17 o'clock

Synopsis

A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance.

Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn togold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around themountain of Ljuboten.

Director Biography

Flaka Kokolli is an animator and filmmaker from Kosovo. She has worked on numerous short film and some of them are ‘Mardhe’ in 2021 and ‘Shpija’in 2022. They participated in numerous international film festivals, including SMOF StopMotion Our Fest, TIAF - TbilisiInternational Animation Festival,Anibar Animation Festival, DokuFest, Tirana International Film Festival, Shockfest FilmFestival, Women’s Film Festival –Demakijaż, ANIMATIBA -FESTIVAL INTERNACIONALDE ANIMAÇÃO DE CURITIBA,and ANNY: Animation Nights New York.