Nė kafiterinė "Shtrojera"nė Prishtinė,nė ambient tė njė arkitekture moderne,para njė numri tė konsiderueshėm tė tė ftuarish aktorė tė filmit,gazetarė tė radios e tė televizionit e dashamirė tė kulturės,u bė perurimi ,u dha premiera e filmit "Ankthi"tė Nexhmedin Sylės,i cili paraqitet nė rolin kryesor,skenarist dhe regjisor .Kėtė solemnitet e organizoi NB PENA nga Prishtina.Filmi u prit shumė mirė.Pas premierės u zhvillua njė bisedė spontane nė tė cilėn u shprehen fjalė miradije.Pjesėmarrėsit ndėr tė tjera thanė: HAXHI MUHAXHERI-gazetarė:Eshtė njė film poetik pėr fatin e mėrgimtarėve tanė tė shpėrndarė nėpėr Evropė.S'ėshtė film komercial po njė film krejt tjetėr". Sali Bashota -shkrimtar:Ambientet janė autentike,po edhe simbolike.Mė pėlqeu elementi biblik-lindja e fėmijės". GANI NITAJ-gazetar i Radiotelevizionit tė Prishtinės:Filmi trajton njė temė tė madhe.Eshtė njė film i realizuar mirė.Eshtė nė fokusin e ndalimit tė ikjeve nga Kosova ;thirrje pėr kthim.
ENVER PETROVCI-aktor dhe profesor i studio aktrimit nė Prishtinė:Eshtė njė ditė gėzimi tė madh qė e pashė kėtė film.Kam emocione,mė duhet njė gjysmė ore t'i racionalizoj.Eshtė njė punė revolucionare nė fushėn e filmit. Eshtė njė projekt i madh modern.Autorėt kanė bėrė mund pėr realizimin e filmit.Kuadrot ndrrohen shumė shpesh dhe e pasurojnė vizionin.Eshtė temė prekėse-kurbeti.Unė personalisht 27 veta i kam jashtė.Filmi nuk jep pėrgjigje pėr zgjidhjen e problemit tė mėrgimit.Aktori "Baca"(Ismet Selmani-Tetovė)ėshtė amator,debutues por i shkelqyer.Unė kisha luajtur nė projekte tė tilla - pa kompensim material". SADEDIN PREKAZI-regjisor dhe profesor i Akademisė sė aktrimit-Prishtinė:Filmi ėshtė provokativ pėr diskutime dhe inicion realizime tė tjera dramaturgjike". Florin KELMENDI-gazetar i Radio Prishtinės:"...kjo vepėr filmike mund tė ēmohet me interes,veēanėrisht pėr guximin e autorial qė t'i qaset njė teme kaq komplekse,me tė cilėn tash sa shekuj ballafaqohet populli shqiptar SHAQIR FONIQI -gazetar i Radiotelevizionit tė Prishtinės:"Futja dhe ecja nė rrugėn e pa krye na kujton rrathėt e ferrit tė Dantes,qė pasqyron madhėshtinė regjisoriale tė Sylės nė fomulimin dhe brumosjen e suksesshme tė filmit tė tij ANKTHI-Ankthin e jetės sonė tė pėrditėshme". Kontribut me diskutime gjatė mbrėmjes dhanė edhe Abdullah Zeneli,Shefki Morina,Qerim Ujkani,Isa Rexhepi,Xhevat Latifi e tjerė.Filmin Ankthi tė Nexhmedi Sylės duhet shikuar.Kėtė film duhet emetuar edhe nė programin satelitor tė TV tė Tiranės,qė tė shihet njera faqe (e ankthshme) e mėrgimit-u konstatua nga tė gjithė tė pranishmit e mbrėmjes--e mbyllė keshtu shkrimin e tij nė gazetėn OKARINA tė Prishtinės, publicisti dhe shkrimtari Hajro ULQINAKU,i cili ndėr tė tjera bėn edhe njė pėrshkrim biografik tė jetės dhe angazhimit profesional nė vend dhe jasht tė regjisorit dhe aktorit N.Syla nė studion ONE LINe tė profesori FRANCESCO DIOMAIUTTA nė Zvicėr gjatė qendrimit tė tij 5 vjeēar. EPOPE MBI FATE MERGIMTARESH- e fillon keshtu shenimin nė pjesė kryesore tė faqes sė parė dhe nė tė dy faqet e mjedisme -ilustruar me foto nga kuadrot gjatė xhirimeve,gazeta "BOTA SOT "me rastin e njoftimit tė promovimit tė ANKthit"nė sallen e famoze SCALO tė WILIt kantoni i St. Gallenit tė Zvicrrės. ANKTHI I TEMES SE MADHE- ėshtė titulli i njė komenti tė gazetarit Gani NItaj nė gazetėn e atėherėshme ORA ku nė mes tjerash thotė:"Nė kėtė film pasqyrohet qartė zbrazja emocionale e autorit,por edhe tragjika e popullit shqiptar.Me ndihmėn e shumė aktorėve amatorė (tė pėrgatitur mirė)tė mėrguar nė Zvicėr,N.Syla tabloizoi qartė realitetin tonė tė hidhur. Fati i individiti grupit dhe i kolektivitetit janė nė qender tė ngjarjes sė filmuar,kurse tragjika ėshtė pėrvijim i gjithė fenomenit tė shpėrnguljes sė shqiptarėve.Tragjika e shqiptarėve tė ikur nga dhuna serbe dhe nga manipulimet e matrapazėve qė nė njė mėnyrė nė shėrbim tė politikės serbe pėr PASTRIMIN ETNIK tė KOSOVESspikaten gjatė gjithė filmit.Simbolika si pjesė e kodit filmik ,ngritet nė kulm me vajin e fėmijės.Filmi Ankthi pasqyron edhe vuajtjet shpirtėrore tė njeriut tonė nė mėrgim,peripetitė e tij tė shumta gjatė udhėtimit tė rrezikshėm drejt "cakut tė ėndėrruar".Skenat plot reminishencė qė e kthejnė protagonistin e filmit nė ambientin familjar,sikur ia lehtėsojnė pėr njė ēast shpirtin e dėrmuar.Por ky imazh tretet shpejt,sapo ndeshet me realitetin e hidhur tė mėrgimit....Marrė nė tėrėsi filmi Ankthi i Nexhmedin Sylės,mund tė ēmohet si njė realizim i mirė,i bėrė me perkushtim tė veēantė-pėrfundon komentin e tij gazetari i RTP Gani Nitaj.
THE ANGUISH BIFORE WAKING
NEW.YORK
Four years before anyone heard of the Kosova Liberation Army,a young film director predicted there would one day be "freedom fighters",brave men in Kosova who would fight against the harch regime of Serbia.
In his film
ANKTHI-(ANGUISH),Nexhmedin SYLA
shows young Albanians -as ninjas-training in
Western Europe and planing to fight for the liberation
of Kosova.
However,Syla's Western-oriented ninjas are torn between hating violence and being forced to take up arms "to behead the bad,the evil"-to end the brutal
repression sponsored by Slobodan Milosevic.
But Syla's "brave men" in the 70-minute video,whose main topic is the exodus of Albanians,also grieve for
their homeland because Kosova's human fabric is slowly disintegrating as people leave.
The idea for the film came to the young artist-whose talents include singing,radio broadcasting,acting and directing-in 1992 as he boarded a bus to Switzerland from his hometown,Prishtinė.
A new film foreshadows the KLA
"In noticed how the windows inside the bus were wet with tears as relatives said goodbye to each other ",
said Syla.His dedication to making the film grew after
learning how top Albanian intellectuals,including
writer Ismail Kadare,were denouncing the transport
companies and smugglers who made it passible for people to leave.Ironically,Kadare himself now lives in Paris.
Once in Switzerland,where he spent five years,Syla,who
himself stars in the film,began searching for amateur
actors.The film ,which has very litlle dialogue,took him almost three years and his life savings to produce.
Although the scenery and camera works are impressive ,the prolonged action scenes,abrupt cuts and sparse dialogue cause Syla at times to stumble in
getting his message across for the ordinary viewer.But the young director should be awarded for persistence and patience.
"Film critics have told me the film is really geared to towards intellectuals",says Syla who sees the ecxodus as one of the main tragedies of the Albanian nation.The symbolism kicks in right at the star of the film with a crying baby trapped in a glass bowl,as the cover of the REXHEP QOSJA book "FORBIDDEN PEOPLE"appears in the background.Then the exodus begins,with hordes of young Albanians crossing the snowy,rugged mountains that separate them from the "good life in Europe.
Smugglers are paid top money to oversee the escape.It is estimated that some 500.000 Albanians have left Kosova in they years(1989 to 1995)and that just as many have left Albania in the same period - a total of 1 million ,and some put the figure even higher.
In trying to escape they often pay with their lives,and Syla has captured this too.He shows how a young mother slips down a ravine and is knocked out as she tries to escape with her baby.By the time she wakes up,her baby is frozen to death and she runs down
the hill in horror with her child's frozen body in her
arms calling,"Wake up,my son,wake up,Kosova!"Mother and
child simbolize Kosova and its people who have been
waiting in vain for their freedom to come through their peaceful policies masterminded by Ibrahim Rugova.
"Waiting in political terms means defeat,loss,just as the mother loses the child while waiting to regain
her consciousness'"says Syla.More and more Albanians
are growing impatient with Rugova's peaceful-resistance tactcs.Groups like the KLA,which have claimed responsibility for dozens of deaths of both Serb and Albanian"collaborators," are now being viewed
with sympathy by many Albanians.
"Albanians were in an anguish,which I call the last period before a person wakes up",Syla said.
However,the producer makes a distinction between Albanian immigrants migrating to Europe and those who cross the continent to the U.S.and other places around the world.
"Those who remain in Europe are not a complete loss because they are,at least,on their own continent,which ironically has never treated them fairly," says Syla.
Nevertheless,Europe for Albanians,according to Syla is a cave,which has always kept Albanians in the dark.
"The ones (Albanians immigrants)here in the U.S.are like cut flowers that will never bloom again".
Syla intends to show this in
ANGUISH II,
if he manages to find sponsors for the film in the U.S.The film ends on the same note on which it begins-the death of a man and the crying baby-symbolizing the historical cycle of Albanians in Europe:Although the old continent brings them death,they continue to survive.
