Shqip International Short Film Festival

Everyone has a story.The role of festivals is to support and comment on films, not just to show them. Although the major festivals have skillfully played a role as luxury showcases for world cinema for a long time, this is no longer enough. A cinéphile festival should make a real and effective intervention, expediting and encouraging recognition for filmmakers, or the emergence of a particular country on the world cinema map.
ShqipFilmFest in City of Peja and Prishtina,was one of the first festivals to lay claim, justifiably, to a role as test bed, realizing that what appears experimental today might herald the cinematic language of the future, igniting aesthetic revolutions both small and large. Peja ’s and Prishtina’s size gives it the means to show a highly diverse range of cinema, in all its many forms, to compare current cinema with its history through retrospectives and tributes, whilst retaining a human dimension that provides a cohesive atmosphere, encourages a good reception for the films, conviviality and encounters with creative talent. Because the selection of films at ShqipFilmFest is the outcome of critical choices, it cannot fall prey to the illusion that quantity can replace quality. The goal of is to make a Nomad Film Festival nd to screen films in all land where Albanian that speak albanian language (Shqip) and to arounf the world,we are on the raod to do it and we know we can.Yes,of course,we can.
This year, there is one characteristic that is common to all the various Festival sections: the youthfulness of the filmmakers, whether they belong to the new generation of international cinema auteurs or are making their directorial debut, proof of the vitality of creative production, and the Festival’s curiosity about all genres and forms of independent production.
Welcome and enjoy the second edition of the International Short Film Festival SHQIPFILMFEST. www.shqipfilmfest.com Open Calls ,No FEE