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 ...

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 ...

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. Co-written by ...

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 ...

"Albanian tradition. She should show respect." Memento Films has revealed a festival promo trailer for a film titled Europa, the latest from an Austrian-Iranian filmmaker named Sudabeh Mortezai. This ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - "The Forgiveness of Blood" is a new film exploring centuries-old oral traditions that govern how some families in Albania settle their blood feuds to this day. Modern clashes with ...

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 ...

The documentary Always (从来) is racking up awards at festivals, announcing itself as an Oscar contender despite a lack of ...

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 ...

Many Albanians in Yugoslavia came to see Albania as a promised land, but Albania’s treatment of ethnic Albanian writers and artists from outside its borders was often brutal. This post is also ...