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Arben Bajraktaraj as Besnik in A Shelter Among The Clouds. 'We filmed almost in chronological order - which is a luxury for an actor' Photo: Pluto Film Robert Budina's visually arresting and thoughtful A Shelter Among The Clouds, has the quality of a parable about the need for tolerance and understanding as it tells the story of Besnik (Arben Bajraktaraj), a goatherd who lives in a remote village in the Albanian mountains. Suffering from seizures and carrying the weight of his past, he leads an almost monastic existence with his father. His way of life is challenged when he discovers the mosque in his village used to be a Catholic church, a revelation that brings interest from a city art historian Estela Pysgyli and local conflict at the same time as his brother and sister arrive to help him with his ailing father - and begin to jockey for position as his heir.

Industry professionals get first look at new work.

Works in progress from Brazil, Poland, Mexico, Greece and Russia have won awards for the best pitches at the second edition of European Work in Progress during Film Festival Cologne.

The five winners were chosen on Tuesday (15) by an international jury consisting of Locarno Film Festival’s new artistic director Lili Hinstin, Zdf Enterprises’ director of acquisitions for feature films Margrit Stärk, Albanian producer Sabina Kodra, whose Erafilm was behind Robert Budina’s A Shelter Among The Clouds), and Yohann Comte, co-founder of French sales company Charades.

The awards were presented at...