Official selection

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Monday, 02 December 2024

Official selection

FEATURE COMPETITION

1. 80 MILLION / Waldemar Krzystek / Poland / 105’

2. BUSINESS AS USUAL / Valentyn Vasyanovych / Ukraine / 88’

3. MY DESTINY / Peter Marcias / Italy / 80’

4. PARADISE / Panagiotis Fafoutis / Greece/ 105’

5. SIBERIA. MONAMOUR / Slava Ross / Russia / Fiction / 105’

6. SMALL CREATURES / Martin Wallace / UK / 91’

7. THE PARADE / Srdjan Dragojevic / Serbia / 115’

8. VENDETTA / Miroslav Ondrus / Czech Republic / 93’

SHORT FICTION

1. 27 / Nicolas Daenens / Belgium / 12’
2. 72 / Jorge Mochel Grau / Mexico / 14’
3. ACTUS / Kika Nicolela / Brazil / 17’
4. ALL OF THAT / Branislav Milatovic / Montenegro / 27’
5. BLU / Nicolae Constantin Tanase / Romania / 20’
6. DOG LEASH / Eti Tsicko / Israel / 26’
7. DOORS, DOORS, DOORS / Kreshnik Saraçi / Albania / 24’
8. DYLAN'S ROOM / Layke Anderson / UK / 20’
9. GHOST IN THE MACHINE / Oliver Krimpas / UK / 18’
10. GREEN GOLD / Pierluigi Ferrandini / Italy / 18’
11. IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT / Alexander Rönnberg / Sweden / 19’
12. KIDNAPPED / Sarah Winkenstette / Germany / 20’
13. KOLONA / Ujkan Hysaj / Kosova / 22’
14. LAST DAY OF THE YEAR / Ying-ting Tseng / Taiwan / 29’
15. MIRUNA / Piotr Sulkowski / Poland / 20’
16. MOSSADEGH / Roozbeh Dadvand / USA / 24’
17. ORLANDINA ÜBER ALLES / Mikhail Chernyak / Russia / 14’
18. OUT OF THE WOODS / Bledar Bujupi / UK / 10’
19. PERSPIRE / Carmen Martínez / Mexico / 19’
20. PROLOGUE / Lucas Figueroa / Spain / 8’
21. RIVERS RETURN / Joe Vanhoutteghem / Belgium / 11’
22. SILENT RIVER / Anca Miruna Lăzărescu / Germany & Romania / 30’
23. START THE ENGINE AND REVERSE / Andrey Zagidullin / Russia / 4’
24. SWEET MOSQUITO / Audrey Najar & Frédéric Perrot / France / 15’
25. TENNIS / Vladimir Dembinski / Romania / 15’
26. THAT WASN’T ME / Esteban Crespo / Spain / 24’
27. THE GUARD / Marta Popivoda / Serbia / 26’
28. THE MAN IN THE HABIT OF HITTING ME ON THE HEAD WITH AN UMBRELLA / Vardan Tozija / Macedonia / 15’
29. THE WEDDING / Marina Seresesky / Spain / 12’
30. THERE SHE GOES / Reg Noyes / UK / 19’32’’
31. TOUCH ME / Roy Pascal / France / 28’
32. VANUATU OR THE HAPPINESS / Rafa Piqueras / Spain / 19’
33. VOICE OVER / Martin Rosete / Spain / 9’
34. WHERE THERE'S SMOKE / Andrew Brand / UK / 15’
35. WHITE BLOOD / Khayyam Abdullayev, Elmaddin Aliyev / Azerbaijan / 14’

SHORT EXPERIMENTAL

ALL INCLUSIVE / Beate Hecher & Markus Keim / Austria / 8’
CATCHING IDEAS / Marco Balducci / Italy / 10'
CONNECTION / Maciej Twardowski / Poland / 4’
DEUS ET MACHINA / Koldo Almandoz / Spain / 8’
HOW I LOST MY WINGS / Ivan Tasic / Serbia / 22’
KINO / Natalia Warth / Brazil / 13’
LYREBIRD SOUP / Naren Wilks / UK / 6’
THE BATH / João Vieira Torres / France / 5’

SHORT DOCUMENTARY

1. A STORY FOR THE MODLINS / Sergio Oksman / Spain / 26’
2. ANOTHER NIGHT ON EARTH / David Munoz / Spain / 28’
3. BLESSED SIMULACRUM / Eduardo Montero & Óscar Clemente / Spain / 22’
4. FIFTY PEOPLE ONE QUESTION / Kamil Krolak / Ireland / 11’
5. LIVES / Santeri Mäkinen / Finland / 18’
6. THE TYPOGRAPHIC CITY / Aitor Gametxo & Igone Arreitunandia / Spain / 26’

SHORT ANIMATION

1. IKI - SEE YOU SOON / Florian Maubach / Germany / 2’

2. LINEAR / Amir Admoni / Brazil / 6’

3. OH WILLY / Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels / Belgium / 16’

4. THE SPRING / Jerome Boulbes / France / 16’

ALBANIAN SHORT

1. ACROPOLIS / Blerdi Malushi / Kosova / Fiction / 13’
2. ANDI HOXHA’S WORK / Ermal Beci / Albania / Fiction / 10’
3. BOOK / Elton Baxhaku / Albania / Documentary / 8’
4. BORES / Franc Priska / Albania / Fiction / 12’
5. CRADLE SONG / Nimetulla Parllaku / Belgium / Experimental / 8’
6. DATE OF STARS / Hareza Basha / Kosova / Documentary / 30’
7. DREAMING AMERICAN / Lee Percy / USA / Fiction / 25’
8. DAY STORY / Françesk Dushi / Albania / Fiction / 5’
9. DREAM IN CANVAS / Dritan Mesareja / Albania / Documentary / 12’
10. DREAMS AND REALITY / Vlash Droboniku / USA / Documentary / 6’
11. DUSK / Gerdi Petanaj / Italy / Experimental / 3’
12. KAÇANIK GIRL / Visar Krusha / Kosova / Documentary / 22
13. KOLEVICA / Besian Kozma / Albania / Documentary / 24’
14. NEIGHBOUR'S CHICKEN / E. Katsoni, G. Bica, N. Veliu / Albania / Documentary / 15’
15. PUNCH IN THE CHEST / Ergys Meta / Albania / Fiction / 16’
16. SATURDAY CIGARETTES / Aldi Karaj / Albania / Fiction / 12’
17. SEA / Suela Bako / Albania / Fiction / 10’
18. SISTRESS / Birol Urcan / Kosova / Fiction / 21’
19. TEDESCHINI DYNASTY / Anila Varfi / Albania / Documentary / 28’
20. THE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS / Tan Kazazi / Albania / Documentary / 9'
21. THE PROCESS / Gentian Kurti / Albania / Experimental / 15’
22. THREE BLIND BIRDS / Albana Kozeli / Albania / Fiction / 21’11’’
23. VOICES / Ejona Abasi / Albania / Fiction / 13’
24. WIND OCEAN / Kristina Culaj / Albania / Fiction / 6’

Festival Events

SCANDINAVIAN SHORT PANORAMA
SHORTS ATTACK - BY INTERFILM BERLIN
APULIAN CINEMA DAYS
ISTITUTO LUCE, with the best directors of short film
"KOSOVA FILM" the retrospective of best feature films from Kosova
"TIME OF GYPSIES" - feature & documentary films from balkan filmmakers
"ACADEMY OF ARTS" film school works from: denmark, israel, kosova and finland
SUPINFOCOM - jury's special mention for the animation, tiff 2003
"REFLECTING ALBANIA" documentary films made in albania by the different foreign filmmakers