Tampere Film Festival 2024
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- DirectorDaniela StephanStarsMarilyne NaamanPio ChihaneJo McGarryMounia searches for her lost cat among the ruins of the Beirut port explosion. Joined by her best friend Ghady, they navigate the remnants of their city on a quest to recover what's been lost.
- DirectorJulie GautierStarsJulie GautierHortense Le CalvezCyrielle HarielEcological short film by free-diving record-woman and filmmaker Julie Gautier that evokes our paradoxical relationship with plastic in the form of a live underwater dance that turns into a dangerous battle against marine pollution.
- DirectorJohn Thomas TrinidadStarsEmerald RomeroFlorante GarciaDanny LiusonAlong a river that undergoes a major change, Baby, a middle-aged transwoman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to disappear, she realizes that she has been left behind in a stagnating city.
- DirectorAnna Kekkonen
- DirectorKantarama GahigiriStarsCheryl IshejaTechnology and waste, in our lands, our systems, our bones. Wandering our spaces, she cannot help but wonder, where is the space for healing?
- DirectorSumi MathaiStarsNandini GopalakrishnanPradeep JosephUllarivu is about a young girl's transformative journey from a carefree child of the earth into a cautious young girl in the world, as she pieces together the hidden meanings and unfair rules of the patriarchal world. Her love for nature and exploration comes to a standstill when she is forced to understand that her access to the world itself is limited due to her gender. Even though she is brought up in a loving, protective family, helmed by her father, the family dynamics are deeply rooted in patriarchal rules and values. In a world that assigns pink for girls and blue for boys at birth itself, it's only a matter of time until the rules of subjugation are inflicted upon even the most hungry, wild souls.
- DirectorRakan MayasiStarsSaleh BakriGeorge IbrahimLana Haj YahiaAn Israeli family's equilibrium gradually disintegrates as a mysterious sound is heard every evening at the door of their apartment.
- DirectorSilvia Jiménez
- DirectorRoopa GogineniAfter the fall of President Omar al-Bashir, Sudanese make their way to demand civilian rule. Protestors occupy the military headquarters. A group of young revolutionaries create an imaginary television station.
- DirectorAnna HintsStarsAblasaApsanaArshadSurya, a teenage rag picker, finds a camera on a huge garbage mountain in Delhi. The camera becomes her window to the untold stories of women surrounding her. The film walks the line between documentary and fiction and focuses on a community of garbage collectors who try to find their place in the world midst garbage and scorching heat.
- DirectorSebastian Johansson-MicciStarsAnna AzcárateElle Kari BergenrudCarita IvanovaA final feedback meeting is being held prior to the release of Fläderholmen Art School's new commercial. Everyone is happy, but then a thought arises as to whether the commercial can be perceived as too white. The meeting escalates to a debate about how it happened, if it can be solved and above all - whose fault it is.
- DirectorSimon van der ZandeFrom a fixed point of view, we witness a tense bus ride in Brussels, when Samuel - a Congolese immigrant - gets on to voice his discontent with Europe.
- DirectorIbrahim HandalStarsMajd Al-KhatibOmar Al KurdAyham QaraqeFour kids from the refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life.
- DirectorJacqueline BaylonStarsAhmed TchicheMaría Ángeles Colsa HerreraFaisal BouhafsAfter learning that his son, Yahya, has died at sea trying to get to Spain, Ahmed Tchiche must find a way to bring his remains back to Morocco so he and his family can have a proper goodbye. A Spanish mortician, an NGO worker and an established Moroccan immigrant living in Spain all struggle to help Ahmed get his son's body home.
- DirectorLiisbeth Kala
- DirectorNans Laborde-JourdàaStarsFrancois ChaignaudMuriel Laborde-JourdàaMellie Laborde-JourdàaFran is in his hometown to rest and visit his mother. Following the jerky rhythm of Ravel's Bolero, this journey along the paths of memory and desire will lead him and the whole village to a joyfully chaotic climax.
- DirectorAlies SluiterStarsLena NankivellAlice KeohavongNathaniel DeanWhen strangers appear outside her window and lure her mother away, seven-year-old Sophie follows.
- DirectorFariba HaidariThis film is a poignant and touching slices of Leila's life, in Afghanistan. She is 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. The film shows her life that she tried to be herself. It is not easy but she dose not give up.
- DirectorNatalie Cubides-BradyStarsAerynne EastwoodIn 1952, London was engulfed in the Great Smog. As a result of industrialisation, a leaden fog settled over the entire city. The archive images from this period become letters from a desolate future.
- DirectorMartina MestrovicOne day, my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
- DirectorSam ShainbergStarsWillfred RoseAn ex-pickpocket returns to the NYC subway and reflects on his past life of crime. He struggles with questions of morality, purpose, and existence.
- DirectorAtsushi HiraiStarsHisako MizukiSatchiko OkunoKôta TsunezawaIt is the last day of the year and night falls on the small town of Toyama, Japan. A man who has come to the public baths to retrieve a forgotten object finds an old but valid ticket and lets himself be tempted. Among clouds of vapor and the gestures and conversations around him, a simple bath slowly becomes an invitation to existential reflection.
- DirectorHanna HögstedtIn a poetic film blending live-action with charcoal animation, the parents of the director talk about their loss of a child. Is this why she is so afraid, having a child herself? Is grief hereditary?
- DirectorTomas CaliStarsLinda DeMorrirAn animation recounting the director's meeting with fellow transgender immigrant Linda Demorrir and their concurrent artistic explorations.
- DirectorTomasz GrzymalaA cow breeder living in a remote area discovers the existence of a new, so far unknown, physical force. He builds his own instruments to unravel its secrets.
- ShortDirectorChloe CulpinStarsTaru DevaniHeena, desperate to get out of her soul-less job, goes on a mid-week pub session with her co-workers where they all descend into animalistic carnage. When she tries to quit the next day, she is hailed as recruiter of the year.
- DirectorMehedi MostafaAn essay film on an unplanned city, Dhaka, from the point of view of an off-screen architect. The architect travels from the loud city to the silence of the remote village, encounters people, incidents and landscapes. The film is a meditation on the nostalgia for the rural past jutted against the urban chaos and a reflection on finding home in the urbanized present.
- DirectorAntigoni KapakaStarsFelice TopiAhilleas HariskosFidel TalampoukasThe Statue of Liberty and Joker, two wandering street performers, end up in the same police cell. When the systemic brutality of the state and the police "breaks" Liberty, Joker will search for the pieces to rebuild her from scratch.
- DirectorMaxime-Claude L'Écuyer
- DirectorSofiia MelnykThe story of a little girl who wakes up on February 24th because of the air alert, and tries to find someone living in the burning city. The main character is based on the story of Alisa, a 4-year-old girl, who stayed in the besieged Mariupol during the whole time; she was also at the Azovstal plant during the last month of its defense. When the Russians allowed the civilians to evacuate from Azovstal, Alisa was separated from her mother.
- DirectorSelma SunnivaStarsBenedikte HansenFrederikke Dahl HansenCarla Eleonora FeigenbergThe nurse Emma arrives for her evening shift at a closed psychiatric facility. It's a day like any other. Colleagues are out sick, patients are dealing with acute problems and Emma and her colleagues must be creative to get the through the shift in the best possible way. In only twenty minutes their trust in the system will be put to a test.
- DirectorClémence BouchereauOn the edge of a mangrove, a group of girls live to the rhythm of the climate and the wild geese around them. They watch each other live and grow up at different ages. As time passes, tensions arise and rivalries develop.
- DirectorLucía G. RomeroStarsAna BarjaYaneys CabreraRasvely Lissette Donaire RestituyoJessica and Alma are two sisters who are victims of domestic violence at home and therefore treat each other with violence. That will begin to change through one of their routine trips to food stamps on the night of San Juan.
- DirectorMiguel LimaDimitri MihajlovicStarsTânia DinisPompeu JoséA woman wanders through the impermanence of her childhood memories, trying to reconstruct the history of the house where her grandfather lived.
- DirectorMarie-Pier DupuisStarsAgathe LedouxGabrielle PoulinSimone LedouxA hot summer day. A half-unpacked house. A mother who needs room to breathe, and a child who needs space to exist. As the afternoon heat turns oppressive, time seems to move entirely differently for each person.
- DirectorPierre LlanosStarsIllari PérezPold GastelloYaremís RebazaClara, a 13-year-old girl, works as assistant for his father in a informal dental office which is located above a Peruvian-Chinese restaurant. Her daily work is affected by the presence of Antonia, a young patient.
- DirectorJoaquín AraújoNicolás SequeiraStarsOlivia Molinaro EijoSoledad PelayoVicente VarelaJuana is twelve years old, she smokes and says she is pregnant. In the torpor of an immutable end of summer, she wanders between absence and disagreement with the adult world.
- DirectorMarielle DalpéStarsClare CoulterA bracingly expressionistic and emotionally devastating depiction of neurocognitive deterioration using a strong and emotive visual aesthetic and clever sound design that highlights the voice performance by the great Clare Coulter.
- DirectorNina GantzStarsNeil SalvageToby JonesAmanda LawrenceIn the 1980s, Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton starred in the children's television program Wander to Wonder. They are left alone in the studio after the show's originator passed away.
- DirectorLevi StoopsStarsLevi StoopsAnemone ValckeJeremy and Aurora are lost at sea. In the vast openness of the ocean they are cooped up together on a small tree trunk. As they fail to understand each other's desires and boundaries, the fight for their survival and the survival of their relationship becomes a bloody mess. Will our castaways be able to grow while trying to make it back to shore, or will they lose a piece of themselves along the way?
- DirectorHeta JäälinojaA nun digs a man out of the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?
- DirectorRaquel SancinettiEvery week, two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories in a senior home's living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.
- DirectorAnssi KömiSuvi WestStarsÁile AikioEeva-Kristiina NylanderHeini WesslinA Indigenous Sámi people fights to get back their stolen ancestral heritage.
- DirectorVeikko AaltonenStarsHeta AhoHannu-Pekka BjörkmanKari CavénVeikko Aaltonen's documentary takes us straight into the heart of creativity and passion in the company of renowned Finnish actors, painters, and other artists. How do they create their art - and why?
- DirectorPanu SuuronenStarsThomas KearinsRegina is a young feminist wrestler who fights men to become an international star. However, the true battle takes place outside the ring - in the story team meetings. The film is a portrait of the '20s woman and a close look at wrestling: the meetings, the fights and the true grit behind the theatre.
- DirectorAnna-Maija HeinonenKrista MoisioHard to Break tells an energetic and intimate coming-of-age story about 18-year-old Atte and 16-year-old Jonsu, who find themselves entangled in serious troubles as they seek approval from their social media followers and peers.
- DirectorRisto-Pekka BlomStarsHannu-Pekka BjörkmanKarlo HaapiainenJoel HirvonenThe Munich Olympic Stadium, 1972. Athletes and officials are preparing for the 10,000 meters final. Lasse Virén is warming up on the track. It is not a big day only for Virén but for the whole nation. But one man cannot win alone. It takes a dedicated group of hardworking, reliable people. In a desolate bunker near the track, six Finnish men are preparing to help Lasse achieve the run of his life. A run that changes history. All for the small, relentless nation from the dark cold North.
- DirectorInka AchtéEinari PaakkanenIt takes decades to build a legacy but how long does it take to forget? For many Finns, Vladimir Lenin is to thank for Finland's independence from Russia in 1917. But with Putin's aggression in Ukraine, citizens of a small Finnish town of Kotka near the Russian border, have to re-evaluate their views about the fate of Finland's last remaining Lenin statue. Is the bronze monument a disgrace, a tourist attraction, art, or all of the above? Forgetting Lenin is a short meditation on choosing not to remember.
- DirectorIiti Yli-HarjaA documentary puppet animation about Iiti (28), who tries to cope with the nightmare of a mouse problem in her new home.
- DirectorJohanna VuoksenmaaStarsAimo RäsänenSampsa HänninenRoope LeinonenA serious man heads into the woods as a moose.
- DirectorAnna Kekkonen
- DirectorSameli MuurimäkiStarsArmi ToivanenTiina WeckströmVesa VierikkoAfter her father's funeral, Maarit plans to return to Thailand but she finds her mother Sylvi, and her father's taxidermy badger in a bar. Sylvi makes a revelation that may change Maarit's departure plans.
- DirectorElina TalvensaariStarsWed Al-AsadiAfter escaping the Iraqi civil war, Wed requests asylum in Finland. It is denied even though his attorney is optimistic. It appears to be a mousetrap that drives Wed from pillar to post and into hopelessness.
- DirectorKaroliina GröndahlThe Finnish man's name Urpo derives from the Latin name Urbanus which means 'cultivated' and 'city dweller'. Urbanus has been a name of 8 popes and even the Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's name has the same roots. But in Finland, people have started using the name Urpo as a synonym for idiot. In this warm-hearted and humorous short documentary, four men all called Urpo gather to reflect on the meaning and impact of their name on their lives.
- DirectorArman ZafariStarsSeidi HaarlaTommi KorpelaOscar SteidleHelena is spending an evening with her family when someone knocks on the door. Unknown man confronts Helena with accusations towards her perfect family. Helena drives the man and the accusations away. But the seed of doubt has been planted.
- DirectorPatrik SöderlundStarsSienna HaarmaAhti HalkkaElias HeikkiläAn experimental imagining of Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi's novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century, focusing on the energetic basis of a Northern welfare state and a possible future emerging from the climate crisis.
- DirectorJosefina RautiainenStarsKreeta SalminenDalia Nikula MishalA terminally ill mother starts filming herself, hoping that her 5-year-old daughter will be able to connect with her through these moments after she is gone.
- DirectorJan IjäsStarsRebecca Clamp
- DirectorP.V. LehtinenStarsJukka PuhakkaKati JelekäinenKaroliina IlmarinenA film about a boy and a girl's summer night swim and a shimmering of water.
- DirectorSara Maaria PeltonenStarsPiki RantanenMiska TuononenMaiju VoutilainenHow does one leave positive marks on their body? In the short documentary, three young adults open up about their relationships with their bodies through tattoos. They think tattoos showcase something otherwise invisible about themselves.
- DirectorIro KoivusaloVirve RantaTiltu, a cat terrified of water, is lost just when it starts raining. The rain doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon, and Tiltu is trapped in their cover. Tiltu has to make a choice, but facing your fears is not always that easy.
- DirectorCristian BetetaStarsDiego AnidoPaula UseroPaula is coming back home from a party when suddenly her car breaks down. It's midday and she is in the middle of the desert waiting for someone to help her.
- DirectorRebecca CulverhouseStarsHarold AddoDorothea JonesA couple watching a horror film about a strangely familiar basement realise they're dreaming when they suddenly find themselves in the very same basement. And that's when it sees them - it knows they shouldn't be awake.
- DirectorTony HipwellStarsJohnny VivashLate at night, a lone fisherman discovers he is not the only one hoping to hook something.
- DirectorAmanda RiveraClaudia SaldiviaSimón BucherStarsRaimundo BucherIn a dystopian world, a creature attends a banquet organized by a magical refrigerator. Thus begins his unbridled descent into a spiral of consumption. Corrupted and turned into a beast, he faces a macabre end.
- DirectorDimitra PetmezaStarsGiorgos BoufidisOlga NikolaidouMaria PerodaskalakiThe doorbell rings. A mysterious woman opens the door. George is only trying to do his job, but things go terribly wrong.
- DirectorSolmund MacPhersonStarsSalma DharseeSheridan IrwinDaniel Christian JonesIn 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.
- DirectorLuigi SibonaStarsDarryl FosterFrankie WilsonLate evening in a London barbershop, an awkward stranger becomes enamoured with a charming barber. An unlikely attraction sparks between them and after a life-changing shave for The Stranger, the two go for a drink. As alcohol lowers The Stranger's inhibitions, his fascination for shaving starts to reveal a dark desire. After an uncomfortable walk home, The Barber politely cuts the evening short. Things take a turn when The Stranger sees The Barber shaving another customer, sending him into a deadly rage and hurtles them both to a grim and unpredictable climax.
- DirectorOlivia Marie ValdezA scientific experiment awakens violent impulses in stop motion horror.
- DirectorGiles BuchananStarsVivienne BellLeigh KellyConnor MaxwellThe sole survivor of a mountain climb struggles to come to terms with a supernatural incident.
- DirectorSalomé CrickxStarsLara CeulemansRaphaëlle DamilanoAlexandre TrockiToday is the 167th annual Shedding, a cheerful ceremony that brings all generations together to promote ideological renewal. This year, Ben and her parents will experience it first hand.
- DirectorSara JoyceStarsRuby BentallGeorgia Clarke-DayJanine DuvitskiTwo female friends accidentally and unfortunately, murder an internet date and need to clean the blood of their beloved taxidermy cat. Oh, and get rid of the body.
- DirectorJean-Claude LeblancStarsLuc PicardPatrick GauthierIsabelle BrossardHe had promised her love and faithfulness until death do them part, but Antoine, the widower, will be willing to lose his soul to be reunited with his wife on the other side.
- DirectorJames SmithStarsJames SmithA resident is challenged by demons from another realm in his closet.
- DirectorBrigitte PoupartMyriam Verreault
- DirectorGiselle BonillaStarsValeria CameroTyler SteelmanSet on a barren planet, a creature named Mort's daily routine is interrupted by the crash landing of a human spaceship.
- DirectorNicholas DuesVincent ErcolaniJulius Schulze FarwickStarsMathes DuesGermany, 1945: The Second World War is over. Josef, a former SS colonel, lives a secluded life in a hut deep in the forest. His only companions are his bees. The idyll proves to be a facade, because the demons of the past haunt Josef.
- DirectorKenneth Pulgar-VidalStarsDerrick DoverRina HoshinoWataru NaritaSynapse follows a story of a female shut-in gig worker named Miyu Naruse who does whatever it takes to have breakfast with her husband once again. It's a cyberpunk story set in near future Tokyo that seeks to present an example of the length a person might have to go to in order to have something as simple as having a breakfast with your spouse in a peak capitalist dystopic world.
- DirectorTopi RauloStarsRoosa SöderholmHannele LaaksonenJouni InniläFar in the future, a young Finno-Ugric person sets out to seek answers to life's big questions, but ends up becoming a slave for a cult of semiotics. Answers they give are contaminated - quite literally.
- DirectorErkko Kivikoski
- DirectorAhmed AbdullahiStarsJean-Claude BoekeSule RimiPontus StröbaekTen Westafrican men come to Sweden as guest workers in the forest industry, planting trees. Contrary to previous agreements, they are paid on provision - and a minuscule amount. Francis won't stand to work under the given conditions, where he can't even afford his ticket to go back home. He tries to make himself a better future. But on the way he is faced with difficult decisions. For himself, the group, and his best friend Eric.
- DirectorElina TalvensaariVisitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. The locals grow restless - things are changing, secret berry spots are revealed and everything is getting uncomfortable. Who is to blame and who is profiting from all this? How to Pick Berries is an exploration of Finnish mind and the absurdities of global economy.
- DirectorNick JordanThe Entangled Forest is a film which explores the multifaceted interrelationships between trees and fungi within forest ecologies.
- DirectorMarkku Lehmuskallio
- DirectorSimon de Diesbach
- DirectorMarkku LehmuskallioStarsPertti Kalinainen
- DirectorMilja ViitaStarsLoa SaloA year in the life of a wildlife bridge over a busy highway in southern Finland, showing the animals crossing over and the traffic flowing under.
- 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.
- DirectorJudith AuffrayStarsGérard DousseauAt night and in the darkness of day, an explorer makes his way through the jungle of Borneo in search of orangutans.
- DirectorTeemu NikkiStarsMarjut MaristoOlavi Uusivirta
- DirectorMaija BlåfieldStarsMaija BlåfieldTina TablerKaarlo WegeliusFinland has the most forest in Europe, but primeval forest has become so rare that it almost feels fictional. Is it now the enchanted forest? And is a commercial forest real? As the nature documentaries are staged, are they fiction? As feral gardens grow over the abandoned human infrastructure in Detroit, will they become future forests?
- DirectorSalla HämäläinenStarsMarkku MäkinenVeera VäistöA story about a man whose deep connection to nature and forest spirits has alienated from normal life.
- DirectorMaarit Suomi-Väänänen
- DirectorJean-Gabriel PériotGermans and Nazi fraternizes are publicly denigrated amid the celebration after World War II has ended.
- DirectorPirjo HonkasaloPekka LehtoStarsPekka Siitoin"Sign of Danger" - about the Finnish occultist and neo-Nazi Pekka Siitoin and the Patriotic People's Front.
- DirectorBogdan MuresanuStarsAdrian VancicaLuca TomaMircea AndreescuA son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.
- DirectorEstibaliz Urresola SolagurenStarsBegoña SuarezMiguel GarcésXanti AguirrezabalagaRita belongs to a choir which is in danger of breaking up - they've lost the subsidy that allowed them to rent a rehearsal room. The group has to decide whether to accept sponsorship by the company causing pollution in the valley.
- DirectorOlivia Martin McGuireA hybrid, poetic documentary interweaving hand-drawn animation and film, which tells the story of a grandfather's perilous swim from China to Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution.