Skënder Jaçe: The lack of cinemas is a problem for films, before the 90s in Albania there were about 450 cinema halls in the whole territory and today there are 7

The lack of cinemas in the country is also a problem for showing films. Albanian film, cinemas that no longer exist in the country, how scenes were censored before the 90s, are just some of what the documentary "Cinema and Love - Farewell 35/mm" conveyed to the public. The documentary marked its premiere before the public at the Millennium cinema in Tirana, being watched with the interest of the public, among them Albanian cinema personalities. Producer Skënder Jaçe says that the film was very well received for what it deals with. "The premiere of the film "Cinema and Love - Farewell 35/mm" was liked and watched with interest by many filmmakers, creators of the former Kinostudio "Alshqiperia e re". It was received very well and people were in tears when it ended for the very fact that it recalled a bright era of cinema that not only in Albania, but all over the world that era was enlightened as it brought the great colossuses of cinema to the screen. Directors, screenwriters, great actors who are unrepeatable in the history of cinema. In this context, the film had the effect of the fact itself, because it also made the history of the entire network of cinemas that were before the 90s, where there were about 450 cinema halls in the entire Albanian territory, this included state cinemas, NBSH, cooperatives, the army, etc. ", says Jaçe. The film was shot from the North to the South of Albania, looking for traces of the beautiful time of cinema. According to the producer, after the 90s, all cinemas in Albania suffered a total destruction. Jaçe says that with the change in the system, distribution also fell and Kinostudio ended its mission. "The film was no longer in production. The foreign film was missing because there was no distribution, necessarily the cinemas began to be destroyed and left in the wrong hands. They did not take the people who were professionals and flattened them, made palaces in those places, etc. There are not many halls left in the entire territory or they may be completely destroyed. In the entire Albanian territory today there are cinemas in Tirana, there are Kuçova, Shkodra, one was opened in Vlorë, the palace of culture and Gjirokastër, but the north has no cinema, Fieri has no cinema, Durrës has no cinema. Today there are 7 halls", says Jaçe. there is Kuçova, Shkodra, one was opened in Vlorë, the palace of culture and Gjirokastër, but the north has no cinema, Fieri no cinema, Durrës no cinema. Today there are 7 halls", says Jaçe. there is Kuçova, Shkodra, one was opened in Vlorë, the palace of culture and Gjirokastër, but the north has no cinema, Fieri no cinema, Durrës no cinema. Today there are 7 halls", says Jaçe.

Documentary and at festivals

Albanian cinema comes naturally in this documentary through interviews, its images, film materials during the shooting of the films behind the scenes, etc. Figures and facts bring to the spectator's memory a piece of life experienced from the time we left. The documentary film "Cinema and Love - Farewell 35/mm" previously premiered in Tirana, but the producer Skënder Jaçe says that he will also show it at festivals abroad. "The lack of a network of cinemas is a problem. I will find the path that the documentary I'm not going to leave it without showing it through those cinemas that are in the territory of the country today. We will show the beauty that the film had, the lighting that it had in those years, not only as a 35 mm format, but also as an era, as a composition which brought wonderful things to the cinema screen. In addition, I will show the film in various festivals, because abroad they are very sensitive to the cinema of the past", says Jaçe. With the financing of KKK in September 2022, the shooting of "Kinema e Dashuri - Lamtumire 35/mm" started, script Rezarta Reçi, director Rigers Plaka, cinematography house "Cinemania Production".