Submissions for the 2026 Tampere Film Festival Competitions Are Now Open!
Submit your film to our International, National or Generation XYZ Competition via FilmFreeway or Shortfilmdepot.
Rules and guidelines can be found on our Competitions page!
Competitions 2026Photos from Festival Week
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You can find photos from the 2025 TFF in our Flickr photo gallery – just follow the link below!
Flickr Photo GalleryTampere Film Festival Reached Its Visitor Goal – 20 Screenings Sold Out
Tampere Film Festival’s programme, both on-site and online, attracted approximately 20,000 visitors in total.
The festival’s ticket sales were more active compared to the previous year, with a total of 20 film screenings selling out.
A big thank you to all festival visitors and see you again next year!
Read the newsTampere Film Festival 2025’s Competition Winners Have Been Announced!
Tampere Film Festival’s Award Ceremony awarded the best competition films at Olympia, 8 March. The winners of the Sylvi Scriptwriting Prizes, in TV and film, were also announced.
The Grand Prix in the International Competition went to Martín Seeger’s El canon (2024). In the National Category, Veera Lamminpää took home a total of five awards with the animation Fish River Anthology (2024).
Congratulations to all winners!
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Submissions for the 2026 Competitions Are Open!
Submissions for Tampere Film Festival´s International, National and Generation XYZ Competitions 2026 are now open. You can

Tampere Film Festival Reached Its Visitor Goal – 20 Screenings Sold Out
Tampere Film Festival, the largest short film festival in the Nordic countries, took place for the 55th

Awards of Tampere Film Festival Announced at the Olympia – Grand Prix Awarded to Martín Seeger’s film El canon
The competitions of Tampere Film Festival culminated on the evening of Saturday, 8 March, with the Award