Albania Movies

In the north of communist Albania, in an isolated mountain village, the life of a family will change forever. Patriarchal norms and traditions have...

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....

Over 750,000 bunkers were build in Albania for a war that never came. Building them drained vital resources and crippled Albanian industry....

Documentary film from 1986.

Conceived as a political pamphlet, developed in a rhetorically grotesque vein, the film deals with the activity and the shameful end of the traitor...

Life of my grandfather, an elderly man living with dignity in post-communist Albania despite his troubled past. 

Documentary about the Albanian writer.

Trapped in a vicious cycle of personal disappointments and unfulfilled fantasies, a man-the head of a household-suddenly decides to give up...

An old gardener tends for the flowers during the war. Nazis ask him for flowers for their dead.

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

Film about the 5 Heroes of Vig, who died in a bloody battle during the National Liberation War.

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...

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

Short animated film about a girl who takes care of the geese.

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

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

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...

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...

Albanian LGBT community members appear for the first time with their non hidden faces and names and share their personal stories about how the LGBT...

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.