS, the latter winning Best National Film, and is currently developing her first feature, Lucky Us. In 2021, she founded Little House, where she has since produced award-winning fiction and animation. She is also developing projects at Filmik Institue, an independent film hub in Kosovo.
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08/05/2026

WHAT REMAINS, WHAT CHANGED - Short Film Block
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Between past and present, loss and continuation, innocence and experience, the films reflect on what stays the same and what changes over time, and how people continue living in between those two.
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🎬17 O’CLOCK dir. Flaka Kokolli
🎬I BELIEVE THE PORTRAID SAVED ME dir. Alban Muja
🎬ON THE WAY dir. Samir Karahoda
🎬SOS dir. Anita Morina
🎬WORKERS WINGS dir. Ilir Hasanaj
· 🗓️ Screening: 15.05. ⏰16:10 📍 Location: Riffraff
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Link in our bio to get the tickets! 🔗
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07/05/2026

Meet the artist: Ermela Teli
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The director of 🎬In The Socialist Paradise ( It Never Rains) will be joining us for the screening, followed by a Q&A 🎥
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📆 16.05 · 16:40 📍 Riffraff
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🎫Link in bio for tickets and more information!
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Growing up in a time when the state controlled nearly everything, I slowly became aware that ideology wasn’t confined to monuments or slogans. It lived with us in our homes, in the way we spoke, and even in the amateur films we made of ourselves. What felt private was, in fact, shaped by a system that quietly dictated how we saw the world and ourselves.
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Since childhood, rain has held deep significance for me. My memories of growing up are filled with rainy days, and one in particular stands out the day I saw my father in prison. Rain became tied to memory, to emotion, to truth. The past always returns to me accompanied by rain. And yet, in the official imagery of the time, those rainy days were nowhere to be found. I longed to see them reflected wondering if someone else, too, had experienced reality through the same melancholic lens.
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During my research, I encountered a study by critic and art historian Gëzim Qëndro, who explored the symbolic erasure of rain in socialist realist art. That absence spoke volumes. The more I looked, the more I found that certain elements of everyday life were systematically excluded from artistic representation. Even the smallest deviation from the idealized vision of socialist realism could be deemed subversive. Many artists were imprisoned for including what should have remained ‘invisible’ shadows, doubt, ambiguity, or any emotional truth that didn’t align with the regime’s narrative.
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My goal is not to reconstruct a factual past, but to ask: What did it feel like to live under a regime where even your most intimate expressions weren’t entirely your own? And how can we reclaim those lost voices using the very tools that once silenced us?  - Ermela Teli
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07/05/2026

🎬In The Socialist Paradise ( It Never Rains)
Directed by: Ermela Teli
- Part of IMAGES THROUGH TIME short block.
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📆Screening: 16.05 • 16:40
📍Location: Riffraff
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🎫Link in bio for tickets and more information!
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Synopsis: Set against the backdrop of Albania’s dictatorship-era past, this film explores the enduring grip of state propaganda, where art became a tool of control seeping from public monuments into private memory. Filmmaker Ermela Teli reveals how official narratives shaped not only collective beliefs but also the most intimate aspects of daily life. She reflects on art, censorship, and the symbolic absence of rain in socialist realism where even weather was manipulated to uphold the illusion of a perfect socialist Albania.

Drawing from personal experience and family archives, Teli uncovers how ideology subtly distorted even home movies, shaping identity, relationships, and self-perception.
Blending personal reflection with cultural history, the film dismantles the regime’s visual language from within. By reworking archival sound and image, Teli transforms propaganda’s tools into instruments of resistance, crafting a poetic counter-narrative that reclaims memory and reimagines freedom.
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