Albania Movies

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came...

Blending archival footage, haunting melodies, and digital reconstructions, Hyjnesha në Fron traces the echo of loss across Kosovo's turbulent...

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

A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.

A forty-year-old woman floats in a relationship bubble until she realizes it is too late.

No one knows why for certain, but from 1968 to 1973 communist Albania enjoyed a brief liberalisation in the arts. Banned books and Beatles records...

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

The film is about time, and it explores, in parallel, the story of a mother who has lost her son. The story is told through a narrator. The film is...

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among...

A narrator tells about his beautiful life, but a piece of music interrupts him from time to time, forcing him to start over, denying himself and...

An old man refuses to undergo an operation in the hospital because he does not trust the abilities of the female surgeon.

Springtime in northern Albania sparks the herding of goats from the lowlands, up to the towering mountainsides. Prek Gjoni is moving his livestock...

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

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

The documentary shows the tour of performances throughout Albania by the national folk song and dance ensemble.

The events of the film take place in a small town where a group of medical students have come for their teaching practice. Shpresa, the protagonist...

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...

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