Albania Movies

Film about Vasil Laçi, who attempted to kill Victor Emmanuel III during his visit in Albania.

War film written and directed by Rikard Ljarja.

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

A spectacle featuring the children of the puppet theater.

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

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....

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Geri, a uniformed police officer, goes from getting promoted for excellent results in fighting crime to being involved in a deadly incident that...

World War II. Italian fascists have interned in the South a lot of people who fought them on the 7th of April 1939 when they came to Albania. Among...

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

Sala’s latest film “Slip of the Line” (2018) oscillates between the magic of work and the work of magic. Located in a glass...

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