Mad dictators, trigger-happy mobs, archaic blood feuds - this pretty much sums up what Western Europeans know about Albania. But reality in this long forgotten Balkan country is much more complex and multilayered. SHQIPERIA - NOTES FROM ALBANIA offers a flow of stories from and about Albania, displaying the country in its true diversity, unspeculatively illuminating its conflicts and discovering this blank spot on the map of Europe in all its contradictions.
King Carlos II of Spain (r. 1665-1700) once sent his brother Luis to lead a military expedition into...
Dear Enemy tells the true story of the director’s grandfather who became friends with a German offic...
The Balkans cradles Europe's last wild rivers and supports abundant wildlife and healthy, intact eco...
One of the most recognizable voices in all of modern day music, Dua Lipa quickly rose to fame. Her c...
The Balkans 1443 . After a long successful military experience in the Turkish army, the reputation o...
In the Kosovo War, human dignity was shattered by the terrors of the Serbian government and the Alba...
A biography of George Kastriot Skanderbeg widely known as Skanderbeg, a 15th-century Albanian lord w...
Follows rural GP Dr Ylli Hasani who risked imprisonment in totalitarian Albania by listening to the ...
Filmmaker Mark Cousins goes to Albania for five days, and films what he sees. He discovers that the ...
A documentary unraveling the untold stories and brutal experiences of the Kosovo War in the late 199...
Children get ready to start the first grade. They start learning the first letters.
Albania is the country in Europe that Europe probably knows the least about. Underdeveloped yesterda...
In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...
A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees ...
Story of Azem Bejta (1889–1924), commonly known as Azem Galica, who was an Albanian nationalist and ...
A documentary that investigates the complexity of a nation, Albania, through the narration of the co...
Documentary about Congres VI of the Women's Union.
“Gjama” is a rarely practiced mourning ritual that was performed by Albanian men throughout the cent...