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Albanian Film Commission aims at
promoting the Albanian Region and its administrative capital Tirana so to
attract to the area tv and cinema productions from Europe and abroad. At
the same time, the Commission aims at sustaining the local film-making
industry by creating new opportunities for those who, in Albania, work in
the tv and cinema sector.
Albania Film Commission works as
first-stop contact as regards the permit requests to shoot in Tirana and
Albania and assists in the solving of problems that may raise in the
pre-production phase so easing the troupe's work during the film
production.
Albania Film Commission is
member of
eufcn - European Film Commission Network
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The website of the Albania Film
Commission has a picture database available for you with about 300
pictures to give you the opportunity to identify the Albanian locations
for your next production. Besides, you will find data and useful
information as to: geographical features, weather conditions, main road,
railway and airline connections, selected hotels in main Albanian cities,
etc, and all cinema and tv infrastructures available for you.
Nevertheless, in case you do not find what you are looking for, please
call us and we shall do our best to answer your requests in real time!
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In
the last months
SKA-NDAL production have been working on preparing the first
Albanian - Serbian production with the film “HONEYMOON”
directed by the famous may award winning director Serbian Goran
Paskaljevic “ How Harry become a tree” , “ Powder cage’, “ Midwinter
night dream”, with the script written by Genc Permeti and Goran
Paskaljevic. |
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HONEYMOON
This film is an
co-production involving five countries:
SKA-NDAL PRODUCTION
(Albania), NOVA FILM, (Serbia), NEUE CAMEO FILM (Germany), SWISS
EFFECTS (Switzerland), VERDEORO (Italy)
The synopsis
The story of
"Honeymoon" is set in contemporary Albania and Serbia.
We follow the fortunes of two
young couples who decide to leave their respective home
countries in search of a better life in Western Europe.
When the Albanian couple, after all sorts of
incidents, arrives in the Italian port of Bari, their problems
start. The same fate awaits the Serbian couple when they arrive
at Berlin-Tegel Airport.
Despite the fact that they have nothing to do
with the murder of two UN soldiers in Kosovo, they are arrested
at the border and suspected due to unfortunate coincidences.
This prevents them, at least temporarily, from fulfilling their
dreams, as is often the case with young people in the Balkans
who pay for the mistakes of previous generations.
"Honeymoon" will be the
first film co-produced by Albania and Serbia and will be made by
a Serbo-Albanian crew. Through this poignant story, we hope to
show that Art is stronger than hatred which, sadly, destroys in
part our respective countries and drives us apart when we are
neighbors
G O
R A N P A S K A L J E V I C
Goran Paskaljevic
studied at the well-known Prague school of cinema (FAMU). He has
made 30 documentaries and 14 feature films, shown and acclaimed at
the most prestigious international film festivals (Cannes, Berlin,
Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian…). The rise of nationalism in
Yugoslavia forced him to leave his country in 1992. In 1998 he went
back to make The Powder Keg (aka Cabaret Balkan in the USA) which
won international critic's prizes at the Venice Film Festival and
the European Film Awards. In 2001, the Variety International Film
Guide marks him as one of the top five directors of the year. His
latest film Midwinter Night's Dream (2004) exploring the post-war
Serbia won the Grand Jury Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The Museum of Modern Art
in New-York (MoMA) will present a full retrospective of his work at
the end of next year.
Best Film Valladolid
Film Festival
Best actor winner Lazar Ristovski
Audience Award for the best film
Geneva Film Festival - Best Director
FIPRESCI Award for the best film
Toronto – Masters – World Premiere
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