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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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. Co-written by ...