The week of the 21st edition of the International Film Festival, TIFF, ended on Friday. In seven days, the Festival screened in three different locations the films of all the categories in the competition, but did not limit itself to the presentations of the films.
Three master classes were held by well-known personalities such as: Milcho Manchevski, Sangeeta Datta, who also brought facts about the creativity of Satyajit Ray, within RetrospecTIFF, as well as Andreas Dresen, who was awarded an honorary award by TIFF .
The TIFF awards were distributed in several categories: “Kids”, “Panorama”, “Video art and experimental Balkan and In Albanian”, “Documentaries”.
The best short film was declared “Please, hold the line” by Tan Ce Ding, which will be nominated at the 96th edition of the Oscars 2024, while the award “Best European Short Film” went to the film “La Perra” by Carla Melo Gampert, which will be nominated for the “European Film Awards 2023” in December of this year.
The biggest prize of the festival, the one for feature film, went to: “Endless borders”, by Abbas Emini, a co-production between Iran and the Czech Republic.
Tirana International Festival awarded several other awards such as: Best PerspecTIFF (film: Dreaming and dying – Nelson Yeo), best direction for Michal Kwieciński and the Polish production film, “Philip”, best screenplay for Jerzain Ortega and the Mexican film: “Telephone”.

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