The seventh edition of the Tirana International Film Festival is on the eve of its closing night, tomorrow night, December 6, 2009. The Sunday evening award ceremony will be followed by a gala celebration in the National Theatre where most of the ten day festival took place. This was the first year that TIFF expanded into a features competition after its previous six editions which were mostly shorts and special programs. The competing shorts and features that fill the day-long programs have been featured in numerous festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and Locarno. The festival opened with an out of competition showing of Serb director Goran Paskaljevic’s ‘Honeymoons’, the first Albanian-Serbian co-production and co-written by festival programmer Genc Permeti and produced by festival director Ilir Butka. A packed hall on Friday night watched Filippos Tsitos comedy of a man discovering his Albanian roots, ‘Plato’s Academy’ which is sure to be a top contender for the grand prize