{"id":46076,"date":"2023-12-20T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T10:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/?p=46076"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:42:40","slug":"another-peak-into-the-2024-programme-and-a-new-look-for-tampere-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/another-peak-into-the-2024-programme-and-a-new-look-for-tampere-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Peak into the 2024 Programme and a New Look for Tampere Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Christmas gift to all film lovers, the second programme theme of the Tampere Film Festival 2024, called Forest, is announced. The programme set includes three short film screenings that look at different dimensions of the forest. There will be documentaries, fiction, animation and experimental films.<\/span><\/p>\n

The focus of the first screening is forestry, and the films shown in it comment on the forest from the perspective of various professions, such as loggers, berry pickers and tree planters. The screening will include, for example, the short film <\/span>How to Pick Berries <\/span><\/i>(2010), directed by <\/span>Elina Talvensaari<\/b>, which tells the story of Thai berry pickers in Finland. In <\/span>Nick Jordan’s<\/b> film <\/span>The Entangled Forest<\/span><\/i> (2023), ecologist <\/span>Suzanne Simard<\/b> talks about her groundbreaking research on the symbiosis of trees and fungi.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013<\/span> Forests in Finland are too ofte<\/span>n treated purely<\/span> from the point of view of profit, even though there is much more to the forest than that. The forest also has an intrinsic value, and the human species is not needed for its existence, thinks <\/span>Riina Mikkonen<\/b>, executive director of the Tampere Film Festival, who curated the Forest screenings.<\/span><\/p>\n

This idea continues in the second screening,<\/span> in which the <\/span>films present the forest as a home and habitat for many species. The screening includes, for example, two seldom-shown documentaries by <\/span>Markku Lehmuskallio<\/b>, <\/span>Sounds of the Northern Forests<\/span><\/i> (1973) and <\/span>Tapiola<\/span><\/i> (1974). <\/span>Milja Viita’s<\/b> Animal Bridge U-3033 <\/span><\/i>(2018) tells about the parallel realities of humans and wild animals. The Colombian fictional film <\/span>Tierra mojada (Eng. Swamp) <\/span><\/i>(2017) will also be screened. The film, directed by <\/span>Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Mesa<\/b>, is about a family, who is forced to evacuate due to a large hydroelectric project.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013<\/span> We often forget how many species the forest is home to. It has also been that for humans, and for some it still is <\/span>\u2013<\/span> if not physically, then at least mentally. It is tragic that the value of the home forest may only be recognized when it\u2019s lost, says Mikkonen about the thoughts behind the screening.<\/span><\/p>\n

The third screening, Mets\u00e4npeitto, tells about the strong importance of the forest in Finnish folklore. Mets\u00e4npeitto, which doesn\u2019t have a direct equivalent in other languages, has been considered, for example, the world of <\/span>forest goblins and fairies<\/span>, where you can get carried away by some creature or by getting lost in the forest. The familiar forest can become strange and foreign, but on the other hand, the forest also protects and<\/span> carries.<\/span><\/p>\n

The namesake of the screening, <\/span>Salla H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen’s<\/b> documentary <\/span>Mets\u00e4npeitto (Eng. Covered by Forest) <\/span><\/i>(2012), will be shown at the screening. The film tells the story of Markku, who has seen forest spirits since he was a child and felt that the spirits made him one with the forest. <\/span>Judith Auffray’s <\/b>experimental fiction <\/span>Les hommes de la nuit (Eng. Men of the Night) <\/span><\/i>(2022), on the other hand, tells the story of an explorer looking for orangutans in the jungle of Borneo at night and in the darkness of the day. In addition, <\/span>Maija Bl\u00e5field’s<\/b> film <\/span>Scenic View<\/span><\/i> (2023) will be screened. The film explores how the “naturalness” of nature documentaries is constructed, and how some things are intentionally left behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The forest theme will continue at the upcoming festival with the screening of AV-arkki, which will show several forest themed short films, such as <\/span>Minna Parkkinen’s <\/b>A Forest<\/span><\/i> (2000),<\/span> Annette Arlander’s<\/b> Dear Spruce<\/span><\/i> (2020) and <\/span>Elina Brotherus’s<\/b> Dump a Bushel of Lemons in a Northern Forest in Winter<\/span><\/i> (2017).<\/span><\/p>\n

TFF’s New Look Draws from 2024 Programme Themes<\/h2>\n

The new visual look of the Festival was unveiled this time with the launch of the second thematic programme. The forest theme is also reflected in the festival’s visual look, designed for 2024 by graphic designer Heini Puurtinen<\/strong>. The new look also incorporates classic Tampere Film Festival imagery.<\/p>\n

\"Tampere<\/p>\n

\u2013 The “protagonists” of the look are the hands familiar from the logo, to which I symbolically added the surface of a coniferous tree. Slightly charred wooden hands emerge from the moss, leading the eye forward into the future, but with a strong sense of greenery and hope,” says Puurtinen, describing the look.<\/p>\n

Environmental Ticket in Use from the Beginning of the Year<\/h2>\n

Tampere Film Festival 2024 serial card sales have already started, and serial cards will be sold at discounted early bird prices throughout December. From the turn of the year on 1 January, 2024, it is also possible to buy ticket products as an environmental ticket. From the price of the environmental ticket, Tampere Film Festival donates two euros to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation’s Suojele pala Pirkanmaata campaign. The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation uses donation funds to, for example, protect old-growth forests.<\/span><\/p>\n

More information about the campaign can be found <\/span>on the website of the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

More information about the ticket sale on <\/span>Tickets page.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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