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The Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual film festival held during the third week of January in
Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...
. The inaugural Tromsø International Film Festival was held in 1991. TIFF has 5 screening venues, including one outdoor snow cinema. The total of admissions in 2020 it was 58500, which makes TIFF Norway's biggest film festival. Movies with world premiere at Tromsø International Film Festival: * 2001 Cool and Crazy * 2008 The Kautokeino Rebellion * 2016 Doing good


Audience Award

Film voted as best movie by popular vote. * 1995 - '' Spider and Rose'', directed by
Bill Bennett William Richards Bennett, (April 14, 1932 – December 3, 2015) was the 27th premier of British Columbia from 1975 to 1986. He was a son of Annie Elizabeth May (Richards) and former Premier, W. A. C. Bennett. He was a 3rd cousin, twice removed ...
(Australia) * 1996 - ''
Accumulator 1 ''Accumulator 1'' ( cs, Akumulátor 1) is a 1994 film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film won the Grand Prize at the 7th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1996. It won the audience award at the Tromsø International Film Fest ...
'' (Czech: ''Akumulátor 1''), directed by
Jan Svěrák Jan Svěrák () (born 6 February 1965 in Žatec) is a Czech film director. He is the son of screenwriter and actor Zdeněk Svěrák. He studied documentary filmmaking at the FAMU. He and his films have received awards including the Academy Award ...
(Czech Republic) * 1997 - ''
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'', directed by Alan Taylor (U.S.A.) * 1998 - '' Gadjo dilo'', directed by Tony Gatlif (France) * 1999 - ''
When the Light Comes '' When the Light Comes'' (Belgium: ''Licht'', Netherlands: ''Waar blijft het licht'', Germany: ''Die Stunde des Lichts'') is a 1998 German-Dutch /Belgian romance film, romantic adventure film drama film, drama directed by Stijn Coninx, and starrin ...
'' (Netherlands: ''Waar blijft het licht''), directed by
Stijn Coninx Stijn, Baron Coninx (born 21 February 1957) is a Belgian film director. Career He studied film directing at HRITCS (currently Ritcs, at Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel). Baron Coninx is best known for his film '' Daens'', which was nominated for ...
(Germany / Belgium / Netherlands / Norway) * 2000 - '' Une Liaison Pornographique'', directed by
Frédéric Fonteyne Frédéric Fonteyne (; born 9 January 1968) is a Belgian film director. He studied film at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve. His 2020 film '' Working Girls'' was selected as the Belgian entry for the Best International Feat ...
(Belgium / France / Switzerland / Luxembourg) * 2001 - '' In July'', directed by Fatih Akın (Germany) * 2002 - '' The Princess and the Warrior'', directed by
Tom Tykwer Tom Tykwer (; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films '' Run Lola Run'' (1998), ''Heaven'' (2002), '' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' ...
(Germany) * 2003 - '' The Sea'', directed by
Baltasar Kormákur Baltasar Kormákur Baltasarsson (born 27 February 1966) is an Icelandic actor, theater and film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films '' 101 Reykjavík'', '' The Sea'', ''A Little Trip to Heaven'', '' Contraband' ...
(Iceland) * 2004 - '' The Return'' (Russian: Возвращение) directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia) * 2005 - '' As It Is in Heaven'', directed by
Kay Pollak Kay Gunnar Leopold Pollak (born 21 May 1938) is a Swedish film director. Career After a long break from film-making, he returned in 2004 with ''As It Is in Heaven'' (''Så som i himmelen''), a major box office success in Sweden. The film was nom ...
(Sweden) * 2006 - '' Innocent Voices'', directed by Luis Mandoki (Mexico) * 2007 - '' USA vs. Al-Arian'', directed by Line Halvorsen (Norway) * 2008 - '' L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio'', directed by Agostino Ferrente (Italy) * 2009 - '' Shooting the Sun'' (US title: The Storm in My Heart) (Norwegian: ''Jernanger''), directed by
Pål Jackman Pål Jackman (born 20 September 1967, in Haugesund, Norway) is a Norwegian film director and musician. As a musician he appears under the name Jackman, both as a solo artist and with his own alternative rock trio. In the trio format has with ...
(Norway) * 2010 - ''
For a Moment, Freedom ''For a Moment Freedom'' (german: Ein Augenblick Freiheit; french: Pour un instant la liberté) is a 2008 film, written and directed by Austrian- Iranian filmmaker Arash T. Riahi. Synopsis ''For a Moment Freedom'' tells of the odyssey of three ...
'', directed by Arash T. Riahi (Austria / France / Turkey) * 2011 - ''
Black Swan The black swan (''Cygnus atratus'') is a large waterbird, a species of swan which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. Within Australia, the black swan is nomadic, with erratic migration patterns dependent upon ...
'', directed by Darren Aronofsky (U.S.A.) * 2012 - '' Play'' (2011) directed by Ruben Östlund, Sweden * 2013 - '' No'', directed by Pablo Larraín, Chile * 2014 - ''
Of Horses and Men ''Of Horses and Men'' ( is, Hross í oss) is a 2013 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. The film was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign ...
'' (Icelandic: Hross í oss), directed by Benedikt Erlingsson Germany/Iceland * 2015 - '' The Salt of the Earth'' (''Le sel de la terre'') directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado France, Italy og Brazil * 2016 - '' Rams'' directed by Grímur Hákonarson * 2017 - '' Sealers - One last hunt'', directed by Trude Berge Ottersen and Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Norway * 2018 - '' Close-Knit'' directed by Naoko Ogigami, Japan * 2019 - ''
Woman at war ''Woman at War'' (''Kona fer í stríð'', literally ''Woman goes to battle'') is a 2018 Icelandic-Ukrainian comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, and starring Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir. Following a premie ...
'' (''Kona fer í stríð'') directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland * 2020 - ''
Parasite Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson h ...
'' directed by
Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho (, ; Hanja: 奉俊昊; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of four Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black h ...
, South Korea * 2021 - '' Ninjababy'' directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke, Norway


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Official Home page of Tromsø International Film Festival
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