15.3.2025 at 14–16
16.3.2025 at 14–16

1st floor, Kiasma Theatre

Tickets: 11 €
Tickets available from Kiasma’s info desk 1h before the screening. Ticket doesn’t include admission to Kiasma’s exhibitions.

The traditional spring screening presents the best bits of short films awarded at the Tampere Film Festival. This year, the same selection will be screened on twice. The total duration of the screening is 1h 50min.

Films

Mereneläviä / Fish River Anthology
dir. Veera Lamminpää, Suomi 2024
Animation
10 min.
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English
Risto Jarva Prize; Tampere Film Festival Student Award; Sustainability Award Verso; Tampere Nominee For The European Short Film Audience Award; National Competition, Special Mention

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.

El Canon
dir. Martín Seeger, Chile 2024
Fiction
19 min.
Language: Spanish, subtitles: Finnish & English
International Competition, Grand Prix

Jean, a Haitian migrant in Chile, is admired everywhere he goes. His body represents all the classical values of the academy. However, in the anonymity of his existence, he is also a canon of marginality.

Dom Strom
dir. Katarína Gramatová, Slovakia 2024
Documentary
20 min.
Language: Slovak, subtitles: Finnish & English
International Competition, Best Documentary

12-year-old Adam, a Romani kid with grown-up responsibilities, lives in the so-called Slovakian “hungry valley”, trying to earn cash for energy drinks by chopping trees with his older brother. Adam looks up to his brother for his tree-sawing skills, despite his devotion to a Slovak extremist party.

The Eggregores’ Theory
dir. Andrea Gatopoulos, Italia 2024
Animation
16 min
Language: English, no subtitles
Generation XYZ, Best Genre Film

He does not remember much from that time. Things have faded, like the color of a painting after too much light. The only thing that bothers him is this music. It keeps popping up… He thinks he has forgotten what it means. All he knows, for sure, is that he cannot get it out of his head.

HE MA
Hippopotami
dir. JJ Lin
Fiction
13 min.
Language: China, subtitles: Finnish & English
International Competition, Best Fiction

In the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life.

Being John Smith
dir. John Smith, Britannia 2024
Experimental, documentary
27 min.
Language: English, subtitles: Finnish
Tampere Short Film Candidate For The Europeam Short Film – Prix Vimeo Award 2026

After enduring many decades of embarrassment and discomfort, the artist finally admits to the negative impact that possessing the commonest name in the English-speaking world has had on his psyche. Peppered with disparate fragments of autobiography, ‘Being John Smith’ takes us on a confessional journey that reveals just how important a name can be.