Albania Movies

47 years after the rupture between Albania and China, a young Chinese filmmaker returns to Tirana in place of his grandfather. Alongside three...

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

Long Sorrow (2005), filmed on a public housing estate in Berlin, is an enigmatic record of a performance orchestrated by the artist. Sala invited...

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...

Fili, a former political prisoner, hid two notebooks of poems inside the wall of an apartment during the communist era; fifty years later, he returns...

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

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

Gersi, a Special Olympics gold medalist living with Down syndrome, stands at a turning point between dependence and self-determination. Raised by a...

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...

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

Sala didn’t paint the Tirana facades in Dammi i Colori (Give Me the Colors), in his current show. Others did, as part of an ongoing project...

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

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

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

Tirana’s second biggest stadium is a socialist relic past its prime that has failed to keep up with the surrounding world. It rests in a state...

Documentary about the soprano Tefta Tashko Koço. It uses only photographs of her, as well as short interviews with various friends of her....

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

A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.

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