I Must Go Down by the Sea Again
Feature drama
Vali, a directing student, and Drini, an acting student, reconnect to finish a graduation film after a period shaped by trust, separation, and emotional rupture.
Prishtina, Kosovo
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A film house for bold cinema, new languages, and images that stay under the skin.
About
We develop and produce films with a clear voice, emotional risk, and a deep connection to place.
Founded in Prishtina, Katarzë Films develops and produces films including 4 Pills at Night (2021), I Have Never Been on an Airplane (2025), Life After a Lifetime and Endless Rebirths (2025), and I Must Go Down by the Sea Again (in development).
Worlds built with precision and instinct
Cinema, sound, and visual atmosphere
Rooted in Kosovo, open to international collaboration
Visuals
Images from the atmosphere around the films: texture, movement, and place.
Selected Works
A focused selection from recent and ongoing work.
Life After a Lifetime and Endless Rebirths
Short drama
A 16 minute drama directed and written by Leart Rama, produced by Katarzë Films.
I Have Never Been on an Airplane
Documentary feature
Three young Kosovars leave home for the first time, chasing freedom and finding themselves instead.
4 Pills at Night
Short drama
A director and his actor form a bond before a shoot, but a rave pushes the relationship into uncertainty and unanswered questions.
What We Do
Production, development, postproduction, and visual world building.
Film development01
Production and co production02
Postproduction supervision03
Festival trailers and campaigns04
Music driven visual work05
Creative direction06
Built for fast relaunch, then easy expansion.
This structure can easily grow into separate film pages, an archive, press kits, team profiles, embedded trailers, or a submissions page without losing the minimal visual language.
Journal
News, screenings, premieres, and notes from the work.
Spring 2026Feature in developmentNew collaborations and financing path underway
2025Festival circulationRecent films moving through screenings and industry spaces
OngoingOpen for co productionsSelective collaborations across film and visual culture
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