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...

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

Katërmbëdhjetë vjeç dhëndër (English: A Bridegroom at Fourteen) is an Albanian play by Andon Zako Çajupi. The...

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

Congress for the unification of youth.

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...

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

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...

“Prizren - the City of Resources and Beauty” is a documentary directed by Zvonimir Saksida and produced by Zastava Film in 1972, which...

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

Can one have a private space in public? This question would put up for discussion the meaning that private space takes in a public sphere. In...

a film by Sara Xhengo

A shy girl moves to a small town to stay with her cold aunt. She gets taken care of by a rebellious teenager who also doesn't want anything to do...

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

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

Documentary film from 1986.

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