Albania Movies

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

An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.

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

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...

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...

The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s humorous, buoyant style led him to be...

Igor Stravinsky composed Elegy for Viola in 1994 “so that Germain Prévost could play it in memory of Alphonse Onnou, founder of the Pro...

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...

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

In 1996, in rural Albania, one of the first weddings recorded on video after the fall of communism captures a society at a moment of economic,...

Katërmbëdhjetë vjeç dhëndër (English: A Bridegroom at Fourteen) is an Albanian play by Andon Zako Çajupi. The...

Fili, a former political prisoner, hid two notebooks of poems inside the wall of an apartment during the communist era; fifty years later, he returns...

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

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...

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

BESA vividly portrays how individual Muslims, Christians and Jews of Balkan Peninsula were able to overcome their ethnic and religious hatred in an...

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