» On September 4-30, 2006 the eighth International Short Film Festival Tinklai is going to take place in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, and Šiauliai.

The festival was born as a cultural move seeking to establish a regularly happening event in Vilnius and the Western Lithuania, that could attract an audience of various dispositions and present it with an unconventional cinema festival.

In seven years the festival has screened over 800 films and provided an opportunity for more than 70,000 viewers to meet and interact with directors, producers and film critics from 20 countries. In 2003 the festival entered the European Open Air Screenings Association and in 2005 became a member of the European Coordination of Film Festivals. Its geography spread from Klaipėda and Vent ė Horn to Vilnius, Kaunas, Šiauliai, Palanga and Trakai.

Dates of the Festival:

September 4–6. VILNIUS, Teachers’ house

September 8–14. KLAIPĖDA, Former tabacco factory

September 15–22. VILNIUS, Skalvija cinema

September 23–26. VILNIUS, Lėlė theatre, Arklių str. 5

September 27–30. ŠIAULIAI, Ch. Frenkelio villa, Vilniaus str. 74

Tinklai 2006 programme:

Tinklai 2006 is continuing the Europe in Shorts retrospective. Its latest programme EIS 12 "A Women Touch of Humour" will open the festival and the programme EIS 11 will close it.

This year's exclusive screenings will be featuring two programmes Contemporary French experimental films and Historical French Experimental films, presented by a world-famous filmmaker Pip Chodorov.

French, Belgian, German and Finnish film programmes are featuring the prize winners of the most prominent European film festivals. The traditional guest of Tinklai festival is young Lithuanian filmmakers. The Basque, Estonian, Swedish and Latvian programmes are compiled in collaboration with our partners – Basque Cinemateque, Estonian Film Fund, Swedish Film Institute, Latvian National Cinema Centre – and they reflect last years‘works of these countries.

This year‘s introduction are the French, Italian, Turkish and Polish programmes for Tinklai 2006:

• Paris festival Signes de nuit will present the tendencies in the world‘s avant-garde films;
• The International Siena (Italy) festival will introduce the variety of Italian short films;
• Turkish Festival on Wheels will reveal Turkish cinematic traditions and innovations;
• Torun Film Festival (TOFFI) programme will present the latest Polish short films.

A total of more than 100 memorable short films will be screened and rendezvous with the festival guest will take place.

There is will be an election of public favourites. The three "best" ones will be awarded special prizes.

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