How Life Used to Be

After the disappearance of a young actress, a director is left alone with memories, guilt, and the silence she left behind. In an attempt to understand what happened, he confronts himself, the past, and an unknown figure who seems to have always been there. Chronicles of Sonatine or: Shadows of the Broken Memories is a story built on half-truths and the people who get lost within them. Can you restore a memory… without distorting it?

Genc, an out of work fringe blogger devoted to anonymous research, lives with his partner Bora in Prishtina, Kosovo. While Genc holds on to hopes for a brighter future, Bora, burdened by financial strain, unfulfilled dreams, and fed up with his detachment, storms out after a heated argument. Now he must find where she’s gone before it’s too late for them.

Azem, a hotel security guard, drifts through a quiet, uneventful routine. Cut off from his home and family, he finds solace in the stillness of his job, until a brief encounter with a hotel resident unsettles the calm he’s built.