Albania Movies

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.

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

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

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...

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...

In the film "Composition" the plot is not classically constructed but from a subjective emotional state of the filmmaker himself, a condition that...

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

Can heartbeats be “reactionary”? Yes, if they are the only sonic element on a montage-heavy documentary about the war dead. Made just...

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...

In the north of communist Albania, in an isolated mountain village, the life of a family will change forever. Patriarchal norms and traditions have...

The adventures of an Albanian who landed in America.

Documentary about the building of the Durres-Tirane railway.

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

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

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

“Why so?” as the original title says, alluding to the almost cartoonish, anti-social behaviour depicted here. But we could also now ask...

The film asks whether aging is a condemnation to loneliness or a belated opportunity to live differently. Beyond Age is a heartfelt plea to see older...

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