SELECTED EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS TIFF 2013

1. 7 dreams by Alex Capaioiu / Experimental / Hungary & Romania / 2012 / 10'

2. Morris by Louis Hudson / Experimental / USA / 2012 / 11'

3. System error by Guli Silberstein / Experimental / UK / 2013 / 4'

4. Tamburine Buttocks by Carlo Sampietro / Experimental / Brasil / 2012 / 2'

5. The trace of salt by Albert Merino / Experimental / Spain / 2011 / 7'

6. Those who tried to put the rainbow back in the sky by Driant Zeneli / Experimental / Albania / 2012 / 7’

7. Tongue Twister Variations by Dan Boord & Luis Valdovino / Experimental / USA / 2013 / 8'

8. Unpaired by Irena Ristic / Experimental / Serbia / 2012 / 17'

WORKSHOP / SEMINAR / ROUND TABLE

11^th Edition of TIFF 2013

Workshops and seminars will continue to be an integral part of this edition:

- MAKING MOVIES seminar held by Katriel Schory, President of Israel Film Fund

- COLLABORATION BETWEEN NEW CINEMATOGRAPHERS AND THE VALUE OF CO-PRODUCTION by Ben Gibson, director of London Film School

- FILM MARKET & DISTRIBUTION seminar by Esther Cabero, coordinator of KIMUAK

- THE FUTURE OF FILM FESTIVALS AND NEW CHALLENGIES – round table by Esther Cabero, Antonello Novellino, Víctor Manuel Muñoz García, Sergio Stagno, Arben Zharku, Elektra Venaki, Fabrizio Ferrari, Vjosa Berisha.

- THE DIACHRONIC EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL LIFE THROUGH CINEMA - Workshop based on illustrations and analysis of Kinostudio "New Albania" movies.

Directed by Ph.D. Julian BEJKO, Dept. of Sociology, University of Tirana.

SPECIAL SCREENING

- One of this festival’s entries is the premier of the first Albanian-Britannic coproduction of the essay movie “Here be Dragons” directed by Mark Cousins and produced by Dan Boyd, Genc Përmeti and Ilir Butka. The movie was featured as a world premiere at Telluride’s Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious festivals, and comes at TIFF as a national premiere. Director Mark Cousins is invited at TIFF and will also present his movie.

- Nicolas Roegh is the confirmed guest of honor of this festival. He is the author of movies “Performance”, “Walkabout”, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and more. Roegh is recognized as the author of some of most discussed movies of his time and a rare master of the living, active and true cinematography. For this festival’s audience he will present “Performance”, 1970 featuring Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones.

- Producer Dan Boyd will present for the public the movie “Aria”, 1987, written and directed by ten most famous directors like Jean Luc Godard, Robert Altmann, Ken Russell, Nikolas Roegh, etc. The segment “One Night at the Opera” directed by Nikolas Roegh, which investigates King Zog’s assassination attempt in Vienna, 1931.

- Also for the first time, in collaboration with the Institute for Art and Culture of Taiwan, comes the 1993 movie “The Wedding Banquet” by director Ang Lee, winner of Oscar and many other prestigious awards.

- In the context of growing section of BALKAN CINEMA, director Dimitris Koutsiabasakos will present the film "The Grocer" (O Manavis, 2012), long documentary, estimated at several film festivals.

- The famous French director Yves BOISSET comes in Tirana to rescreen after more than 40 years his famous film "The Assadination" (L'attentat, 1972), with one of the most famous cast ever appeared in Albania: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Gian Maria Volonte, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Cremer, Philippe Noiret, Francois Perier, Roy Scheider, etc, winner of the Silver Award in the Moscow International Film Festival.

- On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fellini’s death, a month after the premiere at the Venice Film Festival, we thought that it would be a unique opportunity to display on the big screen of TIFF the last biographic film by Maestro Ettore Scola for the Great Federico Fellini.

- Traditional collaboration with the ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE this year allows us a unique Sicilian flavor by director Luca Vullo, who will show us through his film language most successful international experiences.