Tirana – Italy will participate in the 13th edition of the Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF), currently underway until November 5. TIFF is one of the main showcases of international cinema in the Balkan region and each year it hosts a good number of international premieres, authors of international renown, and a dense selection of international short films. This year, in addition to feature films, short films made it into the Festival, and Italian ones will be represented in a special screening program edited by Jacopo Chessa, director of the National Short Film Centre of Turin, entitled Life is Short. (9Colonne)