Michael Jon Stoil's Balkan Cinema: Evolution after the Revolution traces the development of film culture in Albania and the wider Balkan region through the turbulent post-communist transition. It's an academic work, but one that takes the subject seriously — examining how filmmakers navigated state censorship, ideological collapse, and the challenge of building new cinematic identities.
For anyone interested in Albanian culture or the history of Eastern European cinema, it remains one of the few English-language resources that deals with this specific region in depth. Hard to find in print, but worth tracking down through a library.