TIRANA, Albania — The tiny Balkans country — where thousands of egg-shaped concrete gun emplacements and bunkers still disfigure the land, a reminder of the paranoia of the past — is pushing hard for ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. American filmmaker Joshua Marston knew from the beginning that making ...

Staff and students at Albania’s Marubi academy of film and multi-media in Tirana are staging a strike and lock-in after police arrested the school’s rector, a professor and three students during ...

Roland Sejko’s doc “A State Film,” culled from a vast archive of official footage made under the regime of Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha, is a fascinating study in the power of image and myth.

TIRANA (Reuters Life!) - They may be divided by geography and politics, but Serbs and Albanians share the same sour fate on screen when they go abroad in a first film collaboration between filmmakers ...

07/03/2024 - Augustus Color and the Albanian National Film Archive in Tirana establish a collaboration aimed at digitising films and training young Albanians in archiving and restoration Augustus ...

Andamion Murataj, the programme director for ALBAScript, states that “Now is the time to introduce a professional scriptwriting workshop such as this one in Albania, calling in some of the best ...

Inside the stone walls of a 13th-century fortress, Albanian and Russian actors are striving to re-enact a little-known but troubling chapter of their shared history for the big screen. Russian actress ...

Film producer Gani Veseli says court ban on his films is a blow to the whole ethnic Albanian community in Serbia and to artistic freedom generally. The premier of Gani Veseli’s films in Pristina, ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - In the Mountains of the Damned along the Kosovan/Albanian border, women seeking to escape the stifling roles tradition holds for them must either flee or swear an oath of eternal ...

Albania has submitted Bujar Alimani's 'The Delegation' for best international feature category in the 92nd Academy Awards. By Nick Holdsworth Albania has selected Bujar Alimani’s The Delegation as its ...

Swimming 18 kilometers along the Adriatic coast, Tonin Gjini’s daring escape from Stalinist Albania in 1987 has been recreated on film. In 1987, a 22-year-old professional swimmer called Tonin Gjini ...