Albania Movies

At the center of the film is a patriot photographer, who sees how the city moves on the eve of invasion by focusing his camera at the heroic...

Gersi, a Special Olympics gold medalist living with Down syndrome, stands at a turning point between dependence and self-determination. Raised by a...

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....

In the 1960s after Albania's break with the Soviet Union, the country became an unlikely satellite of communist China (Newsweek referred to the...

“Why so?” as the original title says, alluding to the almost cartoonish, anti-social behaviour depicted here. But we could also now ask...

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

Vlash Zaka is a poor villager who secures his living by capturing wild horses in the forest. His brother has killed an Italian spy, so Vlash is under...

Ajshe is the same age as my grandmother. Ajshe’s story is nearly identical to the story of most women her age. In the past, the present and the...

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

"Gjuha e re" is an attempt to capture the communicative exclusion experienced by an Albanian immigrant in Greece. It is minutes of anger towards the...

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.

The film is about time, and it explores, in parallel, the story of a mother who has lost her son. The story is told through a narrator. The film is...

A shy girl moves to a small town to stay with her cold aunt. She gets taken care of by a rebellious teenager who also doesn't want anything to do...

Over 750,000 bunkers were build in Albania for a war that never came. Building them drained vital resources and crippled Albanian industry....

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

Can heartbeats be “reactionary”? Yes, if they are the only sonic element on a montage-heavy documentary about the war dead. Made just...

Nëna is an observational documentary on the daily routine of a 75 years old woman, who lives in a small rural village in Albania with her...