Albania Movies

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...

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

Documentary film from 1986.

Patriarchal times in northern Albania gave birth to a phenomenon - the replacement of the man at the head of the household by a woman. These are...

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

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...

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

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...

The film asks whether aging is a condemnation to loneliness or a belated opportunity to live differently. Beyond Age is a heartfelt plea to see older...

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