Fellini movies screening in Tirana

TIRANA, March 21 – Federico Fellini, one of Italy’s most internationally renowned director, will be commemorated in Albania with the screening of some of his best movies on his 20th death anniversary.
“Lo sceicco bianco” on March 19 opened the series of Fellini movies that will be screened for 8 consecutive Tuesdays until May 7. Each Fellini screening at the Marubi Academy of Film in Tirana will be introduced by big names of the Albanian cinema such as Kujtim Cashku, Piro Milkani, Ilir Butka, Genc Permeti.
The activity is organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Tirana and comes three years after the director’s commemoration in the frame of the great season of events “Italy, Albania, Two Peoples, One Sea, One Friendship.
Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini made his reputation as one of the 20th century’s most influential movie directors between the 1950s and the 1970s. His relationship with Hollywood advanced his American appetite for international films.
During his first decade as a director he won Oscars for La Strada (1954), Le Notti di Cabiria (1957) and 8 1/2 (1963). He won a fourth for Amarcord (1974), and in 1992 Fellini was given a special Oscar for lifetime achievement.