Kujtim Çashku Trailers

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Kujtim Çashku (born 5 August 1950) is an Albanian film director and screenwriter who has won numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Critics Prize at the 1996 Bastia Mediterranean Film Festival and the UNESCO Award at the 1998 Venice Film Festival for Colonel Bunker,the Best Screenplay Award, the FIRESCI Prize and the Silver Pyramid at the 2005 Cairo International Film Festival as well as the Bronze Palm at the Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema for The Magic Eye, and the CEI Award at the Trieste Film Festival for his "brave commitment to the development of Albanian cinema". He is the founder and director of Tirana's Marubi Film & Multimedia School, the first film university in Albania, as well as the supervisor of OraFilm, Albania's first film production company, and founder-organizer of Albania's first Human Rights Film Festival (IHRFFA). A native of Tirana, Kujtim Çashku studied at the city's Higher Institute of Arts as well as at Institute of Theater and Film Art in Bucharest and started in the filmmaking profession in 1975, working as an assistant director. During the succeeding years, as his career took him to France, Poland and Germany, he became, in the process, Albania's internationally best-known cinema personality for directing the 1989 romantic drama Ballad of Kurbin as well as for writing and directing the 1996 political drama Colonel Bunker, which became the official Albanian submission for the Academy Awards and won international prizes, including the 1998 prestigious CIFT ETC Enrico Fulghinoni in Venice. His most publicized international success came with the 2005 road movie, Magic Eye, which won 9 international awards, including FIPRESCI 2005, "Silver Pyramid" for Best Screen Play and Best Actor at the 2005 Cairo International Film Festival, "Bronze Palm" for Best Cinematography and Best Music at 2006 Mostra Valencia, as well as CEI Award and Third Best Film Audience Award at 2007 Trieste International Film Festival.

Most Popular Kujtim Çashku Trailers

Total trailers found: 10

Magic Eye Trailer (2005)

01 November 2005

During the riots of 1997 in Albania the retired photographer PETRO travels from his hometown Gjirokastra to the capital Tirana.

Murder while Hunting Trailer (1987)

02 July 1987

Three friends, Fred, Aleko and Pertef, go hunting. Somebody accidentally shoots at Pertef and kills him, and nobody knows who the murderer is.

Broken April Trailer (1985)

16 December 1985

Adaptation of the novel "Prilli i thyer" by Ismail Kadare. The April of 1939 is the month of honeymoon and a month of tragedy for writer Besian Vorpsi and his wife Diana.

Kolonel Bunker Trailer (1998)

01 September 1998

Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly 40 years and for a long time Albania was the only Maoist regime and by far the most isolationist society in Europe - politically, psychologically and physically.

Comrades Trailer (1982)

10 April 1982

The events of the film happen in a huge industrial complex. A huge explosion interrupts an experiment.

The Hot Hand Trailer (1983)

18 March 1983

Besim does not like his stepfather Ahmet. He abandons school and commits some mistakes, but with help from his friends, he returns to living a normal and healthy life.

Ballad of Kurbini Trailer (1990)

01 April 1990

The film speaks of the fate of soldiers who go to war as mercenaries and return dead. Village girls wait and wait for their fiancé to return from war and finally get married to others.

Face to Face Trailer (1979)

07 November 1979

A translator at the conference of communist parties witnessed the biggest break between the two communist parties.

They Were Four Trailer (1977)

23 January 1977

Four partisans are tasked with delivering a song to the Congress of Përmet.

Post Mortem Trailer (1980)

01 September 1980

In 1908, some Albanian pseudo-patriots form a club, claiming that they are working for the good of Albania.