Tampere Film Festival 2025

Despite the world's disasters, an artist insists on playing. A story inspired by Bach's immortal music and painted onto toilet paper rolls as a tribute to the tradition of painting directly on 35mm film.

Deploying a groundbreaking technique, revered Canadian animator Theodore Ushev returns with a spellbinding reimagining of the ageless conflict between nature and humankind.

A surreal, abstract journey through a series of murderous dreams, where Death takes centre stage and faceless spectators applaud the inevitable.

A cat lover, Jesus coming down from the cross and carolers with pitchforks in their hands, all set in a snow-covered and ice-covered scenery. "Winter" is a psychedelic journey to a small fishing village where the behaviors, customs and vices of the Polish province are concentrated like a lens. In this small community, different attitudes and behaviors of people and animals, as well as their mutual relationships, collide like ice floes on a lake. An animation in the convention of magical realism, reminiscent of a horror film set to the accompaniment of barking dogs and a punk-metal soundtrack.

Mr. Ham undergoes heart removal surgery to free himself of emotions. His doctor assures the routine procedure poses no risk in modern times.

In a village where bread is hard to come by, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, earns a living by selling stale bread. When his sister-in-law opens a bakery, it creates an unspoken tension between them, threatening his role in the family.

What seems to be a burgeoning romance between two Indigenous people takes an unexpected turn in this bold and thrilling blend of the satirical and the sinister by writer-director ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby.

People pleaser and their partners attend an obnoxious gender reveal party which spirals out of control in Mo Matton's anarchic satire.

Smith reflects on life, career, mortality, and legacy through minimalist text, images, and voice, contemplating his generic name's significance.

'Requiem in Salt' is documentary exploring the symbolism and the significance of salt in the Japanese culture through the artist Motoi Yamamoto. Through his art and personal experiences of loss we explore the ephemerality of our existence. It's about death, salt and art.

A depressed film director returns to the countryside of his childhood under the pretext of preparing a new film, accompanied by an alcoholic producer. But things don't go according to plan and ghosts from the past resurface.

In the macroscopic world of body hairs, the voices of two hairs question our relationship to ourselves, to the other living beings, to the Earth.

Sauna Day invites you into the world of Southern Estonian men who go to the dark-intimate space of a smoke sauna after a hard day's work. Beneath their tough exteriors lies a desire for connection, veiled in secrecy.

With the sea and the urban Algarve as a background, we follow a complete cycle of the life of a special shellfish called PERCEBES, goose barnacle. From their formation, to the dish, in this journey, we cross different contexts that allow us to better understand this region and those who live there.

The supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.

A spatial exploration of Miami, and the endless pursuit of the American Dream in an era of immigrant mass mobilization, the absurd dominance of wealth and border securocracy.

1993, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train is stopped by paramilitary forces in an ethnic cleansing operation. As they haul off innocent civilians, only one man out of 500 passengers dares to stand up to them.

When an aging man realizes that his lonely existence has made him deathly pale, he makes a fateful decision venturing to a tanning salon for the first time in his life.

Determined to have her first kiss, a young teenage girl defies her tumultuous world in search of normalcy.

During her family's Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her afterlife after overhearing that her Queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

Ebbing, fluvial, dripping - we are all bodies of water. We explore what this means and looks like in Lagos, Nigeria, through a boatman, a vessel, and a passenger.

Two best friends embark on a high-stakes game of imagination, which takes an unforeseeable turn and threatens to jeopardise their relationship.

Downhill skiing enthusiasts eagerly await the arrival of winter. When the mountain peaks are covered with a layer of fresh, white powder, they can finally satisfy their dreams. Crowds of tourists in red and blue suits head to the slopes, starting a new ski season.