The 2026 Tampere Film Festival International Competition received a total of 7 125 submissions, of which 60 films from 44 countries were selected to compete.
Preselections for the International Competition were made by Juhani Alanen, Soilikki Alanne, Liina Härkönen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso, Riina Mikkonen, Ilo Ruotsalainen, Iida Sahlman, Aaro Salokorpi, Lauri Tapaninen, Mirjami Vertainen and Ayda Yilmaz.
Final selections were made by Liina Härkönen, Jukka-Pekka Laakso and Riina Mikkonen.
Directors’ gender statistics in the 2026 Tampere Film Festival International Competition:
- Female: 24 (40%) of selected / 2 760 (38,7%) of submitted
- Male: 34 (56,6%) of selected / 4 050 (56,8%) of submitted
- Other / Prefer Not To Disclose: 1 (1,6%) of selected / 224 (3,1%) of submitted
- Multiple Directors: 1 (1,6%) of selected / 91 (1,2%) of submitted
ARMENIA, BELGIUM, ESTONIA, FRANCE
WINTER IN MARCH
Natalia Mirzoyan | 2025 | 17′ | Animation, Documentary
AUSTRALIA
FACELESS
Fraser Pemberton, William Jaka | 2025 | 28′ | Fiction
AZERBAIJAN, SINGAPORE
IT LIVES UNDER THE SNOW
Igor Smola | 2025 | 17′ | Fiction
BANGLADESH
SCARLET ECHOES
Hemanta Sadeeq | 2025 | 8′ | Documentary
BELGIUM
KLONTER
Levi Stoops | 2025 | 15′ | Animation
SOUVENIRS D’UN AMI
Olivier Smolders | 2025 | 25′ | Experimental, Documentary
BRAZIL
SAFO
Rosana Urbes | 2025 | 13′ | Experimental, Animation, Documentary
CANADA
BLOODY MESS
Megan Wennberg | 2024 | 10′ | Animation, Documentary
SOL VIVANT
Émile Lavoie | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
CHINA
HAPPY DAY
Boru Zheng | 2025 | 5′ | Experimental, Fiction
RIDE YOUR HORSE
Song Dongxu | 2025 | 21′ | Fiction
CHINA, FRANCE, SOUTH KOREA
GREEN GREY BLACK BROWN
Yuyan Wang | 2024 | 12′ | Experimental, Documentary
CHINA, UNITED STATES
DELAY
Wang Han-Xuan | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
CUBA, UNITED STATES
NORHEIMSUND
Ana A. Alpizar | 2025 | 12′ | Fiction
DENMARK, UNITED STATES
THE REVOLUTION AGAINST DEATH
Joshua Oppenheimer | 2026 | 24′ | Documentary
EGYPT, UNITED STATES
EMPTY LANDS
Karim ElDin ElAlfy | 2025 | 19′ | Fiction
ESTONIA
AJASÖÖJA
Mari Kivi | 2025 | 17′ | Animation
FINLAND
THE BEAUTY OF AUTOMOBILES
Jukka Kärkkäinen | 2026 | 6′ | Documentary
FRANCE
AVANT DE RENTRER…
Arthur Bonneau | 2025 | 16′ | Animation, Fiction
CHAMBRE 206
Laurie Bisceglia | 2025 | 17′ | Documentary
PAPYA
Erwan Dean, Constance Delorme | 2024 | 15′ | Fiction
SOIXANTE-SEPT MILLISECONDES
fleuryfontaine | 2025 | 15′ | Animation, Documentary
SOLENOPSIS INVICTA
Victor Missud | 2025 | 31′ | Documentary
FRANCE, ITALY, MOROCCO, QATAR
L’MINA
Randa Maroufi | 2025 | 26′ | Experimental, Documentary
FRANCE, MONGOLIA
URAGSHAA HARSAN TSONH
Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
FRANCE, MOROCCO
LA VOIX DU STADE
Ahmed Dendane, Alexandre Tarek Bougja | 2025 | 3′ | Documentary
GEORGIA
INHERITED SILENCE
Mariam Khatchvani | 2025 | 15′ | Fiction
GERMANY
CORE DUMP
Alona Rodeh | 2025 | 7′ | Experimental, Animation
GAÏA
Gwenola Heck | 2025 | 5′ | Experimental, Animation
JOY
Luis Schubert, Vera Herr | 2026 | 7′ | Fiction
GERMANY, UKRAINE
MOVCHAT’ PTAKHY
Leo Dzhyshyashvili | 2025 | 8′ | Documentary
GREECE, ROMANIA
OI LYKOI EPISTREFOUN
Stelios Moraitidis | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
IRELAND
UNANIMATED STRANGERS
Róisín Kelly | 2025 | 5′ | Experimental, Animation
ITALY
PETROLIA
Giulia Mancassola | 2024 | 17′ | Documentary, Fiction
JAPAN
INTERLUDE
Taiyo Nobata | 2025 | 7′ | Animation
JORDAN
KENTUCKY GAZA
Omar Rammal | 2025 | 22′ | Fiction
KYRGYZSTAN, AZERBAIJAN
KYZYL TUFLI
Alina Baitokova | 2025 | 14′ | Fiction
LITHUANIA
ARTIMAS KONTAKTAS
Augustė Gerikaitė | 2025 | 20′ | Fiction
MEXICO
DESDOBLÁNDOME
Natalia Pájaro | 2025 | 8′ | Experimental, Animation
NORWAY
VINDFANG
Erik Ivar Sæther, Nicolai Berg Hansson | 2025 | 12′ | Fiction
NORWAY, SWEDEN, FINLAND
IN MY HAND
Marja Helander, Liselotte Wajstedt | 2025 | 24′ | Documentary
PAKISTAN
JISM(BODY)
Husain Qaizar, Saad Zuberi | 2025 | 14′ | Documentary
PALESTINE
LIVING DESPITE THEM
Antonia Colodro, Alaa Hathleen | 2024, 2025 | 19′ | Documentary
PERU
K’UCHU: RINCÓN DE LA INFANCIA
Alessio Del Pozo Temoche | 2025 | 12′ | Animation
POLAND
STROICIELE
Paweł Piotr Chorzępa | 2026 | 20′ | Documentary
PORTUGAL, FRANCE, SPAIN
A FRONTEIRA AZUL
Dinis M. Costa | 2025 | 30′ | Fiction
ROMANIA
DEZRĂDĂCINARE
Patri Preda, Alina Bracaci | 2025 | 8′ | Experimental, Fiction
SPAIN
LA RAÍZ
Isa Sáez Pérez | 2025 | 8′ | Experimental, Documentary
RAMÓN WHO SPEAKS TO GHOSTS
Shervin Kermani | 2025 | 8′ | Experimental, Documentary
SUDAN
IS IT WAR?
Timeea Mohamed Ahmed | 2024 | 6′ | Experimental, Fiction
SWEDEN
MYGGOR & SALTA PINNAR
Ville Gobi | 2024 | 16′ | Fiction
SON
Leona Cauklija | 2025 | 14′ | Documentary
SWITZERLAND
EX-TRACT
Marcel Barelli | 2025 | 4′ | Experimental, Animation, Documentary
SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM
AIR HORSE ONE
Lasse Linder | 2025 | 21′ | Documentary
THE NETHERLANDS
SANYI KAKAS
Lotte Salomons | 2025 | 20′ | Documentary
UNITED KINGDOM
RULE, BRITANNIA
Max Fisher | 2025 | 13′ | Fiction
UNITED STATES
WOMAN LAND
Yasmin Yassin | 2025 | 11′ | Fiction
UNITED STATES, CHINA
HYENA
Altay Ulan Yang | 2025 | 21′ | Fiction
UNITED STATES, FRANCE
BALLOONERISM
Samuel Jerome Mason | 2025 | 12′ | Animation
UNITED STATES, FRANCE, HUNGARY
CHARLIE IS NOT A BOY
Pol Kurucz | 2026 | 14′ | Fiction
