Karafil Shena
Actor · b. 1956 · Sarandë, Vlorë, Albania
Movies15
MovieDramaOn the border between Greece and Albania, Karafil searches for a tree he planted when he first emigrated five decades ago. However, without any clear memories of the initial crossing, the search proves harder than he ever imagined.
Roots
2025
Movie5.3DramaTwo people meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but their relationship has to end because both their spouses get amnesty from the government.
Movie5.6CrimeDramaInspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers hostage and demands a ransom of half and million euro, and safe passage to his homeland of Albania. Surrounded by police, the bus trundles towards the Albanian border and the tension mounts until the final harrowing conclusion.
Movie9.0DramaAn Albanian TV movie directed by M. Shanaj.
Movie8.5DramaA railway crossing in the middle of nowhere. Two guards: solitary Yiannis who never leaves his post and cool Antonis who goes with the rhythm of the landscape. Every once in a while, a voice announces the passing of a train. The two guards manually lower the bars. Nothing seems to stir their daily routine until love charges in, crushing all certainties.
MovieDramaHigh Sabbath . The fireworks for the Resurrection feast will be the cause of a revival of an earlier, dark encouragement, between Luan and Thymios. The stranger and the locus, the atheist and the religious, the murmur and the "lamb". Our story ends in a dramatic one. Her victim, Harris, is a child immigrant. Albanian and Greek together. Christian and Muslim. The village is tall and it is FRONT.
Το Βουνό Μπροστά
2008
Movie9.0Kush është Vrasësi
1989 · 1 votes
MovieDramaA snowy border mountain. A hunter has an unexpected encounter with a dramatic outcome. The roles of killer and victim alternate. The feelings of remorse, guilt, and the need for revenge prevail.
Movie7.5DramaIn the mountains of Northern Albania, a young man seeks revenge for his father's death. The murderer has disappeared a few months ago and the police is still looking for him. The young man kidnaps the killer's only son and raises him up until he reaches his 16th birthday, when according to the Kanun, the Albanian law of revenge, a child becomes a man and he is allowed to kill or to be killed.
MovieDramaAn otherworldly white landscape, a road strewn with bones, and a secret that everyone knows yet tries to conceal. A story of a society sinking into moral emptiness.
MovieDramaFlora, a journalist in a Western country, comes to her homeland to trace the early life/identity of Mother Teresa or Anjeza Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, to produce a feature. But soon she will face the surprise of her own identity. Two different lives, in search of their identities, so badly effected by the past, during the communist system.
Movie6.0DramaA father and a son drive towards the borders. The road is paved with memories of their life together. Away from home, they are making a living for themselves and their family. But the boy’s desire to return will lead to an unexpected journey.
Pashka
2020 · 1 votes
Movie4.5FantasyDuring a strange night, a prostitute, an opera singer, a fortune teller, a travel agent, a police chief and an insomniac meet by chance.
Movie5.7DramaComedyVasilis Arvanitakis after spending the E.U money for buying a poor Brazilian Football player, must face the two members of the E.U who will come to check how and where the money is spent...
Movie7.3DramaA 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapable