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  • Tromso, Norway January 13 - 18, 2009
  • Call for Entry Deadline: October 15, 2008
  • Festival Data:
    • Established: 1991
    • Genre: General
    • Attendance: 46472
    • Media Attendance: 180
    • Accredited Industry Attendance: 1388
    • Total Number of Films Screened: 141
    • Total Screenings: 272
    • # of Shorts Screened: 56
    • # of Features Screened: 85
    • Accreditations: FIPRESCI, FICC
    • Competitive
    • Has Panels
  • Festival Website:
    www.tiff.no
  • Festival Description:

    TIFF presents an international cutting edge program with feature films from all around the world. These are primarily Scandinavian premieres of films that have not yet achieved distribution in Norway, and that have not previously been screened at Norwegian festivals and cinema.

    The festival also have a regional program, "Films from the North", including shorts and documentaries from the Barents region or other circumpolar areas; Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Canada.

    AWARDS:

    AURORA

    The films in the Competition Program compete for Norwegian Film Institute's prize, Aurora. The award of NOK 75 000 (ca. 10 000 Euro), goes to the Norwegian film distributor who can ensure the import of the film.

    FICC

    Founded in 1947 during the Cannes Film Festival, FICC is an international umbrella organisation for film societies and non-profit cinemas. The Italian director Gianni Amelio is the honorary president of the FICC. Tromsø is the only Norwegian festival with a FICC-jury.

    FIPRESCI

    FIPRESCI consists of national organisastions of film critics, and works to promote film culture and safeguard professional interests.The FIPRESCI jury awards "The International Critic's Award," which in some cases often is regarded as equally important as official jury prizes.

    The Norwegian Peace Film Award

    The Norwegian Peace Film Award is awarded a film spotlighting direct, structural or cultural violence, and which in a creative way contributes to the prevention or SNF), has established the prize because of the power in film and storytelling. We believe that films that focus on oppression and abuses of power can make a difference.

    The Tromsø Palm Award

    The Tromsø Palm is given to the best short or documetary in the Films from the North program.

  • Film Submissions:
  • Email:info(at)tiff.no 
    Phone:(47) 77 75 30 90
    Fax:(47)77 75 30 99
    Mailing Address: PO BOX 285
    Tromso 9253
    Norway

                                                                                                                                                       

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  • APR 10, 2007 12:06PM FFW Films Editor writes:
    Award Winners for the 2007 Tromso International Film Festival
    The AURORA Prize: “Chronicles Of An Escape”
    Directed by: Israel Adrián Caetano (Argentina).

    The AURORA prize is given out by Tromsø International Film Festival and the Norwegian Film Institute. The Jury: Jon Iversen, Manager, Norsk Filmklubbforbund (Norway), Maria Ekerhovd , Producer, Alligator Film, Bergen (Norway), Geir Martin Jensen, Cinema Director, Tromsø Kino, (Norway)

    The DON QUIJOTE Award: “Longing”
    Directed by: Valeska Griesbach (Germany)

    The DON QUIJOTE award is given out by the FICC jury – the international federation of film societies and non-profit cinemas.
    The Jury: Dinah Muenchow, Bundesverband Jugend und Film-Leipzig, Germany; Eva Furer-Haller, Filmgilde Biel– Biel, Switzerland; Joep Aarts, Tromsø Filmklubb – Tromsø, Norway

    The FIPRESCI Award: “Still Life”
    Directed by: Zhang Ke Jia (China)

    FIPRESCI JURY TIFF 2007: Julia Khomiakova, Ekran I stsena (The weekly Screen and Stage, Moscow), Russia; Tibor Hirsch, Filmvilág (monthly magazine, Budapest), Népszabadság (daily newspaper, Budapest), www.film.hu (Web page, Budapest), Hungary; Odd Vaagland, Agderposten (daily newspaper, Arendal), Norway

    The Norwegian Peace Film Award: “Cats Of Mirikitani”
    Directed by: Linda Hattendorf (USA

    The Norwegian Peace Film Award is given out by Tromsø International Film Festival, Center for Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø and the Student Peace Network.
    THE JURY: Rashid Mashawari, Film director and producer from Gaza who lives in exile in Paris; Silje Ryvold, Master student at Center of Peace Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway; Michael J. Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii, USA

    The Tromsø Palm is given to the best short or documentary from the “Films from the North” program.

    The prize is shared between two films:
    “Prirechnyy”
    Directed by: Tone Grøttjord and
    “Tommy”
    Directed by: Ole Giæver
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