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The Tampere Film Festival ( fi, Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a
short film A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in running time not to be considered a feature film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes ...
festival held every March, mostly at the
Finnkino Plevna Plevna is a Finnkino movie theatre in central Tampere, Finland, in the Finlayson district. With its ten auditoria it is the largest movie theatre in Tampere and one of the largest in Finland. The theatre is located in the old Finlayson industrial ...
movie theatre, in
Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
,
Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the short film festivals in
Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
and
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, it is among the most important European short film festivals. The first festival was held in 1969, and since 1970, it has been held in its current form, which makes it the oldest short film festival in Northern Europe. Approximately 500 short films are screened during the five days of the festival each year. On December 15, 2020, it was announced that the Tampere Film Festival will open a new international short film competition called ''Generation XYZ'' for 2021, which has been developed in cooperation with an American film production company
XYZ Films XYZ Films is an American film production and sales company founded in 2008 by Aram Tertzakian, Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer, and is based in Los Angeles. It focuses on international genre films, including '' The Raid: Redemption'', '' The Raid 2'' ...
. Selected films will be showcased at the 2021 Tampere Film Festival and judged by an independent jury, and the winning film will be given a prize in the amount of €2,000.


Grand Prix winners

* 2021: '' Al-Sit'' by Suzannah Mirghani (Qatar, Sudan) *2020: ''Bab Sebta'' by Randa Maroufi (France, Morocco) *2019: ''Dulce'' by Angello Faccini, Guille Isa (United States, Colombia, Peru) * 2018: ''Intimity'' von Elodie Dermange (dir.) *2017: ''Scris/Nescris – Written/Unwritten'' (dir. Adrian Silisteanu) *2014: ''BUM BUM, The baby of the Fisher'' by Ivan Maximov (Russia) * 2013: '' The Mass of Men'' by Gabriel Gauchet (United Kingdom) * 2012: ''Posledný Autobus'' by Martin Snopek, Ivana Laucikova (Slovakia) * 2011: ''Händelse vid bank'' by
Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund (born 13 April 1974) is a Swedish filmmaker best known for his black comedic and satirical films ''Force Majeure'' (2014), '' The Square'' (2017) and '' Triangle of Sadness'' (2022), all of which received largely positive reviews an ...
(Sweden) * 2010: ''Lumikko'' by Miia Tervo (Finland) * 2009: ''Ahendu nde sapukai'', by Pablo Lamar (Paraguay) * 2008: ''Madame Tutli-Putli'', Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (Canada) * 2007: ''Milan'', by Michaela Kezele (Germany) * 2006: ''Eût-elle été criminelle...'' (Even if She Had Been Criminal...) by Jean-Gabriel Periot (France) * 2005: ''Through my thick glasses'' by Pjotr Sapegin (Norway/Canada) * 2004: ''Utvecklingssamtal'' by Jens Jonsson (Sweden) * 2003: ''The Projectionist'' by Michael Bates (Australia) * 2002: ''The Invasion'' by
Phil Mulloy Phil Mulloy (born 29 August 1948) is an Irish-English animator. He was born in Wallasey, Merseyside and studied both painting and filmmaking. Mulloy worked as a screenwriter and director of live-action films until the late 1980s before becomin ...
(United Kingdom) * 2001: '' Hyppääjä'' by PV Lehtinen (Finland) * 2000: ''Four Corners'' by Ian Toews (Canada) * 1999: ''Youfek'' by Mahvash Shaykh-Aleslami (Iran) * 1998: ''Un Jour'' by Marie Paccou (France) * 1997: ''Many Happy Returns'' by Marjut Rimminen (United Kingdom) * 1996: ''Cicha przystan'' by Mariusz Malec (Poland) * 1995: ''Quelcque chose de différent'' by Bruno Rolland (France) * 1994: '' Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers'' by
Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan Park (born 6 December 1958) is a British animator who created ''Wallace and Gromit'', ''Creature Comforts'', ''Chicken Run'', ''Shaun the Sheep'', and '' Early Man''. Park has been nominated for an Academy Award a total of ...
(United Kingdom) * 1993: ''Neonovi prikazki'' by Eldora Atanassova Traykova (Bulgaria) * 1992: ''Året gjennom Bøfjord'' (
A Year Along the Abandoned Road ''A Year Along the Abandoned Road'' ( no, Året gjennom Børfjord) is a Norwegian short film shot over a period of 105 days in 1988/1989 and released in 1991. Directed by Morten Skallerud, the film was shot in Super Panavision 70 ( 65 mm ne ...
) by Morten Skallerud (Norway) * 1991: ''De Craciun ne-am luat ratia de libertate'' by Catalina Fernoaga, Cornel Mihalache (Romania) * 1990: ''Kitchen Sink'' by
Alison Maclean Alison Maclean (born July 31, 1958) is a Canadian-New Zealand film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of ''Sex and the City'', ''The Tudors'', '' Homicide: Life on the Street''), commercials and feature films. Her works i ...
(New Zealand) * 1989: ''Devant le mur'' by Daisy Lamothe (France) * 1988: ''Eine murul'' (Breakfast On The Grass) by
Priit Pärn Priit Pärn (born 26 August 1946 in Tallinn) is an Estonian cartoonist and animation director whose films have enjoyed success among critics as well as the public at various film festivals. Pärn formerly worked as a plant ecologist; his car ...
(the Soviet Union) * 1987: ''Før gæsterne kommer'' by Jon Bang Carlsen (Denmark) * 1986: ''Getekende mensen'' by Harriet Geelen (the Netherlands) * 1985: ''Byker'' by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (United Kingdom) * 1984: ''The Snowman'' by Dianne Jackson (United Kingdom) * 1983: ''Mindrák'' by Milos Macourek, Jaroslav Doubrava, Adolf Born (Czechoslovakia) * 1982: ''En Stad Under Huden'' by Johan Donner (Sweden) * 1981: ''Survival Run'' by Robert Charlton (the United States) * 1980: '' An Encounter with Faces'' by Vinod Chopra (India) * 1979: ''Noori'' by Mushtaq Ali Gazdar (Pakistan) * 1978: ''A piacere — Tetszés szerint'' by
Zoltán Huszárik Zoltán Huszárik (born József Zoltán Huszárik, May 14, 1931 – October 15, 1981) was an influential Hungarian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and occasional actor, an acclaimed auteur of the European modern art film. Huszár ...
(Hungary) * 1977: ''Pojezd pamjati'' by Nikolai Serebrjakov (the Soviet Union) * 1976: ''Campesinos'' by Marta Rodriguez, Jorge Silva (Colombia) * 1975: ''Bölcs mesterek, okos szerkezetek'' by Vince Lakatos (Hungary/Bulgaria) * 1974: ''La Primera página'' by Sebastian Alarcon (the Soviet Union) * 1973: ''Chrikales'' by Marta Rodriguez, Jorge Silva (Colombia) * 1971: ''Rantojen miehet'' by Hannu Peltomaa (Finland) * 1970: ''79 primaveras'' by Santiago Alvarez (Cuba)


Best European Short Film

* 2018: ''
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'' by Rati Tsiteladze (Georgia) * 2017: ''Scris/Nescris'' by Adrian Silisteanu (Romania) * 2016: ''Small Talkby'' by Even Hafnor, Lisa Brooke Hansen (Norway)


References


External links


Tampere Film Festival
– Official Site, accessed 2008-02-25
IMDB entry for the Tampere Film Festival
accessed 2008-02-25 Film festivals in Finland Short film festivals Tampere Film festivals established in 1969 Tourist attractions in Tampere Spring (season) events in Finland 1969 establishments in Finland {{Finland-film-stub