Albania Movies

Intervista seeks to deal in microcosm with the issue of how Albanian communist-era elites have sought to justify their roles in the now-discredited...

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

Spectacular film by successful director Dhimitër Anagnosti. Three people, Sergeant Rahmiu (Ndrek Luca), Islam (Reshat Arbana), and Bepini...

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...

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

"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.

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...

Documentary film from 1986.

Sala didn’t paint the Tirana facades in Dammi i Colori (Give Me the Colors), in his current show. Others did, as part of an ongoing project...

A narrator tells about his beautiful life, but a piece of music interrupts him from time to time, forcing him to start over, denying himself and...

Found footage compilation of Albania’s turbulent 20th century history is also a bitter and telling essay on the nation’s worship of...

Kosovo in the spring of 2000. Winter is over but in a meteorological sense only. Ruins and pain. The marks of devastation in the sunny landscape....

an ominous but merciless killer haunts a group of teenage girls whilst they’re just trying to catch some sun on vacation…

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

Made during the violent civil unrest that rocked Albania in the 1990s, directors Nova and Faja have handcrafted a searing vision in which a demonic...

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

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...

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...