The festival featured several productions by Albanian director Piro Milkani who was handed the Career award in the festival’s opening ceremony
TIRANA, Oct. 2 – “The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider,” a 2008 Albanian-Czech co-production directed by Piro Milkani, opened this year’s sixth edition of the Durres International Film Festival which due to lack of financial support is being staged as a non-competitive and retrospective edition.
Anila Varfi, the festival’s director said she decided to continue the tradition despite the great financial difficulty, making the screening of the latest film productions and the invitation of their directors and actors impossible.
The festival featured several productions by Albanian director Piro Milkani who was handed the Career award in the festival’s opening ceremony on October 2 at the local Aleksander Moisiu theatre in Durres.
Two Italian actors Gabriele Rendina and Livia Rossi starring in the “L’Interpido” movie directed by Gianni Amelio will also be present in the festival on Friday, October 4 celebrating the Italian cinema night.
Other movies featured in the festival include Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” and “Not a carwash” documentary by Gentian Koci. The festival will close on Sunday, October 6 in Tirana’s Millennium cinema with the “Diana” movie, a 2013 production by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
“Even though there are a few problems down the way, the festival will keep going on, because it is the power of art that unites us,” festival organizers said on their Facebook profile. The festival is scheduled for October 2 to 6.
In last year’s edition of the Durres film festival, “Lidice,” a Czech Republic movie directed by Petr Nikolaev grabbed the best film award. An international jury handed the Golden Gladiator Award to” Lidice,” a film presented as a true story set during World War II with the Nazi takeover of Europe underway. France’s Pierre Sch
