What happens in the artists’ neighborhood stays in the artists’ neighborhood

The community of Egnatia Street in Ulpiana, between artistic explosion and gentrification.

“Those who have money to campaign are the ones with the billboards on six-story buildings.”

Women candidates for mayor face a lack of funding and media coverage.

Ermela Teli: In socialist paradise it never rains

Director Ermela Teli reflects on art, censorship, and the absence of rain in socialist realism during communist Albania.

Making movies while the world is on fire

A look inside Dokufest’s national competition.

Kalina Yordanova: The war as a dirty job assigned to heroes

K2.0 talks to Yordanova on transgenerational trauma and the imagery of war.

Lebibe Topalli: Our murals oppose the gloom of concrete

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