UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND CULTURE, YOUTH AND SPORTS OF ALBANIA


Tirana International Film Festival

Cinema Short Film Festival
fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental
December 04 - 10, 2006
 


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TIFF 2006
 

JURY

SELECTED FILMS


AWARDS

Special Guest 

MONTXO  ARMENDARIZ

Special Guest 

GORAN  PASKALJEVIC


Special Guest 
CAVEH ZAHEDI

SCANDINAVIAN
SHORT PANORAMA

Selected by
Karolina Lidin

"The Shutka
Book of Records
"
by Aleksandar Manic
 


Anouncment /15.11.2006

At the arrival of the deadline for submitting at the fourth edition of Tirana International Film Festival on the October 15th, at our office in Tirana has arrived over 800 excellent films of all the categories. 500 of them submitted on line and over 300 other films came by mail without submission. Selection committee came to the decision of announcing 100 films, which are chosen to take part at the international competition. This year for the category of fiction are selected 60 films, 15 at the category of Animated, 12 documentary and 13 experimental. Totally 21 hours of screening.Tirana International Film Festival thank all the filmmakers, producers and institutions for submiting their qualitative films.

Selection committee
 of TIFF 2006

 

12th edition of the Albanian Film Festival, will take place from October 2 - 9, 2006 in Tirana, ALBANIA

for more information:

www.nationalfilmcenter.gov.al


THE LAST MOVIE by
DHIMITER ANAGNOSTI
selected in MEDFILM FESTIVAL 2006


SALENTO FINIBUS
TERRAE 2006

Film Festival
Cortometraggio Internazionale

IIn the framework of the cooperation with other European film festivals the 24 July 2006 TIFF will organize “Albanian Shorts”, a special night within the "Salento Finibus Terrae" International Film Festival. The five Albanian shorts already selected by the direction of the Salento Film Festival are: "Abandoned Eden" by Eno Milkani, "Bitter Prunes" by Dorian Ahmeti, "The Bridge" by Artur Muharremi, "Tunnel" by Ilir Butka, "Snowdrops" by Robert budina.
For more information:
www.salentofinibusterrae.com
 


EURO
MEDITERRANEAN CINEMA:

THE WEEK OF ALBANIAN CINEMA

The European Cinema Festival of Lecce, chosen by the cinema section in the  Programme PIC Interreg Italy/Albania, will dedicate this year a week to discover or re-discover Albanian cinematography...The Festival will host some of the most important contemporary Albanian directors.

for more information: www.europecinefestival.org
 

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ALBANIA ART NSTITUTE

 

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www.salentofinibusterrae.com

www.maremetraggio.com
www.corkfilmfest.org
www.filmfestival-goeast.de
www.cortoitaliacinema.com
www.globalfilm.org
www.withoutabox.com
www.lucaniafilmfestival.it
www.interfilm.de
www.screendaily.com
www.filmfoerderpreis.com

 

 

 

 

COMPETITION PROGRAMME


 Program Nr. 1        11.00      5 December 2006

Dupe (Budalla)
Chris Waitt  2005/Scotland /10’/Fiction
Kibera Kid (Djali nga Kibera)
Nathan  Collet   2006/Kenya /11’30"/Fiction
Snow (Bora)
   Dustin Feneley   2005/Australia/15’/Fiction
Boothstory (Historia e një barake)
Kasimir Burgess & Edwin  McGill 2006/Australia/11’/Fiction
A Drop of Water (Një pikë uji)
Denize Gamze   2006/France/19’/Fiction
Open sea (Det i Hapur)
Simone Andrea Rapisarda  2005 / Canada  / super 16mm  / 18’ / Fiction
Behind (Prapa)
David Marquez  2006 / Spain /10’/Fiction
Strip -Tease (Zhveshja)
Attila V.Nagy  2005 / Hungary / BetaCam / 6’ /Documentary
Because of the key… (Për shkak të çelësave…)
Kostantinos Peppas  2005 / Greece / Dvcam / 6’ / Experimental
Sheets (Çarçafët)
Pawek Weremiuk  2005 / Poland / BetaCam / 10’56’’ / Animation
 

 Program Nr. 2        15.00        5 December 2006

The Incident (Incidenti )
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy   2005 / Ukraine / 35mm / 20’ / Fiction
A simple love (Një dashuri e thjeshtë)
Maike Mia Höhne  2005 / Germany / Digital beta / 20’ / Fiction
The paper boat (Barka prej letre )
Jamal Soussi  2005 /Morocco / 35mm / 8’ /Fiction
Amancay (Amancay)
Milagros Mumenthaler  2006 / Argentina / 16mm / 18’ / Fiction
Nasija (Nasija)
Guillermo Rios   2006 / Spain / 35mm / 11’ / Fiction
Global Orgasm(Orgazëm Globale)
Werther Germondari    2004 / Italy / 35mm / 1’ / Fiction
Hikikomori (Hikikomori)
Maria Giulia Giorgiani   2006 /Italy / minidv / 4’ / Experimental
Uku Ukai (Uku Ukai)
Audrius Stonys   2006 / Lithuania/ 35mm / 30’ / Documentary
Dubus (Dubus)
AV  2005 / Russia / DV / 4’09’’ / Experimental
The Nightingale and the King (Bilbili dhe mbreti )
Betrand Shijaku  2006 / Albania / Beta Cam,DVD / 7’ / Animation
 
 
 

 Program Nr. 3        11.00        6 December 2006

Prelude of Silence (Preludi i heshtjes)
Gaya Gasparian  2005 / Netherlands / 35mm / 8’ / Fiction
Samoure (Samoure)
Theo Papadoulakis  2005 / Greece / 16mm / 19’ / Fiction
Profiling (Vigjilentët  )
Remi Crussiere  2006 / Taiwan / DVCam / 14’ / Fiction
Some kind of Happiness (Një farë lumturie)
Javier Asenjo  2005/ Spain / 35mm / 11’ / Fiction
Open (Hapur)
Charlotte Siebenrock   2005 / Germany / 35mm / 6’57’’ / Fiction
Sexy Thing  (Sensuale)
Denie Pentecost   2006 / Australia / HD / 14’ / Fiction
L. (L.)
Vania Leturcq   2006 / Belgium / DVCPRO / 14’ / Fiction
The ecstatic (Nën ekstazë)
Till Passow   2005 / Germany/Pakistan / 35mm / 30’ / Documetary
You say you love.. (Ti the të dua….)
Nolwenn Treguer  2005 / Czech Republic/ MiniDv / 3’ / Experimental
Learning  to play how high the moon (Duke mësuar sa larg është hëna)
Yeon Choi   2006/ USA/ DVD (digital) / 4 / Animation
 
 
 

 Program Nr. 4        15.00        6 December 2006

Frames (Fragmente)
Sam Kelly  2005 / New Zealand / 16mm SUPER / 15’ / Fiction
Winter (Dimri)
Boris Guchmazov  2003 / Russia / 35mm / 16’ / Fiction
Avatar (Avatar )
Lluis Quillez  2005 / Spain / 35mm / 15’ / Fiction
Two, a  love story (Dy histori dashurie)
Giorgia Polizzi  2005 / USA / miniDv / 13’ / Fiction
Chain (Zinxhir)
Dan Chyutin   2006 / Israel  / 16mm / 28’ / Fiction
The Beauty Project  (Projekti i bukurisë)
Cory Pampalone   2005 / USA / minidv / 6’ / Documetnary
Startle Pattern  (Qeliza mahnitëse)
Eric Patrick   2005 / USA / 16mm / 13’ / Experimental
Lion’s gate (Porta e luanit)
Artan Maku   2006 / Albania /35mm / 10’ / Animation
 The T-shirt  (Bluza)
 Hossein Martin Fazeli   2006/ Czech Republic / minidv / 11’ / Fiction
 

Program Nr. 5        20.15        6 dhjetor 2006

The machine (Makina)
Gabe Ibanez   2006 / Spain / 35mm / 16’ / Fiction
Prayer cushions of the flesh  (Jastëkët e mishtë të lutjes)
Irvin Magnus& Ray McNeill   2006 / UK / Dvcam / 26’ / Fiction
Tropic of Capricorn (Tropiku i bricjapit)
Kika Nicolela  2005 / Brazil / Dvcam/ 30’ / Documentary
 
 

 Program Nr. 6        11.00        7 December 2006

37oC (37oC)
Tamara Sulamanidze  2005 / Georgia / Dvcam / 30’ / Fiction 
Unfiltered Southeners (Fshatarë të pagdhendur)
Michele Bia  2006 / Italy/ 35mm / 21’ / Fiction
A woman's fear of the offside rule  (Frika e një gruaje nga pozicioni jashtë loje)
Hossein Pourseifi  2006 / Germany /  16mm SUPER / 17’ / Fiction
Grow old with me (Plaku me mua)
Alberto Moreno 2005 / Spain / 35mm / 10’30 / Fiction
The big leap  (Hedhja e madhe)
Belen Lemaitre   2005/ Mexico / 35mm / 17’ / Fiction
Puppet (Kukulla)
Patrick Smith   2006 / USA / 35mm / 7’ / Animation
Motodrom (Motodrom)
Joerg Wagner  2006 / Germany / 35mm / 9’ / Documentary
Metamorphosis (Metamorfozë )
Artur Dauti   2004 / Albania / 35mm / 8’ / Animation
Little Bang (Përpjasja e vogël)
Diek Grobler  2005 / South Africa / DVD / 11’ / Animation
 
 

 Program Nr. 7        15.00        7 December 2006

G-23 (G-23)
Anthony Chen  2005 /Singapore/ 16mm / 19’ / Fiction
The Refuge City (Qyteti i shpëtimit)
Wojciech Kasperski    2005 / Poland / 35mm / 18’ / Fiction
Tracks (Gjurmët)
Martin Smith   2006 / Scotland / HDV / 12’50 / Fiction
Headaches  (Kokëçarje)
Doron Wisotzky  2005 / Germany / 16mm / 10’ / Fiction
Red & Blue (E kuqe dhe blu)
Mahmood Soliman  2006 / Egypt / BetaCam / 14’ / Fiction
First Snow (Bora e parë)
Pablo Aguero  2005 / Argentina/ DVD / 15’ / Fiction
Symphonic Episodes (Episode Simfonike)
Victor Mares  2003 / Cuba / minidv / 22’ / Documentary
Torsia (Torsia)
Jaksa Boric  2005 / Croatia / Dvcam / 16’ / Fiction
Do you mind? (Bezdisesh?)
David Myriam  2006 / France / DV / 3’30’’/Animation
The tryst (Takimi)
Izabela Bartosik   2003 / Poland/ BetaCam / 4’44’’ / Animation
 

 Program Nr. 8        1.00        8 December 2006

The body against (Kundratrupi)
Eduardo Chapero-Jackson   2006 / Spain / 35mm / 17’ / Fiction
Wild duck season (Sezoni i rosës së egër)
Julia Ruszkiewicz  2006/ Poland/35mm/19’03’’/Fiction
Crash (Përplasja)
Umut Aral  2005 / Turkey / 35mm / 17’ / Fiction 
Flesh of my flesh  (Gjak nga gjaku im)
Margarida Leitao  2005 / Portugal / 35mm  / 14’ / Fiction
A Shift in Perception (Një shmangie perceptimi)
Dan Monceaux    2006 /  Australia / super-8 / 16’ / Documentary
Whirr (Gumëzhima )
Timo Katz  2006 / Germany / Photography / 2’25’’ / Experimental