Student Works from Finland and Abroad

It has been a tradition of Tampere Film Festival to show new films from Finnish media schools. This year offers early student films by renowed Finnish directors, as well as recent films by Finnish students studying abroad.

At the Helsinki University of Art and Design, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design (ELO in Finnish) is 50 years old. To celebrate this occasion we see films throughout the history of the school in the Elotics screenings. There are films by Pirjo Honkasalo, Johanna Vuoksenmaa, Maarit Lalli, Anu Kuivanen, Lauri Törhönen, Jarmo Lampela, and Jouko Aaltonen. The oldest ones are experimental, short fictions from the 1960s, and among the newest is, for example, the winner of last year´s Finnish Competition in under-30-minutes category, Mazdak Nassir´s High Hopes (2007).

If looking for brand new student films, these screenings are the thing: Media Schools, ELO: New Student Film, TTVO New Student Film, and Runaways. Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is strongly represented in this year´s Media Schools screening, but the academies of Lahti, Raahe, and Turku get in their fair share as well. ELO: New Student Film is true to its name and presents the most recent of the films the ELO school has produced; one of them is Mikko Kuparinen´s Truth or Dare (2008) which won the prize for best fiction last November at the Sleepwalkers festival in Tallinn.

The Runaways screening shows films made by Finnish director students abroad. It´s clearly not been in vain to study outside Finland, for those films have had good visibility in European festivals, and received awards, as well. For example, Leevi Lemmetty´s Madworld (2006) was the nominee for the best animation in Edinburgh, and Timo-Kalevi Puukko´s Winterlong (2005), received an award in Trieste in 2007.

For those looking for local know-how, the TTVO screening is just the thing, showing films made by students of TTVO (Tampere University of Applied Science, School of Art and Media). Eleven films include stories about neighbours, married couples, buskers, game addiction, and the Finnish sisu (or guts), among other things.

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Riina Mikkonen, Press Coordinator
tel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 532 2912
riina.mikkonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi

Sanna Kyllönen, Press Coordinator
tel. +358 3 213 0034 or +358 40 067 7667
sanna.kyllonen@tamperefilmfestival.fi

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