Special Programme TIFF 2005

Festival Guests

Tickets
Directors : Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach

"The Powder Keg"
(Cabaret Balkan)
Director : Goran Paskaljevic

Midwinter Night's Dream
Director : Goran Paskaljevic, 95 minutes

Fetishes
Director : Nick Broomfield

Kurt & Courtney
Director : Nick Broomfield

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Poetic Cinema

World premiere
Reading Kavafis
Director : Carl Henrik Svenstedt

Children of the plains
Director : Carl Henrik Svenstedt

Sniper
Director : Carl Henrik Svenstedt

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Shorts Attack

The best selected films from interfilm Berlin – International Short Film Festival and Distribution

Tempo
Per Carleson Sweden, 2002 35mm 04:00min Short Fiction Without Dialogue [ Lifestyle-Breakfast-Film ]
Dance the breakfast - And: what are we doing with our lives? What are we giving to our children? What is it that's bringing us to the edge? And most important of all: what time is it?

Kolac
Daniel Šuljic Croatia, 1998 35mm 08:00min Children Film / Animation Without Dialogue [ Societal Grotesque ]
The party guests surround the table. Dividing the cake into pieces of exactly the same size - so as not to offend any of the guests - can be quite difficult...

Grijs
Christophe van Rompaey Belgium, 1996 35mm 12:00min Short Fiction Without Dialogue [ Psycho-Thriller ]
In a futuristic metropolis, the citizens work diligently. What happens when a man realizes one day that he has a double? He pursues him and communicates.

Dernière invention
Lolo Zazar France, 1998 35mm 08:00min Real-Animation Without Dialogue [ Mystical Revolutionary Slap-stick ]
While reading the newspaper, a man is suddenly attacked by his T.V ! He escapes to the kitchen, only to be confronted by various aggressive household appliances and soon the entire apartment joins the revolt against its tenant.

Zur Zeit verstorben
Thomas Wendrich Germany, 2004 35mm 17:00min Short Fiction OV ger. [ Seniority-Film ]
After some troubles with his family the old man goes to meet some of his old friends. They're sitting and talking. The old man wants to be clever while buying some ice cream, but he ´ll start a long journey ... .

Nosfératu Tango
Zoltán Horváth Switzerland, 2002 35mm 13:00min Animation Without Dialogue [ Vamp Film ]
The tragicomic story of a mosquito who falls in love with Nosferatu, Prince of the vampires.

Tango del aire
Chris Roth Germany, 2003 35mm 13:30min Short Fiction Without Dialogue [ Urban worker ´s poetry ]
A poetic music film about the appeal between an old sweeper, an old accord eon player and the wind in a subway station. The more the wind blows the more the sweeper is driven to despair because the wind whirls up the trash - but who’s playing the wind?

Tagebuch
Vuk Jevremovic Germany, 2000 35mm 10:30min Animation Without Dialogue [ Reflections of an Urban Day ]
A normal day in the live of the contemporary anti-hero in a metropolis.

Business as usual
Tom Zenker Germany, 2003 35mm 04:38min Short Fiction Without Dialogue [ Confrontation Film ]
Downtown Area. Clerks, businesspeople and a bum grubbing in the garbage. Two elder businessmen meet in an unconventional way, and they begin a fight. People passing by don ´t notice. - Business as usual!

Kvinnokraft
Per Carleson Sweden, 2004 35mm 04:00min Short Fiction Without Dialogue
[ Road movie ]
Bringing a bike from A to B should be easy, but a small transportation problem can get bigger, fast. A short film that proves that a little cunning can help, especially if you are a woman of a certain age...

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Retrospective of Fatmir Koci

1. Nje i trete
, short fiction 1988 17 min, 35 mm black & white

2. Lumi qe nuk shteron
short fiction 1989 43 min 35 mm black & white

3. Tirana year zero
2001 90 MIN 35 MM COLOR

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Retrospective of Danish Film School graduation films

During the third edition of TIFF is going to be a retrospective of National Film School of Denmark the winner of 3 of last 4 “Baby Oscars”. Among the movies selected for the retrospective will be the graduated movies of Lars Von Trier and Thomas Winderberg.

Rector of National Film School of Denmark Poul Nesgaard and the Leader Tina Sørensen are going to be present during the days of TIFF in introducing the retrospective movies of their school.

Fiction

Image of relief
1982 - Lars von Trier dur. 50 min.

10:32 A Lovestory
1991 - Anette K. Olesen dur. 28 min.

Last Round
1993 - Thomas Vinterberg dur. 35 min.

Never
1997 - Reza Parza dur. 36 min

Little Man
1999 - Peter Schønau Fog dur. 40 min.

Anxiety
2001 - Christoffer Boe dur. 30 min

Woyzecks Last Symphony
2001 - Nicolai Arcel dur. 30 min

The Fighter
2003 - Daniel Espinosa dur. 37 min

The Departure
2005 - Louise Freidberg dur. 30 min.

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Documentary:

Margarita
2003 - Lise Birk Pedersen dur. 30 min

Girl with Telephone
2005 - Anja Kvistgaard dur. 28 min

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Animation:

Little big Dog
1998 -Bo Hagen Clausen dur. 7 min

Araki
2002 - Anders Morgenthaler 8 min

The Shadow in Sara
2004 -Karla Nielsen dur. 7 min

Bernie & Bingo
2004 - Sabine Ravn dur. 7 min.

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APULIAN CINEMA DAYS

6th – 10th December

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Full-length film

by Edoardo WINSPEARE
The miracle (Il miracolo)
Life blood (Sangue vivo)
Pizzicata (id.)

by Alessandro PIVA
My brother in law (Mio cognato)
Lacapagira (id.)

by Sergio RUBINI
All the love there is (Tutto l’amore che c’è)
The station (La stazione);

by Pasquale POZZESSERE
Toward the south (Verso sud )

by Davide Marengo
Cray (id.)

Short films

The fabulous destiny of Candy (Il favoloso destino di Candy)
by Maurizio Buttazzo

The jester’s return (Il ritorno dei giullari )
by Gianluca Camerino

Bbobbolone! (id.)
by Daniele Cascella

Ficarigna (id.)
by Sophie Chiarello

Filmtest (Il provino)
by Andrea Costantino

Jetoj – Vivo (id.)
by Ervis Eshja and Mattia Soranzo

The scarecrow (Lo spaventapasseri)
by Cesare Fragnelli

Zinanà (id.)
by Pippo Mezzapesa

The magnificent seven (Il magnifico sette)
by Paolo Pisanelli

The liturgy of fruit and vegetable stall (Liturgia della bancarella)
by Simone Salvemini

Uè paisà.Act I - Franchein (id.)
by Gianni Torres

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master classes and lessons

During the days of Tirana International Film Festival for the Albanian filmmakers and the audience are going to take part many master classes and lessons from the above mentioned guest as Goran Paskaljevic, Carl Henrik Svenstedt, David D, arcy, experts from the Danish Film School, ect.

December 2005