The Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF; ) is an Academy Awards qualifying film festival, retrieved 2023-09-25 and one of the major annual events taking place in Tirana each year. It was the first international cinema festival in Albania. This cultural event was created in 2003 and is currently the most important cinematic event in Albania.
The Festival is competitive with the International Section jury awarding several prizes each year, most notably the "Golden Owl" for Best Feature Film.
It is organised annually by the Albanian National Center of Cinematography. It features three distinct categories and combines features and short film; fiction, documentary, animation and experimental. The festival is open to any filmmaker from around the world and it also accepts student works.http://www.filmitalia.org/p.aspxt=festival&l=en&did=45511
History The festival was held for the first time in 2003. Since then it has been held annually in the cinemas of Tirana. During the 12th edition more than 5,400 applications were submitted.
In 2015, the Festival introduced DocuTIFF (Documentary Tirana International Film Festival), after large applications sent during the 12th edition of the Festival held in 2014. It was impossible to show all these production in one single festival and new festivals were created for each category such as DocuTIFF, for documentary film, AnimaTIFF, for animated productions and ExpoTIFF for experimental films.
Award winners The list of the Winners of the Golden Owl award for each year is as follows:
Year English title Original title Director(s) Country 2003 The Last Gunman The Last Gunman Alessandro Dominici 2004 Family Portrait Ellery Ngiam 2005 Before I Go Heiko Hahn 2006 The Optimists Оптимисти Goran Paskaljević 2007 Salvador Salvador Manuel Huerga 2008 Annem Sinema Ögreniyor Annem Sinema Ögreniyor Nesimi Yetik 2009 Woman without a piano La mujer sin Piano Javier Rebollo 2010 Woman in temptation Ženy v pokušení Jiří Vejdělek 2011 Punk's not dead Punk's not dead Vladimir Blazevski 2012 Siberia, Monamour Sibir. Monamur Slava Ross 2013 Seven Lucky Gods Seven Lucky Gods Jamil Dehlavi 2014 Termitaria Nuwebe Joseph Israel Laban 2015 Babai Babai Visar Morina 2016 Hear the Silence Höre die Stille Ed Ehrenberg 2017 Glory Слава Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov 2018 Irina Ирина Nadejda Koseva
See also International Film Summerfest of Durrës
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