Tampere Film Festival

Tampere Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival in 2011
LocationTampere, Finland
Founded1969; 55 years ago (1969)
LanguageInternational
Websitewww.tamperefilmfestival.fi Edit this at Wikidata

The Tampere Film Festival (Finnish: Tampereen elokuvajuhlat) is a short film festival held every March, mostly at the Finnkino Plevna movie theatre,[1] in Tampere, Finland. 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.[2][3][4]

The first festival was held in 1969. Since 1970, it has been held in its current form, which makes it the oldest short film festival in Northern Europe.[5][6][7] Approximately 500 short films are screened during the five days of the festival each year.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10]

  1. ^ Tällä viikolla (4.–9.3.2020): Tampere Film Festival, Mari Rantasila, Suomen Kameraseurojen Liitto, Virtudes... – Kulttuuritoimitus (in Finnish)
  2. ^ Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
  3. ^ Melbourne indie short film selected for Clermont-Ferrand and Tampere - FilmInk
  4. ^ "Accredited Festivals". Fiapf. 2024-01-15. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  5. ^ Tampere Film Festival | DOKweb
  6. ^ Experimental films and media art featured widely at Tampere Film Festival 2016 - AV-arkki
  7. ^ Grand Prix Award at Tampere Film Festival for Written/Unwritten by Adrian Silisteanu - Films in Frame
  8. ^ "Tampere 54th International Short Film Festival". European Festivals Association. 2023-12-20. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  9. ^ "Tampere Film Festival is launching a new competition for short genre films - Tampere Film Festival". 2020-12-15. Archived from the original on 2020-12-15. Retrieved 2021-07-24.
  10. ^ "Generation XYZ - Tampere Film Festival". 2021-01-14. Archived from the original on 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2021-07-24.