Movies: Albania

“Gjama” is a rarely practiced mourning ritual that was performed by Albanian men throughout the centuries. By shouting specific phrases and acting out a strict choreography, it is a way of paying respect to the deceased but also overcoming grief and ...

A documentary that investigates the complexity of a nation, Albania, through the narration of the convoluted history of its monuments. What happens to the statues when they are destroyed, what are they replaced with and where do their marble shreds e...

Two lives, two different worlds and two unalike places. Vasi and Alexandra, two strangers, travel from Alicante to Greece, through France, Italy and Albania, on a trip where they will learn to face their mistakes and delve into their personal and fam...

Somewhere in Albania, 2018. A couple decides to get married but clashes with tradition hard to die....

An Albanian thug makes his way to the top of the mafia empire....

A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that th...

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Tomori has managed to infiltrate a foreign agency and is trying to discover their secret documents, bases, and means of communication....

World War II. Albania is under the Nazi occupation. The Germans capture two young girls and torture them to learn more about the communist movement....

After World War II, more than 85% of the Albanian people were illiterate. Partisan soldier Dritan Shkaba is tasked with opening new schools in north Albania to enlighten the population....

The film "Kosova: Desperate Search" recounts the repercussions and effects of the Kosovar war on the Albanian population. Ethnic cleansings and other atrocities mentally and physically destroyed the people. The entwined destinies of individual person...

Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters....

After a disagreement with his teacher, a young boy runs away....

Jeta is a student who is a member of the illegals and tries to create a group of antifascist girls in her school....

Film set after World War II. A group of kids notice a shady new resident in their neighborhood....

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conservative....

Halit Berati, a virtuoso clarinet player, is invited by the Italians to record his music, which is to be sold along Italian records....

Deda, an enthusiastic young worker, is trying to fix a cut telephone line during the harsh winter, so that people can wish each other a happy New Year....

A general and an Italian priest arrive in Albania to retrieve the bones of the soldiers who were killed during the war....

On the anniversary of the death of Commissioner Ibrahim Kovaçi, six of his war friends are accompanying his statue to his native village, where a ceremony will be held. During the road, each of them remembers moments related to the life of Ibrahim....