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ALEXANDRE ROCKWELL
The
early 1990's new wave of American cinema set in motion the
highly successful careers of Quentin Tarantino, Rick
Linklater and Robert Rodriguez among others. Yet it
was Alexandre Rockwell's offbeat comic take on moviemaking,
'In the Soup', that won the coveted Grand Jury Prize
at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival. The Tirana Film
Festival will screen a print of this unjustly forgotten gem on
its closing night.
The
5th edition of TIIF is very pleased to welcome in-person
director Alexandre Rockwell as well as 'In the Soup's
original cinematographer, Phil Parmet (he recently shot
Tarantino's segment of 'Grindhouse').
The
black and white 'In the Soup' features singular performances
from Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), Jennifer Beals (Flashdance),
Cassavetes favorite actor Seymour Cassel and director
Jim Jarmusch. Apart from screening this lost treasure,
TIFF will also show a print of Rockwell's 1994 'In the Soup'
follow-up, 'Someone to Love' with Harvey Keitel
and Anthony Quinn
GIANNI AMELIO
The famous Italian director
Gianni Amelio is very known for the Albanian audience for
his very con traversal film “ America, America”. For the
Albanian public he will introduce for the first time his much
talked film and a panel of the Albanian intellectuals will be
invited for a debate at the theater after the screening.
One of his masterpieces “ Porte
aperte” and “ Chiavi di casa” will be screened
during the days of TIFF.
MIGUEL HERMOSO
In cooperation with the
Embassy of Spain in Tirana at TIFF07 will be present the
well known Spanish director Miguel Hermoso. With his film
“La Luz Prodigiosa
(Marvellous Light)”
examines what might have happened if famed Spanish writer
Frederico Garsia Lorca had not been executed at the
beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
DUSAN MAKAVEJEV
The 5th edition of the Tirana
International Film Festival is very pleased to honor master
filmmaker Dusan Makavejev. The director will appear in-person to
introduce prints of his highly controversial 'WR: Mysteries
of the Organism' (1971) as well as the 1981 cult classic
'Montenegro'.
'WR', a dazzling half-documentary mediation on Stalin and sexual
liberation was banned everywhere from the director's native
Yugoslavia to the Venice Film Festival. Yet in the three
decades since its first release, 'WR: Mysteries of the Organism'
has come to be regarded as a masterpiece appearing on no less
than a dozen top ten lists as one of the greatest films of all
time.
The rarely-screened 'Montenegro' tells the story of a bored
housewife whose life is forever changed by a group of Yugoslav
immigrants. Over the years, 'Montenegro' has grown in reputation
as one of the finest moments in Makavejev's forty-year career
and features an astonishing performance by the American actress
Susan Anspach.
This is Dusan Makavejev's first visit to Albania.The staff and
programmers of the fest hope audiences will discover the
brilliantly original work of this living master of
ANGELIKI ANTONIOU
The Greek director
Angeliki Antoniou is going to be
present for the Albanian audience with her many award winning
film “Eduart”. Based upon true events Eduart, a young man
raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves
Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a
better life. His reckless character and the passions of his
youth lead him to commit a murder in Athens. Chased by everyone,
even by his own self, he is imprisoned under the harshest
conditions. Eduart, with the help of a German doctor, learns to
feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime. His deep
remorse will lead him from darkness to light. Like the
Dostoevskian hero Raskolnikov, Eduart passes from crime to
punishment, by daring to admit his guilt. In international
criminal history, the "Eduart case" occurs once in a hundred
years.
- Selected by the European Film Academy for
the 2007 European Film Awards
- Greece's submission for an Oscar Nomination
for Best Foreign Film 2008
- 47th Thessaloniki International Film
Festival, State Awards, 2006:
- Best Feature Film
- Best Director (Angeliki Antoniou)
- Best Screenplay (Angeliki Antoniou)
- Best Set Design (Ioulia Stavridou)
- Best Music (Kostas Christides and Minos
Matsas)
- Best Sound (Nikos Papadimitriou)
- Best Editing (Takis Yannopoulos)
- Best Costumes (Ioulia Stavridou)
- Best Make-up (Fani Alexaki)
- 47th Thessaloniki International Film
Festival, 2006:
- FIPRESCI Award (Federation of
International Film Critics)
- The Greek Union of Film Television and
Audiovisual Technicians (ETEKT) Award
- 29th Montpellier International
Mediterranean Film Festival, 2007:
- Golden Antigone (Antigone d'or de la
Ville et de l'Agglomération de Montpellier)
- Special mention by the Young People's
Award (CMCAS)
- Moscow International Film Festival, 2007
(Main Competition)
- World Film Festival of Montreal, 2007
- International Film Festival, Copenhagen,
2007
highest prize the GOLDEN ANTIGONE in
International Montpellier Film Festival
SAM GREEN
The
5th
edition of Tirana International Film Festival is honoured to
have as a part of the International jury, the OSCAR nominee
American documentary director Sam Green.
Sam Green’s documentary films have been
featured in a number of festivals, among them Sundance, the
London Film Festival, and the Amsterdam International
Documentary Festival. Green’s recent documentary The
Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Feature Documentary and was included in the 2004
Whitney Biennial. His work has also received Best Documentary
at the San Francisco International Film Festival and
the Critic's Choice Award at the Locarno Film Festival,
among other honours. He currently teaches at the University
of San Francisco.
MARY JORDAN
The American
award winning director in Tribeca Film Festival 2007 for
her documentary ” Jack Smiths” and the destruction of
Atlantis” Mary Jordan will be present for the Albanian
Audience during the days of the festival in Tirana. Highly
intelligent and well researched, this film by Mary Jordan is
the definitive film on Jack Smith. The editing of Jack's art and
the art of the film is so well integrated that you not only see
the many mediums of Smith but you get a psychological
examination of one of the most unknown influences of the 20th
century. The 93 minute movie rarely slows down as we see a young
mind overflowing with angst and creativity, followed by his
influencing of Warhol and later greats like Perry
Ferrell and Richard James. Ithe critics found this
in the same special club of great movies like "Crumb" and
"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse." A
definite must-see for those unaware of Jack Smith's world or
well versed in his art.
Since she is from the Albanian origin from both
her parents her wish is to introduce her film for the Albanian
public.
PHIL PARMET
The
5th edition of the Tirana International Film Festival
is very pleased have as a guest in-person Phill Parmet as a
director of photography in many masterpieces including the last
collaboration Tarantino- Rodrigues in ” Grindhouse”,
in Steve Buschemi ” Animal Factory”,” Four
Rooms”, and many more.
This is Phill Parnet first visit to Albania and will introduce
for the audience one of his best works of his carrier such as ”
Animal factory”.
This is an good opportunity for the Albanian
filmmaker to have among them one of the most well respected d.p.
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FACTS AND FIGURES OF
4th
EDITION - 2006
Over 800 films from 67 different countries all
over the world have applied at the fourth edition of TIFF'06,
412 authors applied
in the category of fiction, 194 in animation, 87 in
documentary and 68 in experimental Program of the 4th edition:
144 films, 8 full length.
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