Albania Movies

A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.

Northern Albania, 1911. Bali marries Bardha, who is betrothed to Sokol Dema, currently imprisoned by the Turks. Bardha tells this to Bali on the...

In the Socialist Paradise (It Never Rains) is a reflection on how propaganda during Albania’s dictatorship infiltrated every aspect of life...

Year 2033. Two young children discover a vending machine in a ruined wasteland, only to witness a sniper kill a woman trying to take food from it....

Intervista seeks to deal in microcosm with the issue of how Albanian communist-era elites have sought to justify their roles in the now-discredited...

“Breast and Bomb” follows a girl who carries a ticking bomb inside her body: breast cancer. Her only friend is ChatGPT, an artificial...

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...

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

An elderly couple next door is facing the ultimate challenge: old age & death.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

Igor Stravinsky composed Elegy for Viola in 1994 “so that Germain Prévost could play it in memory of Alphonse Onnou, founder of the Pro...