Tampere Film Festival

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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.

[edit] 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