Albania Movies

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...

Documentary film from 1986.

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...

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

Trapped in a vicious cycle of personal disappointments and unfulfilled fantasies, a man-the head of a household-suddenly decides to give up...

"Gjuha e re" is an attempt to capture the communicative exclusion experienced by an Albanian immigrant in Greece. It is minutes of anger towards 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

The film is about time, and it explores, in parallel, the story of a mother who has lost her son. The story is told through a narrator. The film is...

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

Ajshe is the same age as my grandmother. Ajshe’s story is nearly identical to the story of most women her age. In the past, the present and the...

“Six More Days of Bread” is a conceptual short film that revisits Albania’s centennial celebration in 2012, when a 500m² cake...

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

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...