Kortfilmfestival Leuven - I Believe the Portrait Saved Me

I Believe the Portrait Saved Me

Alban Muja • The Netherlands, Kosovo • 2025 • 10 min.

Twenty-five years after his detainment during the Kosovo war, the painter Skender Muja tells an incredible survival story. In the final months of the war, countless fugitive Albanian civilians were caught and imprisoned. Muja experiences anxiety, uncertainty, but above all the resistance art can offer.

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edition 2025