Albania Movies

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

Follows rural GP Dr Ylli Hasani who risked imprisonment in totalitarian Albania by listening to the BBC World Service to keep up to date with world...

44 years after the name of Albania’s dictator was painted on the Shpirag mountain, a group of villagers take the effort to climb the mountain...

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

“Six More Days of Bread” is a conceptual short film that revisits Albania’s centennial celebration in 2012, when a 500m² cake...

“Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” is a documentary directed by Zvonimir Saksida and produced by Zastava Film in 1972, which...

An unbaptized woman is killed because of the regressive mentality existing in the mountains of northern Albania.

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

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

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

Homosexuality is one of the biggest taboos in Kosovar society. So much that the main characters of this film are hidden in shadows to protect them...

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.

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

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...

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

Film about the 1968 folkloric festival in Gjirokastra.

Fran, a woman who has chosen to live as a man, following the tradition of Albanian “Burrnesha.” To become a mother to her orphaned niece,...

Sala’s latest film “Slip of the Line” (2018) oscillates between the magic of work and the work of magic. Located in a glass...

Tirana’s second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state...