Here is an overview of directors, actors/actresses and other guest during TIFF 2025.
Press who wants to schedule interviews with international guests kan reach out to Marion Bouvier by email marion@tiff.no or by phone at +47 959 10 654.
Press who wants to schedule interviews with national guests can reach out to Head of Communications at TIFF Sandra Aminda Indahl at email sandra@tiff.no or phone at +47 481 46 419
PROGRAM GUESTS
GUEST | PROGRAM | FILM | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE |
| Arild Østin Ommundsen (dir, editor, script) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 16.jan |
| Torbjørn Berglund Eriksen (cast) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 14.jan |
| Thomas Dybdahl (music composer) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 16.jan |
| Lina Helvik (production leader) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 14.jan |
| Tomas Alf Larsen (cast) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 14.jan |
| Julia Joner (producer) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 15.jan |
| Lasse N. Mathiesen (Markedsprodusent/scenograf) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 14.jan |
| Sondre Oldereide Michaelsen (DoP) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 14.jan |
| Silje Salomonsen (script/actress) | Opening Film | Everything must go | 12.jan | 15.jan |
| Mahdi Fleifel (dir) | Competition | To a land unknown | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Scandar Copti (dir) | Competition | Happy Holidays | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Gregory Kershaw (dir) | Competition | Gaucho Gaucho | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Fleur Fortune (dir) | Competition | The Assessment | 12.jan | 15.jan |
| Victoria Verseau (dir) | Horizons | Trans Memoria | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Salome Alexi (prod) | East Side Stories | Mother and Daughter, or the Night Is Never Complete | 12.jan | 16.jan |
George Sikharulidze (dir) | East Side Stories | Panopticon | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Oksana Karpovych (dir) | East Side Stories | Intercepted | 15.jan | 19.jan |
| Vytautas Katkus (DoP) | East Side Stories | Toxic | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| John Hsu (dir) | Overdrive | Dead Talents Society | 13.jan | 19.jan |
| Carlos Marques Marcet (dir) | The New Musical | They will be Dust | 13.jan | 15.jan |
| Joshua Oppenheimer (dir) | The New Musical | The End | 17.jan | 19.jan |
| Alireza Ghasemi | Focus: Iran | In the Land of Brothers | 13.jan | 16.jan |
| Halfdan Tøndel (dir) | Critic´s Week | Armand | 14.jan | 15.jan |
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GUEST | PROGRAM | FILM | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE |
| Johan Palmgren (dir) | FFN Feature | Solitary Road | 15.jan | 16.jan |
| Miia Tervo (dir) | FFN Feature | The Missile | 12.jan | 15.jan |
| Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir (prod) | FFN Feature | The Day Iceland Stood Still | 14.jan | 18.jan |
| Åse Svenheim Drivenes (dir) | FFN Feature | Teenage Life Interrupted | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| Kari Anne Moe (prod) | FFN Feature | Teenage Life Interrupted | 15.jan | 17.jan |
| Gudmundur Gunnarsson (prod) | FFN Feature | Teenage Life Interrupted | 15.jan | 17.jan |
Sunna Guðnadóttir (prod) | FFN Feature | Natatorium | 14.jan | 17.jan |
| Nikolai Schirmer (dir) | FFN Feature | SKI | 12.jan | 19.jan |
| Mathis Ståle Mathisen (prod) | FFN Feature | SKI | 12.jan | 19.jan |
| Aleksander Olai Korsnes (prod) | FFN Feature | SKI | 12.jan | 19.jan |
| Carl Christian Lein Størmer (prod) | FFN Feature | SKI | 12.jan | 19.jan |
| Emil Engesnes Bråthen (dir) | FFN Short | Brain Rot | 17.jan | 19.jan |
| Simen Nyland (dir) | FFN Short | Filther | 13.jan | 19.jan |
| Emma Hellgren (dir) | FFN Short | My Neighbour Linnea | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| Silje Burgin-Borch (dir) | FFN Short | Oaphes Bahá | 13.jan | 17.jan |
| Vegard Bjørsmo (dir) | FFN Short | Oaphes Bahá | 13.jan | 19.jan |
| Ingvild Haga (dir) | FFN Short | Oh, my heart | 15.jan | 17.jan |
| Ragnhild M Mietinen Krüger (prod) | FFN Short | Oh, my heart | 15.jan | 17.jan |
| Astrid Ardagh (dir) | FFN Short | On Air | 14.jan | 16.jan |
| Eilif Bremer Landsend (dir/prod) | FFN Short | Trappa/On Air | 13.jan | 19.jan |
| Mohammed Jabaly (dir) | FFN Short | Trappa | 13.jan | 19.jan |
| Vonnie Larsson (dir) | FFN Short | The Die-Hard Village | 13.jan | 16.jan |
| Jakob Arevärn (dir) | FFN Short | Moments/Folkrace / Pierre West | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Fredrik Oskarsson (dir) | FFN Short | Folkrace | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Liselotte Wajstedt (dir) | FFN Short | In my hand | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Marja Helander (dir) | FFN Short | In my hand | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Filip Wikström (dir) | FFN Short | Lumber Slumber | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| Anna Brodin (dir) | FFN Short | The Penguin Dad | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| Angelica Ruffier (dir) | FFN Short | People of the recycling market | 19.jan | 19.jan |
| Henrik Larsson (dir) | FFN Short | Pierre West | 16.jan | 19.jan |
| Lukáš Masner (dir) | FFN Short | The Price of a Story | 14.jan | 17.jan |
| Johannes Persson (dir) | FFN Short | The Raid | 15.jan | 18.jan |
| Manna Bergström (dir) | FFN Short | Scraped Knees | 14.jan | 19.jan |
| Adam Sébire (dir) | FFN Short | Sikoqqinngisaannassooq | 13.jan | 16.jan |
| Timur Armasov (prod) | FFN Short | Ukko | 14.jan | 18.jan |
| Linnea Huhta (prod) | FFN Short | Alias Tornedalen/ The Die-Hard Village | 13.jan | 16.jan |
| Daniel Ojanlatva (dir) | FFN Short | Spooky Wednesday on Kiruna Radio 97.3 | 17.jan | 19.jan |
| Douglas Joe (dir) | FFN Short | Raven | 16.jan | 19.jan |
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GUEST | EVENT | BAND | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE |
| Svante Henryson | Silent Film Concert | Barents band | 16.jan | 18.jan |
| Tuomas Norvio | Silent Film Concert | Barents band | 16.jan | 18.jan |
| Lavre Johan Eira | Silent Film Concert | Barents band | 16.jan | 18.jan |
| Hilda Länsman | Silent Film Concert | Barents band | 16.jan | 18.jan |
| Gisle Martens Mayer | Closing Party | Ugress | 15.jan | 19.jan |
| Chie Takeuchi | Closing Party | Ugress | 15.jan | 19.jan |
| Mattias Abrahamsson | Attentatfest | Abhinanda | 16.jan | 17.jan |
| Jose Saxlund | Attentatfest | Abhinanda | 16.jan | 17.jan |
| Pär Jaktholm | Attentatfest | Abhinanda | 16.jan | 17.jan |
| Jejo Perkovic | Attentatfest | Abhinanda | 16.jan | 17.jan |
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GUEST | EVENT | OCCUPATION | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE |
| Ingrid Corneliussen Austeng | Xn | NRK beta | 14.jan | 16.jan |
| Christian Fredric Schussler | Xn | Reimagine/OKAI | 15.jan | 18.jan |
| Vanessa Tesrone | Xn | Reimagine/OKAI | 15.jan | 18.jan |
| Erlend Loe | Xn | Author | 15.jan | 16.jan |
| Gisle Martens Mayer | Xn | Ugress | 15.jan | 19.jan |
| Chie Takeuchi | Xn | Ugress | 15.jan | 19.jan |
| Ismet Bachtiar | Xn | TVIBIT | Bor i Tromsø | |
| Ida Madsen Hestman | Xn | Journalist/Critic | ||
| Jason T Clark | Xn | Art Director | ||
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GUEST | ARRIVAL | DEPARTURE | ||
| Hilde Sandvik | 13.jan | 14.jan | ||
| Vibeke Skistad - kontaktperson | 12.jan | 15.jan | ||
| Synnøve Hørsdal | 13.jan | 14.jan | ||
| Kjersti Mo | 13.jan | 14.jan | ||
| Jørgen Risvik Hellum | 13.jan | 16.jan | ||
| Malene Blenkov | 13.jan | 15.jan | ||
| Kjetil Lismoen | 13.jan | 14.jan | ||
| Anne Laijla Utsi | 13.jan | 16.jan | ||
| Elisabeth Sjaastad | 13.jan | 15.jan | ||
| Lubna Jaffery | 13.jan | 14.jan | ||
| Silje Burgin-Borch (dir) | 13.jan | 17.jan | ||
| Vegard Bjørsmo (dir) | 13.jan | 19.jan | ||
