Official selection

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Sunday, 06 October 2024

Official selection

SHORT EXPERIMENTAL

1. Homage/ErmelaTeli/ 13’20’/Albania
2. Stretching/ Francois Vogel/ 4’30’’/France
3. Kaizer/ DritanMesareja/ 3’36’’/Albania
4. Family Portrait/ MinnaKorhonen/ 3’37’’/Finland
5. Wardisease/ Marie Magescas/ 8’26’’/France
6. Against cinema/ Alberto Cabrera Bernal/ 9’/Spain
7. Exhibition 19/ AlaitzArenzana& Maria Ibarretxe/ 9’/Spain
8. It is not much what we inherited from our grandfather/ Fernando Dominguez/ 15’/Argentina
9. Reflected life/ Gentian Kurti/ 5’16’’/Albania

SHORT DOCUMENTARY

1. 24 Carat/ Stefan Capaliku/ 30’/Albania
2. Pompeian Manuscripts/ Marcos Nine Bua/ 17’/Spain
3. Be water my friend/ Antonio Martino/ 14’20’’/Italy
4. Before war/ Jared Katsiane/ 6’/USA
5. Doza/ ErionKovaci/17’/Greece
6. Basement guerilla/ Monica Lazurean-Gorgan/ 16’/Romania
7. Porte a porte/ Delphine Duquesne/ 23’/Belgium
8. Everything's maybe/ AsierUrbieta/ 19’/Spain
9. Weavers/ Federica Romeo/ 26’/Spain
10. Walls/Hayoun Kwon/ 18’/France
11. Formol/ Noelia Rodriguez Deza/ 15’/Spain
12. Mushrooms of Concrete/MartijnPayens/ 24’/Belgium
13. Under Construction/Zhenchen Liu/ 10’/France

SHORT ANIMATION

1. Employee of the month/ Clement Cornu/12’40’’/France
2. Venus de Rabo/ Francois Bertin/9’42’’/France
3. You're out/ Max Liebich/6’/Austria
4. Brother Benoit/ Michel Dufourd/ 8’/ Schweiz
5. The obese policeman/ NaimBerisha/ 2’/Kosova
6. Birthday/JariVaara/12’/Finland
7. The willow and the pumpkin/ Bertrand Shijaku/ 11’/Albania
8. Birdboy/ Pedro Riviero/ 12’/Spain

SHORT FICTION

1. Goodbye doll/ Hugo Sanz/15’/ Spain
2. Ciao barbies/ ClaireAllanic/ 17’/France
3. Sad day/ Danny Lennon / 14’30’’Canada
4. The war/ Paolo Sassanelli/ 16’/Italy
5. The game/ Adriano Giannini/16’/Italy
6. Oyan/EsmaelMonsef/ 15’/Iran
7. The tape/Jorge M. Rodrigo/19’/Spain
8. The runaway/Victor Carrey/ 10’/ Spain
9. The advantage of the hit man/Luis Moreno Berndardo/7’27’’/Spain
10. The shelter/Antoine Duquesne/12’/Belgium
11. Buskers/Andrew Ponton/11’2’’/Scotland
12. Stanka goes home/Maya Vitkova/15’/ Bulgary
13. The thing you drew/Kerri Davenport-Burton/7’40’’/UK
14. Part of me/MihaalDanziger/11’4’’/UK
15. Mozart/BekimGuri/28’/Kosovo
16. As if it were easy/Alessandro Zizzo/24’4’’/Italy
17. God’s hand/Adolf El Assal/15’/Luxembourg
18. Son of the bitch/AstritHykaj/8’5’’/Albania
19. My name next to yours/Javier Velasco/15’/Spain
20. I didn’t know who I was/Santiago Vitteri Vargas/24’/Spain
21. Hotel 66/Anthony Chen/15’/Singapore
22. My brother/BurimBaftiu/18’/Kosovo
23. Death by suffocation/VisarMorina/28’/Germany
24. Martha/Raphael Dethier/27’/Belgium
25. The way I am/Daniele Santonicola/20’/Italy
26. One: Nil/Johnatan Geva/18’/Israel
27. Vlog/Mor Kaplansky&YarivBarel/9’/Israel
28. Artalde/AsierAltuna/8’/Spain
29. The big race/Kote Camacho/7’/Spain
30. Bedfellows/Pierre Stefanos/15’20’/USA
31. The Order of Things/Cesar& Jose Esteban Alenda/19’/Spain
32. My other half/ Beatriz Sanchis/18’/Spain
33. Dolls factory/Ainhoa Menendez/11’/Spain
34. Fatum/ PabloMillan/9’/Spain
35. Tuesday morning/Cheli Sanchez/ 8’/Spain
36. Beast/ Lars P. Arendt/15’/Denmark
37. The wall/GazmendNela/20’/Kosovo
38. Light/ Andre Schreuders/14’06’’/Netherlands
39. Out of love/BirgitteStærmose/29’/Denmark
40. Mendimet e gungaces/EdvinZarka/ 9’11’’/Albania
41. DIE NORM / Giovanni Truppa / Italia

FEATURE FILMS

1. Sky and sea/ Dal- Kyun OH/105’/ South Korea
2. The loners/ RenenSchorr/92’/ Israel
3. Europolis/ Cornel Gheorghita/100’/Romania
4. Footsteps in the sand/ IvailoHristov/ 92’/ Bulgary
5. Woman in temptation/ JiříVejdělek/115’/Czech Republic
6. When the lemons turned yellow/ MohammadrezaVatandoust/ 77’/ Iran
7. Late summer/ Antonio Di Trapani&Marco De Angelis/85’/ Italy
8. 9:06/ Igor Sterk / 71’/ Slovenia
9. Donkeys of the border/JetonAhmetaj/ 97’/ Kosovo
10. Queen to play/ Caroline Bottaro/ 97’/ France& Germany
11. The War is Over/MitkoPanov/92’/Macedonia/Switzerland

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