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TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is the first and the only international cinema festival in Albania created in 2003. 

TIFF has received invitation to become member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals (ECFF), by next September. Consequently, TIFF aims to respect the Code of Ethics deriving from ECFF.
This extraordinary event for Albania takes place under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sports and Tirana City-Hall.
The competition program combines short films of all formats and categories, alternated between them, in order to make it more eclectic and exciting.
Tirana International Film Festival is open to well-known artists as well as students, representatives of all schools, contemporary, independent and alternative cinema from throughout the world.
Part of the Festival is also a special program which includes all forms of film production - feature, documentaries and animated films more than 30' length. A particular interest is shown in retrospectives of different authors or countries.
TIFF reserves an important space to the seminars and workshops, which prove necessary for the Albanian filmmakers and young artists.
The free of charge newspaper of TIFF, published both in Albanian and English, will enable a daily briefing with the latest news over the Festival through interviews, photos and programs, as well as will offer hints on the artistic life of the capital of Albania.
A press conference is organized every morning in the premises of one of Tirana's most prestigious hotels where the guests will be accommodated.
The program is completed with an important Talk Show at Night, broadcast by the Public Television, where the journalists, art critics, participants and guests are invited to debate about the Festival.
An international jury will evaluate over 100 shorts, latest international and Albanian productions, that in the last night will announce the winners’ awards and prizes in a gala ceremony broadcast live in TV.
Albania is a solar, enthusiastic and friendly country and besides the “strong competition” TIFF aims at the same time to be a meeting point of cultures, where people of Tirana, the guests and all those who love the short film will have a cinema-language-communication week.
TIFF aims to create in Albania, as well as in the Balkans, a cultural center of worldwide alternative and independent cinema.

"Think Different, See Alike" is the slogan and motto of TIFF.

Awards & Prizes - Over 20,000 Euro in cash and prizes is awarded to winners. Awards will be offered in each category as well as Best Film of TIFF '04, Best Albanian Short, Public and Media Award with additional awards to be announced in the lead up to the Festival. Every prize is accompanied with the Festival cup, an art piece in bronze, by an Albanian well-known artist.
Accommodation -TIFF offers full board accommodation to the director or producer representing the selected film during seven days of the Festival. Other guests will be provided with facilities for accommodation and tariffs.

Entry Rules
and
Regulations

Categories

Entries are invited in competition all formats of films, video and digital in the following categories of short film:
Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Experimental.
 

Conditions

• Films in competition must have been completed after January 2003.

• Films must not exceed 30 minutes in length ( including credits).

• Signed Entry Form should be accompanied by an English language dialogue list.

• Entries must be submitted on VHS preview tape (Pal preferred) or DVD for pre-selection.

• All non English language films must have English subtitles.

• To qualify for selection, all non English language films must have an English language print/tape available.

• Films must be available for festival screening on 35mm, Betacam SP(Pal only) or DVD.

• A separate Entry Form must be submitted for each film.

• Illegible or incomplete Entry Forms will not be accepted.

• There is no entry fee.

• Entries must be submitted by October 10, 2006.

Notification / Shipping

Participants will be notified via email and in our website of the selection results approximately six weeks before the Festival.

Shipping instructions for films selected for the Festival will be included.

The Festival will pay for one-way shipping of all prints/tapes by forwarding them to their next destination within 2 weeks of the conclusion of the Festival.

Selected prints/tapes must arrive at the Festival by November 23, 2006 or, by prior arrangement, prints may be delivered by hand by the filmmaker.

Label the outside of the package:
FOR FESTIVAL ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE.

DO NOT courier tapes to Albania via EMS or other couriers, as you
may be liable for customs' duties which the Festival will not pay and your tape will be returned.

Preview tapes/discs will not be returned.

Insurance

All prints will be insured for the period that they are in the Festival's possession.

In the case of loss or damage during this period, the Festival is only responsible for the replacement value of the print. Only prints in perfect condition for projection will be accepted under these conditions.

Promotion

The entrant agrees that up to 3 minutes of their film may be used by the TIFF '04 in promotional activities.

Up to 3 minutes of the film may be shown on the TIFF website (without the possibility of downloading).

The entrant also agrees that up to 3 minutes of the film may be screened  on  television as part of TIFF promotional activities.

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