"My name is Drita. In 1997, during the pyramid scheme collapse, when the whole country burned and everyone was shooting at everyone… I found a film canister in an abandoned cinema in Shkodër. The film inside had no title. Just a note: 'For when we remember how to laugh.'"
Agon never finished his thesis on lost Balkan cinema. Instead, he started a small festival in Pristina. No red carpets. No jury. Just a room, a projector, and a sign that read: filma falas shqip
And inside the case, tucked behind the disc, a faded photograph of a woman in a red scarf, laughing. "My name is Drita