Tirana International Film Festival unveils 2022 lineup

Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF), accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the European Film Academy (EFA) as a qualifying festival for short film categories, has announced the complete lineup for 2022 festival, which is scheduled to take place in Tirana (Albania) from September 24-30.

Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the major annual events taking place in Tirana each year. TIFF is the first international film festival and the only of its kind in Albania. This extraordinary cultural event created in 2003 is one of the most important cinematic event in Balkans.

Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF) is accredited by the following Awards Academies:

• Academy Awards (accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS))
• European Film Awards (accredited by the European Film Academy (EFA))
• Student Academy Awards (SAA) (accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS))

Since its inception, TIFF receives over 40,000 short and feature films from over 120 countries around the world. Out of all these applications more than 200 films can be chosen each year for the competition and the special program.

Tirana International Film Festival 2022 lineup

Official Competition

Full Length Competition

Feature

7 feature films have been selected to go on screen in the Feature (full length, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Illusion” (Poland, 2022), Directed by Marta Minorowicz
• “In Limbo” (Russia, 2021), Directed by Alexander Hant
• “Klondike” (Ukraine, 2022), Directed by Maryna Er Gorbach
• “Men of Deeds” (Romania , 2022), Directed by Paul Negoescu
• “Mikado” (Romania, 2021), Directed by Emanuel Parvu
• “Saving One Who Was Dead” (Czech Republic/Slovakia, 2021), Directed by Václav Kadrnka
• “The Legend of the Cane” (Albania, 2022 ), Directed by Xhoslin Rama

PerspecTIFF

7 feature films have been selected to go on screen in the PerspecTIFF (full length, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “After the Winter” (Montenegro, 2021), Directed by Ivan Bakrac
• “Blue Moon” (Romania, 2021), Directed by Alina Grigore
• “Brothers” (Kazakhstan, 2022 ), Directed by Darkhan Tulegenov
• “Geranium” (Turkey, 2021), Directed by Çağil Bocut
• “Our Father, The Devil” (USA, 2021), Directed by Ellie Foumbi
• “The Den” (Italy, 2021), Directed by Beatrice Baldacci
• “Toubab” (Germany, 2021), Directed by Florian Dietrich

Documentary

6 feature documentaries have been selected to go on screen in the Documentary (full length, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Night of Knowing Nothing” (France/India, 2021), Directed by Payal Kapadia
• “Factory to the Workers” (Croatia, 2021), Directed by Srđan Kovačević
• “Infinity According to Florian” (Ukraine/USA, 2022), Directed by Oleksiy Radynski
• “The Balcony Movie” (Poland, 2021), Directed by Pawel Lozinski
• “The Eclipse” (Norway, 2022), Directed Natasa Urban
• “Where Are We Headed” (Russia, 2021), Directed by Ruslan Fetodow

Made In ALBANIAn

4 features and documentaries have been selected to go on screen in the Made In ALBANIAn (full length, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Life With You” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Erion Kame
• “Purgatory ’90” (Kosovo, 2022), Directed by Ismet Sijarina
• “Sons of Cain” (France/Albania/Italy, 2021), Directed by Keti Stamo
• “Winter Fireflies” (Albania/Kosovo, 2022 ), Directed by Artur Gorishti

SHORT Films Competition

LIVE ACTION (Academy Award® & European Film Awards qualifying)

12 live action short films have been selected to go on screen in the LIVE ACTION (short films, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Atonement” (Sweden, 2022), Directed by Kaveh Akaber
• “Hold Up” (USA, 2021 ), Directed by Alex Rollins Berg
• “Incognito” (India, 2022 ), Directed by Ravi Muppa
• “Lucienne in a World Without Solitude” (France, 2021), Directed by Geordy Couturiau
• “Reykjavík” (Mexico, 2021), Directed by Irving Uribe Nares
• “The Gold Teeth” (Canada, 2022 ), Directed by Alireza Kazemipour
• “The Red Suitcase” (Luxembourg, 2022), Directed by Cyrus Neshvad
• “The Silent Whistle” (China, 2022), Directed by Yingtong Li
• “The Trunk” (France, 2021), Directed by Morgan Guering
• “Tria” (Italy, 2022), Directed by Giulia Grandinetti
• “Unjustified” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Mohammad R. Khavari
• “Wake” (Puerto Rico/Canada, 2022), Directed by Luis Gerard

ANIMATION (Academy Award® & European Film Awards qualifying)

12 animated short films have been selected to go on screen in the ANIMATION (short films, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Most Exquisite Man” (Estonia, 2021), Directed by Jonas Taul
• “Elena” (Lithuania/France/Croatia, 2021), Directed by Birutė Sodeikaitė
• “Garrano” (Portugal/Lithuania, 2022), Directed by Vasco Sá, David Doutel
• “Ice Merchants” (Portugal/France/UK, 2022 ), Directed by João Gonzalez
• “In his Mercy” (Germany, 2022 ), Directed by Christoph Büttner
• “Loop” (Spain/Argentina, 2021), Directed by Pablo Polledri
• “Rest in Piece” (Germany/France/Qatar, 2021), Directed by Antoine Antabi
• “Scale” (France/UK/Belgium/Czech Republic, 2022), Directed by Joseph Pierce
• “Slow Light” (Poland/Portugal, 2022), Directed by Katarzyna Kijek, Przemysław Adamski
• “The Record” (Switzerland, 2022), Directed by Jonathan Laskar
• “Us” (Portugal, 2021), Directed by Nelson Fernandes
• “Wet” (France, 2021), Directed by M. Bergeonneau, L. Montpert, M. Mandon, C. Peyrebrune, E. Taussac

DOCUMENTARY (European Film Awards qualifying)

11 documentary short films have been selected to go on screen in the DOCUMENTARY (short films, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Adjusting” (Serbia, 2021), Directed by Dejan Petrović
• “Blue Dots” (Italy, 2022), Directed by Lorenzo Squarcia
• “Foam Horse” (Spain, 2022), Directed by Juanjo Rueda
• “Handbook” (Germany/Belarus, 2021), Directed by Pavel Mozhar
• “In Flow of Words” (Netherlands, 2021), Directed by Eliane Esther Bots
• “In Plain View” (Mexico/Thailand, 2021), Directed by Luis Palomino
• “Nicolae” (France, 2022), Directed by Mihai Grecu
• “Our Ark” (Netherlands/USA/Turkey, 2021), Directed by Deniz Tortum, Kathryn Hamilton
• “The Sower of Stars” (Spain, 2021), Directed by Lois Patiño
• “Under the Lake” (Greece/Finland, 2022), Directed by Thanasis Trouboukis
• “Will You Look at Me” (China, 2022), Directed by Shuli Huang

VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL (European Film Awards qualifying)

9 video art and experimental short films have been selected to go on screen in the VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL (short films, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Abyss” (Denmark, 2022), Directed by Jeppe Lange
• “Amo” (France, 2022), Directed by Emmanuel Gras
• “At the Movie Theater!” (France, 2021), Directed by Johanna Vaude
• “Basin of Attraction” (France/Italy, 2021), Directed by Jonathan Pêpe
• “Continuity of Parks” (Russia, 2022), Directed by Zhenia Kazankina
• “Happy Life” (Canada, 2021), Directed by Amélie Hardy
• “Happy New Year, Jim” (Greece, 2022), Directed by Andrea Gatopoulos
• “Incipience” (Russia, 2021), Directed by Yaroslav Bulavin
• “Soliloquium” (Poland, 2022), Directed by Karolina Monwid-Olechnowicz

STUDENT (Academy Award® qualifying)

8 student fiction short films have been selected to go on screen in the Fiction (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

Fiction

• “A Dead Marriage” (Poland, 2021), Directed by Michał Toczek
• “Falling Up” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Maryam Bakhtiari
• “Fatjona” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Steve Bache
• “Island of Freedom” (Czech Republic, 2022), Directed by Petr Januschka
• “Limbo” (Singapore, 2021), Directed by Ashraf Arshad
• “Na Lei” (China, 2021), Directed by Qin Junjie, Li Yue
• “Night Visit” (Israel, 2021), Directed by Mya Kaplan
• “The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Eugen Merher

Animation

14 student animated short films have been selected to go on screen in the Animation (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Place in Blue” (South Korea, 2021), Directed by Yi Seung-eon
• “Blessing in Disguise” (Germany, 2021), Directed by Kevin Koch, Emma Holzapfel
• “Butterfly Jam” (Taiwan, 2021), Directed by Huang Shih-Yen
• “Girl in the Water” (Taiwan, 2021), Directed by Huang Shi-Rou
• “Headprickles” (Poland, 2022), Directed by Katarzyna Miechowicz
• “Louise” (France, 2021), Directed by C. Bertoux, C. Bozec, P. Guitton, P. Mauviere, M. Monaghan
• “Orogenesis” (France, 2021), Directed by A. Vendrely, D. Barthas, L. Delacroix, E. Gaillien, P. Legargeant, R. V. Hollebeke
• “The Clearing” (UK, 2021), Directed by Daniel Hope
• “The House of Loss” (Japan/South Korea, 2022), Directed by Jeon Jinkyu
• “The Seine’s Tears” (France, 2021), Directed by Y. Belaid, E. Benard, N. Mayeur, E. Moulin, H. Pinot, L. Vicente, Ph. Singer, A. Letailleur
• “The Soloists” (France, 2021), Directed by M. Abdollahinia, F. Woldehawariat, R. Issaka, C. Jamneck, Y. Liu
• “The Uncertain Snow” (France, 2021), Directed by M. Boisrond, M. L. Coumau, G. Legendre, A. Hernaez, R. Tisseau
• “This will not be a Festival Film” (Poland, 2022), Directed by Julia Orlik
• “Yallah!” (France, 2021), Directed By N. Nassar, E. Pitula, R. de St Albin, C. Adant, A. Sassatelli, C. Behague

Documentary

7 student documentary short films have been selected to go on screen in the Documentary (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Aralkum” (Uzbekistan/Germany, 2022), Directed by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko
• “Father’s Land” (Italy, 2021), Directed by Francesco Di Gioia
• “Homesick Lungs” (Germany, 2021), Directed by Felix Klee
• “My Period is Late” (Belgium, 2021), Directed by Cai Ning
• “Nothing to See Here” (Belgium/Portugal, 2022), Directed by Nicolas Bouchez
• “Soum” (France, 2021), Directed by Alice Brygo
• “Sounds of Weariness” (Lebanon/Belgium/Portugal/Hungary, 2021), Directed by Taymour Boulos

Experimental

5 student experimental short films have been selected to go on screen in the Experimental (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Before After” (Poland, 2022), Directed by Filip Bojarski
• “Darkness Within Darkness” (UK, 2021), Directed by Chia-Yun Wu
• “Homeland” (USA, 2021), Directed by J Frisch-Wang
• “Sleepless Far from Home” (Spain/Mexico/France, 2022), Directed by Axel Cuevas de Chaunac
• “The Land of Cruciform Sun” (Czech Republic, 2021), Directed by Aleš Zůbek

BALKAN Shorts

13 student fiction short films from the Balkans have been selected to go on screen in the BALKAN Shorts (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “5pm Seaside” (Austria/Greece, 2022), Directed by Valentin Stejskal
• “A Night of Riots” (Cyprus, 2022), Directed by Andreas Sheittanis
• “Body Parts” (Serbia, 2021), Directed by Svetislav Dragomirović
• “Contactless” (Turkey, 2022), Directed by Göksel Tuzun
• “Do You See Me?” (Slovenia, 2022), Directed by Jan Cvitkovič
• “Fractal: Money Man” (Turkey, 2022), Directed by Zahid Çetinkaya
• “In the Name of the Father” (Romania, 2021), Directed by Vladimir Dembinski
• “Memoir of a Veering Storm” (Greece, 2022), Directed by Sofia Georgovassili
• “On Xerxes’ Throne” (Greece, 2022), Directed by Evi Kalogiropoulou
• “Sugar People” (North Macedonia, 2022), Directed by Suzana Dinevski
• “The Choice” (Turkey, 2022), Directed by Bahri Baykal
• “The Night” Generation (Turkey, 2021), Directed by Yasemin Demirci
• “Yama” (Greece, 2021), Directed by Andreas Vakalios

In ALBANIAN Shorts

8 student fiction, documentary, and animated short films have been selected to go on screen in the In ALBANIAN Shorts (STUDENT, official competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Clara With a Mustache” (Kosovo, 2021), Directed by Ilir Blakcori
• “Diell” (Albania/France, 2022), Directed by Nikolla Rain
• “Gravity” (Albania, 2022), Directed by Xhegi Dyrmishi
• “Happy New Year 1982” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Sokol Keraj
• “Shpija” (Kosovo, 2022), Directed by Flaka Kokolli
• “Spider’s Envy” (Albania, 2022), Directed by Genti Korini
• “The Black Pelicans” (Albania, 2022), Directed by Luli Bitri
• “Two Suns in the Sunset” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Gentian Gjikopulli

Special Program – Selected films

FOCUS

FOCUS is a special program, which is based on tribute or homage to the cinema author and/or the filmography of a given country. The 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF, is paying tribute to the prominent Finnish screenwriter and film director, Aki Kaurismäki.

RetrospecTIFF – Tribute to Aki Kaurismäki

• “Crime and Punishment” (Finland, 1983), Crime/Drama
• “Hamlet Goes Business” (Finland, 1987 ), Comedy/Drama/Romance
• “Ariel” (Finland, 1988), Comedy/Drama/Romance
• “Leningrad Cowboys Go America” (Finland/Sweden, 1989), Mockumentary/Music
• “The Match Factory Girl” (Finland/Sweden, 1990), Comedy/Crime/Drama
• “La Vie de Bohème” (Finland/France/Sweden/Germany, 1992), Comedy/Drama/Romance
• “Drifting Clouds” (Finland/Germany/France, 1996), Comedy/Drama
• “The Man Without a Past” (Finland/Germany/France, 2002), Comedy/Drama/Romance

Special Screenings

Besides the competition program TIFF reserves a large space to the special programs and screenings.

Opening Film

“Ennio” (Italy/Belgium/Japan, 2021), Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore

2022 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films | LIVE ACTION

5 short films nominated for the 2022 Academy Award® Best Live Action Short Film will be screened in this program section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Ala Kachuu – Take and Run” (Switzerland, 2020), Directed by Maria Brendle
• “On my Mind” (Denmark, 2021), Directed by Martin Strange-Hansen
• “Please Hold” (USA, 2020), Directed by K.D. Dávila
• “The Dress” (Poland, 2020), Directed by Tadeusz Łysiak
• “The Long Goodbye” (UK, 2020), Directed by Aneil Karia

2022 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films | ANIMATION

5 short films nominated for the 2022 Academy Award® Best Animated Short Film will be screened in this program section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Affairs of the Art” (UK/Canada, 2021), Directed by Joanna Quinn
• “Bestia” (Chile, 2021), Directed by Hugo Covarrubias
• “Boxballet” (Russia, 2019), Directed by Anton Dyakov
• “Robin Robin” (UK, 2021), Directed by Dan Ojari, Mikey Please
• “The Windshield Wiper” (Spain, 2021), Directed by Alberto Mielgo

European Film Awards (Shorts Tour, 2021)

14 short films from the 2021 Shorts Tour of the European Film Awards will be screened in this program section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Armadila” (Serbia, 2020), Directed by Gorana Jovanović
• “Beyond Is the Day” (Poland, 2020), Directed by Damian Kocur
• “Blue Fear” (France, 2020), Directed by Marie Jacotey, Lola Halifa-Legrand
• “Flowers Blooming in Our Throats” (Italy/Belgium, 2020), Directed by Eva Giolo
• “Hide” (Hungary/Canada, 2020), Directed by Daniel Gray
• “In Flow of Words” (Netherlands, 2021), Directed by Eliane Esther Bots
• “Memories” (Sweden, 2020), Directed by Kristin Johannessen
• “My Uncle Tudor” (Belgium/Portugal/Hungary/Moldova, 2020), Directed by Olga Lucovnicova
• “Nha Sunhu” (Portugal, 2021), Directed by José Magro
• “Precious” (France, 2020), Directed by Paul Mas
• “Push This Button If You Begin to Panic” (UK, 2020), Directed by Gabriel Böhmer
• “The Martyr” (Spain, 2020), Directed by Fernando Pomares
• “The Natural Death of A Mouse” (Germany, 2020), Directed by Katharina Huber
• “Zonder Meer” (Belgium, 2020), Directed by Meltse Van Coillie

PANORAMA Competition

PANORAMA has some thematic sections dedicated to the most sensitive social topics and problematic social groups as for children, women, immigration, integration of persons with disabilities, LGBT, etc. with those sections: DIVERGENT MINDS; GENERATIONs; NEW WORLD; PARADE.

KIDs Program -10

20 animated short films have been selected to go on screen in the “KIDs Program -10” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Book by its Cover” (UK, 2021), Directed by Leon Joosen
• “Alternate Mesozoic” (France, 2021), Directed by Swann Boby, Lucie Laudrin, Marion Métivier, Léna Miguet, Sixtine Sanrame, Marie Schaeffer
• “Bo and Trash” (Spain, 2022 ), Directed by Tatiana Skorlupkina
• “Candlelight” (UK, 2021), Directed by Scott Newton
• “Depths of Night” (Hong Kong, 2021), Directed by Step C.
• “Don´t Blow it Up” (Czech Republic, 2022), Directed by Alžbeta Mačáková Mišejková
• “Footprints in the Forest” (Malaysia, 2022), Directed by Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo
• “Friendship” (USA, 2022), Directed by Lin Tam
• “Impurrfection” (Taiwan, 2022), Directed by Yao Chiang
• “Laika & Nemo” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Jan Gadermann, Sebastian Gadow
• “Lockdown” (UK, 2021), Directed by Leon Joosen
• “Merry Big Mess” (France, 2021), Directed by Sacha Gosselin, Ambre Bohin, Timothé Ballan, Amaury Emond, Hugo Joron, Arthur Morle, Antoine Tomasi, Clémence Van Gout
• “Mom is Always Right” (Czech Republic, 2022), Directed by Marie Urbánková
• “Nounours” (Canada, 2021), Directed by Lou Rigoudy
• “Pinocchio” (France, 2021), Directed by Valentin Clauzon, Guillaume Collin, Paul Goubet, Stella Jullian, Loïc Lemoine, Théo Miramon, Aymeric Richard, Laura Salomoni
• “Run Totti Run” by Shad Lee Bradbury | USA | 2022 | 17’ | Animation
• “Stars on the Sea” (South Korea, 2021), Directed by Jang Seung-Wook
• “Suzie in the Garden” (Czech Republic, 2022), Directed by Lucie Sunková
• “The Social Chameleon” (USA, 2022), Directed by Alex Ross
• “There is Exactly Enough Time” (Austria, 2021), Directed by Oskar Salomonowitz

KIDs Program 11+

10 fiction short films have been selected to go on screen in the “KIDs Program 11+” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “A Shared Path” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Negar Naghavi
• “Bird’s Nest” (Canada, 2022 ), Directed by Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
• “Boydem” (Israel, 2022), Directed by Yael Nivron
• “Collision” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Amirhossein Mohseni
• “Garfield Seashell” (France, 2022 ), Directed by Paul Marques Duarte
• “Invincible” (Canada, 2022), Directed by Vincent René-Lortie
• “Like Falling Asleep” (Israel, 2022), Directed by Meitar Libi Flam
• “Silkworm” by (Canada, 2022), Directed Amir Honarmand
• “The Errand” (USA, 2022), Directed by Amanda Renee Knox
• “Women of Virtue” (France, 2021), Directed by Stéphanie Halfon

GENERATIONs

12 fiction and animated short films have been selected to go on screen in the “GENERATIONs” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Bear Hug” (France, 2021), Directed by Margrethe Danielsen
• “Before The Light Shut Down” (France, 2021), Directed by Wilmarc Val
• “Between Us the Wilderness” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Vincent Ercolani
• “Cherries” (Lithuania, 2022), Directed by Vytautas Katkus
• “Cocon” (Netherlands, 2021), Directed by Lisette Vlassak
• “Good Morning Midnight” (France, 2021), Directed by Elisabeth Silveiro
• “In The Soil” (Denmark, 2021), Directed by Casper Rudolf Emil Kjeldsen
• “La Grogne” (Canada, 2021), Directed by Alisi Telengut
• “Off Side” (France, 2022), Directed by Sophie Martin
• “Our Photo Memento” (Iran, 2021), Directed by Samaneh Lashgari
• “The Debutante” (UK, 2022), Directed by Elizabeth Hobbs
• “The Mighty Kingdom” (France, 2022), Directed by Julien Meynet

NEW WORLD

14 fiction, animated, and documentary short films have been selected to go on screen in the “NEW WORLD” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “39” (Spain, 2022), Directed by Martín Delfino Guevara
• “A Guitar in the Bucket” (South Korea, 2021), Directed by Kim Boyoung
• “Breakpoint” (France, 2022), Directed by Nicolas Panay
• “Caroline on the Roof” (Luxembourg, 2022), Directed by Alejandro Bordier
• “Essential” (Belgium/France, 2022 ), Directed by Thierry Debroux
• “File” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Sonia K. Hadad
• “Intercom 15” (Romania, 2021), Directed by Andrei Epure
• “Night” (Palestine, 2021), Directed by Ahmad Saleh
• “Sauerdogs” (Spain, 2022), Directed by Guillermo de Oliveira
• “The Messenger” (Iran, 2022), Directed by Arman Shirali Nejad, Mohammad Ali Khanabadi
• “The Untouchable” (Canada/Iran, 2021), Directed by Avazeh Shahnavaz
• “Timber” (China, 2022), Directed by Haolin Wang
• “Virtual Voice” (Sudan, 2021), Directed by Suzannah Mirghani
• “Yugo” (Colombia, 2021), Directed by Carlos Gómez Salamanca

DIVERGENT MINDs

7 experimental and fiction short films have been selected to go on screen in the “DIVERGENT MINDs” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “And He Said Yes!” (Luxembourg, 2022), Directed by Gintarė Parulytė
• “Chrysalis” (Iceland, 2021), Directed by Eydís Eir Björnsdóttir
• “Noria” (Spain/Andorra, 2022 ), Directed by Elisabet Terri
• “Out of Time” (France, 2021), Directed by Delphine Montaigne
• “Sillage: Portrait of an Onlooker” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Farhad Delaram
• “The Calling” (France, 2022), Directed by Joffrey Monteiro-Noël
• “Tremor” (Germany, 2022), Directed by Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard

PARADE

11 fiction and documentary short films have been selected to go on screen in the “PARADE” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Blond Night” (Canada, 2022), Directed by Gabrielle Demers
• “Boom and Bloom” (Austria, 2022), Directed by Stefan Langthaler
• “Frida” (Germany, 2021), Directed by Aleksandra Odić
• “Luw” (Netherlands, 2021), Directed by Jos van Meerveld
• “Make Me A King” (UK, 2021), Directed by Sofia Olins
• “So You Wanna Vogue Huh?!” (Belgium, 2022), Directed by Ila Pittaluga, Zelda Fitzgerald
• “Jude” (France, 2021), Directed by Pauline Quinonero
• “Stiletto: A Pink Family Tragedy” (Turkey/Germany, 2021), Directed by Can Merdan Doğan
• “Swan in the Center” (France, 2022), Directed by Iris Chassaigne
• “Vikken” (France, 2021), Directed by Dounia Sichov
• “Warsha” (Lebanon, 2021), Directed by Dania Bdeir

REFLECTING ALBANIA

REFLECTING ALBANIA is the oldest program of the festival, dedicated to the foreign filmmakers who have produced their films in Albania or in Albanian speaking territory.

5 fiction and documentary short films have been selected to go on screen in the “REFLECTING ALBANIA” (PANORAMA Competition) section of the 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF.

• “Invisible Border” (Austria, 2021), Directed by Mark Gerstorfer
• “Ka Me Kalu” (Belgium, 2021), Directed by Flonja Kodheli
• “Luma” (UK/Albania, 2022), Directed by Eleanor Mortimer, Liridon Mustafaj
• “Reconciliation” (Slovenia, 2021), Directed by Marija Zidar
• “Uta – The Climb for Kosovo” (Kosovo, 2021), Directed by Jake Tupman, Jack Somerville

StudenTIFF On FILM

1. “Aiad” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Rolanda Nika
2. “Batim” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Mauro Mace
3. “Drite e Errësuar” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Klaudia Pashnjari
4. “Pse Jo” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Tedi Arifi
5. “Ringjallja” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Rigers Shima
6. “Saze” (Albania, 2021), Directed by Eva Marku

The 2022 Tirana International Film Festival, or the 20th TIFF, presents awards in the following actegories:

• Best Feature Film – Golden Owl
• Best Director
• Best Screenplay
• Best Eye on TIFF – Silver Owl
• Best Short Film – Oscar® qualifying – Golden Owl
• Best Short Fiction
• Best Short Animation
• Best Student Film
• Best Documentary – Silver Owl
• Best Documentary Short Film
• Best Balkan Film
• Best Film in Albanian – Silver Owl
• Best Video Art & Experimental
• Best Debut Short Film “Ron Holloway” Award
• Audience Choice Award

Recipients of the Tirana International Film Festival Best Short Film will be eligible for consideration in the Animated Short Film / Live Action Short Film category of the Academy Awards® without the standard theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy Rules.

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