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Adriana Matoshi

Adriana Matoshi

Acting

Biography

Adriana Matoshi (born February 5, 1980) is an Albanian actress from Gjilan, Kosovo. She's best known for her roles in Zana (2019), Cold November (2018), Unwanted (2017) and The Marriage (2017). Matoshi has won multiple Best Actress awards in festivals of Kosovo, Italy and Greece.

Known For

Festivali i Këngës: Albania's Eurovision National Selection
8.0

A long-running music competition that debuted in 1962 and has provided Albania's representative for Eurovision since 2004.

Festivali i Këngës: Albania's Eurovision National Selection

1962
Sweetie
10.0

Pirulli family is just an ordinary family living in Prishtina, Kosovo. But a dark, mysterious, and brutal past, comes back to haunt them and everyone around.

Sweetie

2021
Our Cafe
5.5

The most famous café in the country brings to TV the most extraordinary people, friends, family issues and relationships.

Our Cafe

2004
Hive
7.0

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo so she sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.

Hive

2021
Oh How Great It Is!
5.5

Students from different Albanian-speaking regions attend the private university O sa mirë. Following the day-to-day life of the students, misunderstandings often occur due to different spoken Albanian dialects, as well as comical situations involving the teachers.

Oh How Great It Is!

2013
The Marriage
6.2

Bekim and Anita are getting married, but Anita is unaware that Bekim is still in love with his best friend Nol. The Marriage charts the emotional predicament of the man who has strong feelings for two persons. There is great pressure to marry and only mild support for LGBTQ rights in Kosovan society, so Zeqiri’s film, which unashamedly puts same-sex and heterosexual passion on the same plane, is a forceful step in the right direction, as well as a dynamic portrait of romance and deception in the shadow of war.

The Marriage

2017
Zana
6.8

Haunted by her long-suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

Zana

2019
Aga's House
9.7

A young boy living in a house of women must race to save a woman who is teaching him Serbian, so that he can continue the search for his missing father.

Aga's House

2019
Babai
6.0

10-year-old Nori is obliged to grow up at a very young age after the early death of his mother and then being abandoned by his father Gezim in the Kosovo of the 1990s.After a dangerous and eventful journey, Nori finally arrives in Germany and is reunited with his father, but he cannot understand how Gezim could just have left him. And chances of them being able to stay in Germany look bleak when Gezim’s application for asylum is rejected.

Babai

2015
Unwanted
8.4

A lonely boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother hides away from him, turn his world upside down.

Unwanted

2017
No image
6.0

A man comes back from a Serb prison to his wife and son. A lot has changed since he was declared missing. Continuing where they left off four years ago may not be as easy as it seems.

The Return

2012
Fence
8.0

Little Genti wants a puppy. He expresses his wish at the family gathering, after his Roma coeval Xeni shows at the door, with his stray dog friend Aaj. This brings up a fired up discussion among the grown ups. After a quick disapproval, discussion changes its path into a clash of generations, conflict between traditional beliefs and new contemporary way of life. Ignored by grownups and despite his mother's disapproval, Genti joins Xeni and Aja on the street, continuing to find his new puppy-friend.

Fence

2018
Luna Park
N/A

Albania, 1996. Mira lives in Elbasan with her two sons while her husband works illegally in Greece. Struggling to make ends meet, she invests in a pyramid scheme, hoping for a better future. When close friends migrate, mira grows desperate and sells their apartment to reinvest, moving in with her parents. But the scheme collapses, the country falls into chaos, and mira loses everything. Her teenage son toni becomes violent, eventually arming himself during a riot. Fearing for their safety, Mira decides to flee Albania with her sons. After a dangerous journey, they arrive in Thessaloniki—lost, without Arben, but finally together. At the luna park, they find a fleeting moment of peace.

Luna Park

2024
Cold November
7.2

In the early '90s, the Yugoslavian Government cancelled the autonomy of Kosovo, dissolved its Parliament and closed down the National Television. All institutional life was reorganized by the new authorities, while the majority of the citizens responded with peaceful demonstrations. During this terrible time, Fadili, who works as an archivist, has to choose between two options, knowing that both of them are wrong. He therefore involuntarily and unwillingly "swallows" the shame, endures the pressure bearing down from all sides and puts up with the bad reputation for only one reason: to provide for his family.

Cold November

2018
Balcony
7.1

Jeton, a 10-year-old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the 4th floor. Neighbours and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable.

Balcony

2013
An Unforgettable Spring in a Forgotten Village
7.0

The calm and ordinary life of a forgotten village is disturbed with the arrival of three prostitutes in the village’s bar, owned by two pimp brothers. The men, despite the efforts of their wives to stop them, spend all their time in the village’s bar, spending their last money on alcohol and sex. Chaos overcomes the village school; its devotees abandon the mosque. Only two youngsters benefit from all this mayhem, by realizing their love affair, forbidden by their parents. At the end, the women start upraising. Consequently, the bar is burnt down and the village looks that it will return to normality.

An Unforgettable Spring in a Forgotten Village

2019
Driver
N/A

The driver of two human traffickers ends up unknowingly helping his clients drive his kidnapped daughter outside the country.

Driver

2021
Coagulation
N/A

At the turn of the century, a 9-year-old boy and his mother travel to the capital city to undergo a medical procedure.

Coagulation

2021
Everybody Calls Redjo
N/A

In a village where everyone left, Redjo stays behind, he becomes the heart of Sllupkovo. A heartwarming comedy celebrating community resilience. Everybody Calls Redjo, the village hero.

Everybody Calls Redjo

2025