{"id":7540,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-xhuvani\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:24","slug":"gjergj-xhuvani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-xhuvani\/","title":{"rendered":"Gjergj Xhuvani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gjergj Xhuvani, a director, screenwriter, and producer, was born in Tiran\u00eb. In 1986, he completed his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts for acting, and the same year, he was appointed at the \u201c<i>Shqip\u00ebria e Re<\/i>\u201d Film Studio. He worked as an assistant director on several films. He is the sole author or co-author of all his film scripts, mostly written in collaboration with the renowned writer and screenwriter Dhimit\u00ebr Xhuvani. His first film, produced in 1991 as a short feature, was in black and white. Throughout the years, he passionately cultivated short and medium-length films, managing to unfold human dramas with emotional depth through them. Returning to the phenomenon of alienation in his black-and-white debut, he revisited it a decade later with &#8220;Parullat&#8221; (\u201cThe slogans\u201d) (2001), a film that gained entry and won an award in the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s First Works section, later screened in several European cinemas. In this film, Xhuvani&#8217;s fundamental artistic values shine: his simple and precise directorial approach, the deeply realistic construction of life&#8217;s image and microcosms in harmony with all cinematic elements. &#8220;Parullat\u201d beyond Cannes, was honored with the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival. His film &#8220;E diela e fundit&#8221; (\u201cThe last sunday\u201d) (1992) received a special jury award for short films at the Mediterranean Film Festival &#8220;<i>Bastille 93<\/i>&#8221; in France, while &#8220;Dashuria e fundit&#8221; (\u201cThe last love\u201d) (1994) won the award for Best Direction at the Albanian Film X Festival. He passed away in 2019.<i> (In the photo: Gjergj Xhuvani)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> Josif Papagjoni<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.anabelmagazine.com\/news\/45187\/ndahet-nga-jeta-regjisori-i-njohur-gjergj-xhuvani\/eng<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gjergj Xhuvani, a director, screenwriter, and producer, was born in Tiran\u00eb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gjergj Xhuvani - Albanian Heritage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-xhuvani\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gjergj Xhuvani - 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