Program 2021
Day 1, FRIDAY, September 24, 2021
10:30 PANORAMA | REFLECTING ALBANIA 1 | Millenium Cinema
Albanian Cinema Paradiso by Elton Gllava | Italy | 2019 | 16’ | Documentary
Australia My Home: An Albanian Migration by Dritan Arbana | Australia | 2021 | 83’ | Documentary
12:30 PANORAMA | REFLECTING ALBANIA 2 | Millenium Cinema
In the Name of Vjosa by Matthias Leupold, Eric Berg | Germany | 2021 | 15’ | Documentary
Vjosa, Free and Flowing by A. Carrouée, E. Landais, F. Le Cor, R. Thévenoux, G. Andriot | France | 2021 | 30’ | Documentary
University by Ekrem Xani | Kosovo | 2020 | 54’ | Documentary
14:30 PANORAMA | StudenTIFF on FILM | Millenium Cinema
Anna by Kristina Rushiti | Albania | 2020 | 13’ | Live Action
Bashkë + Jetesa by Genard Komino | Albania | 2020 | 10’ | Live Action
Deri në Mesnatë by Bojken Alimehmeti | Albania | 2020 | 8’ | Live Action
I Humburi by Ervin Xhixho | Albania | 2020 | 11’ | Live Action
Kriminel by Kristian Liguori | Albania | 2020 | 13’ | Live Action
Lapidari by Nik Roshi | Albania | 2020 | 12’ | Live Action
Më Ler të të Ha by Laura Kulla | Albania | 2020 | 9’ | Live Action
Në Lagjen Time by Jonida Koçi | Albania | 2020 | 19’ | Live Action
Ne të Dy by Armejsa Kullolli | Albania | 2020 | 10’ | Live Action
Një Natë e Vetme by Romina Ruda | Albania | 2020 | 11’ | Live Action
Sonja by Ambra Cani | Albania | 2020 | 12’ | Live Action
Tirona by Anxhela Elmazi | Albania | 2020 | 12’ | Live Action
Umbra by Dario Haruni | Albania | 2020 | 23’ | Live Action
19:00 OPENING CEREMONY | Millenium Cinema
AperiTIFF, Guest Arrival, Greeting Speeches
20:00 OPENING FILM | COMPETITION | FEATURE 1 | Millenium Cinema
Hive by Blerta Basholli | Kosovo, Switzerland, Macedonia, Albania | 2021 | 83’
Day 1, ONLINE SCREENINGS
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Online
2021 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films | LIVE ACTION
Feeling Through by Doug Roland | USA | 2019 | 19’ | Live Action
The Letter Room by Elvira Lind | USA | 2020 | 33’ | Live Action
The Present by Farah Nabulsi | Palestine | 2020 | 25’ | Live Action
Two Distant Strangers by Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe | USA | 2020 | 29’ | Live Action
White Eye by Tomer Shushan | Israel | 2019 | 20’ | Live Action
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Online
2021 OSCAR® Nominated Short Films | ANIMATION
Burrow by Madeline Sharafian | USA | 2020 | 6’ | Animation
Genius Loci by Adrien Merigeau | France | 2019 | 16’ | Animation
If Anything Happens I Love You by Michael Govier, Will Mccormack | USA | 2020 | 13’ | Animation
Opera by Erick Oh | South Korea, USA | 2020 | 9’ | Animation
Yes – People by Gísli Darri Halldórsson | Iceland | 2020 | 9’ | Animation
Day 2, Saturday, September 25, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 1 | Millenium Cinema
Fracture by Rony Tanios | France | 2020 | 10’ | Experimental | STUDENT
1970 by Tomasz Wolski | Poland | 2021 | 70’
12:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 1 | Millenium Cinema
Botox by Kaveh Mazaheri | Iran, Canada | 2020 | 97’
14:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 2 | Millenium Cinema
Identifying Features by Fernanda Valadez | Mexico | 2020 | 97’
16:30 COMPETITION | SHORT LIVE ACTION 1 | Millenium Cinema
Displaced by Samir Karahoda | Kosovo | 2021 | 15’
Leylak by Scott Aharoni, Dennis Latos | USA | 2020 | 17’
Long Distance by Or Sinai | Israel | 2020 | 20’
Chaval by Jaime Olías de Lima | Spain | 2020 | 28’
The Lamb of God by David Pinheiro Vicente | Portugal, France | 2020 | 15’
Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit into His Suit by Gabriel Herrera | Mexico | 2021 | 10’
North Pole by Marija Apcevska | North Macedonia, Serbia | 2021 | 15’
18:30 COMPETITION | IN ALBANIAN 1 | Millenium Cinema
A Child by Bekim Guri | Kosovo | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
The Professional by Atina Laço | Albania | 2021 | 15’ | Live Action
The Sweet Dealer by Jonid Jorgji | Albania | 2020 | 12’ | Live Action
Disco Funeral by Benart Laze | Albania | 2020 | 17’ | Live Action
Toni by Roman Filiev | Greece | 2021 | 16’ | Live Action
Cadillak and Blackberries by Suela Bako | Albania | 2021 | 15’ | Live Action
The Planting of Trees by Fabio Seferi | Albania | 2021 | 30′ | Live Action
20:30COMPETITION | FEATURE 2 | Millenium Cinema
18% Grey by Viktor Chouchkov Jr. | Bulgaria, Germany, North Macedonia, Serbia, Belgium | 2020 | 108’
21:00 FOCUS | UN/DOGMATIC – The Danish Cinema | MILLENIUM Open Air Cinema
Antichrist by Lars von Trier | Denmark | 2009 | 104’ | Drama
Day 2, ONLINE SCREENINGS
PANORAMA | KIDS 1 | Online
My Grandma Matilde by Miguel Anaya Borja | Mexico | 2021 | 11’ | Animation | 10-
Blackbirds by Emma Séméria | France | 2020 | 10’ | Live Action | 11+
Mila by Cinzia Angelini | USA, Canada, Italy | 2021 | 20’ | Animation | 10-
Experiment by Z. Berton, S. C. Pérez, G. Heussler, Y. Kacprzak, M. Wiriath | France | 2020 | 6’ | Animation | 10-
Little Forest by Paulina Muratore | Argentina | 2020 | 8’ | Animation | 10-
Duet by Mika Orr | Israel, USA | 2020 | 21’ | Live Action | 11+
Footsteps on the Wind by G. Leal, F. Melo, M. Sanbar | Brazil, UK, USA | 2020 | 7’ | Animation | 10-
Beyond the Line by Jinuk Choi | USA, South Korea | 2020 | 3’ | Animation | 10-
Itch by Ma’ayan Rypp | Israel | 2021 | 9’ | Live Action | 11+
PANORAMA | KIDS 2 | Online
Fly by Carlos Gómez-Mira Sagrado | Spain | 2020 | 15’ | Animation | 10-
The Right Words by Adrian Moyse Dullin | France | 2021 | 15’ | Live Action | 11+
La Tecnica by Clemente De Muro, Davide Mardegan | Italy | 2020 | 10’ | Live Action | 11+
Over the Sky by Pauline Pelsy-Johann | France | 2021 | 20’ | Live Action | 10-
Fighters by Heng-Ruei Tung | Taiwan | 2021 | 6’ | Live Action | 10-
Mishou by Milen | Germany | 2020 | 8’ | Animation | 10-
Sea Dragon by James Morgan | UK | 2021 | 16’ | Live Action | 11+
Milk by Celia Jaspers | New Zealand | 2021 | 5’ | Live Action | 10-
Day 3, Sunday, September 25, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | VIDEO ART & EXPERIMENTAL | Millenium Cinema
Blue Honda Civic by Eerola Jussi | Finland | 2020 | 11’
Chartres Bell Ringers by Hervé Bacquet | France | 2020 | 7’
Double Bind by Ruben Bellinkx | Belgium | 2020 | 11’
Inside by Yann Chapotel | France | 2020 | 6’
Let’s Get Digital by Omar Abo | Egypt | 2020 | 7’
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean by Wang Yuyan | France | 2020 | 11’
Passage by Ann Oren | Germany | 2020 | 13’
Silence by Dmitry Zakharov | Germany | 2020 | 5’
Terms of Play by Florian Tscharf | Germany | 2020 | 7’
The Old Child by Felipe Esparza | China, France | 2020 | 16’
Us Outside by Lluís Nadal | Spain | 2020 | 15’
12:30 COMPETITION | STUDENT SHORTS 1 | Millenium Cinema
The Tale of the Green Cheese by Noah Erni | Switzerland | 2020 | 5’ | Animation
Elephant in Castle by Florence Yuk Ki Lee | Hong Kong | 2021 | 5’ | Animation
The Сity of the Sun by Maria Semenova | Russia | 2021 | 30’ | Documentary
Fall of the Ibis King by Mikai Geronimo, Josh O’Caoimh | Ireland | 2021 | 10’ | Animation
Land of Glory by Borbála Nagy | Germany | 2020 | 27’ | Live Action
Waid by Lorenz Piehl | Germany | 2021 | 20’ | Live Action
14:30 COMPETITION | BALKAN SHORTS 1 | Millenium Cinema
Bella by Thelyia Petraki | Greece | 2020 | 25’ | DocuFiction
Spark by Luka Bursac | Serbia | 2021 | 18’ | Live Action
Brigitte Bardot by Çağıl Bocut | Turkey | 2021 | 14’ | Live Action
Motorway 65 by Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
Everything in its Right Place by Nikola Stojanovic | Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina | 2020 | 22’ | Live Action
Vouta by Dimitris Zahos | Greece | 2020 | 18’ | Live Action
16:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 3 | Millenium Cinema
Emetofobia by David Jahn | Germany | 2020 | 105’
18:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 2 | Millenium Cinema
Brothers – A Family Film by Valentin Merz | Switzerland, France | 2020 | 17’ | Documentary Short
A Rifle and a Bag by Cristina Haneș, Arya Rothe, Isabella Rinaldi | India, Romania, Italy, Qatar | 2020 | 89’
20:30 COMPETITION | FEATURE 3 | Millenium Cinema
A Fish Swimming Upside Down by Eliza Petkova | Germany | 2020 | 103’
21:00 FOCUS | UN/DOGMATIC – The Danish Cinema | MILLENIUM Open Air Cinema
Submarino by Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | 2010 | 111’ | Drama
Day 3, ONLINE SCREENINGS
PANORAMA | GENERATIONS 1 | Online
Do.Solo.Pin by Javad Atefeh | USA | 2021 | 11’ | Live Action
Foreigner by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias | Spain | 2020 | 20’ | Live Action
Apibeurzdé by Basile Charpentier | France | 2020 | 20’ | Live Action
The Flies by Edgardo Pistone | Italy | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
You are Always 20 by Christer Wahlberg | Sweden | 2020 | 15’ | Documentary
Marko by Marko Šantić | Croatia | 2021 | 17’ | Live Action
Rehak by Pierre B | France, UK | 2020 | 8’ | Live Action
PANORAMA | GENERATIONS 2 | Online
The Silence by Henrik Henziger | Sweden | 2020 | 7’ | Live Action
Desert Dogs by Samuel Morris | Switzerland | 2020 | 20’ | Documentary
Trophy by Sandra Coppola | Canada | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
Mamma by Aslak Danbolt | Norway | 2021 | 15’ | Live Action
On My Way by Bertrand Basset | France | 2020 | 16’ | Live Action
Shower Boys by Christian Zetterberg | Sweden | 2021 | 9’ | Live Action
Return to Toyama by Atsushi Hirai | France, Japan | 2020 | 25’ | Live Action
Day 4 Monday, September 27, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | ANIMATION 1 | Millenium Cinema
Love, Dad by Diana Cam Van Nguyen | Czech Republic | 2021 | 12’
Murder in the Cathedral by Matija Pisacic, Tvrtko Raspolic | Croatia | 2020 | 16’
Pilar by Yngwie Boley, J.J. Epping, Diana van Houten | Netherlands | 2020 | 9’
Night Bus by Joe Hsieh | Taiwan | 2020 | 20’
Red Shoes by Anna Paděrová | Czech Republic | 2021 | 14’
12:00 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 4 | Millenium Cinema
Those Who Drown Cling to Foam by Urtina Hoxha | Kosovo | 2020 | 5’ | Animation | In Albanian
The Ghosts by Sebastián Lojo | Guatemala | 2020 | 76’
13:30 COMPETITION | IN ALBANIAN 2 | Millenium Cinema
The Vanished by Arben Thaçi | North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania | 2020 | 100’ | Feature
15:30 COMPETITION | BALKAN SHORTS 2 | Millenium Cinema
In Her Steps by Anastasia Kratidi | Greece | 2020 | 25’ | Live Action
Rainbow by Aleksandar Vujović | Montenegro | 2020 | 17’ | Live Action
Radio Freedom by Ismar Vejzovic, Bafl Sarhang | Netherlands, Bosnia-Herzegovina | 2021 | 19’ | Live Action
The Criminals by Serhat Karaaslan | Turkey, France, Romania | 2021 | 24’ | Live Action
Kaimos by Sarra Tsorakidis | Romania | 2020 | 27’ | Live Action
17:30 NON-COMPETITION | PANORAMA g | Millenium Cinema
Do You Like Poetry? by Eduardo Mattos | Brazil | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action | Divergent Minds
Heart of Flesh by Coline Potier | Belgium | 2020 | 18’ | Live Action | Parade
18:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 5 | Millenium Cinema
The Last Bath by David Bonneville | Portugal | 2020 | 94’
20:30 COMPETITION | FEATURE 4 | Millenium Cinema
Sanremo by Miroslav Mandić | Slovenia | 2020 | 90’
21:00 FOCUS | UN/DOGMATIC – The Danish Cinema | MILLENIUM Open Air Cinema
Europa by Lars von Trier | Denmark | 1991 | 113’ | Drama
Day 4, ONLINE SCREENINGS
PANORAMA | PARADE 1 | Online
Faraway by Aziz Zoromba | Canada | 2020 | 18’ | Documentary
Being Sascha by Manuel Gübeli | Switzerland | 2020 | 34’ | Documentary
Moth by Roxanne Gaucherand | France | 2020 | 48’ | Documentary
PANORAMA | PARADE 2 | Online
Julka and Julie by Gloria Stern | Germany | 2020 | 30’ | Live Action
The Call by Marios Psaras | Cyprus | 2020 | 10’ | Live Action
Heart of Flesh by Coline Potier | Belgium | 2020 | 18’ | Live Action
Imposible Decirte Adiós by Yolanda Centeno | Spain | 2021 | 16’ | Live Action
Imprisoned by Piotr Bielinski | Poland | 2021 | 20’ | Documentary
Day 5, Tuesday, September 28, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | ANIMATION 2 | Millenium Cinema
Mr. Spam Gets a New Hat by William Joyce | UK | 2021 | 12’
Heart of Gold by Simon Filliot | France | 2020 | 13’
Just for the Record by Vojin Vasovic | Canada, Serbia | 2020 | 7’
Fetch by Sam Gill | Canada, New Zealand | 2021 | 18’
House of Memory by Sofía Rosales Arreola | Mexico | 2020 | 13’
Death and the Winemaker by Victor Jaquier | Switzerland | 2021 | 19’
12:30 COMPETITION | IN ALBANIAN 3| Millenium Cinema
Pranvera by Mario Banushi | Albania | 2021 | 9’ | Experimental
Freestyle to Montenegro by Ardit Sadiku | Albania | 2021 | 72’ | Documentary
Exit by Artur Muharremi | France | 2021 | 6’ | Animation
Those Who Drown Cling to Foam by Urtina Hoxha | Kosovo | 2020 | 5’ | Animation
14:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 6 | Millenium Cinema
Spagat by Christian Johannes Koch | Switzerland | 2020 | 110’
16:30 COMPETITION | SHORT LIVE ACTION 2 | Millenium Cinema
Safe by Ian Barling | USA | 2021 | 16’
Ganef by Mark Rosenblatt | UK | 2020 | 14’
Titan by Valéry Carnoy | Belgium | 2021 | 19’
Home by Sergei Davidoff | Moldova, USA | 2020 | 20’
Georgia by Jayil Pak | South Korea | 2020 | 30’
A New Perspective by Emanuela Ponzano | Italy | 2020 | 19’
18:30 COMPETITION | EYE ON TIFF 7 | Millenium Cinema
Death and the Winemaker by Victor Jaquier | Switzerland | 2021 | 19’ | Animation
Pebbles by P S Vinothraj | India | 2021 | 77’
20:30 COMPETITION | FEATURE 5 | Millenium Cinema
The Exam by Shawkat Amin Korki | Germany, Iraq | 2021 | 90’
21:00 FOCUS | UN/DOGMATIC – The Danish Cinema | MILLENIUM Open Air Cinema
The Commune by Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | 2016 | 111’ | Drama
Day 5, ONLINE SCREENINGS
PANORAMA | NEW WORLD 1 | Online
I See Them by J.D. Granados | Belgium, Mexico | 2020 | 24’ | Live Action
Orders by Aleix Pitarch | Spain | 2020 | 30’ | Animation
VO by Nicolas Gourault | France | 2021 | 19’ | Documentary
Burros by Jefferson Stein | USA | 2021 | 15’ | Live Action
Arctic Summer by Daniel Fradin, Kyle Rosenbluth | USA, Canada | 2020 | 24’ | Documentary
PANORAMA | NEW WORLD 2 | Online
Lili Alone by Zou Jing | China | 2021 | 22’ | Live Action
Don’t Go Tellin’ Your Momma by T. Jones, J. F. Sondock, S. Davis | USA | 2020 | 35’ | Documentary
Turning to Dust by Hüseyin Aydin Gürsoy | France | 2020 | 20’ | Live Action
Coffin by Y. Cai, N. Crabot, H. Huang, M. Janiw, M. Lebon, Th. T. Ngoc | France | 2020 | 6’ | Animation
Five Tiger by Nomawonga Khumalo | South Africa | 2020 | 11’ | Live Action
Day 6, Wednesday, September 29, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | STUDENT SHORTS 2 | Millenium Cinema
The Doll by Elahe Esmaili | Iran | 2021 | 30’ | Documentary
Fracture by Rony Tanios | France | 2020 | 10’ | Experimental
Sea by the River and River by the Sea by Sovran Nrecaj | Kosovo | 2021 | 28’ | Live Action
Summer Planning by Alexandru Mironescu | Romania | 2021 | 26’ | Live Action
I Don’t Feel at Home Anywhere Anymore by Viv Li | Belgium | 2020 | 16’ | Documentary
12:30 COMPETITION | STUDENT SHORTS 1 | Millenium Cinema
Rosebud by Álvaro López Alba | Spain | 2020 | 10’
In Ictu Oculi by Jorge Moneo Quintana | Spain | 2020 | 15’
Some Kind of Intimacy by Toby Bull | UK, France | 2021 | 6’
The End of Kings by Rémi Brachet | France | 2020 | 40’
164880 by Maria Falileeva, Alexandra Matveeva | Russia | 2021 | 25’
14:00 COMPETITION | BALKAN SHORTS | Millenium Cinema
Motorway 65 by Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
Brigitte Bardot by Çağıl Bocut | Turkey | 2021 | 14’ | Live Action
Rainbow by Aleksandar Vujović | Montenegro | 2020 | 17’ | Live Action
15:00 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 3 | Millenium Cinema
The Pageant by Eytan Ipeker | Turkey, Israel | 2020 | 83’
16:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 4 | Millenium Cinema
All Light, Everywhere by Theo Anthony | USA | 2021 | 109’
18:30 COMPETITION | SHORT LIVE ACTION 3 | Millenium Cinema
We’re not Animals by Noé Debré | France | 2021 | 16’
Red Day by Besim Ugzmajli | Kosovo | 2021 | 15’
Like the Ones I Used to Know by Annie St-Pierre | Canada | 2021 | 18’
Menarca by Lillah Halla | Brazil | 2020 | 22’
Nour Shams by Faiza Ambah | Saudi Arabia | 2021 | 25’
Charon by Yannick Karcher | France | 2020 | 16’
Yoruga by Federico Torrado Tobón | USA | 2020 | 7’
20:30 COMPETITION | FEATURE 6 | Millenium Cinema
Daniel ’16 by Dimitris Koutsiabasakos | Greece | 2020 | 101’
21:00 FOCUS | UN/DOGMATIC – The Danish Cinema | MILLENIUM Open Air Cinema
The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark, Sweden | 2012 | 111’ | Drama
Day 6, ONLINE SCREENINGS
PANORAMA | DIVERGENT MIND 1 | Online
Do You Like Poetry? By Eduardo Mattos | Brazil | 2020 | 15’ | Live Action
We Won’t Forget by Edgar Morais, Lucas Elliot Eberl | USA, Portugal | 2021 | 14’ | Live Action
Shut Up by Maor Noa Aharoni | Israel | 2020 | 16’ | Live Action
Love Hurts by Elsa Rysto | France | 2020 | 30’ | Live Action
FreeBird by Michael Joseph McDonald, Joe Bluhm | Canada | 2021 | 5′ | Animation
Cat and Bird by Franka Sachse | Germany | 2021 | 8’ | Animation
PANORAMA | DIVERGENT MIND 2 | Online
TomBoy by Dorentina Imeri | Switzerland | 2020 | 18’ | Documentary
This is not a Story About China by Francisca Jiménez | Colombia | 2020 | 15’ | Documentary
Eggshell by Ryan William Harris | Ireland | 2020 | 14’ | Live Action
I’m not Telling You Anything, Just Sayin by Sanja Milardović | Croatia | 2020 | 18’ | Live Action
Holding On by Laura Petrone, Guillaume Kerbusch | Belgium | 2020 | 22’ | Live Action
Day 7, Thursday, September 30, 2021
10:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 5 | Millenium Cinema
This Rain Will Never Stop by Alina Gorlova | Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar | 2020 | 102’
12:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 6 | Millenium Cinema
A Man and a Camera by Guido Hendrikx | Netherlands | 2021 | 63’
13:30 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2 | Millenium Cinema
Scars by Alex Anna | Canada | 2020 | 10’
The Game by Roman Hodel | Switzerland | 2020 | 17’
Waste Vol. 1 by Jan Ijäs | Finland | 2020 | 57’
Rat Tail by Chad Sogas | USA | 2020 | 14’
18:00 COMPETITION | DOCUMENTARY SHORTS 2 | Millenium Cinema
Looking for Venera by Norika Sefa | Kosovo | 2021 | 111’
21:00 AWARDS CEREMONY
Day 7, ONLINE SCREENINGS
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | EFA Shorts Tour 2020 1 | Online
All Cats Are Grey in the Dark by Lasse Linder | Switzerland | 2019 | 19’ | Documentary
The Best City Is No City at All by Christoph Schwarz | Austria | 2020 | 15’ | Documentary
Past Perfect by Jorge Jácome | Portugal | 2019 | 23’ | Experimental
It Wasn’t the Right Mountain, Mohammad by Mili Pecherer | France | 2020 | 29’ | Animation
Genius Loci by Adrien Mérigeau | France | 2020 | 16’ | Animation
Uncle Thomas, Accounting for the Days by Regina Pessoa | Portugal, France, Canada | 2019 | 11’ | Animation
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | EFA Shorts Tour 2020 2 | Online