There he taught young people in filmmaking workshops, as part of Filmbussen ("the cinema bus"), which travelled to schools in the vicinity.
[1][2] He has spoken of the gratitude he feels towards his teachers, "who made me realize things I cannot imagine living without today", and his filmmaking education.
[citation needed] His next short film was The Good Life, Over There (Det gode livet, der borte), which was nominated for the Amanda.
[4] In 2018 Aliu made a short film, Crazy Love (L'Amour Fou), produced by frequent collaborator Khalid Maimouni.
In this film, a man pretends to be mad in order to scare his neighbours in his small village, and then moves to the city to do the same thing.
The series, which was filmed in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, centres on four immigrant men who move from Oslo to a little village in Telemark, south-eastern Norway.