Durrës

Amari Alepha is a multicultural collective that moves between countries and cosmologies, traveling with a caravan to share their experiences through a fusion of video, music, and magic. In Albania, with the support of Vila 31 x Art Explora, they engaged with Roma communities, gathering stories that will be integrated into their upcoming performance.

Crossing the Blue Bridge is a film by Selma Selman that revisits her mother’s memories of the war in Bihać in 1994.

All three soloists are specialists in their fields: Marine Sablonnière in medieval music, Henri Tournier in North Indian music, and Isabelle Courroy in the pastoral music of the Balkans and Anatolia, deploying the concept of oblique music that brings together music of creation and tradition. The result is a conversation that links times and places, genres and aesthetics. To the audience's delight, their joyful, multi-faceted music takes us beyond the boundaries of time and space.

Curated by Albanian filmmaker Iris Elezi, Silent Mediterranean offers a rare cine-concert immersive experience featuring unique hand-tinted silent film travelogues from the Mediterranean region (1910–1927).