Foreign Oscar Nominees from Albania
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- DirectorKujtim ÇashkuStarsAgim QirjaqiAnna NehrebeckaÇun LajçiEnver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly 40 years and for a long time Albania was the only Maoist regime and by far the most isolationist society in Europe - politically, psychologically and physically. This film is about Colonel Muro Neto, the man Hoxha charged with constructing the bunkers throughout the country which ostensibly protected Albania from its enemies both without and within. He became known as "Kolonel Bunker."
- DirectorGjergj XhuvaniStarsDavid ElmasllariMarko BitrakuMirjana DediAndre starts as a teacher in a remote mountain village in Albania. His first task is to choose one of two communist slogans. He picks the shorter one, which is appreciated by his class, because they have to build the slogan on the hillside using whitewashed rocks. However, this means that the longer slogan goes to Diana, the French teacher to whom Andre is attracted. Andre gets on the wrong side of the communist party boss of the village, when he stands up for an unjustly accused goat herdsman, whom he had befriended. The boss is determined to take his revenge on Andre.
- DirectorEno MilkaniPiro MilkaniStarsAnna GeislerováNik XhelilajBarbora StepánováIt is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Cesky Sternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.
- DirectorArtan MinarolliStarsNik XhelilajXhevdet FerriBruno ShllakuIn a country where tradition is constantly at war with modernity, Koll is a college student set on enjoying his youth to the fullest. When his father dies and he is forced to assume responsibility for an ancient crime, Koll is thrust into the gruesome, feudal heart of contemporary Albania.
- DirectorGjergj XhuvaniStarsNdriçim XhepaHelidon FinoGentiano HaziziAn amateur cycling team from Albania heads to France to take part in a tournament only to discover on the way that revolution has broken out back home.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsLuli BitriKarafil ShenaTodi LlupiConjugal visits unite two strangers visiting a prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. During these visits, Elsa and Spetim find the companionship missing from their lives. But a prisoner amnesty soon threatens their fragile bond in this contemplative drama. An official selection of the prestigious Global Lens Collection presented by the Global Film Initiative. (Albanian w. English subs)
- DirectorJoni ShanajStarsKlevis BegaOlta GixhariNiko KanxheriA young pharmacist enters into a casual relationship with a young woman alleged to be his father's secret mistress, in contemporary Tirana.
- DirectorRobert BudinaStarsMarvin TafajGuliem KotorriIsavela KogevinaTwo Albanian brothers migrate to Greece and try, each in his own way, to integrate into their host country by following two different lifestyles.
- DirectorIris EleziThomas LogoreciStarsFlonja KodheliArtur GorishtiFioralba KryemadhiOne week at the Bota café. Nothing happens. Everything happens.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsFredjon RuçiKlodjana KecoMirela NaskaWhile a mute and lonely mother lives a life that is far from easy, she nevertheless bares her lot with dignity and courage. Her 15-year-old son is trying to stand on his own two feet, but in so doing he only complicates the grim situation in the family.
- DirectorGentian KoçiStarsOrnela KapetaniSuzana PriftiKasem HoxhaLeta has not been able to pay the rent for several months. When she and her one-year-old son are thrown out of their apartment, they move in with Sophie, an old woman confined to bed, whose daughter has just employed Leta as a caretaker. In order to keep her job and a roof over their head, Leta has to keep Sophie alive at any cost.
- DirectorBujar AlimaniStarsViktor ZhustiXhevdet FerriNdriçim XhepaIn 1990, a European delegation comes to Tirana to monitor the reforms of the communist regime. A government official is sent on a mission to a faraway prison in order to bring an important dissident back to the capital.
- DirectorFlorenc PapasStarsLuli BitriJonida VokshiGulielm RadojaA married Albanian mother and her pregnant sister try to find a man to play the part of the sister's husband before they meet up with their strict, traditional father.
- DirectorJonid JorgjiStarsVasjan LamiKastriot ÇaushiAlissa HuzarTwo Albanian filmmakers are going to attend the award ceremony of Venice Film Festival but on the road they meet with two actresses that work in the adult movie industry that change the purpose of their trip.
- DirectorGentian KoçiStarsEdgar MoraisRafael MoraisDrita KabashiTwo identical deaf-mute twin brothers discover they suffer from a genetic disease that will also progressively and irreversibly make them blind.