Erafilm

ERAFILM Founded in 2001 by producers and filmmakers Sabina Kodra and Robert Budina, ERAFILM is a film production company based in Tirana, Albania. The main purpose in creating ERAFILM was the production of independent art movies, innovative in style, and to discover new talent in Albanian cinema. Our first co-production with Italy, the dramatic feature, “Letters in the Wind”, was directed by Edmond Budina. This film went on to win the Prize of Merit as one of the best movies produced in Italy in 2003. In the years that followed, the shorts, the features and the documentaries produced by ERAFILM, such as “Luleborë”, “Ballkan Pazar”, “Agon”, ”Bota”, “Made in Albania”, “Mëngë këmishe” reached countless film festivals around the world such as Karlovy Vary, Pula, Reykjavik, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Palm Springs, Chicago etc, winning over thirty different international awards. In 2014 and 2015, the film “Agon”, written and directed by Robert Budina and ”Bota” written and directed by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci were selected as the Albania’s selection in the Best Foreign Film category at the US Academy Awards. In 2015, the dramatic feature film, “Sworn Virgin”, directed by Laura Bispuri, was selected for that year’s official selection of the Berlinale. This film collected over twenty different international awards in important film festivals such as Tribeca, Hong Kong, San Francisco, AFI Fest in Los Angeles etc. Robert Budina’s second feature film, “A Shelter Among the Clouds”, had the world premiere in Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia, in the Official Competition in November 2018. After the film partecipated in more than 20 other festivals worldwide collecting awards such as, Global Visual Award in Cinequest Film & Creativity Film Festival in San Jose, Usa, Best Film in La Valletta International Film Festival, Malta, Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress in PriFilmFest, Kosovo, Best Music and Sound Mix in Mediteranian Film Festival Valencia, Spain.