Panorami italiani
A State Film
Film di stato / Roland Sejko / Italy / 2025 / 78′
Since the end of World War II and for more than forty years, the history of Albania has been inextricably intertwined with that of one man: Enver Hoxha, who led the country through ephemeral alliances and radical ruptures until he led it into total isolation. State Film recounts those forty years of Albania’s communist regime through the images that power produced to narrate itself. Constructed entirely from often unpublished archival materials-official propaganda films, footage from the confidential or private funds of the nomenklatura-the film is a journey in image and sound within a regime that made cinema an instrument of power. What are those same images capable of telling us today?
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Q&A with the author
Roland Sejko
Born and raised in Albania, he graduated in 1990 from the Faculty of History and Philology in Tirana. He has lived in Rome since 1991 and has worked for Istituto Luce Cinecittà since 1995, where he is director of editorial editing of the Luce Historical Archive. He has written and directed several documentaries distinguished mostly by the reuse of archival cinema. In 2013, he won the David di Donatello Award with his documentary Anija / The Ship.
He later directed the documentaries L’attesa (2015), Come vincere la guerra (2018) and La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C. (2021).
He is the art curator and author of footage for several Istituto Luce Cinecittà exhibitions. He is one of the curators of MIAC, the Italian Museum of Cinema and Audiovisual in Cinecittà.