The Best of Tampere 2024
The screening presents short films from Tampere Film Festival. The duration of the screening is approx. 2h.
About
Traditional spring screening presents a selection of short films awarded at Tampere Film Festival.
Films
Wander to Wonder
Dir. Nina Gantz, The Netherlands, France, Belgium 2023
Experimentaln, animaation
17 min
Language: English, subtitles: Finnish
GRAND PRIX
Mary, Billybud and Fumbleton are three miniature, human actors who perform in an eighties kids TV series. After the series’ creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes and growing hunger, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
How to please
Dir. Elina Talvensaari, Finland 2023
Documentary
28 min
Language: English, subtitles: Finnish
RISTO JARVA PRIZE, NATIONAL COMPETITION UNDER 30MIN. SPECIAL PRIZE, PRIZE OF THE YOUTH JURY
Wed fled the war in Iraq after he was pressured to join local militias. Life in Finland begins well, but negative decisions by the Finnish Migration Service become big obstacles. He is prohibited to work, study or receive healthcare. Wed cannot go back to Iraq; his only option is to stay in Finland in an existential limbo.
Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area
Dir. Solmund MacPherson, Canada 2023
Fiction
12 min
Language: English,subtitles: English
GENERATION XYZ SPECIAL MENTION
In response to the rising cost of living, the citizens of Toronto begin renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of “Wildmen” in the city’s vast ravine network.
Nun or never!
Dir. Heta Jäälinoja, Finland2023
Animaation
11 min
VERSO PRIZE FOR RESPONSOBILITY, NOMINEE FOR EUROPEAN SHORT FILM AUDIENCE AWARD
The nuns live in the monastery in contentment and harmony, fused together. One of the nuns finds a man underground while digging potatoes. The nun begins to dream of the man, goes mad and loses a common rhythm with others.
Leila
Dir. Fariba Haidari, Sweden 2023
Documentary
25 min
Subtitles: Finnish & English
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, SPECIAL MENTION
Poignant and touching slices of Leila’s life, a charming 64-year-old transgender woman who is permanently navigating and negotiating her place in an antagonistic world, just before the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan.
Lasse kaatuu, voi ei!
Dir. Risto-Pekka Blom, Finland 2023,
Fiction
19 min
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English
NATIONAL COMPETITION UNDER 30 MIN MAIN PRIZE
The München Olympic Games, 1972. Lasse Virén is promised a gold medal and a new world record in the 10,000-meter run. But first he must fall.
