Tromsø International Film Festival Explained

The Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual film festival held during the third week of January in Tromsø, Norway.

The inaugural Tromsø International Film Festival was held in 1991.^[1] TIFF has 5 screening venues, including one outdoor snow cinema. The total of admissions in 2020 it was 58500, which makes TIFF Norway's biggest film festival.^[2]

Movies with world premiere at Tromsø International Film Festival:

• 2001 Cool and Crazy
• 2008 The Kautokeino Rebellion
• 2016 Doing good

Audience Award

Film voted as best movie by popular vote.

• 1995 - Spider and Rose, directed by Bill Bennett (Australia)
• 1996 - Accumulator 1 (Czech: Akumulátor 1), directed by Jan Svěrák (Czech Republic)
• 1997 - Palookaville, directed by Alan Taylor (U.S.A.)
• 1998 - Gadjo dilo, directed by Tony Gatlif (France)
• 1999 - When the Light Comes (Netherlands: Waar blijft het licht), directed by Stijn Coninx (Germany / Belgium / Netherlands / Norway)
• 2000 - Une Liaison Pornographique, directed by Frédéric Fonteyne (Belgium / France / Switzerland / Luxembourg)
• 2001 - In July, directed by Fatih Akın (Germany)
• 2002 - The Princess and the Warrior, directed by Tom Tykwer (Germany)
• 2003 - The Sea, directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland)
• 2004 - The Return (Russian: Возвращение) directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Russia)
• 2005 - As It Is in Heaven, directed by Kay Pollak (Sweden)
• 2006 - Innocent Voices, directed by Luis Mandoki (Mexico)
• 2007 - USA vs. Al-Arian, directed by Line Halvorsen (Norway)
• 2008 - L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, directed by Agostino Ferrente (Italy)
• 2009 - Shooting the Sun (US title: The Storm in My Heart) (Norwegian: Jernanger), directed by Pål Jackman (Norway)
• 2010 - For a Moment, Freedom, directed by Arash T. Riahi (Austria / France / Turkey)
• 2011 - Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky (U.S.A.)
• 2012 - Play (2011) directed by Ruben Östlund, Sweden ^[3]
• 2013 - No, directed by Pablo Larraín, Chile ^[4]
• 2014 - Of Horses and Men (Icelandic: Hross í oss), directed by Benedikt Erlingsson Germany/Iceland ^[5]
• 2015 - The Salt of the Earth (Le sel de la terre) directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado France, Italy og Brazil ^[6]
• 2016 - Rams directed by Grímur Hákonarson^[7]
• 2017 - Sealers - One last hunt, directed by Trude Berge Ottersen and Gry Elisabeth Mortensen, Norway ^[8]
• 2018 - Close-Knit directed by Naoko Ogigami, Japan
• 2019 - Woman at war (Kona fer í stríð) directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, Iceland
• 2020 - Parasite directed by Bong Joon-ho, South Korea
• 2021 - Ninjababy directed by Yngvild Sve Flikke, Norway^[9]

External links

• Official Home page of Tromsø International Film Festival

Notes and References

1. Web site: Media Partners. Tromsø International Film Festivall. 12 April 2015.
2. tiff.no About Tromsø International Film Festival
3. Web site: 22nd Tromsø International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
4. Web site: 23rd Tromsø International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
5. Web site: 24th Tromsø International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
6. Web site: 25th Tromso International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
7. Web site: 26th Tromso International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
8. Web site: 27th Tromso International Film Festival . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.
9. Web site: 31st Tromsø IFF . 2022-05-08 . en-GB.