Another Day
Close up on brothership, drifting and the slow dissolution of the ties that bind.
After many years of performing together in the streets of Italy, the lives of two artists begin to take separate paths. Brought together by their difficult past, Rafael and Besmir have come together in pursuit of their shared dreams to become professional street performers. As they enter their thirties, dreams change and conflicts arise. The end of a chapter in their lives is approaching and it threatens their friendship.
Thursday, 28 November – 19:45
Saturday, 30 November – 12:15
ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 82 MIN
EDHE NJE DITE | Eneos Çarka | 2023 | Albania
PRODUCTION
Joni Shanaj, Eneos Çarka – SCRB & NKB
CAST
Rafael Hoxhaj, Besmir Sula, Sonila Zaganjori
MUSIC
Bledi Boraku
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Eneos Çarka
EDITING
Eneos Çarka, Joni Shanaj
FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION)
IDFA, 2023 – World Premiere, Best First Feature Nomination | DokuFest, 2024 – Best Balkan Documentary | ZagrebDox, 2024 | GoEast, 2024 | MakeDox 2024 | Ekrani i Artit, 2024 | Center for Openness and Dialogue, 2024
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Eneos Çarka is a filmmaker, media artist, and researcher. His films have been screened at numerous festivals, galleries, and cultural events such as IDFA, HotDocs, FIPADOC where he received Tënk Award, Los Angeles Filmforum, Venice Architecture Biennale a.o. He received the FIPRESCI Award in 2023 for his MFA film “The Silence of The Banana Trees” and served as a Jury Member in the IDFA Competition for Youth Documentary in 2022. He is an alumnus of the DocNomads MFA program in Creative Documentary and is currently pursuing artistic research at the University of Southern California. “Another Day” is his first feature documentary.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Would you put friendship before your dreams? Another Day explores precisely this. Rafael and Besmir rely on each other to keep their dreams alive. But sometimes, ambitions are stronger than a brotherly bond. The idea of success based on financial reward causes disillusionment of achievement. Such a notion drives our protagonists further from each other and composes the film narrative. Is there a place for companionship in a money-oriented world? On another level, it’s a story of two emigrants, whose uniqueness lies in how they approach the world, the society they are part of, and the way that they handle their struggles.
