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SQ-Language Films
Top 16 SQ-language films from a catalog of 16, ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Country↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Tomka and His Friends | 1,977 | Xhanfise Keko | Drama, Family, War | 7.7 | 15 | SQ | Albania | Tomka is a boy who likes playing football with his friends. When the German army captures his town, the German soldiers establish their camp in the town stadium. Tomka with help from his friends and their parents organizes sabotage actions against the soldiers. |
| The Albanian Virgin | 2,023 | Bujar Alimani | Drama | 7.5 | 14 | SQ | Albania | Albania, 1958. Luana, the daughter of a well respected man in the village, makes friends with Agim, who moved here after his family were banned from the city by the communists. Years later, their childhood friendship turns into teenage love, but without prospects. Luana’s father promised her in marriage to someone else when she was a child. When her father finds out about Luana and Agim’s love, he is furious and immediately arranges for his daughter to be married to the man he chose for her. Luana faces a dilemma: to flee with her lover to Germany, risking being caught by the communists and probably killed, or stay loyal to her family. A poignant love story set in dark times shaped by pressure from old traditions. A deeply human tale about freedom, which is the greatest good even if the price is loneliness. |
| Phantom Youth | 2,024 | Luàna Bajrami | Drama | 7.4 | 11 | SQ | France | Zoe and Volta, childhood friends from a remote village, move to Pristina to pursue their studies. Full of dreams and youthful idealism, they befriend a group of rebellious, anti-establishment activists determined to make their voices heard. Amidst the social and political tensions of Kosovo in 2007, on the brink of independence, they navigate a country in turmoil—one searching for its identity while its youth remain overlooked. |
| Friend | 2,015 | Jamie Donoughue | Drama, History, War | 7.3 | 31 | SQ | Kosovo | The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war. |
| Hive | 2,021 | Blerta Basholli | Drama | 7 | 81 | SQ | Albania | 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. |
| Zana | 2,019 | Antoneta Kastrati | Drama, Thriller, Horror | 6.8 | 20 | SQ | Albania | Haunted by her long-suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality. |
| The Hill Where Lionesses Roar | 2,022 | Luàna Bajrami | Drama | 6.4 | 16 | SQ | Albania | Somewhere in Kosovo, in an isolated village, three young women find their dreams and ambitions stifled, but nothing can stop them in their quest for independence. |
| The Albanian | 2,010 | Johannes Naber | Drama | 6.4 | 15 | SQ | Albania | 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. |
| The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | 1,953 | Sergei Yutkevich | Action, History, Drama | 6.2 | 17 | SQ | Albania | A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord who defended his land against the Ottoman Empire for more than two decades. |
| The Marriage | 2,017 | Blerta Zeqiri | Romance, Drama | 6 | 12 | SQ | Albania | 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. |
| Babai | 2,015 | Visar Morina | Drama | 5.9 | 21 | SQ | France | 10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected. |
| A Comrade from the Village | 1,980 | Piro Milkani | Comedy | 5.4 | 11 | SQ | Unknown | It is a cine comedy following "The Lady from the town". Olga is getting ready to go to a meeting of the district women activists, where she will relate her own experience in the struggle against conservative concepts. During a warm atmosphere, Olga sings the first lullaby to her newborn nephew: "Once upon a time there was an Olga who posed as a lady.Time passed by and the lady has become one of us, a comrade from the country" |
| Amnesty | 2,012 | Bujar Alimani | Drama | 5.3 | 11 | SQ | Albania | Two people meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but their relationship has to end because both their spouses get amnesty from the government. |
| A Cup of Coffee and New Shoes On | 2,022 | Gentian Koçi | Drama | 5 | 10 | SQ | Albania | In today’s Tirana, Agim and Gëzim, two inseparable deaf-mute identical twin brothers, live under the same roof. Ana, Gëzim’s girlfriend, a young high-spirited woman in her thirties, visits them quite often. One evening, Agim is driving back home with Gëzim, when his sight gets blurred and a fatal accident nearly occurs. At the ophthalmologist, a few days later, the two brothers discover that due to a genetic and rare disease, they will separately, but progressively and irreversibly go blind. Slowly immersing into an unbearable silenced darkness, not being able to see the world and each other anymore, only Ana by their side, the two brothers have to make a strong decision around a cup of coffee with new shoes on. |
| The Kukumi | 2,005 | Isa Qosja | Comedy, Drama | 5 | 10 | SQ | Kosovo | 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. |
| Eduart | 2,006 | Angeliki Antoniou | Drama, Crime | 4.6 | 10 | SQ | Greece | Based on true events, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character and his youth passions lead him to commit a murder in Athens. Chased by everyone, even by his own self, he is imprisoned under the harshest conditions. With the help of a German doctor, he learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime. His deep remorse will lead him from darkness to light. |
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