Tampere UG

Get to know Tampere's underground scene through the eyes of the people who help create it.

Language: Eng Duration: 87 min Age Limit: 12+

  • kalenteri-ikoni Wed 5.3.

  • kelloikoni 18:00

  • karttaikoni Finnkino Cine Atlas 4

  • 12,50

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  • kalenteri-ikoni Fri 7.3.

  • kelloikoni 20:00

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Tampere is growing towards the heights, but there is always something happening underground. From one angle, our city is dynamic and well-organized. And from another angle, it is jagged and bubbling. There have always been shadows and hidden areas here where interesting things happen. This is exactly the side now be brought to light through six short films premiering at the film festival. Some of the material was shot earlier, but each of the films in the screening were completed around the turn of last year.

The content of the screening and the range of methods of implementation are like the field it covers – diverse and surprising. It includes short films, traditional documentation, experimental cinema and post-space age video art. The contents are influenced by music, art, experiences and independent work, oozing joy and dedication to the subject. 

Subcultures are doing well and the symbiosis with the built environment and institutions of society is in constant change. Underground work is secretive by nature. It's like an iceberg, only a small part of it is visible on the surface, if at all.

Sami Ylipihlaja
Curator of Tampere UG

  • Tikku D.I.Y.

    Director: Static Films
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 8 min

    Super 8 film from Tikkutehdas skate park.

  • Pyynikin aikamatkat

    Pyynikki Time Travel Agency
    Director: Mikko Vares
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 29 min

    A timetravel from the metamorphosis of the former infectious disease hospital into an urban oasis of activity in the center of Tampere.

  • TREspassing

    Director: Memory Dreams
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Experimental
    Duration: 7 min

    Two megasize international celebrities spent a weekend in Tampere area. They left a shoebox full of weird video footage behind one loose grid near shopping centre Ratina. Archivelogical duo Memory Dreams found the material…

  • Hanska

    Glove
    Director: Penna Salisma
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 2 min

    Pimple glove. A timeless classic that connects past to present, vegetable garden to factory ruin and grandmother to grandchild.

  • Iltasen iltaset

    Director: Sami Rogers, Matias Rogers, Jaakko Lavapuro, Hermann Sebastian Schultz
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 22 min

    The LABRA collective will be tonights guest at the Iltase's nightcap!

  • KRÄK

    Director: YP & Leijjja
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary, Experimental
    Duration: 16 min

    There is a rupture in the urban structure. The sound of underground erupts from the fracture point like a hot spring - randomly, but surely time after time.