The Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
held during the third week of January in
Tromsø
Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...
,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
.
The inaugural Tromsø International Film Festival was held in 1991.
TIFF has 6 screening venues, including Verdensteatret (Norway's oldest cinema in continuous use) and the
Hålogaland Teater
Hålogaland Teater is a regional theatre serving the region of Nord-Norge, the northernmost of Norway. It got its name after the northernmost county in Norway in the Middle Ages Hålogaland. When established in 1971, it was the first regional the ...
. Because the festival takes place toward the end the
polar night
Polar night is a phenomenon that occurs in the polar regions of Earth, northernmost and southernmost regions of Earth when the Sun remains below the horizon for more than 24 hours. This only occurs inside the polar circles. The opposite phen ...
, it also offers mid-day screenings in an
outdoor cinema
An outdoor cinema consists of a digital or analog movie projector, scaffolded construction or inflatable movie screen, and sound system.
History
In the summer of 1900, in Syntagma square, Athens, films were projected outdoors, in the cafés.
...
.
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''
* 2021 ''
Ninjababy''
* 2025 ''Everything Must Go''
Awards
The film festival presents several awards:
*The Aurora Prize (TIFF's main prize. Films must have their Norwegian premier at TIFF to compete)
*The FIPRESCI Prize (International critics award with jury members from
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for ''Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique'') is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the wor ...
)
*The Don Quixote Prize (awarded by the Federation internationale des
cine-clubs)
*The Norwegian Peace Film Award (awarded to a film spotlighting and encouraging understanding of violence)
*The Tromsø Palm (awarded to the best short film under 60 minutes)
*The Tromsø Audience Award
*The Faith in Film Award (awarded to a film which encourages reflection and critical thinking about religion)
Audience Award
Film voted as best movie by popular vote.
References
External links
Official Home page of Tromsø International Film Festival
1991 establishments in Norway
Film festivals in Norway
Winter in Norway
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