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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.
Short Film Forum
Silent Return
Communist Albania, 1986.
Nesti (40) is granted a rare permit to travel to Greece, where he encounters an unfamiliar world of freedom that shatters the propaganda he has grown up believing. Amazed and disoriented, he returns home with gifts for his family, only to face an absurd inspection at the border. His belongings are confiscated, logos are cut away, and every trace of the outside world is forcibly erased. Surrounded by fear and constant surveillance, Nesti is compelled to remain silent about what he has seen, while his family's small dreams are painfully crushed.
More in Short Film Forum
Betwixt
Hybrid / Director: Dita Xhaferi / Producer: Lendina Balaj / Kosova
Cicë!
Animation / Director & Producer: Finesa Peja / Kosova
For Whom Do the Bells Toll
Documentary / Director: Erlisë Beqiri / Producer: Ardian Dubova / Kosova
About
Based in Prizren and taking place during DokuFest, the Forum connects filmmakers and producers from the region with European film institutions, funds, broadcasters, markets, festivals, distributors, sales agents and potential co-producers.
Grasshoppers
Fiction / Director: Hanis Bagashov / Producer: Kasiyana Angelova, Jérôme Blesson / North Macedonia, France
Korridoret e Pritjes
Fiction / Director: Adrian Guri / Producer: Ajola Daja, Adrian Guri / Albania
My Pants Are Your Pants
Hybrid-Experimental / Director & Producer: Durim Klaiqi / Kosova
The celebration of letters
Hybrid / Director: Galina D. Georgieva / Producer: Ilina Perianova / Bulgaria
The Rifts
Documentary / Director: Gogo Vanev / Producer: Félix Lambot, Nevena Semova / Belgium, Bulgaria
The Sweet Teeth of Ana and Her Mama
Fiction / Director: Đorđije Petrović / Producer: Jana Rovčanin / Montenegro, Serbia
