Alban Ukaj

Alban Ukaj

Born: July 25, 1980
in Pristina, Kosovo

Movies for Alban Ukaj...

Title: The Hollow
Released: February 14, 2024
Type: TV
Inspector Edib and Mido are called to investigate a dead body in the National Museum, but when the body disappears from the crime scene they are led into a web of corruption and international crime.
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Stane
Title: Stane
Character: Stjepan
Released: September 3, 2023
Type: Movie
On the day of an inauguration to head the family business Stane confronts marriage, love and patriarchy.
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The Albanian Virgin
Title: The Albanian Virgin
Character: Luk Fiku
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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One of Us
Title: One of Us
Character: Sula
Released: November 12, 2022
Type: Movie
A former volunteer in the Kosovo war returns to Albania to pursue a career in the police force. In the country's chaotic and corrupt capital city, Tirana, the ex-soldier turned cop and ends up solving the crime he committed.
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Tori and Lokita
Title: Tori and Lokita
Character: Betim
Released: October 5, 2022
Type: Movie
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
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The White Fortress
Title: The White Fortress
Character: Alen
Released: April 22, 2022
Type: Movie
What could be a beautiful fairy tale for some - boy meets girl - could also be the beginning of a horror film for Faruk. The young man is crushed between the dark world of his criminal cousins in Sarajevo and the discovery of love. The film powerfully visualises and contrasts a harshness and tenderness experienced and dreamed.
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Title: Bad Blood
Character: Ahmet stariji
Released: December 4, 2021
Type: TV
A story that follows three generations of a rich Serbian Christian family in the 19th century in the north of the then Ottoman Empire in the city of Vranje, who are fighting for survival through various moral crises, facing decline. Forbidden love, intrigue, murder, arranged marriages, revenge, friendship and enmity between Serbs, Albanians and Turks and the endangered position of women at that time
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Radio Freedom
Title: Radio Freedom
Character: Alen
Released: September 28, 2021
Type: Movie
An idealistic ham radio operator is trapped in a besieged town and struggles to survive the madness around him.
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Quo Vadis, Aida?
Title: Quo Vadis, Aida?
Character: Tarik
Released: February 26, 2021
Type: Movie
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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Full Moon
Title: Full Moon
Character: Hamza
Released: November 30, 2019
Type: Movie
A police officer Hamza has to work that night even though his wife has gone into labour, because the police are short-staffed. To make everything worse, it seems that people showing up at the station have decided to prove the old belief about the mysterious powers of the full moon and its influence on human behaviour. In the course of that one night, representatives of all the absurdity and tragedy of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina parade through the station and somehow help Hamza get ready for a new life.
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Sympathy for the Devil
Title: Sympathy for the Devil
Character: Journaliste ABC
Released: November 27, 2019
Type: Movie
In an urban war zone where everything that moves is a target, Paul tries to live, love and inform.
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Birdy
Title: Birdy
Character: Ortoped
Released: August 13, 2019
Type: Movie
Tica (Birdy) a war orphan arrives to Sarajevo with his newborn daughter urgently needing surgical procedure. Facing his new appalling reality, Tica embarks into the night where demons of the past are always ready.
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The Marriage
Title: The Marriage
Character: Bekim
Released: November 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Sabina K.
Title: Sabina K.
Character: Saša
Released: September 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Sabina, a divorced mother of two small children, falls in love with an old friend from the Bosnian war. The two plan to marry, but things go terribly wrong.
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Bota
Title: Bota
Character: Mili
Released: July 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The directors skilfully exploit the genius loci of the desolate landscape and, aided by a period score and beguiling long shots, they flawlessly evoke the atmosphere of a place where the past still encroaches upon people’s lives.
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J.A.C.E.
Title: J.A.C.E.
Character: Jace
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Twice-orphaned Jace, a seven-year-old Albanian of Greek origin, witnesses a massacre that wipes out his entire foster family in Argyrokastron, and then falls in the hands of a bunch of ruthless gangsters who "export" children abroad for various profitable reasons (ranging from beggary to organ trade). Jace ends up in Athens, Greece, begging at street corners, exploring the secret horrors of brutal institutions for young offenders or, much later, serving obscure patrons, in an underworld where violent loss seems to be his only destiny. The movie follows Jace's inverted Odyssey in a dark universe of abuse, murder and fear, as he desperately (and silently) seeks for a "family" of his own or, at least, for a sense of belonging
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On the Path
Title: On the Path
Character: Mirza
Released: August 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Loving young couple Luna and Amar try their best to overcome unexpected obstacles that threaten their relationship. After Amar's dramatic change in a fundamentalist community, Luna tears herself apart searching if love is truly enough to keep the couple together on the path to a lifetime of happiness...
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Dreams
Title: Dreams
Character: Sanjar
Released: June 9, 2010
Type: Movie
Suddenly a moment from the past, a shard of memory can surge, overwhelming the senses. Crystal snowflakes land precariously on pale birch trees, civilians shudder from the cold, soldiers in heavy jackets give orders.
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Nightguards
Title: Nightguards
Character: Pekar
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Mahir is married to Geraldine for three years and still they have no children. So Mahir becomes convinced that he is pregnant. From that moment, he keeps throwing up.
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Lorna's Silence
Title: Lorna's Silence
Character: Sokol
Released: August 27, 2008
Type: Movie
Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as Lorna is about to be granted Belgian citizenship, Claudy finds the strength to detox; this presents a problem not only for Lorna, but for the criminal who brokered the deal.
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Shopping
Title: Shopping
Character: Otac
Released: August 11, 2008
Type: Movie
The director's fascination is the parallel world which exists behind the doors of big shopping malls. It is as if behind those doors everyday human problems do not exist. Yet, as we spend money, we all have to go back, through the same door, back to reality.
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The Ship of Fools
Title: The Ship of Fools
Released: November 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Sarajevo in 1992. Vedran, a once famous musician, tries to shelter his family from the madness of war. He hides them in his old house and goes out of his way to give them a normal day to day life. For a while he manages to keep the war at a distance, but when his daughter gets pregnant Vedran wants to give her a proper wedding in the old town hall
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Magic Eye
Title: Magic Eye
Character: Berti
Released: November 1, 2005
Type: Movie
During the riots of 1997 in Albania the retired photographer PETRO travels from his hometown Gjirokastra to the capital Tirana. He has taken pictures of a killing with his Super-8-camera and wants to get the film developed. Petro doesn't know that he shot material that shows how a TV-camera causes the death of a man and his granddaughter in order to get a good story. Unfortunately Petro meets this cameraman - BERTI - on the trip to Tirana. When the film is finally developed Petro gets to know the truth - and he knows his life is in danger! After many adventures on the road he tries at last to present the film to the public. But he must realize that the material was stolen. So only Petro knows the truth while the media spread lies about the deaths of Girokastra.
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Paycheck
Title: Paycheck
Released: August 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A man earns his first paycheck by driving his motorcycle, for the pleasure of rich people, through a mine field in Bosnia.
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Frame for the Picture of My Homeland
Title: Frame for the Picture of My Homeland
Released: August 21, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, the film presents events similar to those in the Lukić indictment.
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Era
Title: Era
Character: Agron
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in Kosovo in 1990 at a time of political volatility as Yugoslavia is breaking apart, ERA tells the story of 17-year-old Era, a rebellious Albanian girl who has fallen in love with Betim, a man stuck between two worlds on account of his having an Albanian father and a Serbian mother. Era is forced not to see him for a while until the situation calms.