Tampere Film Festival

The Tampere Film Festival 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 Scandinavia.

Yearly, almost 500 short films are shown - both international and Finnish ones - and there are lots of seminars and other activities surrounding the festival.

In the year 2006, the festival had more than 30,000 people attending.

Grand Prix winners

* 2006: "Eût-elle été criminelle..." (Even if She Had Been Criminal...) by Jean-Gabriel Periot
* 2005: "Through my thick glasses"
* 2004: "Utvecklingssamtal"
* 2003: "The Projectionist"
* 2002: "Intolerance II: The Invasion"
* 2001: "Hyppääjä"
* 2000: "Four Corners"
* 1999: "Youfek"
* 1998: "Un Jour"
* 1997: "Many Happy Returns"
* 1996: "Cicha przystan"
* 1995: "Quelcque chose de différent"
* 1994: "Wallace & Gromit in the Wrong Trousers"
* 1993: "Neonovi prikazki"
* 1992: "Året gjennom Bøfjord" (A Year Along the Abandoned Road) by Morten Skallerud, Norway
* 1991: "De Craciun ne-am luat ratia de libertate"
* 1990: "Kitchen Sink"
* 1989: "Devant le mur"
* 1988: "Eine murul" (Breakfast On The Grass) by Priit Pärn
* 1987: "Før gæsterne kommer"
* 1986: "Getekende mensen"
* 1985: "Byker"
* 1984: "The Snowman"
* 1983: "Mindrák"
* 1982: "En Stad Under Huden"
* 1981: "Survival Run"
* 1980: "An Encounter With Faces"
* 1979: "They Are Killing The Horse"
* 1978: "A placere"
* 1977: "Poezd pamyati"
* 1976: "Campesinos"
* 1975: "Bölcs mesterek, okos szerkezetek"
* 1974: "Primera página"
* 1973: "Chricales"
* 1971: "Rantojen miehet"
* 1970: "79 primaveras"

External links

* [http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi/ Tampere film festival home page] , accessed 2008-02-25
* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Tampere_International_Short_Film_Festival/ IMDB entry for the Tampere Film Festival] , accessed 2008-02-25