Tampere Film Festival

The Tampere Film Festival (Finnish: Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a short film festival held every March in the Finnish town of Tampere. It is accredited by the film producers' society FIAPF, and together with the short film festivals in Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand, 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, and there are lots of seminars and other activities surrounding the festival. The festival gathers an audience of 30 000 each year. It is an important meeting place for film professionals and enthusiasts, as well as a traditional local event.

Grand Prix winners

• 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 (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 (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 (United Kingdom)
• 1993: Neonovi prikazki by Eldora Atanassova Traykova (Bulgaria)
• 1992: Året gjennom Bøfjord (A Year Along the Abandoned Road) 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 (New Zealand)
• 1989: Devant le mur by Daisy Lamothe (France)
• 1988: Eine murul (Breakfast On The Grass) by Priit Pärn (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 (Hungary)
• 1977: Pojezd pamjati by Nikolai Serebrjakov (the Soviet Union)
• 1976: Campesinos by Marta Rodriguez, Jorge Silva (Columbia)
• 1975: Bölcs mesterek, okos szerkezetek byVince Lakatos (Hungary/Bulgaria)
• 1974: La Primera página by Sebastian Alarcon (the Soviet Union)
• 1973: Chrikales by Marta Rodriguez, Jorge Silva (Columbia)
• 1971: Rantojen miehet by Hannu Peltomaa (Finland)
• 1970: 79 primaveras by Santiago Alvarez (Cuba)

Audience Award

• 2012: The Punk Syndrome

External links

• Tampere film festival home page, accessed 2008-02-25
• IMDB entry for the Tampere Film Festival, accessed 2008-02-25