Albania Movies

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

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

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...

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

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....

A young reporter discovers a problem while investigating a farm and decides to write an exposing article on it, which many people try to prevent from...

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...

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...

Bjondi, a man around 35 years, faces with schizophrenic symptoms as a result of a bad story happened in his family. The death of the only daughter...

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

Homosexuality is one of the biggest taboos in Kosovar society. So much that the main characters of this film are hidden in shadows to protect them...

A group of people attempt to flee religious persecution in Enver Hoxha's Albania, with tragic results.

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

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

In Communist Albania, a bank clerk finds herself at crossroads about the work performance of her superior, who is also her husband's best friend.

Shot in the Kosovar village of Nevokaze, it depicts the traditional lifestyle of an Albanian family numbering 117 members, all living under one roof...

Albanian film directed by Piro Milkani

During WW2 partisans try to hide from their enemies, while old villagers mourn the deceased of the war.

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...