TIRANA, September 26 /ATA/ Monday’s afternoon at the “Tirana International Film Festival” started with a film of the PerspecTIFF category, “Brothers” by the Kazakh director Darkhan Tulegenov.
Then, 12 short, animated films were played at the Millennium Cinema, the winner of which will qualify for competition at the Oscars and the European Film Awards.
After the animated films that were shown on the morning of the third day of the festival, at the venues of the “Jordan Misja” Artistic High School, around 5 p.m., there started the “PARADE” category films program, on issues of the LGBTQ community. From this section of the festival, there were projected 4 short fiction films and one documentary.
The film that attracted the most attention, on the third day of TIFF, was “Winter Fireflies”, by Actor and Director Artur Gorishti. The long feature film, of 149 minutes, and produced this year, has a cast of distinguished actors such as Birçe Hasko, Luli Bitri, the director Gorishti himself, as well as Arben and Florist Bajgora. Most of the cast were present in the Millennium Cinema hall, where they thanked the collaborators and talked with the spectators.
The film tells the story of an old man who brings up events from the past to clear his conscience, apologizing to himself and the people he has hurt. For “Winter Fireflies”, this was the world premiere.
In addition to directing and acting, Artur Gorishti is also the screenwriter of the film, while the music was composed by Fatrin Krajka./j.p/p.s./
