Practical information:

Albania is located in the west Balkans. It is bordered on the north by Montenegro, Kosovo and in East by Macedonia, Greece to the south and west by the Adriatic and Ionian Sea. Has an area of 28.748 square kilometers, as well as Belgium. Its population is officially 3 million 182 thousand inhabitants, three times less than Belgium. Albania has a Mediterranean climate in most of its surface, with mild winters and humid hot and dry summer. Just inside the country, on the eastern side, strongly is felt influences of continental climate. Albania has these main rivers sorted by the North-South direction. Drin, Mat, Ishmi, Erzeni, Shkumbin, Seman, and Vjosa. Albania's main lakes, are : Shkodra Lake, Ohrid Lake, Prespa, and Butrint.

Film Industry:

In Albania the film industry stopped after 1990, though the production of film is still active. The Albanian film studios released something like 14 feature, 10 documentary and 14 animation films per year, until 1990. Today the production of film is supported from the National Film Center  with an average of 1/2 feature film per year. Somehow Albania inherited skilled and trained people for film service within the country. Some of the major productions are like Gianni Ameglio's Lamerika and L'intrepido, or Theo Angelopulos Ulysses' Gaze.