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Introduction

Tampere Film Festival is one of the most important short film festivals. The festival presents over 450 films

in 120 screenings. The 47th festival will be held 8th to 12th of March 2017.

The core of the festival is the International and the National Competitions and the special programmes. About

110 films from 40 countries are screened in the competitions. The special programmes consists of a great number

(about 20 each year) of retrospectives, tributes and thematic programmes and the children’s festival all of 

which allows a wide selection of European works from the early years of cinema up to the most recent works.

Tampere Film Festival will be visit by about 100 foreign and 550 Finnish accredited guests (about 100 journalists). 

Tampere Film Festival has a high number of public - about 17 000 spectators in 5 days. Tampere Film Market has over

4000 titles, with a major presence of productions of northern Europe and Baltic countries. A variety of events, seminars, 

exhibitions and meetings are organised during the festival.Tampere is very active on bilateral activities regarding

promotion, programming and consulting with several European festivals. Promoting Finnish and European Short Film is 

one of our primary missions.Professional meetings include discussions and seminars of different topics, a meeting

of film festivals and meetings between filmmakers, producers, audience and film students.

Date

2017/03/08-2017/03/12

Venue

Tampere (Finland)

Deadline

2016/12/01

Award

International

Competition

Grand Prix       

Best Animation    

Best Fiction       

Best Documentary Film       

Special GBVision Prize      

Audience Award

Entry Requirement           

▪ all genres

▪ maximum length 30 minutes

▪ completed January 1st 2015 or later

▪ complete productions only

▪ film can be submitted only once

▪ premiere not required

▪ no screening fee for selected films

▪ accepted screening formats DCP or Digital File

(Apple ProRes 422 or H.264)

▪ screening copy must be in or subtitled in English

▪ entry fee June 1st–October 31st 2016 is 8 €/film

▪ entry fee November 1st–December 1st 2016 is 12 €/film

Submission

▪ deadline December 1st 2016 (late submissions will not be previewed)

▪ submission can be done only via reelport (beta.reelport.com)

▪ register to the site

▪ fill in the entry form

▪ upload at least one still photo of the film

▪ upload the preview file OR provide a downloadable Vimeo link

▪ make sure the preview file is working correctly

▪ preview file must be in or subtitled in English

▪ submit to Tampere Film Festival – International Competition 2017

▪ make the payment

▪ final selection is announced on February 1st 2017 at www.tff.fi

▪ only the submitters of the selected films will be notified personally

Film Market

All preview files are automatically entered into Tampere Film Festival’s Film Market and made available 

for accredited professionals only. Film Market will be open for three weeks, March 8th–29th 2017.

If the submitter does not want to have the film included in the Film Market, festival must be notified 

when submitting the film to the competition. 

If The Film Is Selected

▪ please note that only the submitters of the selected films will be notified personally

▪ information given in the entry form (synopsis, credits etc.) will be used as such in all printed 

publications and on the website

▪ screening copy must be delivered at least 2 weeks before the festival starts

▪ films will be electronically subtitled in Finnish

▪ screening copy must have English subtitles and be identical to the preview copy

▪ festival is authorized to make one excerpt not exceeding 10% or max. 3 minutes of the total running

time of the selected films to be used in promoting the festival in various medias and the Internet

▪ festival will insure the screening copy while in the festival’s possession (The insurance will follow 

the regulations of FIAPF)

▪ festival will cover the return expenses of the screening copy if needed

▪ festival offers the representative of the film (1 person) accommodation for 3 nights in Tampere during 

the festival

Non-Specified Cases

Any such cases not mentioned in these regulations will be left to the festival’s consideration 

(in accordance with FIAPF International Regulations). By submitting the entry form the submitter 

acknowledges that they have read, understood and accepted the regulations without reservation.