Cinestudio, at 300 Summit St. on the campus of Trinity College in Hartford, will show a classic Albanian film on Saturday, Sept. 19, at 2:30 p.m.
“Tomka and His Friends” tells the story of an Albanian village that is occupied by the Nazis during World War II. The town’s boys, who are furious that they can no longer access their soccer field, become spies and help thwart the Germans.
The film was directed by Xhanfise Keko in 1977. The screening will benefit the Albanian Cinema Project, an international consortium trying to rescue the film legacy of that country. Decades of Communist rule and later drastic underfunding have made the Albanian film industry unknown to the outside world, and have endangered the shelf life of Albanian movies. About 3 million Albanians live in Albania, and about 10 million live elsewhere. In Connecticut, the Albanian community is centered in Waterbury.
Flurans Ilia, one of the child actors in the film, will do a Q&A after the screening.
Other films scheduled at Cinestudio are:
“Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels,” a documentary about Africans questioned about what they know about the Amistad. It will be shown Friday, Sept. 18, at 4:30 p.m. It also will be shown Thursday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. at New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Ave. Marcus Rediker, the historian who wrote the book that the movie is based on, will talk after both screenings, which are both free.
“The Stanford Prison Experiment,” a drama about a controversial experiment at Stanford University that cast some students as jailers and some as prisoners, will be shown from Sunday to Tuesday, Sept. 20 to 22.
“Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes,” a concert film, will be shown on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated from a previous version to correct information about the film’s director.
