Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

FUTURE IS HERE

The Cost of Applause

Çmimi i Duartrokitjeve

Kosovo
2016 — 8' / Color

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Synopsis

Kosovo is not a very big country and not everyone knows what Ballet is. In a small town called Prizren is the first school of Ballet which gives a concert annually. Tiredness, difficulties and sacrifices that ballerinas go through is in the end rewarded by the applause of art lover audience.

Director Biography

Ilirjana Memaj is a sixteen years old girl, living and studying in Prizren. She studies ballet in Music High School “Lorenc Antoni”. She has been a ballet dancer for seven years now. This is her first Documentary Film.

Director

Ilirjana Memaj

Producer

DokuFest

Cinematographer

Ilir Memaj

Editor

Emilio Guerra Delgado

Sound

Emilio Guerra Delgado

Contact

DokuFest
Marin Barleti nn
20 000 Prizren Kosovo
+383 29 233718
[email protected]