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Shqip; Simple English; Српски / srpski; ... Agon (film) The Albanian; Alexander (2023 film) Alive (2009 film) Amnesty (2011 film) Amsterdam Express; B. Babai (film)
It was Albania's only film studio under communist rule. [18] [15] Kristaq Dhamo's 1958 film Tana was Kinostudio's first feature-length film and is regarded as the first one in Albanian history. [19] [4] In 1952, Daughters of China (Zhong Hua nu er) became the first Chinese film shown in Albania. [13]
The Central State Film Archive (Albanian: Arkivi Qendror Shtetëror i Filmit) is the main film archive of Albania based in Tirana which lists in its repository 271 feature films, 166 animated films, 1,131 documentaries, and 1,012 film chronicles between the years 1945–2015.
In May 1948 the company presented its first cinematographic chronicle. It also contributed in the 1940s and 1950s with the building of many movie theatres throughout Albania. In 1952, the movie studio Kinostudio Shqipëria e Re [1] was created, which lasted until 1992, and was replaced by the Albafilm-Tirana (1992–1996).
Amnesty (Albanian: Amnistia) is a 2011 Albanian drama film written and directed by Bujar Alimani. The film was selected as the Albanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but it did not make the final shortlist.
The film presents the ideological brainwashing that characterized the life of Albanians during the times of the communist Enver Hoxha regime. The protagonist is Andrea ( Artur Gorishti ; Andrea is a male name in Albania), a young and liberal -minded school teacher, who is sent from Tirana to work in a small village school.
The film is based on the auto-biographical book by Petraq Qafzezi. A restored version of the movie was published by the Albanian Central State Film Archive in December 2023, with the financial support of the "Season of Classic Films" program of the Association of European Cinematheques and the Europe Creative Desk – MEDIA program.