Travel Fest Albania – Screening Program 2023

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The amphitheater of Tirana (Grand Park)

Monday, July 3, at 19:30

The Opening Ceremony | 30:00

  1. The Kyster Family in Albania | Mikael Kyster, Mia Kyster | Denmark | 5:05
  2. Connecting Flights | Nicolas Brixle | Germany | 18:22     
  3. Bodies that fight | Catalina Ibañez | Chile | 3:00
  4. Tuscia is | Emilia Martinelli, Stefano Fiori | Italy | 5:39
  5. My Year 2021 | Alen Tkalcec | Croatia | 4:01       
  6. Cuvée Royale | Leo Ginailhac | France | 6:29
  7. End2End Relay | Nathalie Grace | United Kingdom | 31:02      
  8. Bookstore | Ofelia Giannini, Annika Giannini | Sweden | 6:00            
  9. Socorro Untamed | Charles Blane Henderson | United States | 7:23         
  10. Sharing | Granit Dragaj | Kosovo | 16:00               
  11. Caretos of Lagoa | Tiago Cerveira | Portugal | 14:30         

Tuesday, July 4, at 20:00

Transferred at National Museum, UNESCO cinema at 19:00           

Wednesday, July 5, at 20:00

  1. A quiet Bloom | Léo Poignard | France | 16:03   
  2. Grace and Celebration | Chung-Yu Liang | Taiwan | 4:05
  3. Quandary | Ebubekir Sefa Akbulut | Turkey | 10:00
  4. Panorama – Pirro and Antigona | Suela Bako | Albania | 14:30            
  5. Paved Paradise | Karsten de Vreugd | Netherlands | 01:30:00     
  6. Remote Workers – Visit Cascais | António Aleixo | Portugal | 0:54              
  7. Mangroves of Raja Ampat | Matthias Michael Edling | Sweden | 3:39
  8. Panorama – Lulebore| Gentian Minga | Art Without Limit International Film Festival | 4:48
  9. Fill in the Blanks | Anna Baranowski, Vlad Brăteanu | Germany | 11:00    
  10. Elements | David Castro González | Spain | 3:52
  11. Malpelo: Mountain of Sharks | Kevin Mannens | United States | 14:53    

Thursday, July 6, at 20:00

  1. Friluftsliv | John McEwan-Whyte | United Kingdom | 13:33
  2. Hope | Pero Petrušić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 10:60  
  3. Central Alentejo | Filipe Morato Gomes | Portugal | 4:44              
  4. New era old dilemma | Sabidin Aliu | North Macedonia | 56:00  
  5. Free to Swim | Okeremute Ovuorho | Nigeria | 1:00        
  6. Adventures of Aya – Dubai | Christian Ghammachi | France | 4:10            
  7. Quest for silence | Julien Guéraud | France | 52:00          
  8. Love Cyprus | Andreas Schumacher | Germany | 3:08     
  9. Untold Thailand | Kevin Clerc | France | 1:30
  10. Tour de Friends | Dan Castro | United Kingdom | 5:33    

Friday, July 7, at 19:30

The Award Ceremony | 2:00:00

National Museum, UNESCO cinema, Tirana

Monday, July 3, at 10:00

  1. Hypnotic | Carlos Virgili | Spain | 45:49  
  2. East Coast Paradise | Chung-Yu Liang | Taiwan | 3:02      
  3. Exploring Penghu | Wen Bin Don | Taiwan | 14:58
  4. Playground | Nikoletta Veress | Hungary | 2:00 
  5. Alta Via – Stories about sky, earth and sea | Simona Simona Berton | Italy | 56:00               
  6. The Last of the Ferrymen | Toni Kristian Tikkanen, Ville Asikainen | Finland | 14:59            
  7. Wild Pyrenees | Alwa Deluze | France | 52:00     

Tuesday, July 4, at 10:00

  1. The long rain | Cassandre Léonard | France | 5:08            
  2. The Artist | Nazar Germanov | Czech Republic | 7:05       
  3. Namaste Himalaya – How a village in Nepal opened the world to us | Anna Baranowski, Michael Moritz | Germany | 01:30:00        
  4. Heart Of Detroit | Derien Stephens | United States | 2:33             
  5. Transylvania Trails | Jaro Tešlár | Slovakia | 23:47             
  6. Panorama – Actus for Vjosa | Gentian Doda | Heinrich Böll Stiftung Tirana | 51:30

Tuesday, July 4, at 19:00

  1. Connected to the terrain | Alberto Collantes | Spain | 12:00        
  2. Velaa Private Island, Maldives | Philip Lee Harvey | United Kingdom | 2:04
  3. Valtellina, European nature | Marco Tessaro | Italy | 25:00
  4. Jiwa Jagad Jawi | Ivan Handoyo | Indonesia | 8:00            
  5. Remember me | Herve Bernard Luc Tirmarche | Croatia | 3:52   
  6. Return of the Vultures | Emmanuel Rondeau | France | 52:00
  7. Love | Junqing Duanmu | China | 1:57                   
  8. Seasons on the Kyoto Trail | Porter Erisman | Japan | 20:00
  9. Dream From Beyond | Armand Bora, Bertrand Shijaku | Albania | 4:32         

Wednesday, July 5, at 10:00

  1. Panorama – An Irish Goodbye | Tom Berkeley, Ross White | Art Without Limit International Film Festival | 23:26
  2. Ticking | Lara Parizek | United States | 1:21         
  3. My wild cats – Europe | Bertrand Loyer | France | 52:00
  4. This Is China | Ciarán O’Connell | Ireland | 26:20               
  5. In all kinds of weather | Constanze Alma Wouters, Rob Jacobs | Belgium | 45:00
  6. Activist | Gwenivig Cornon | France | 50:00         

Thursday, July 6, at 10:00

  1. Don´t scratch | Jakob Carlsen | Denmark | 44:27               
  2. Through Her Eyes | Pauline Blanchet | United Kingdom | 9:59     
  3. Legacy | Anna Baranowski | Germany | 20:00
  4. Expedition on 3 Rivers | Irfan Alijagić, Ervin Duratović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51:05     
  5. Forest Rivers | Sławomir Skupiński | Poland | 38:45         
  6. Inside the BoduMas | Giulio Pedretti, Roberto Carini | Italy | 25:00    
  7. Visit Verona | Matteo Archondis | Italy | 2:09            
  8. The Land of Custoza Wine | Matteo Archondis | Italy | 2:25         

Friday, July 7, at 10:00

  1. 72 Hours in Cape Town | Alin Tzone | Romania | 5:41
  2. Born to ride. At age four and a half, I lost my leg | Gildas Nivet, Tristan Guerlotté | France | 52:00              
  3. Wawel Dragon | Cameron Carr | United Kingdom | 6:11
  4. Why Bosnia and Herzegovina can be NUMBER 1 travel destination in the world | Robert Dacesin | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 12:48
  5. Wild Port of Europe – Nature on the edge | Willem Berents | Netherlands | 01:27:00        
  6. Luma | Eleanor Mortimer, Liridon Mustafaj | 30:00          

Gjirokaster (Odeon)

July 4-5, at 20:00

  1. Noria, 35 000km from France to Laos in a Citroen 2CV | Fabien Bastide, Coralie Vongsouthi | France | 54:00               
  2. Life in Supercell – Timelapse & Hyperlapse | Kirill Neiezhmakov | Ukraine | 4:12  
  3. Please! | Aliaksandra Markava | Belarus | 1:14   
  4. Animals at the Borders | Cornelia Volk | Germany | 43:30             
  5. 5 Villages. Spanish Debut | Iryna Melnyk Novak | Spain | 49:33 *              
  6. Becoming weightless | Submitter Miguel Anton | United Kingdom | 5:00               
  7. Beginners doing sports | Nikoletta Veress | Hungary | 1:30          
  8. Forest Mighties | M. Matysiak, T. Ogrodowczyk, M. Ogrodowczyk | Poland | 48:00
  9. Gulab Gul | Semih Sağman | Afghanistan | 11:00              
  10. Nalubale | Nickson Kamau | Uganda | 1:00          
  11. We shall go to Viana | Flávio Cruz | Portugal | 6:23
  12. With…Out | Hubert Bąk and Piotr “Latona” Kusal | Poland | 5:00               
  13. Tearless Knight | Sandy Blanco | France | 10:00
  14. By my cow dung | Patrick Luneau, Manon Luneau | France | 52:00

Durres (The amphitheater)

July 6, at 20:00

  1. Resurrection under the Ocean | Serkan Aktaş | Turkey | 2:57      
  2. The Shark with a Thousand Names | Hendrik Sebastian Schmitt | Germany | 18:00
  3. Sugoi Nihon | Timm Völkner | Germany | 1:35                                   
  4. Secrets of the Caribbean: Story of the Nature Isle, Dominica | Derek Galon | Dominica | 21:58     
  5. Baja | Christoph Weber | Germany | 3:36
  6. Active Anilao | Walter Marti | United States | 5:00
  7. Wildlife Cameraman (Summer Farm) | Erentia Bedeker | United Kingdom | 3:49
  8. Knock, Knock – A Woodpecker’s World | Uwe Müller | Germany | 43:30
  9. The Land of the Bear | Constantinos Christou | Italy | 24:50         
  10. The Beach of Dreams | Fotios Begklis | United Kingdom | 20:00
  11. Journey | Julian Frener, Philip Laa | Austria | 2:34             
  12. SoCal Spirit | Steve Pollard | United States | 5:00

UET cinema (European University of Tirana)

Tuesday, July 4, at 10:00

  1. The Center: Gibbons and Guardians | Alex M. Azmi | United States | 01:03:34     
  2. The time between dog and wolf | HyoLim Lee, Hyeonwoo Na | Republic of Korea | 9:47         
  3. Turtle | Reza Akbarian Galshklaei | Iran | 15:00  
  4. Carraco | Carlos Cazurro | Spain | 01:05:00          
  5. Protecting the River Krupa | Ciril Jazbec | Slovenia | 3:59              

Wednesday, July 5, at 10:00

  1. Murmurs from afar | Benjamin Silvestre | France | 17:30
  2. 10 Icons. Michoacan | Alejandro García Magaña | Mexico | 01:15:00
  3. Piconland: The Quest for the Perfect Picon Punch | Mark Maynard | United States | 19:14             
  4. Love You Cicada | Francisco Lança | Portugal | 13:56       
  5. Northern Performance | Juuso Koivisto | Finland | 39:53
  6. Performative Journey on the Via Eurasia Cultural Route | Esra Çepnili Dikçe | Turkey | 38:36         

Thursday, July 6, at 10:00

  1. Taste of the Land, Flavor of People | Suguru Sasaki | Japan | 01:13:26
  2. Vi’e Moko e Vi’e Kena – Spirits of the navel of the world | Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka, Marcelo Varas | Austria | 8:00       
  3. Buona Sera | Justė Michailinaitė | Lithuania | 20:00                         
  4. West 2 East | Bastian Meier | Austria | 32:00
  5. It’s Not About The Van | Emily Mcdonald | United States | 8:42