General Information
Duration: 15 min 54 sec
Genres: Fiction, Short
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Submitted By: Mirak Zymberaj
Festival Rating 6.5
Uka, a not-so-advanced man, lives alone on a high hill where no one else lived around. He usually waited for the Sunrise every day at the highest peak of the hill. One day a big earthquake was a sign that something terrible was coming. He quickly returns to his hut and sees that his only daughter who was married in a village not so close to the hut had come to the hut. She had managed to escape the paramilitary siege along with her young son. Uka having no other choice, as the region was completely surrounded, hides his daughter and granddaughter in an improvised cemetery which he builds so that he can live in it for a while. The paramilitaries take Uke to his house and convince him that he is crazy, as he appears that he can not speak ... But Uka had just hidden and placed his daughter and nephew in the built cemetery, and where near that cemetery it was also the only grave of his wife. The paramilitaries settle right in Uka's house, and force him to sleep in the ahar with his goat ... Uka faces serious scenes with the paramilitaries trying to keep his daughter and grandson alive and not to be noticed that they are in cemetery. Uka does not give up until the end, no matter how much he struggles and situations with the paramilitaries, but also the girl and the boy do not give up easily living in difficult underground conditions…
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Film TypeFiction, Short
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Genresdrama
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Runtime15 minutes 54 seconds
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Production BudgetUSD
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Director's Biography
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name / Surname: MIRAK ZYMBERAJ
Address: rr. Topulli Brothers, Peja
E-mail: [email protected]
Tel: +38344729610
Citizenship: Kosovar
Date of birth: 21.12.1997
Male gender
EDUCATION
High school: Don Bosko College, Prishtina
Bachelor: Film and TV Directing, Faculty of Arts, University of Prishtina "HasanPrishtina"
EXPERIENCE
Finished the acting studio - Studio AKT
Engagements as an actress
Actor in the short feature film, "Chorus for Kosovo" directed by: Dhimiter Ismailaj
Actor in the play "The Last Dream", directed by Mentor Zymberaj
Actor in the short feature film, "Chorus for Kosovo"
The film "Requiem for Kosovo" (Mirak Zymberaj - actor):
Participations and Awards of the short feature film "Requiem for Kosovo":
Prices:
“Best Short-Live Action” Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival, Pennsylvania 2011
Denali Award - Alaska International Film Award, Alaska 2011
“First Place” - 1st Commonwealth Johnstown Film Festival, Pennsylvania 2011
“Jury Special Mention” - Circle of Cinema Sogni “Antonio Ricci”, Ravenna, Italy 2011
“Third Best Short International” - Artfools Video Festival, Larissa, Greece 2011
Best Short International - Southern Appalachian Int’l Film Festival, Tennessee 2010
“Director’s Special Citation for Short Fiction” - Syracuse Int’l Film Festival, NY 2010
Participants in these Festivals:
Participants in these Festivals:
International Film Festivals for Children and Young People, Armenia, October 2011
Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival, USA, September / October 2011 (contestant)
Price: "Best Short-Live Action"
Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Adana, Turkey, September 2011 (contestant)
Lola Kenya Screen International Film Festival, Kenny, August 2011 (contestant)
DokuFest International Film Festival, Prizren, Kosovo, July 2011 (contestant)
Alaska International Film Awards, Alaska, July 2011 (contestant)
Price: Denali Award
Big Sur International Short Film Festival, California July 2011 (contestant)
Durban International Film Festival, Durban, South Africa, July 2011 (contestant)
First Commonwealth Film Festival, Pennsylvania, June 2011 (contestant)
Price: First Place
Antonio Ricci Cinema Circle, Ravena, Italy, May 2011 (contestant)
Price: Jury Special Mention
Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata, California, May 2011 (contestant)
Ridgewood Film Festival, Rigdewood, New Jersey, April 2011 (contestants)
XXIX International Film Festival of Uruguay, Montevideo, April 2011 (contestants)
Kansas City FilmFest, Kansas, April 2011 (contestants)
Phoenix Film Festival, Arizona, April 2011 (contestant)
Sofia Int'l Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, March 2011 (Balkan Selection)
Taos Shortz Film Fest, Taos, New Mexico, March 2011 (contestants)
Durango Independent Film Festival, Colorado, March 2011 (contestant)
Artfools Video Festival, Larissa, Greece, February 2011 (contestant)
Price: Third Best Short International
Carolina Film and Video Festival, North Carolina, February 2011 (contestant)
Victoria Int'l Film Festival, BC Canada, February 2011 (contestant)
Children's International Film Festival, Bangladesh, January 2011 (contestant)
Africa Int'l Film Festival, Nigeria, December 2010 (contestant)
Southern Appalachian Int'l Film Festival, Tennessee, October 2010 (contestants)
Price: Best Short International
Syracuse International Film Festival, New York, October 2010 (contestant)
Price: Director's Special Citation for Short Fiction
Short Film Corner, Cnnnes Film Festival, May 2010
International Documentary Film Festival "DokuFest" in Prizren 2012, Kosovo International Film Festival "ShqipFilmFest" 2012 in Kosovo
Assistant director in the play "Hamlet's Dreams"
Awards and presentations of the play "Hamlet's Dreams"
-International Monodrama Festival "VIDLUNJA", Klementisky, 2018, Ukraine
("Hamlet's Dreams"
Award for Perfection in Acting Master - Mentor Zymberaj
Special Acknowledgments from the Jury and the Festival)
-International Monodrama Festival in Kosovo "MonoAKT", 2018
("Hamlet's Dreams"
Nominated and Evaluated: The Highest Level of Performing Arts - Mentor Zymberaj)
Special thanks from the Theater Institute in Moscow, Russia
Special thanks from the SAINT MUSE International Theater Festival in Ulanbator, Mongolia)
-Mahachkala International Theater Festival, Dagestan-Russia, 2018
("Hamlet's Dreams"
The best performance of the Festival - "Hamlet's Dreams"
Special Acknowledgments from the Ministry of Culture of Dagestan - Mentor Zymberaj)
-International Theater Festival "Faces Without Masks" 2019, Skopje, Macedonia and Veirut
("Hamlet's Dreams")
-International Monodrama Festival BACAUFest 2019, Bacau, Romania
(Honorary Show - "Hamlet's Dreams")
-MOLDFEST International Theater Festival, Chisinau, Moldova, 2019
("Hamlet's Dreams" - Laureate of the Main Prize of the Festival)
-SITFY 2020 International Theater Festival, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
("Hamlet's Dreams" - GRAND PRI of the Festival-Best Monodrama of the Festival)
-International Theater Festival in Vladimir, Russia, 2021
("Hamlet's Dreams" - FESTIVAL LAUREAT)
Assistant director in the play "Hamlet's Dreams"
Commitments as a director
Director of short feature films: "The girl and two friends"
The Promise
Omnibus
"Paranoia"
"Three"
"Ikja"
The film "Three" was a participant in festivals:
TIFF ODA Tetovo,
Malabu international music & film festival,
"TRI NETE" film - fest in Switzerland.
Screenwriter and co-screenwriter in movies:
"The girl and the two friends"
The Promise
Omnibus
"Three"
"Ikja"
"the table of grave"
