Kujtim Çashku

Kujtim Çashku (b. 1950, Tirana, Albania) is the best known representative of Albanian cinematography and his films have been screened and won awards at a number of international film festivals. A graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Tirana and the Film and Theatre School in Bucharest, he started out as a documentary maker. His feature films also deal mainly with real events in his native land. One example is the drama Colonel Bunker (1996), screened at the Karlovy Vary Festival in 1997, which follows the upheavals in Albania over the period 1974–94 through the life of the main protagonist. Çashku's other films include Face to Face (Ballë për ballë, 1979), Pas vdekjes (Post Mortem, 1980) which was banned for ten years, and The Ballad of Kurbin (Balada e Kurbinit, 1989). Kujtim Çashku is a member of the European Film Academy and a founder of the 1st Human Rights International Film Festival in Albania in 2006.

MFF Karlovy Vary