Adriana Elini – Xhajanka (1937-1994)

Adriana Elini – Xhajanka (1937-1994) Editing director and director of documentary films Adriana Elini is part of the constellation of women who dedicated themselves to Albanian cinema. She belongs to the second generation of editing directors who started working at the end of the 50s and became a documentary film director for three decades. From the end of the 1960s until the end of the Kinostudio "New Albania" era, Adriana made dozens of short documentary films, nineteen of them made only in the 1970s, among which we can mention "Kole Idromeno"; "Our clouds"; "Ancient Art"; "Young Master"; "Prosperous land"; With rifle and pen for Memedhene"; "Manush Alimani"; "Each line is a drawing"; Adriana, with love and dedication to her profession, rose from editing director to documentary film director, and for three decades she created indisputable values in the performing arts. Over 40 documentary and artistic films, reportages, chronicles of the events of the time bear the signature of filmmaker Elini-Xhajanka, who during her career was honored with several awards. In addition to the artistic side, her films also have historical value, as they testify to a period when freedom of thought and expression was absent, making art was difficult. She was born in Tirana on April 3, 1937. She completed her studies at the Faculty of History and Philology and in 1958 was appointed to the "Shqiperia e Re" Kinostudio, initially as an editor of newsreels and chronicles. Then in v. 1968 is spent as a montage director. In fact, a year ago, in 1967, she worked for the feature film "Open Horizons" and then "Estrada ne ekran". In 1968, he made his first documentary as a director, "Our University". From this year and from this film, for almost another 20 years, Adriana manages to make about 40 artistic documentaries, reportages, chronicles of the events of the time. One day at the physical culture institute "Vojo Kushi" (1969); School and Practice (1969); Furna (1970); In the Assembly Squares (1970); Towards Fierce (1971); In the Party assemblies (1971); The Two Weaves (1972); With the inhabitants of our forests (1972); 23rd Assault Brigade (1974); Military Autobiography (1975); Our dreams (1976), In the mountain holiday house (1976); There they talked about Albania with guns and pens (1977); Our Children (1977); Happy Holiday (1978); In health care (1978); The first session of the Legislature of the People's Assembly (1978); With Greek Poetry (1978); We are the flowers of the Party (1979); For the welfare of the people (1982); With the builders of the National Historical Museum (1981); Ancient Art, Young Masters (1982); Common Between Us (1983); Scientific achievements and perspectives in economic development (1983); Energy (1983); Toke te begata (1984); 40 years of BGSH (1984); Cdo vije, un drawing (1984) honored with the Medallion for directing at the 6th Documentary Film Festival; Alpine Beam School (1984); Kole Idrmeno, honored with the third prize at the 7th Documentary and Cartoon Film Festival; Little Fanfana (1985); Yours Enver (1985); Light in Koma (1985); The 6th Albanian Artistic Film Festival (1985); Pioneers of Enver (1985); Lezha sings for Enver (1986); With you, Enver, I raise history (1986). For the criticism of Cinema and the Films that I make, Adriana Elini was not guided by the big themes of slogans, plaques, but made the painting of unity. I changed my life in 1994 due to a serious illness. ___________________________ Albanian cinematography in activity since 2013 Reference: Encyclopedia of Albanian Cinematography – Toena 2002 / A. T Hoxha / p. 109-110 as well as a selection of news and information from "on-line" Albanian newspapers. Published on Facebook on the page with the same name in March 2015 and revised in the following years.

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