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....

This shocking debut film engages from the crazy opening scene: a maze of masks, despair, disgrace, and colours. Decoding all clever meanings in this...

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

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...

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

Documentary film from 1986.

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

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.

Geri, a uniformed police officer, goes from getting promoted for excellent results in fighting crime to being involved in a deadly incident that...

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

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

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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

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