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Filmmakers · Albania

Piro Milkani and Kujtim Çashku

Died in 2025

Piro Milkani was born on 9 December 1939 in Korça and studied cinematography at the film school in Prague. A cinematographer at the Tirana studio, he moved into directing and made more than twenty feature films and documentaries; Albanian ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002, he died in Tirana on 24 May 2025. Kujtim Çashku was born in 1950 in Tirana, trained at the Higher Institute of Arts in his city and then at the Institute of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, and in 2004 founded the Marubi Academy, the country's first film school.

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