Albanian director Ervin Lera is currently participating in the Amsterdam International Film Festival with his film “Emancipation of the Crowds”. The film is triggered by the protests of Albanian students during 2018 and tries to explain the needs of society to develop through revolts. The documentary “Emancipation of the Crowds”, created by Albanian director and screenwriter Ervin Lera, is taking part this weekend at the International Film Festival in Amsterdam. After a successful premiere in Tirana last spring, the film also participated in the Puglia International Film Festival in Italy, Dormeo Films. But what are the messages of the movie “Crowd Emancipation”? Author Ervin Lera says he got the first impetus from Albanian student protests two years ago.

“The idea came to me from the amazing and very beautiful similarity between the student protests in Tirana in 2018 and the yellow-vest in Paris. I was then in Paris, where I stayed about a month. I saw that the developments were exactly the same until politics intervened in both movements. I have also said very openly in the film that the student protest was amazing and a model protest for the whole world and not only for Albania, until the moment when politics and political media intervened in this protest, labeling them as FRESH members, LRI members, FRPD members, etc. ” said Mr. Lera. The documentary “The emancipation of the crowds” addresses the dilemmas of Albanian society since after the Second World War until today. The crowd is symbolically selected as the visible indicator of a society, because the film shows the development of Albanian society, but there is also an international approach, because the events and situations that have occurred in Albania have happened everywhere. The film is based on the philosophy of Jose Ortega el Caset, the greatest philosopher of the last century.

The film tries and succeeds in explaining some of the most important events of modern times in Albania from the second half of the last century and the two decades of this new century. His participation in international festivals is a special voice from Albania in the wave of European initiatives to unravel the questions that come up to societies during revolts to bring development, and to emancipate themselves, trying to break down walls of isolation and to build bridges of cooperation.

/Klara Ruci/