Albania Movies

In the north of communist Albania, in an isolated mountain village, the life of a family will change forever. Patriarchal norms and traditions have...

The two Albanian street performers and close friends, Besi and Rafael, have been traveling through Italy for years with their mime and acrobatics act...

Documentary about the soprano Tefta Tashko Koço. It uses only photographs of her, as well as short interviews with various friends of her....

Mad dictators, trigger-happy mobs, archaic blood feuds - this pretty much sums up what Western Europeans know about Albania. But reality in this long...

Albanian American artist Elena Dorfman’s debut experimental feature film. A visual symphony in three thematically distinct movements, the film...

Up until the mid-90s if you were openly gay in Albania, you would be sent to prison. Many homosexuals still face bigotry and violence, even in their...

While reading the diaries of his grandfather, imprisoned during the dictatorship of Hoxa in Albania, the director recognises the pigeon outside his...

This shocking debut film engages from the crazy opening scene: a maze of masks, despair, disgrace, and colours. Decoding all clever meanings in this...

Bardhi, an orphan boy, goes to the city to work in the house of a rich man, where he learns how to play the violin.

Perhaps the most chilling testament to the ruthlessness of Albania’s communist regime, this documentary presents a public trial in a packed...

Long Sorrow (2005), filmed on a public housing estate in Berlin, is an enigmatic record of a performance orchestrated by the artist. Sala invited...

Year 2033. Two young children discover a vending machine in a ruined wasteland, only to witness a sniper kill a woman trying to take food from it....

Trapped in a vicious cycle of personal disappointments and unfulfilled fantasies, a man-the head of a household-suddenly decides to give up...

How many times have we commented on the "problems" of modern couples with different characters? Events full of intrigue and controversy that in fact...

A docu-fiction film that follows water from Mount Dajti into Tirana’s river, tracing how extraction, urban futures and buried histories shape...

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among...

In Nazi occupied Albania, Ismail, a poor peasant, is torn between upholding Besa - the national code of honor and protecting his family or saving the...