1. Festival des films du monde - 1997 Montreal

Dir.: Leonard Bombaj, Alfred Trebicka

Born in Selenica, Albania in 1965, Leonard Bombaj received his diploma in drama from the Academy of Fine Arts and began his professional career as an actor. He has appeared on stage, in television and in the cinema, has worked as a singer and composer as well as writing and producing his own shows on television. His credits as TV writer-producer include: "Knocks", "Symphony of Waiting" (1990), "Weekend in Hollywood" and "This Night Long as a Lifetime" (1993-94). SOUNDS OF OBLIVION is his first fiction feature.

Born in Albania in 1966, Alfred Trebicka earned his diploma in direction from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana in 1989 and has worked both as director and as actor for the stage, cinema and television. His acting credits include roles in Shakespeare's "Richard III" and "Two Gentlemen of Verona". His film directing credits include GENERAL OF A DEAD ARMY, LIFE IN THE HANDS OF SOMEONE ELSE and WHO BROUGHT DORUNTINA?

SOUNDS OF OBLIVION (TV)
1996 / Vidéo / Couleur / 74 min.
Albania
P7.27.7, P7.30.2

Dir.: Leonard Bombaj, Alfred Trebicka; Script: Leonard Bombaj; Phot.: Spartak Papadhimitri; Ed.: Andon Begari; Mus.: Aleksander Lalo; Cast: Esmeralda Blaceri, Alfred Trebicka, Leonard Bombaj, Kadri Roshi; Prod. & Sales: Albanian Radio Television, V.K.B, Camberi Co., Rr. Myslym Shyri Pall. 51/1, Tirana (Albanie), tél. & fax: (355) 423 36 31.

Ani, a young girl, accompanies her blind older brother wherever he goes. Over the years she has become his walking stick. Ani's beauty catches the eye of a young record seller who would dearly love to separate Ani from the man he considers his rival. But Ani's sense of responsibility verges on guilt and prevents her from having a normal relationship with the record seller. The obstacles don't stop there. The record seller is being threatened with eviction and Ani discovers that she has the same eye disease as her brother. What future can there be for them?

Ani's predicament is that of contemporary Albania, torn between her attachment to the past and her aspirations for the future. Albania's transition from Maoist isolationism to laissez-faire capitalism has been a particularly swift and turbulent one, but its cinema appears to be coping. Two Albanian films were shown at the Montreal World Film Festival last year, including one in competition. There are clearly more to come.



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