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TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL is the first international cinema festival in Albania created in 2003.

This extraordinary event for Albania takes place under the auspices of the Albanian National Center of Cinematography.

The competition program combines short films of all formats and categories, alternated between them, in order to make it more eclectic and exciting.
Tirana International Film Festival is open to well-known artists as well as students, representatives of all schools, contemporary, independent and alternative cinema from throughout the world.

TIFF reserves an important space to the seminars and workshops, which prove necessary for the Albanian film makers and young artists.
A press conference is organized every morning in the premises of one of Tirana's most prestigious hotels where the guests will be accommodated.
An international jury will evaluate the short films, latest international and Albanian productions.

Albania is a solar, enthusiastic and friendly country and besides the “strong competition” TIFF aims at the same time to be a meeting point of cultures, where people of Tirana, the guests and all those who love the short film will have a cinema-language-communication week.
TIFF aims to create in Albania, as well as in the Balkans, a cultural center of worldwide alternative and independent cinema.

"Think Different, See Alike" is the slogan and motto of TIFF.

Awards & Prizes - will be offered in each category as well as
Best Film of TIFF (1200 Euro), Best Fiction (1000 Euro),
Best Animation (1000 Euro), Best Documentary (1000 Euro),
Best Experimental (1000 Euro),
Best Albanian Short (1000 Euro), Public Award,
Media Award with additional awards to be announced in the lead up to the Festival.
Every prize is accompanied with the Festival cup.

Accommodation -TIFF offers full board accommodation to the director or producer representing the selected film 3 days during the Festival. Other
guests will be provided with facilities for accommodation and tariffs.

Entry Rules and Regulations

Categories
Entries are invited in competition all formats of films, video and digital in the following categories of short film:
Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Experimental.
Conditions Films in competition must have been completed after September 2006.
Films must not exceed 30 minutes in length ( including credits).
Signed Entry Form should be accompanied by an English language dialogue list.
Entries must be submitted on DVD preview or VHS tape (Pal) for pre-selection.
All non English language films must have English subtitles.
To qualify for selection, all non English language films must have an English language print/tape available.

Films must be available for festival screening on 35mm, Betacam SP(Pal only) or Mini DV.

A separate Entry Form must be submitted for each film.
Illegible or incomplete Entry Forms will not be accepted.
There is no entry fee.
Entries must be submitted by September 30, 2008.

Notification / Shipping
Participants will be notified via email and in our website of the
selection results approximately four weeks before the Festival.
Shipping instructions for films selected for the Festival will be
included.

The Festival will pay for one-way shipping of all prints/tapes by
forwarding them to their next destination within 3 weeks of the
conclusion of the Festival.
Selected prints/tapes must arrive at the Festival by November 20, 2008 or, by prior arrangement, prints may be delivered by hand by the film maker.

Label the outside of the package:
FOR FESTIVAL ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL VALUE.
DO NOT courier tapes to Albania via EMS or other couriers, as you may be liable for customs' duties which the Festival will not pay and your tape will be returned.
Preview tapes/discs will not be returned.
Insurance All prints will be insured for the period that they are in the Festival's possession.
In the case of loss or damage during this period, the Festival is
only responsible for the replacement value of the print. Only
prints in perfect condition for projection will be accepted under these conditions.

Promotion
The entrant agrees that up to 3 minutes of their film may be used
by the TIFF '07 in promotional activities.
Up to 3 minutes of the film may be shown on the TIFF website
(without the possibility of downloading).
The entrant also agrees that up to 3 minutes of the film may be
screened on television as part of TIFF promotional activities.

 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.