DokuTalks
DokuTalks brings together filmmakers, thinkers and audiences for urgent conversations about film and society.
Short Film Forum
A DokuFest platform supporting young filmmakers to develop, present and advance short film projects.
Forum Guest Country: Italy
DokuFest's partnership with the Italian Short Film Center welcomes Italy as the Forum's 2026 Guest Country, connecting Italian projects, filmmakers and archival cinema with Balkan producers, funds and decision-makers. This partnership is supported by Italian Embassy in Prishtina and Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Tirana.
Monday, August 10
17:00
Shkolla e Muzikes 'Lorenc Antoni'
DokuTalks
Inherited Memory
How do filmmakers create a relationship with home when home is remembered, inherited, lost, or politically unreachable? Is home a place, a language, a family story or a filmic reconstruction? Kosovar diaspora filmmakers, alongside voices from other displaced contexts, explore what distance reveals, what it distorts, and how it changes a filmmaker's responsibility.
Panelists
Kaki Wong (director of I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore)
Edona Ademi (director of Adem)
Eneos Çarka - Albanian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, USA
Diell Curri (director of Language of The Diaspora)
Moderated by Besa Luci (editor-in-chief and co-founder of Kosovo 2.0)
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I Heard That They Are Not Going To See Each Other Anymore follows two intertwined relationships in a dreamlike Taipei. Tao’s difficult love for Shin and Melih’s attempts to reach Ping unfold through longing, guilt and memories that are hard to escape.
It screens as part of the Fiction/Non-Fiction programme on Sunday, 9 August, at 13:30 at Kino Art Theatre, and on Thursday, 13 August, at 17:30 at DokuKino.
Adem follows a nameless construction worker who builds the foundations of other people’s lives while his own sense of stability begins to erode. As he tries to send something to Kosovo, he remains haunted by a connection that has been lost.
It screens in the National Competition on Wednesday, 12 August, at 20:30 at DokuKino Pllato.
Language of the Diaspora follows five friends in Switzerland as they explore their relationship with the Albanian language and the ways migration and oppression reshape it. Moving through places of memory, the film sits between documentary and experiment, reflecting on language, identity and belonging.
It screens in the National Competition on Monday, 10 August, at 20:30 at DokuKino Pllato.
Eneos Çarka is a filmmaker, media artist and researcher whose work moves between documentary and experimental cinema. Often beginning with intimate relationships and family histories, his films explore memory, identity and the ways personal stories are represented.
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