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 ...

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 director Gentian Koçi is at the Sarajevo Film Festival for the world premiere of his first feature film, “Daybreak,” an intimate drama about an impoverished and desperate young mother who, ...

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 ...

Fans of world cinema shouldn’t miss the event next week at Wesleyan University: The first-ever restoration of an Albanian film. The screening in Middletown will be part of a week of events marking the ...

Director Laura Bispuri and actors Flonja Kodheli (L) Alba Rohrwacher (2nd R) and Lars Eidinger (R) pose during a photocall to promote the movie 'Sworn Virgin' in competition at the 65th Berlinale ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 medieval in U.S.

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 ...