TAMPERE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - Special Program
TAMPERE 42nd International Short Film Festival will take place on March 7-11, 2012. It is the oldest and largest short film festival in Northern Europe. In 2011 TAMPERE International Short Film Festival gathered over 30.000 visitors of which 700 were accredited film and television professionals. There were over 500 films shown in about 120 screenings. The festival program consists of the International and National short film competitions and the thematic Special Programs.
TAMPERE International Short Film Festival is famous for its excellent innovative programming, magnificent festival atmosphere and of course the Finnish Sauna Party. Besides the 120 screenings, the festival is bursting with various seminars, discussions and meetings for film professionals and enthusiasts and the traditional FestArt Video Art Exhibition. TAMPERE International Short Film Festival promotes up-and-coming filmmakers – it is an event to find future masters of cinema. During the festival week the digitized online Film Market has over 4000 titles from all over the world.
The Special Programs of 2012 are focusing on Estonia and Nepal. There will also be retrospective screenings as well as few carefully selected feature length documentaries. Traditionally Canon of short films screening presents the best short films throughout the time and a Finnish film professional will curate a Carte blanche screening. Finnish films, both old and new, will be presented in Finnish Film Archive, New Finnish Films as well as other screenings.
Over the course of four decades, the festival has been able to reinvent itself and remain relevant and interesting. TAMPERE International Short Film Festival promotes young, up-and-coming filmmakers and attracts a wide audience of film fans and film professionals.
TAMPERE International Short Film Festival is famous for its excellent innovative programming, magnificent festival atmosphere and of course the Finnish Sauna Party. Besides the 120 screenings, the festival is bursting with various seminars, discussions and meetings for film professionals and enthusiasts and the traditional FestArt Video Art Exhibition. TAMPERE International Short Film Festival promotes up-and-coming filmmakers – it is an event to find future masters of cinema. During the festival week the digitized online Film Market has over 4000 titles from all over the world.
The Special Programs of 2012 are focusing on Estonia and Nepal. There will also be retrospective screenings as well as few carefully selected feature length documentaries. Traditionally Canon of short films screening presents the best short films throughout the time and a Finnish film professional will curate a Carte blanche screening. Finnish films, both old and new, will be presented in Finnish Film Archive, New Finnish Films as well as other screenings.
Over the course of four decades, the festival has been able to reinvent itself and remain relevant and interesting. TAMPERE International Short Film Festival promotes young, up-and-coming filmmakers and attracts a wide audience of film fans and film professionals.
Juhani Alanen - Executive Director of TAMPERE International Short Film Festival.
Juhani Alanen (b. 1956, Finland) studied at the University of Tampere and graduated as M.Sc. in Marketing. He has worked at the TAMPERE International Short Film Festival for more than 25 years on various duties and nowadays he is the Executive Director of the festival. Juhani Alanen has been a member of the selection committee of TAMPERE International Short Film Festival for 10 years. He has curated short film programs for TAMPERE and presented programs of Finnish short films at various film festivals. He has also been a member of the jury at different short festivals.
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The 1970´s Ostrobothnia in Western Finland: Elvis dies, my parents divorce and a new concept is introduced in school maths: set theory. Screened in prestigious festivals as Tampere, Oberhausem, Vila do Conde, Uppsala and many others, based entirely on archive material, ALWAYS DECENT is an experimental, autobiographical documentary about a child’s fear of difference, shame, guilt and longing. The film dips into the logic and dimensions of child’s thinking through warm humor and associative visual narrative.
The 1970´s Ostrobothnia in Western Finland: Elvis dies, my parents divorce and a new concept is introduced in school maths: set theory. Screened in prestigious festivals as Tampere, Oberhausem, Vila do Conde, Uppsala and many others, based entirely on archive material, ALWAYS DECENT is an experimental, autobiographical documentary about a child’s fear of difference, shame, guilt and longing. The film dips into the logic and dimensions of child’s thinking through warm humor and associative visual narrative.
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Winner of Resource Award in Tampere 2009 and of Grand Prix for Short Film at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010, HANASAARI A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki, and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.
a href="http://www.ses.fi/en/" target="_blank">Winner of Resource Award in Tampere 2009 and of Grand Prix for Short Film at Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010, HANASAARI A is an experimental documentary about the changing cityscape of Helsinki, and the final moments of a coal-fired power plant. The old industrial milieu is being destroyed to make space for modern housing units. The film is a combination of animation, live action cinematography, and graphic elements. It is based on 500 000 photographs taken during the final two years of the existence of the power plant.
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A tale about an inventor couple and their obscured vision to raise a child to fly. Winner of the Main Prize of the Finish Competition in Tampere 2008, Audience Award at the FIDEC International Festival of Film Schools Belgium 2007, Outstanding Award at the Beijing Film Academy International Film Festival 2008 and many others, HIGH HOPES is powerful metaphor-comment on the complex relationship between parents and children in our contemporary society.
A tale about an inventor couple and their obscured vision to raise a child to fly. Winner of the Main Prize of the Finish Competition in Tampere 2008, Audience Award at the FIDEC International Festival of Film Schools Belgium 2007, Outstanding Award at the Beijing Film Academy International Film Festival 2008 and many others, HIGH HOPES is powerful metaphor-comment on the complex relationship between parents and children in our contemporary society.
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Premiered in Tampere 2006 competition and winner of the Grand Prix at Sleepwalkers International Student Film Festival Tallin 2006. The father has decided to leave his family the next morning. Before he leaves, he want´s to tell his son something important. But the last evening home doesn´t quite go according to plans.
Premiered in Tampere 2006 competition and winner of the Grand Prix at Sleepwalkers International Student Film Festival Tallin 2006. The father has decided to leave his family the next morning. Before he leaves, he want´s to tell his son something important. But the last evening home doesn´t quite go according to plans.
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Economy is stranger than fiction. Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. As harmless as they are, their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the pace of local habits. They have come to look for berries, an activity that all of a sudden seems to embody all the values of local culture. Who is to blame and who is profiting from all this? World premiered in Venice Orizzonti 2010, screened in prestigious festivals and venues like IDFA Amsterdam, MOMA, Centre Pompidou, the winner of Best Documentary Award at Tampere 2011 is an exploration of Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy. Stylized as a science fiction film, it wonders how the economical inequality brings others as if to a strange planet while causing others act like they were dealing with aliens.
Economy is stranger than fiction. Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. As harmless as they are, their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the pace of local habits. They have come to look for berries, an activity that all of a sudden seems to embody all the values of local culture. Who is to blame and who is profiting from all this? World premiered in Venice Orizzonti 2010, screened in prestigious festivals and venues like IDFA Amsterdam, MOMA, Centre Pompidou, the winner of Best Documentary Award at Tampere 2011 is an exploration of Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy. Stylized as a science fiction film, it wonders how the economical inequality brings others as if to a strange planet while causing others act like they were dealing with aliens.
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Premiered in Tampere 2007 competition and screened in over 80 film festivals all over the world, TANGO FINLANDIA depicts in an unusual way a dance-evening in the local bar somewhere in the Finnish peripheria. Lonely people come there to find joy. There are not that many customers, but the hot and passionate tango-rhythms take all of them to the dance floor. The Finnish tango is hard and sweaty. This film is basically a testosterone loaded action movie.
a href="http://www.ses.fi/en/" target="_blank">Premiered in Tampere 2007 competition and screened in over 80 film festivals all over the world, TANGO FINLANDIA depicts in an unusual way a dance-evening in the local bar somewhere in the Finnish peripheria. Lonely people come there to find joy. There are not that many customers, but the hot and passionate tango-rhythms take all of them to the dance floor. The Finnish tango is hard and sweaty. This film is basically a testosterone loaded action movie.
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Premiered in Orizzonti 2010, the innovative sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, screened and awarded in prestigious festivals like IDFA Amsterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tampere, Hong Kong, Lisbon and many others, THE DEATH OF AN INSECT is a visually stunning experiment, a unique mix of animation and documentary. In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die. This tragic story was constructed using dead insects gathered from forgotten attics and tool sheds, between window panels and cobwebs.
a href="http://www.ses.fi/en/" target="_blank">Premiered in Orizzonti 2010, the innovative sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, screened and awarded in prestigious festivals like IDFA Amsterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tampere, Hong Kong, Lisbon and many others, THE DEATH OF AN INSECT is a visually stunning experiment, a unique mix of animation and documentary. In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die. This tragic story was constructed using dead insects gathered from forgotten attics and tool sheds, between window panels and cobwebs.
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