Balkans beyond borders travels to Tirana

TIRANA, Sept. 20 – Balkans beyond Borders Short Film Festival, celebrating Balkan Diversity each year to a different city in the Balkans will travel to Tirana from Sept. 20 to 22 at the Tirana Ekspres centre. After Belgrade and Athens, the Balkans Beyond Borders film festival comes to Tirana for its 3rd edition. Balkans Beyond Borders is dedicated to encouraging young film makers to express themselves on issues relevant to their region and lives, building bridges between the peoples of the Balkans. This year’s festival tackles the topical subject of multilingualism and communication and is a call-to-action for young people to engage actively. It is about communication in all its forms: either through language or other means of expression. The Balkans are known for their culture, traditions and multilingualism and it is exactly this diversity that we see as an added value, an opportunity to share and exchange our experience.
Celebrating Balkan diversity, multilingualism and communication, the 3rd edition of the festival brings together a selection of 30 short films from Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Kosovo, Slovenia, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Moldova, Belgium and Italy. All selected films are created by young filmmakers up to the age of 30 from the Balkan region and beyond (Southeast Europe).
The festival will also include a selection of German short films from the 7th edition at the clermont-ferrand short film festival 2012. These projects will not be part of the film competition.
A music program with D.J Minimim, the folk-rock music band KANUN and Ilir Kryekurti and Band, will accompany the three day film festival.