Former Agimi cinema reopens to feature 3D movies

TIRANA, Jan. 3 – The former Agimi cinema, one of the capital’s eldest, has been reconstructed and started screening 3D movies, becoming the newest cinema in Tirana. The cinema, part of the Imperial Cinemas, was reconstructed by Germany’s “Cineproject” under a Tirana Municipality initiative. The 50-year-old cinema, which remained close for many years after the 90s, will have a capacity of 120 seats.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony on January 29, Tirana Mayor Edi Rama said the new cinema was a New Year gift to the capital’s youth.
“It is a real pleasure to have another cinema in Tirana, of the state-of-the-art technology, the same to the ones in each capital of the developed world,” said Rama.
The municipality’s initiative came one month after the opening of the first multimedia centre, the first of this kind in Albania, started offering free afternoon classes in music, dancing, painting and photography to dozens of talented compulsory schoolchildren in Tirana.
The center inaugurated under a Tirana municipality-funded project, is situated in the former premises of the Dajti cinema in Tirana, which had been abandoned and did not serve as a cinema any longer. The “TEN” multifunctional centre has a central hall with a capacity of 130 seats which serves as a venue to screen movies and hold concerts. Other facilities have also been created for children aged between 3 to 13 years old to exercise in painting and short theatrical performances.
Modern library, music and visual arts premises have also been made available for talented children. Hundreds of them are already attending afternoon classes.