Tampere Film Festival 2018
All the contestants of both the international and the national competition.
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- DirectorTeppo AiraksinenStarsPekka StrangJuho MilonoffInna BodsonIn the midst of divorce, Olavi retreats to his summer cottage only to find that the ceiling has mysteriously come down. The Ceiling was awarded the Special Distinction of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and has since been screened at several prominent film festivals such as Telluride Film Festival, Tampere Short Film Festival and Encounters Bristol.SPECIAL PRIZE
- DirectorTrevor CourtneyStarsDonal AtkinsTrevor CourtneyUltan CourtneyDeposits concerns the connection of all the 'Disappeared', who are the remains of those murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and those killed centuries earlier by the British Redcoats. In common they are buried without trace, but are connected by hopes for discovery.
- DirectorLukas von BergA tiny fruit fly gets swatted. But against all odds, it defies death the Italian way.
- DirectorBayu Prihantoro FilemonStarsPritt TimothyErnanta KusumaDarto, a film dubber, working in the most critical Indonesian film during the second cold war.
- DirectorDusan KastelicStarsMateja StaricDusan KastelicYou have probably heard of the phrase "To think outside of the box"? Well, this is a story about such a box. The box is full of miserable creatures. One of those creatures doesn't belong there. He's thinking outside of the box.
- DirectorSuncica Ana VeldicA dystopian scene of a landfill on a foggy winter morning, disrupted by gulls and some humans going about their business.
- DirectorJus JerajAtila UrbancicStarsAleksander TurensekFranc TurensekRadovan VerzelakAmong idyllic hills and the bluest of skies live men and their tractors. Trahere is a film about just that, the age-old bond between man and tractor.
- DirectorMohammad Najarian DarianiStarsBabak JamshidiNilufar NedaeiAmin NajafiWhile he works at the exit toll leading to the airport, a man dreams of taking off.
- DirectorAlexandre SteigerStarsChristian BouilletteSamuel AchacheAlexandre SteigerFrancis, a man in his sixties, is found in a diving suit, swimming in a river in the city center. Even his
- DirectorFrancesca ScalisiMark OlexaA woman fishing in turbid waters, a suffering nature, the broken chant of the muezzin, all linked by a thin, black line.
- DirectorRuthy PribarStarsRaj VitthalpuraIcho AvitalGedalia Besser
- DirectorSee Wee AwA Sunday afternoon, migrant worker Anne and her husband leave their five years old daughter from Kampung Tapir (Tapir Village), Malaysia. On the way to Singapore, the bus their ride hit a wild Malayan tapir which wanted to cross the road, but no one is eager to save it. In the struggling of choosing a country to settle down, Anne founds that she is like this endangered species, still drifting places to find their own better life.
- DirectorAshique MostafaA one-take observational piece about the microcosm of religious practice and class segregation in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka. Multiplicity within a Muslim community and the passage of people through one single frame documents this society's interiors and exteriors..
- DirectorFeyrouz SerhalStarsPetra SerhalThe football World Cup kicks off today and the people of Beirut are eager for the big awaited event. While life moves on normally in such a day, the signal of the first match seems to be disrupted by strange audio waves. The frustration in the air builds up giving way to a bigger live event.
- DirectorHumberto VallejoStarsKarina ValdezRuairi RhodesSolanyi GómezChanel doesn't live in New York like she has led all her family to believe. A voice message puts in danger the double life she has built for her baby daughter and herself.
- DirectorMyrsini AristidouStarsAudrey GiacominiChryssa PlatsatouraTakis SpyridakisAthens, today. Seventeen-year-old, Aria working at the local kebab place, is waiting for a driving lesson with her father.
- DirectorÉlodie DermangeAs she is showering and dressing, a woman bares her soul As she is showering, dressing, putting on her make-up, a woman bares her soul.GRAND PRIX
- DirectorAyel KamalAyçe KartalStarsZeynep Naz DaldalS., 8 years old, is a little Turkish girl with an overflowing imagination. She is keen on nature and animals. While she is looking back on the good old days in her grandparents' village from hospital room, dark and terrifying memories emerge and, little by little, begin to make sense.DIPLOMA OF MERIT & JINZHENIN FILM FESTIVAL SPECIAL PRIZE
- DirectorAlejandro González SalgadoStarsGloria EkerewenIn Bolingo. The Forest of Love several women tell us about their journey from the heart of Africa to North Morocco in search of the "European dream". Bolingo means love in Lingala, the language of a group of Congolese migrants that decided to create a more human surrounding in the North of Africa and thus, formed a camp where migrant women could live with their children until circumstances allowed them to cross the border to Europe.
- DirectorGabriel TempeaThe depiction of sexuality under a dictatorship in the oeuvre of Milan Kundera is set against the filmmaker's personal recollections and archival images.
- DirectorBehnam AbediStarsMajid AghaKarimiMehdi FarizehMajid NorouziTaste of rejection always has been one of my fears and this time i tried to achieve to this feeling in a movie. i liked to make a simple story about rejection and wait to see how could be the reaction of someone who is in banishment and Suppression ?
- DirectorMarc-Antoine LemireStarsPascale DrevillonAlex TrahanAlexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
- DirectorRati TsiteladzeStarsAdelina PolinaRati TsiteladzePrisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the world and mind of a young transgender woman, trapped between her personal desire for freedom and traditional expectations of her parents that threatens their unity.BEST DOCUMENTARY & EFA – NOMINATION
- DirectorVinícius CardosoIn Bosch's hell, she was condemned to look at her own reflection. Forever. Condemned by her vanity, she is vanity. Spirit that wanders through the darkness of the Garden of Earthly Delights. She is vanitas. A latin noun means 'emptiness' and 'vanity.' And it also refers to the 'vanitas' paintings of the Middle Ages. A type of symbolic work of art from northern Europe and the Netherlands, from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which seem like a morbid artifact, but act as a reminder of the ephemerality of life. Memento mori, or 'remember death.' A poignant message from Art comes to this film. Because today we do not share pains and failures. And so vanity is the price to be paid. Such a move made vanity a virtue, no longer the capital sin of pride. Bringing among its characteristics immortality. We are the civilization that put death aside. Therefore, the idea of this work is to exhort the spectator to consider mortality. Pondering about death is, paradoxically, pondering about life and temptations. Observing ignorance about false values, this dancing spirit warned that 'our vices and horrors, dishonorable passions, wild, blind, dangerous irrationalities, our unconfessable impulses ...' has an end. This is the drama.
- DirectorJosé MagroStarsAna VilaçaErica ChapimAna PríncipeLetters from Childhood explores a story about two childhood friends - Kate and Sarah - through the countless letters that Kate wrote many years later.
- DirectorXeph SuarezStarsAstri TahariUsman AggaDiane AlbertoA Badjao transwoman is forced to abandon her lover to marry a woman betrothed to her from birth.
- DirectorCarolina MarkowiczStarsMatías SingerA brief story of a guy who's obsessed about having sex with ETs.
- DirectorPavlo OstrikovStarsOlesya OstrovskaAleksandr PozharskiyOksana IlnytskaRoman lives a lonely life in a provincial city and works as a technician. For the first time since graduation, Liuda, his ex-classmate, comes back to town. Nobody has heard anything from her for twenty years, but Roman is set on not losing her again.
- DirectorAli ParandianStarsArman SurizehiBhkie MaleKhalid MahamoudAfter a day of swimming and drinking by the river, Erffan, Amir, and Carlos are joined by a man who calls himself Jesus. With him, he brings a message of tolerance, reconciliation, and brotherhood.
- DirectorSophie LinnenbaumStarsDavid O. RiedelCarsten StierExplores the idea of reducing a person's life to just those moments captured in photos and asks poses the question how real these pictures actually are.
- DirectorNadia MangoliniFour siblings, whose their father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childhood during the regime.
- DirectorJuan Sebastián MesaOscar lives with his family in a humble country house that has been left in the middle of a hydroelectric project, It is the last day to evacuate their place. in the face of the uncertainty and sorrow that means leaving the land where were born, his grandparents decide to end under it.
- DirectorChristos MassalasStarsElsa LekakouPavlos IordanopoulosStathis StamoulakatosThis is the story of Copa-Loca, an abandoned Greek summer resort. Paulina is the girl at the heart of Copa-Loca. Everyone cares for her and she cares about everyone - in every possible way.
- DirectorRuslan BratovStarsSergey AbroskinAleksandr BashirovSergey LegostaevThe restaurant is closing, and Oleg Maratovich wants to celebrate. Taking along three of his employees, who are no longer able to resist his charm, he sets off in search of adventure. The story then has a completely unexpected twist.
- DirectorChema García IbarraStarsJuan José FazAni HovhannisyanFatima KounbacheFive friends are preparing a night of fun.
- DirectorJuho KuosmanenStarsJaana PaananenJuha HurmeTomi AlataloA remake of the first fictional Finnish film, Salaviinanpolttajat (1907), made in 1907. The new version of this lost film is based on the synopsis of the original film.
- DirectorAmanda KernellStarsTage HervénIza WestmanSaga IsaxonIt's minus 30 degrees and Conny (20 y/o), walks around like a restless criminal with his hoodie up in a small forgotten village in northern Sweden. He's not welcome anywhere and the whole village seems to hate him. Yesterday he panicked and drove away from his girlfriend's delivery of their baby - but now he has repented and wants to come back. But what will it take for her to forgive him?
- DirectorLaura HypponenStarsEdward FranklinJeff FaheyBranko TomovicSutulin, an ordinary young man living in a tiny room in a communal Soviet apartment, is visited by a mysterious stranger who offers him an opportunity to try out 'Quadraturin': a miracle product that promises to enlarge interior spaces. Sutulin takes up the offer--with surprising consequences.
- DirectorGreg McLeodMyles McLeodAn isolated town in the Texas borderlands. A place out of time. A shrine to minimalist art. Home to a remote festival. A place where unexplained lights tremble in the night sky. And then there's the giant lemon.
- DirectorBibhusan BasnetPooja GurungStarsDevi DamaiParimal DamaiIn their remote village, haunted by memories, Atimaley and Devi find themselves faced with a dilemma when a dear friend leaves without saying goodbye.
- DirectorSirkka-Liisa Konttinen
- DirectorDavid HeinemannElvina NevardauskaiteLithuania's oldest factory breathes life into the next generation of workers and the clay bricks they toil to produce. The spaces, their textures and sounds, transport us to an uncertain, mysterious dimension. The decrepit factory, the Sisyphean labour it extracts, presents us with our own mortality. Like bricks we are but clay.
- DirectorNiki Lindroth von BahrStarsSven BjörklundMattias FranssonCarl EnglénA dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
- DirectorRostoStarsHank BotwinikMax BuntenJurriaan de VosEverything's different but nothing has changed. A trip through a sunken maze of memories and dreams.
- DirectorYung-Shiuan YangOne day I asked my aunts and uncles about my grandpa. They said Grandpa was a gold miner, a trainee, a businessman and a hero. The stories they told are so difficult to imagine. I'm trying to find out who my grandpa is. But are these tales all real? Who on earth is he?
- DirectorEsther NiemeierStarsBenito BauseKais SettiA true story about a war and the tragic impact it has on the lives of three people.AUDIENCE AWARD
- DirectorRu KuwahataMax PorterStarsAlbert BirneyEven though Sam's father is hardly ever home because he is often away on business trips, he is able to connect with his son by teaching him how to pack a suitcase.BEST ANIMATION
- DirectorPatrycja PolkowskaStarsJoanna DrozdaJulia KalkoMaria MamonaThe last weekend before Christmas. Kama brings her seven-year-old daughter Tosia, who lives with her father, to a shopping mall. During these few hours Kama wants to make up for her absence in Tosia's life. Although they seem happy, there is a growing sense of unease. As the events spiral out of control, Kama makes a decision which will have an irrefutable impact on her relation with Tosia.
- DirectorStefan IvancicStarsOgnjen ZlaticDubravka KovjanicIgor BencinaIvica is a 11-year-old who spends his days among friends, roaming around unexplored grounds of an industrial town. Bitter and disquieted, he's about to find out that today his parents are separating.
- DirectorTarun JainStarsAnurag AroraNaresh KaushikDiksha LambaBalram, a villager is endowed with more plight as his father's last ritual commences. His father's death not just made him fatherless, but a lone shoulder with dependability and burden. Devki Rani, the old mother with a declining health has very meager to offer. The banker's reminder about the fixed deposit and persuading Balram to become the sole nominee, seems most favorable. Considering a suitable groom for daughter Rashmi and setting up the dairy business again, ignites more to the occasion. The appetite of an exceeding interest rate and confiscating all the money after his mother's death, makes Balram think.
- DirectorVera VodynskiStarsEduard ChekmazovAndrey FilippakElena LemeshkoDownshifter Alex lives in Sri Lanka as a white king. Parents' arrival coincides with mystical appearance of the local deity, Shamka, in the village. Alex's peaceful life ends at this point.
- DirectorEesu LehtolaHenna VälkkyBased on personal recordings of people narrating their dreams and nightmares, we race through their unconscious desires and fears.
- DirectorTomi Malakias
- DirectorMarja HelanderStarsBirit HaarlaKatja HaarlaTwo sister ballerinas dance through the villages and forests of the Sámi land in this whimsical and disarming commentary on indigenous sovereignty and land ownership (The Sámi are the only indigenous people within the European Union area).MAIN PRIZE Under 30-minutes & RISTO JARVA AWARD
- DirectorReetta NeittaanmäkiErika WeisteStarsAnita CallinHeimo MäkiharjuKirsti TiljanderYOUTH JURY PRIZE
- DirectorPerttu SaksaStarsNiko SaarelaHeikki WillamoAn unconventional nature documentary about the relationship between man and animal. The movie depicts nature photographer and writer Heikki Willamo's journey to the landscape of post ice-age northern wilderness, an imaginative and evocative view of man's ancient relationship to its prey.
- DirectorJonna KinaStarsElodie FiatGilles MarsaletExperimental documentary about two foley artists while they are producing sounds for one the most famous film scenes in the history of film, the shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
- DirectorSang-Hun ParkJang Pi-non has squandered his fortune and comes back to his family after 10 years of absence.
- DirectorDaniel GräbnerAn artificial palm tree in the ocean. 40,000 blue-collar workers have been constructing it for seven years. A total of 200 million cubic meters of dredged sand were used. But the palm is sinking. One day the ocean will reclaim the palm. But this is actually just the beginning of the story.
- DirectorKoorosh AsgariA boatwoman who makes a living with carrying passengers encounters a prostitute who travels sometimes with her.DIPLOMA OF MERIT
- DirectorMaxim HectorsStarsOscar Van RompayThis is a poetic portrait of a young man's struggle to put on his back-pack, while under the influence of alcohol, on a sunny afternoon in the city.
- DirectorLiu WenzhuoOnly an old man, his grandson and some goats remain in a relocated village of Loess Plateau region. Holding a business in the town, the old man's son wants his own son to go to downtown school.BEST FICTION
- DirectorSébastien Laudenbach1899. A widow shares all the follies she did with her husband Charles, her passionate husband.
- DirectorAnna OparkowskaA short story about loneliness, maladjustment and the desperate need of closeness, set in a severe winter landscape.
- DirectorTerje HenkSand animation about three people and a fox. Story of friendship, time and pain of letting go.
- DirectorMarjo ViitalaStarsIsa-Marie AaltolaAaro AirolaElena LeeveLiina lives with her mother who is most of the time absent. One day she starts hearing barking of a dog from a dead man's apartment.
- DirectorVirpi SuutariStarsJani LaineSatu LaineAmanda LaineEntrepreneurs get a bad name nowadays. Some of them deserve it. But there are exceptions to the rule. By portraying two entirely different Finish family enterprises with warmth and sympathy, the film gives an insight into new ways of doing business (with or without meat!), but also juxtaposes two different ways of living and surviving in the broader context of the post-modern neo-liberal capitalist society.SPECIAL PRIZE & CHURCH MEDIA FOUNDATION & AUDIENCE AWARD
- DirectorTimo WrightEx Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains of deceased people are held and of an international seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are held frozen. The first part is about one of the most advanced humanoid robots, HUBO. It can walk on uneven terrain, drive a vehicle and operate different tools. The second part is about Oregon Cryonics, a cryonics organization in Salem, Oregon, USA. At their facility human brains of deceased people are kept at very low temperatures. The third part is about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which s situated on the island of Spitsbergen midway between Norway and the North Pole. The vault holds seeds of more than 4000 different plant species at -18 °C. The crates of seeds from all around the world are kept side-by-side deep inside the frozen vault.
- DirectorChristina LassheikkiJenni NylanderPauliina ParjanenA child comes home from school with a message to their parents about the Bring Your Child to Work -day. After a long wait with their dog, the parent finally arrives home - and takes the child to a rather different workplace.
- DirectorSami van IngenStarsRakel LinnanheimoRegina LinnanheimoKaarlo OksanenA fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja - FALLEN ASLEEP WHEN YOUNG (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015.DIPLOMA OF MERIT
- DirectorSanni PrihaFor every generation there is a war story to be told. The story is told in the evenings. It is like a movie about the good and the bad, us and them, profits and losses. Some images are so impressive that they are turned into symbols and monuments; beginnings, turning points and endings. This is a film about the story of war which the evening news told to us, growing up in the 1990s. The story was told with images of burning oil fields. It was reported that on its withdrawal the defeated side ignited the oil wells in fire, causing major financial losses. There were no images of human casualties. The story began when we we kids and it still goes on.STUDENT AWARD
- DirectorPetra Koponen
- DirectorHannu-Pekka PeltomaaStarsGöran SchaumanLeena UotilaArja PekurinenRose Garden is an absurd story about institutionalized elderly care and lust for life.DIPLOMA OF MERIT & UUSI KINO PRIZE
- DirectorMika Taanila
- DirectorKhadar Ayderus AhmedStarsFuaad AminAaliya MustafaElina KnihtiläA Somali man's car starts to disappear mysteriously at night. When he decides to catch the thief, things take an unexpected turn.
- DirectorLeena Jääskeläinen
- DirectorAntti Tanttu
- DirectorArttu LiimattaA hypnotic journey to Villa Mehu, the magical home of a deceased ITE artist Elis Sinistö. The bizarre yet beautiful work of art is slowly decaying towards its inevitable demolition without anyone even noticing.
- DirectorJan Ijäs
- DirectorP.V. LehtinenStarsRobin WegeliusTolue TaheriAbdeslam ChellafA dreamlike story where two young strangers, a boy and a refugee girl, meet under unusual circumstances.
- DirectorPetteri SaarioStarsRiikka KarppinenJuha KarppinenTiina KarppinenInternational mining company is looking to establish a mine on Viiankiaapa, a swamp area, which is a part of EU's Natura 2000 nature protection network. Miner's daughter Riikka Karppinen has decided to lead the opposition for this project.
- DirectorAleksi PuranenStarsVille JaarantoRisuTouko TumantoFollows a disabled man's dream of travelling across Europe on a power wheelchair.
- DirectorJukka KärkkäinenJ-P PassiStarsKari AaltoSami HellePertti KurikkaA sequel to the acclaimed documentary The Punk Syndrome (2012).MAIN PRIZE over 20-minutes
- DirectorArto KoskinenStarsTuomas SiekkinenTiiti KellomäkiCraig LivingstoneThe amazing history about the Finnish giant company Nokia. A company which has done remarkable changes when needed, and failed totally when the smart phones came. But Nokia is back again.
- DirectorJouko AaltonenPeter von BaghStarsPeter von BaghAgit PropSinikka SokkaThe story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.
- DirectorMartti KaartinenNiklas KullströmStarsFrank SkogMichael O'FlahertyA journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsJörn DonnerKalle NikunenTarja Olkinuora
- DirectorAntonia RingbomFrom the age of 16 he used alcohol and drugs to keep anguish away. In the shape of an animated hedgehog he tells about his fights against voices and shapes.
- DirectorJouni WestBrothers are fishing and puzzled with the fish and how to kill it.
- DirectorUlla HeikkiläStarsElla LahdenmäkiSonja KuittinenKaroliina NiskanenComedy about female empowerment and friendships that stay with you forever.