Albania Movies

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

a film by Sara Xhengo

This is a tale of family issues that emerge due to a shift in lifestyle upon moving to a new country, driven by a strong aspiration to improve their...

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

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...

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

While reading the diaries of his grandfather, imprisoned during the dictatorship of Hoxa in Albania, the director recognises the pigeon outside his...

By 1980, Albania had broken with all the world’s superpowers. The isolation pushed the country into a corner. Industrial production slowed to a...

In the 1960s after Albania's break with the Soviet Union, the country became an unlikely satellite of communist China (Newsweek referred to the...

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

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

After a thirty year absence, Sana, now in her fifties, is surprised by the sudden return of her long lost love, Gori. Even though she has been...

The film deals with themes of life through the eyes of a gravedigger who is tested when he comes across some property when opening the grave of a...

Several weeks before her wedding, Anna is diagnosed with cancer. Her fiancé John faces a dilemma – whether to tell Ana the truth about...

Four female voices interweave a polyphonic narration of the tragic story of “Katër i Radës,” the boat that sank in 1997 due to...

Blerim, an employee of a TV station, takes on a highly unusual side gig - one that immerses him in a world of mental illness, paranoia, and blurred...

The Albanian transition has obliged Loro Shestani to give up: his wife is dead, his daughter is a refugee in Italy and has forgotten her roots, the...

Math teacher Nora is transferred to work in the gymnasium of a coastal city. Edi, a pupil, openly wants an unmerited good mark in maths. Edi is the...

First days after the liberation... Agron and Nora, two young partisans are charged with important tasks in a coastal town. They are soon getting...