about

Idromeno International Film Festival is based in Shkoder (Albania). Since its beginning, its aim has been to emerge as a new voice that through cinematography can be a new way of looking at our contemporary world, both underlining its fractures and trying to find another way of thinking.

Too much often we use to consider philosophy as a subject relegated to a metaphysical layer and far away from the real world in which our everyday life keeps flowing. Cinematography can do the magic and be the tipping point: through the story and the screen it shows these themes imbued into the scene, entangled in our routines and near us beyond all imagination.

Stretching over 7 days, the festival would turn around the film competition, but it also aspires to be a cultural event involving Panel Discussions on the main theme and Idromeno Industrial section composed by masterclasses & workshop for those who aspire to be part of the film industry.

Walter Benjamin in his Storyteller reminds us that is not always necessary to go far away to find a story which deserves to be narrated, storyteller doesn’t have to be someone who has come from afar, they could be someone who stayed at home, who knows well local tales and traditions and who can transmit them in an original way. Our present is colonized by the forms of our past and tradition is not something which can live only in memories: it is always still around us, still living in our actions and thoughts.