Maltesisch wird u.a. in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Vereinigtes Königreich (UK), Kanada, Australien und Malta gesprochen und 16 Filme (zwischen 1971 und 2022) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Malta (14) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Maltesisch Filme sind Drama (12), Thriller (3) und Romantik / Liebe (2). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Eleġija (2014), Plangent Rain (2011), 20,000 Reasons (2016), Whatever (2022) und The Cage (1971).
Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.
An emotional story of a man who rediscovers love after his wife suddenly and mysteriously leaves him. The plot further develops an intriguing insight into their separate lives leaving viewers at the edge of their seat until the very end.
Set on the island of Gozo, "Dar ir-Rummien" (The Pomegranate House) is a heart warming portrait of young love through the generations.
In the quaint little village of Qala, Gozo, Emily Edevane was abandoned with her three little children by her husband. Four decades later, a Maltese documentary crew agrees to spend a day at their now desolate and decaying House to find out why nobody seems to have heard of them since.
On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life.
A group of laymen from the island of Malta are entrusted to save the planet. (100 mins.)
A study of the political and religious fanaticism in Malta in the 60s.
Sophie Bellizzi is a hard-working perfectionist who is obsessed with getting her company off the ground. She has a strained relationship with her younger sister Juliana, and an even more difficult one with her grandmother who is obsessed with seeing her only grandchildren married so as to protect the family's wealth. When Sophie breaks it off with her cheating boyfriend, she is abruptly faced with her grandmother's cunning plan to pass her substantial inheritance onto her sister, unless she marries before her 30th birthday, which is in three months time. Sophie has to act fast.
Inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in the old city of Valletta, Malta; this is a short film that explores dark, liquefied decrepitude. A sailor's son is damned to row a rotting boat back and forth across a hemmed harbour. Numbed by ineptitude yet spurred by guilt and expectations, tormented by the enseamed union between overbearing mother and weaselly uncle, the boy spirals down a foredoomed path.