Tinka Kurti

Albania 1997. Some ghostly, deteriorated video footage keeps Julien awake and obsesses him every night. Almost two decades after the murder of his wife, Angela, Julien returns to Albania with a determination to investigate her mysterious death, amidst a sea of impossible records, police files and visions of Beyond.

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A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.

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Bota (Albanian for “the world”) is a cafe situated on the edge of a vast area of marshland in a remote part of Albania, and it is here that the lives of the protagonists intersect in this compelling debut by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci. The directors skilfully exploit the genius loci of the desolate landscape and, aided by a period score and beguiling long shots, they flawlessly evoke the atmosphere of a place where the past still encroaches upon people’s lives.

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A young college student from rural Albania leaves school to visit home, only to find himself embroiled in his family's deadly blood feud.

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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 persons and families from various geographic regions and social classes are the basis of a closely interconnected storyline. Families are not only looking for their missing children, but also for new hope and perspectives.

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Events come through medieval haze in a fantozmagorik city. Under the rocky roofs and the murky wall a frightening mixture of wildlife with fragile hatreds with renewed love of death. Metaphors have to say that power abuse has the same essence but different performances.

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An elderly woman, who lives with her nephew, starts losing touch with the living.

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During a political purge, the Albanian government orders the disbanding of a military unit whose horses are also considered traitors.

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Theoretician Apostol Sacco writes articles and gives lectures on free love of youth at a time when a major conflict going on in his family.Conflict resolved through sitcom.

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Tom Melgushi, becoming overexcited from alcohol, wanders around the streets disturbing people. And one day, Flutura, a teacher of the village, gets on his cab, and there was a glimpse of hope for a stable relationship with the young woman. Tom becomes subject of public criticism after Flutura's accident, because she jumped out of the cab fearing Tom's violence.

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A wounded Greek partisan is helped by Albanian partisans and hidden in the house of an old woman, but his life is still in danger due to the presence of Nazis.

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A young reporter discovers a problem while investigating a farm and decides to write an exposing article on it, which many people try to prevent from being published.

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Agron and Marjeta are happily engaged until in a trial presided by Agron, two people accused of theft reveal facts that implicate Marjeta's father. Agron is torn between love and duty.

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Film about the 5 Heroes of Vig, who died in a bloody battle during the National Liberation War.

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A group of partisan girls and women go on a journey in order to take part in the first Congress of the Anti-Fascist Women in Berat.

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Vullnet, raised in an orphanage, has finished the military service and must solve some problems in his life.

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In 1930s Albania, revolutionary student Kujtimi uses his camera to capture the poverty and oppression under King Zog’s regime. Moved by what he sees, he risks surveillance and persecution to spread progressive communist ideas and rally fellow citizens toward social change.

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First days after the liberation... Agron and Nora, two young partisans are charged with important tasks in a coastal town. They are soon getting married but Nora suffers from glaucoma. The doctor who cures her, Epaminonda, does not help her to overcome the illness because Nora is the representative of the people s power.

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Northern Albania, 1911. Bali marries Bardha, who is betrothed to Sokol Dema, currently imprisoned by the Turks. Bardha tells this to Bali on the first night of their marriage and puts him in a dilemma: he should either kill Bardha due to the laws of the land, or send her to the parents of Sokol Dema.

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Early years after the war. The bourgeoisie is falling, and they are being taxed for their profits during WWII. Abdyl is an accountt who helps the bourgeoisie and fascist collaborators by hiding their gold in his home and manipulating documents.

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

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

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Based on the works of Sterjo Spasse. Kujtim Morava goes to work in a remote village. He assists in the destruction of churches and mosques since they spread a regressive mentality.

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In Fascist Albania 1942, Albanian partisans will do all they can to remove the Italian fascists from their country.

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A comedy about life during the 1970's. A father refuses to accept his son marrying a girl from a different religion, thus leading to several comical situations.

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Bardhi works as a teacher in a remote area. When one of the students abandons the school, Bardhi tries to help him.

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A State Security officer, Kreshnik Martini, infiltrates the ranks of an agent network sent to operate in Albania and gathers information about all of its activities. The film is based on a true counterintelligence case in which, in 1953, Albanian authorities managed to uncover a network that aimed to overthrow the government

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World War II. The fascists kill a boy and invite his mother to identify the body, but she refuses.

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Ilir is a pampered and egoistic child. However, his outlook on life changes when he goes on a trip with a group of mountain climbers.

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The movie is based on a Fatmir Gjata screenplay. Gjata had written a novel with the same title earlier. The events evolve in the 1950s. The main character, Tana, is a smart, outgoing and progressive young woman. She is in love with Stefan (Naim Frashëri) and they both live in an unnamed mountain village in Albania. Tana has to face the old mentality of her old grandfather and she also has to fight the jealousy of Lefter . It is a love game, while socialist progress is highlighted as is often in the socialist realism.

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