Films A-Z

Norway, 2025
Regi: Olena Hætta

We follow Čan Martin, a 14-year-old snowcross rider from Kautokeino, as he navigates the challenges of this high-risk sport with the dedicated support of his family and local community. This short documentary is an inspiring story about pursuing dreams, overcoming obstacles, and the strength of family unity.

Ukraine, 2024
Regi: Mstyslav Chernov

Ukrainian soldiers slowly make their way through a 2,000-meter-long forest strip to recapture the village of Andriivka. Certain death awaits on either side of the forest, while the likely death awaits within the forest in this soul-shaking documentary.

Norway, Finland, Italy, 2025
Regi: Ken Are Bongo

Come and see the first episode of this romantic dramedy.

Colombia, Germany, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Simón Mesa Soto

A Poet is an unforgettable character portrait – a darkly comedic and deeply human story about a man clinging to his artistic dream.

Lebanon, Germany, 2025
Regi: Cyril Aris

What happens to love when life is shaped by war, migration, and waiting? A Sad and Beautiful World shows us how even the most intimate aspects are never unaffected by geopolitics.

Italy, Canada, 1977
Regi: Ettore Scola

The day in 1938 when Hitler visited Mussolini in Rome, and two lonely souls are left behind in an apartment building after "everyone" has left to see the parade. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni brilliantly star in this subdued drama.

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Denmark, 2024
Regi: Piotr Winiewicz

How worried should filmmakers really be about being replaced by artificial intelligence? In this movie based on a screenplay written by AI, we might be able to find some of the answers.

Switzerland, Belgium, 2025
Regi: Lasse Linder

Legacy, one of the world’s most celebrated show-jumping horses, lives a life as lavish as the competitions she takes part in

Norway, 2026
Regi: Marte Vold

Akkurat nå is the latest instalment in a series of shorts, featuring Marte and Ole, an artsy, middle-class couple in Oslo. As Ole pursues a deeper connection with his spiritual self, the now middle-aged Marte finds herself unmoored and can’t seem to catch a break. Akkurat nå plays out in both mundane and surreal fragments, continuing the series' exploration into the droll discomforts of togetherness.

Germany, 2025
Regi: Fatih Akin

An atmospheric coming-of-age story set at the end of World War II.

TIFF and Arctic Pride presents: Queer Night at TIFF!

TIFF and Arctic Pride present: Queer Night at TIFF 26!

Iceland, 2025
Regi: Karin Rós Wiium

An understated, unsettling short film that explores the complexities of giving and taking, revealing that these actions are rarely as innocent as they may seem. With its minimalist tone and lyrical approach, the film offers a subtle, yet effective, meditation on human relationships and moral consequence. Won Best Icelandic Student Short at Reykjavik IFF in 2025.

Finland, 2025
Regi: Arttu Nieminen, Hans Pieski

This surreal journey examines the complex relationship between Sámi culture and technological progress. Although technology is often seen as undermining sustainable living, the Sámi have historically embraced change. What role does modern technology play in Sámi identity today, and can a complete break from it ever be achieved?

Sweden, 2026
Regi: Polina Blag

In Aurora Dreams, a loving couple from China and an artist from Vietnam are brought together by coincidence in the Arctic, all seeking the Northern Lights. Despite their different lives, they share a profound belief in the Aurora's powerful, dream-fulfilling energy. This charming documentary explores human connection, our bond with nature, and the lengths to which we will go to chase what we truly long for.

Finland, 2025
Regi: Silja Tuovinen

Set in a future where snowy winters are gone, Avalanche explores the deep emotional impact of climate collapse. This experimental film looks at how loss of nature and climate grief affect our sense of the world. With fragile characters and snow as a comforting yet haunting illusion, it becomes both a warning and a way to mourn the landscapes we have already lost.

And the Winner is...

South Korea, 2025
Regi: Hyeongtae Kim

Winner of Best International Short Film

Welcome to Beer + Film in collaboration with our partner Mack, the world's northernmost brewery.

USA, 2024
Regi: Alexis Bloom

This documentary provides a rare and explosive glimpse into the corridors of power in Israel by presenting leaked interrogation videos from the corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

United Kingdom, 2024
Regi: Thomas Winward

Four women share their love, passion and fears in the world of urban birding.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Polina Blag

Fifteen-year-old Vera is caught in the digital chaos of unrequited love, enduring the highs and lows of being blocked and unblocked by Leo. This emotional short film tracks Vera's relationship struggles with her best friend Moa, culminating in a encounter that forces them to confront their hidden feelings about love and connection in the social media age.

Brazil, Mexico, Netherlands, Chile, 2025
Regi: Gabriel Mascaro

A visually stunning and original film set in Brazil's near future, following a 77-year-old woman's rebellion along the Amazon River.

Meet filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen in conversation with film critic Kalle Løchen, author of a new book about the film.

Norway, Sweden, Finland, 2026
Regi: Johannes Vang

A Norwegian customs officer (Øystein Martinsen), a Finnish poacher (Sverre Porsanger), and a mysterious Swedish woman (Ayla Nutti) meet at the three-country border. When their differences — spanning laws, language, and prejudices — spark an escalating conflict, they must devise an unconventional solution to resolve their unexpected connection.

South Korea, 2025
Regi: Hee-chan Ra

Who hasn't wanted to start a restaurant franchise but been caught up by their own gang to become the boss? Boss is a crazy comedy about food, gangsters, and the desire to become Ronald McDonald, not Tony Soprano.

Italy, Morocco, 2025
Regi: Orian Yani Barki, Meriem Bennani

With a completely distinctive animation aesthetic, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani create an intimate mother-daughter story about love, silence, and reconciliation across New York and Casablanca.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Patrik Edlund

A young man lives alone in a remote cabin. His life changes when he discovers a fragile sunflower in the forest. He begins to nurture it, and as the flower slowly recovers, the emotional bond deepens into a consuming obsession. When the sunflower suddenly starts to wither, his care takes a desperate and dark turn. A silently dramatic and mysterious film about the deeply human need for company.

2025
Regi: Grace T.S.P

Elise Wortley straps on her 19th-century hobnail boots and bonnet to celebrate history’s forgotten female explorers.

USA, 2025
Regi: Joseph Fletcher

Two Bozeman-based ski patrollers reflect on the rapid changes facing their home and the sport they love. With 50 seasons under his belt, Dene Brandt regards the future with an optimism that infects his younger co-worker.

Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2025
Regi: Ondrej Provaznik

Broken Voices is a powerful drama about a young girl's loss of innocence in the face of ambitious girls and ruthless adults. The film is based on a true story about a Czech girls' choir and explores themes such as jealousy and sexual abuse.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Per-Josef Idivuoma

The true story of two brothers, Niillas and Ande Somby, and their fight for the right to exist within the harsh reality of 1960s boarding schools. Here, colonial walls resisted every attempt at self-expression, leaving no room for dreams. The film is defined by what is left unsaid, tracing the lives of two men who would later play a decisive role in the Sámi struggle for rights, continuing to shape the conversation about history and resistance today.

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Ben Wheatley

Ben Wheatley's midnight movie Bulk is a playful, metafictional and charmingly homemade sci-fi journey through a myriad of dimensions.

France, 2024
Regi: Florence Miailhe

As a man takes what will become his final swim, memories rise to the surface—moments of joy, triumph, fear, and loss, all bound to water.

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: James McAvoy

Based on an outrageous true story, California Schemin’ is a wild ride through ambition, identity, and the high-stakes world of musical make-believe.

France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Morocco, 2025
Regi: Maryam Touzani

Maria's life is turned upside down when her daughter, without consulting her mother, begins the process of selling the childhood home in Tangier, Morocco – where Maria still lives.

2025
Regi: Nikolai Schirmer

Filmmaker and freeskier Nikolai Schirmer teamed up with Sam Favret and Lucas Wachs for what he naively hoped would be a fun and easy trip. Their goal: the magnificent Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, a spectacular mountain range where you find Mount Elbrus (5642 meters above sea level), Europe's highest peak.

France, Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Kristen Stewart

Lidia grows up with a father who sexually abuses her. Through swimming and poetry, she slowly finds her footing.

It is with great pleasure that we invite the audience, festival guests, and all party enthusiasts to celebrate the 36th edition of TIFF!

Sweden, Norway, 2001
Regi: Knut Erik Jensen

Relive this landmark success at the outdoor cinema!

Norway, 2026
Regi: Torfinn Iversen

The Corkscrew is a visually powerful coming-of-age story set in a winter landscape, in the iconic toboggan run "Korketrekkeren". 12-year-old Lucas finds himself in a moral trilemma: He risks losing his friendship, betraying an adult he trusts, or revealing family secrets he has long tried to keep hidden. Whichever choice he makes, it will have major consequences. 

Germany, France, Italy, 2009
Regi: Fatih Akin

Welcome to dinner + film! We’re screening Fatih Akin’s lively comedy about frienship, love and life.

Argentina, Switzerland, 2025
Regi: Milagros Mumenthaler

In this existential puzzle, we follow Lina, who, after a shocking fall into one of Geneva's icy lakes, discovers that she can no longer return to the life she once knew.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Patrik Syversen

Demring is a deep and believable family drama that suddenly takes a turn toward something far darker.

Sweden, 2026
Regi: Linnea Huhta

After Birger discovers that his wife Maj-Lis is having a more intense relationship with their neighbour Gunnar than he suspected, he makes a life-changing decision. Birger takes his marital frustrations out on the shoreline, physically chopping away at his simmering anger. A dark comedy with ambiguous mood, in Meänkieli language. 

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Peter Nilsson, Martin Wichardt

The film explores the sensation of always being able to have exactly what we want, with endless possibilities to receive instant pleasuring stimuli, and how it affects us.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Chad Michael Ward

A confused young woman is detained by two mysterious scientists determined to study her uncontrollable ability to move between dimensions. During questioning, she reveals that this very power caused the end of the world. When she realizes the scientists plan to take full control of her, she makes a desperate escape – uncovering the horror of their true identities. A visually striking, black-and-white thriller with a complex, gripping story.

Denmark, 2024
Regi: Sigrid Kemp

Winner Nordic Jury's Special Prize at NUFF 2025. 

Iran, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, 2025
Regi: Ali Asgari

Ali Asgari's latest film is a sharp and accurate satire that peels back layer after layer of the seemingly endless bureaucracy within Iran's cultural sector. A pure delight for film lovers, full of keen observations and references!

Finland, 2025
Regi: Jenny Jokela

A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

Mexico, 2025
Regi: Michel Franco

Jessica Chastain delivers one of her iciest performances in Michel Franco’s scorching study of desire, privilege, and power.

Norway, 2024
Regi: Dag Johan Haugerud

A historic triumph at the 75th Berlinale, Dreams became the first Norwegian film to win the Golden Bear. It was further honored by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) during their landmark 100th-anniversary year.

The World through the ‘Eye’ of the Robot Camera: Roundtable on AI, (Post-?) Humans & Cinema.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Patrik Eklund

Ulph Degerfors is plagued by a severe case of earworm as Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe" relentlessly takes over his mind. He gradually spirals toward madness, finding that everything he experiences and hears becomes irrevocably tainted by the song. A new short film from the Swedish master of comedy, Patrik Eklund!

USA, 2025
Regi: Cody Townsend, Mike Douglas

Two veteran professional skiers, hardened and seasoned by tragedy in the mountains seek a rekindling of their aggressive approach to steep terrain by venturing to Norway’s Lyngen Alps with a fearless young phenom – only to find that the mountains have much more to teach them all about risk, reckoning and the thin line between glory and grief.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Eilif Bremer Landsend

Heikka-vilba is the second single from Emil Kárlsen's coming album, and the title means "Cousin Heikka". It's a yoiksong founded upon the dovdna (traditional children's yoik) that Emil set to his cousin Heikka (sámi form of Henrik), who was 4 years old at the time when he recieved it.

Four short films in competition.

Five short films in competition.

Six short films in competition.

Six short films in competition.

Five short films in competition.

We're showing you the best short films in the Films from the North program 2025!

Look out for these! In this program, you’ll find the most interesting short features and docs from young directors and film students in our region.

Ten years with Faith in Film.

USA, 2001
Regi: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

Get ready for laughs and family fun! TIFF Junior presents the animated favorite Shrek on Saturday, January 24.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Aasne Vaa Greibrokk

It’s a warm, bright summer day, and Sarah and her boyfriend are busy preparing to host a summer party. But within just one day, her entire sense of reality is turned upside down. An immensely beautiful and tender short where story, acting, cinematography and score together create a unique atmosphere.

USA, Ireland, France, 2025
Regi: Jim Jarmusch

Jim Jarmusch returns to the anthology format with a three-part story about family reunions, revolving around themes of aging, commitment, and the emotional impermeability of those who raised us.

Sweden, Denmark, 1922
Regi: Benjamin Christensen

Step into the forbidden world of Benjamin Christensen's banned masterpiece, accompanied by Cult Member's electrifying fusion of hardcore and thrash, for a silent film concert experience unlike any other.

Gather your friends and get ready for an unforgettable quiz night!

Meet the filmmakers at the festival!

After the screening of Labyrinth, Tromsø Film Club invites you to the most adventurous party of the year at Amtmandens.

Knut Erik Jensen's first feature film is a gripping portrayal of a Northern Norwegian coastal community, spanning from the pre-war era to the post-war period. Now presented with a new, hard-hitting musical score.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Simen Nyland

Filther is a love story centered around a man with a head shaped like a gas mask. On the brink of a global nuclear war, he represents a new phase in evolution. In his solitude, he searches for someone to share his life with before the world ends. Can a woman from the newly arrived circus be his, and the world's, salvation?

Norway, 2024
Regi: Iva Benedicte Magdalena Trømborg

An atom-sized, sentient camera-eye drifts through contemporary Scandinavia observing humans in both intimate and public spaces, capturing the beauty and unease of a world losing its human center.

Canada, 2025
Regi: Eric K. Boulianne

Can an open relationship be the path to happiness? And should you be willing to risk everything you hold dear to find out?

Estonia, 2025
Regi: Tõnis Pill

When twelve-year-old Paul has to move to an unfamiliar town, he ends up in a spiral of violence and bad decisions in an attempt to fit in. Fränk is a gripping film about peer pressure, violence, and unexpected friendship.

Sweden, 2024
Regi: Edvin Åhrström

Winner of Best Nordic Short from NUFF 2025

USA, 2025
Regi: Annapurna Sriram

Fucktoys offers a cheeky fever dream with elements of tarot cards, baby goats, and dark curses. Hop on the scooter and join the ride to Trashtown!

France, 2025
Regi: Jocelyn Charles

While discussing their deepest fears on a train ride, two friends are interrupted by an unusual passenger.

United Kingdom, Poland, 2025
Regi: Jan Komasa

In this psychological thriller, we meet a couple trying to retrain a delinquent teen with a brutal regimen.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Isak Erdahl

A lost identity. The filmmaker's grandfather, Otto Erdahl, was once a troubadour, athlete, and motorcyclist. Now he wrestles with Parkinson's disease, which has put the brakes on his life. Told through anecdotes from a rich and fulfilling life, this documentary is a brave and inspiring portrait that will touch many hearts.

France, 2025
Regi: Stéphane Demoustier

An unknown Danish architect wins a major international architectural competition in Paris in 1983. The construction becomes a dramatic battle between art, bureaucracy, and politics, in a story reminiscent of the real-life version of The Brutalist.

Iceland, Poland, 2025
Regi: Yrsa Roca Fannberg

The Ground Beneath Our Feet offers a tender glimpse into the hidden world and everyday rituals of a lovely cast of people in what is their final home.

Hungary, 2025
Regi: Bálint Dániel Sós

When a father becomes the sole witness to his son committing an act of violence, he is put in an impossible dilemma. Should he keep his son's crime a secret?

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Chloé Zhao

In this powerful and sorrowful love story about the Shakespeare family, the play Hamlet is created. Hamnet is a complex drama that poses the ancient question of "to be or not to be".

Germany, Luxembourg, France, Israel, 2012
Regi: Margarethe von Trotta

A portrait of the thinker Hannah Arendt during the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Her controversial analysis of the individual's responsibility in totalitarian regimes met with resistance.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Emelina Hedman, Ture Andersson

The film chronicles the life of Madeleine Renhuvud, a South Sámi artist and language teacher, tracing her journey through artistic heritage and cultural preservation. The documentary offers a sincere portrait, touching on universal themes of language, history, and cultural reclamation. As culture and art are downplayed, passing this heritage to future generations is all the more important.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Trond Kvig Andreassen

The poet-priest Petter Dass is more myth than man now. The boundaries between fairy tale and reality are blurred when a new monument to Dass is being built far out in the ocean. This astonishing, moving and intellectually engaging documentary offers a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on one of Northern Norway’s most mythologized figures, and raises important questions about cultural memory and moral legacy.

Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, 2024
Regi: Jan Saska

Hurikán rushes to save his favorite beer stand from closure by fetching a new keg to impress the bartender he crushes on. In a wild Prague district, he faces robbers, cops, and his own thirst.

Norway, 2021
Regi: Alma-Oline Weitling

A young woman rides her bicycle home through the city, while the night unfolds around her.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Knut Åserud

A film about young people from all over the world who live in Tromsø.

Denmark, 2025
Regi: Jeppe Lange

Jeppe Lange's I am Everything introduces a fictional artificial intelligence that develops self-awareness.

Sweden, 2024
Regi: Patrik Eklund

The time of change is on the threshold for fifty-three-year-old Kaj, who has started to question his authority as Sensei. After a workplace accident, Kaj is forced to find a way out of the past and into the present. A short in director Patrik Eklund's signature style; hilariously funny and deadly serious.

Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2024
Regi: Anastasia Falileieva

A raw and intimate recounting of the first days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, told through the director's fragmented memories of fleeing Kyiv for Irpin with her boyfriend. The film has a clear and distinct message: The perpetrator must be held accountable.

Norway, Sweden, Finland, 2025
Regi: Liselotte Wajstedt , Marja Helander

In My Hand is a compelling true story that explores personal and historical struggles of the Sámi people. The film navigates between imprisonment, protests, and surreal encounters, providing a unique insight into one man's extraordinary journey. It concludes with a powerful call to action for the preservation of nature.

Fascism, Democracy, and the Future

Iran, 2025
Regi: Jafar Panahi

Palme d'Or winner Jafar Panahi is back with yet another striking film about the regime in Iran.

The Nordland School of Film and Art (Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg) presents a program of short films made by former students.

Peru, Spain, 2025
Regi: Cesar Zelada, Dirk Hampel

Welcome to the outdoor cinema screening of Kayara, in collaboration with Save the Children.

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Tromsø’s smallest cinema, Kinobox, presents SPACE_INVADERS.exe by Malaz Usta, a film which explores the feelings of displacement, alienation and loneliness experienced as an exile. Kinobox is based in the foyer of Aurora Kino.

Sweden, Norway, 2025
Regi: Johan Tjärnberg

A feel-good documentary from Kiruna about a skate community worth fighting for.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Pål Øie

Kraken is a spectacular monster thriller that unites natural mysticism and technological optimism with mighty Norwegian fjord landscapes—and reminds us how wrong things can go when greed takes over.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Minetta Westerlund

Kristin Harila and nine young people face tough challenges in the Arctic winter landscape.

Will Norway be celebrating in Hollywood?

Italy, 2025
Regi: Paolo Sorrentino

The fictional Italian President, Mariano de Santis, is soon due to retire but struggles with dilemmas of both a personal and political nature. He wields enormous power, but loneliness weighs heavily in his large palace.

United Kingdom, 1986
Regi: Jim Henson

40 years of Labyrinth is best celebrated with Tromsø Film Club – and who can resist David Bowie in tights?

Finland, Germany, 2025
Regi: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen

Nature, dreams, and change meet in this striking documentary about the people who represent the last remnants of Finnish Lapland’s gold rush.

Faroe Islands, Denmark, 2025
Regi: Sakaris Stórá

A gripping and sensitive Faroese drama about the challenges of choosing a simpler life. Winner of the Nordic Council Film Prize.

USA, 2025
Regi: Kent Jones

Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in a pleasing New York story.

France, Germany, 2025
Regi: Hafsia Herzi

When Fatima leaves her tight-knit suburban family to study philosophy in Paris, she is caught in a squeeze between her religious upbringing and the free student life in the big city.

Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Serbia, 2025
Regi: Urska Djukic

In this sensual coming-of-age debut, we meet teenage girls at a Catholic choir camp, where discipline and devotion intertwine with unspoken desire and power games.

Iceland, 2025
Regi: Hlynur Pálmason

A heartwarming and contemplative family drama from Iceland. A separated couple attempts to continue their everyday lives after the breakup, together with their three children on a remote farm.

On cinematic Storytelling and Character Building, moderated by Marte Vold.

Cult Members on Silent Film Music.

Austria, 2025
Regi: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

A visually stunning documentary that portrays the people who live with and off snow and ice. Snow that is melting at an alarming rate.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Carl Christian Lein Størmer

Based on over 500 hours of home video from a basement in Louisiana, this is the story of the band Hangface and the breakthrough that was always just around the corner.

World Premiere! Memoirs from a Dream + Concert with Hangface, Englebarn and Diamond

Switzerland, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, 2025
Regi: Damien Hauser

Memory of Princess Mumbi portrays a love triangle between a filmmaker, a princess, and a prince, in which AI is a central element. A timeless love story set in a futuristic African country.

Canada, 2025
Regi: Chandler Levack

A romantic indie-comedy from Montreal's music scene.

Germany, 2025
Regi: Christian Petzold

A delicate meditation on grief and identity. Paula Beer shines in Petzold's most intimate film to date, where silence, music, and memories intertwine.

2024
Regi: Nathan Safourcade

Winner of the International Jury’s Special Prize at NUFF 2025.

United Kingdom, Ireland, 2025
Regi: Colum Eastwood

An intense folk-horror film where an archaeological excavation in Ireland releases an ancient, vengeful pagan war goddess.

Greece, 2025
Regi: Alexander Raptotasios, Konstantinos Thomaidis

Set in an abandoned power plant in Northern Greece, Mother Company is a striking hybrid of verbatim performance and choral cinema. A local children’s choir steps into the roles of generations of workers from this de-industrialised region, reciting their stories word for word and transforming lived testimony into a resonant collective voice.

Iceland, USA, 2025
Regi: Jesse Smolan

Mountain Trek follows Icelandic farmers as they journey across mountains and valleys to round up thousands of sheep before winter. Amid unpredictable weather, the film captures, in stunning images, the grit, tradition, and sense of community behind this centuries-old ritual, and the questions it now faces in a rapidly modernizing world.

The twelve best music videos from Oulu Music Video Festival!

Music videos at our Winter Cinema!Saturday, January 24, 7:15 PM

Norway, 2026
Regi: Mari Storstein

Mari Storstein has created a powerful and touching film about what it's like to be a young adult with disabilities in a discriminatory system.

Spain, 2025
Regi: Cesc Gay

A delightful romantic comedy about a woman in mid-life who follows the selfish yearning to fall in love again.

Chile, 2025
Regi: Diego Céspedes

When an unknown disease spreads through a Chilean mining town, the queer community is accused of transmitting the infection through their gaze. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes.

New Zealand, United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Taratoa Stappard

This is a visually striking debut film from Taratoa Stappard that gives rise to a completely new film genre: Gothic Māori horror, set in the Victorian era.

Welcome to NUFF at TIFF!

USA, 2020
Regi: Eliza Hittman

Never Rarely Sometimes Always provides a restrained and poignant depiction of the fight for abortion rights in the United States.

Finland, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Agnes Koskinen

On a summer day at her family's cottage in the Ostrobothnian archipelago, 18-year-old competitive swimmer Alicia meets Mira by chance. Mira embody a boundless freedom unburdened by expectations, instantly intoxicating Alicia. When she returns home, nothing feels the same. Driven by an unexplained longing, Alicia swims back across the bay in the middle of the night. As the night fades, she has to determine where she is heading in life.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Jenny Speight

Are you able to stand by your choices when you know someone is watching? No One Reads Anymore is a Northern Norwegian short film about mental health and what it really means to help someone who is having a hard time. The storytelling and cinematic style is simple and effective, providing a balanced take on a crucial moment and complex issue.

South Korea, 2025
Regi: Park Chan-wook

A pitch-black and masterful satire from Park Chan-wook, where a brutal job market turns into a bloody battlefield.

Russia, 2023
Regi: Anna Artemeva, Ivan Zhilin

This documentary investigates the systemic pressure exerted on Russian orphanage graduates, effectively coercing them to fight in Ukraine.

Norway, Croatia, 2026
Regi: Endre Lund Eriksen, Isak Gjertsen

Nora's best friend is the beetle Billy. When climate change causes a great flood and her father fills his ark with animals, Nora starts her own rescue operation: She wants to save all insects. But Dad dislikes these nasty small pests and says no. Nora therefore prepares her own ark, Nora's Ark. Thus, a deep conflict arises between father and daughter, which not only puts their relationship at risk, but the entire small ecosystem on board Noah's ark – and in the world. 

Ukraine, 2025
Regi: Andriy Alferov, Alexander Rodnyansky

Through personal reflection on the last 100 years of catastrophe and war in the Soviet Union, this documentary attempts to answer the question: How was the Russian invasion of Ukraine even possible?

USA, Mexico, 2025
Regi: Fernando Eimbcke

Olmo is a humorous and warm film about family, teenage life, and illness in a loved one. A film that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Per Bifrost, Alexander Rynéus

A visually stunning documentary about a small community that will soon be history.

Tromsø International Film Festival welcomes you to the official opening reception of TIFF 2026!

France, 2025
Regi: Raoul Peck

A courageous and critically acclaimed documentary about the life and legacy of the legendary author George Orwell—and why, in light of contemporary social developments, he stands as one of the most prescient writers of all time.

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Out of Time, In Place is an exhibition situated in a very specific location: an art school in the Arctic, where students at Filmkunstskolen in Kabelvåg and Tromsø Art Academy collaborate on doing a pop-up exhibition.

France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Denmark, 2025
Regi: Annemarie Jacir

Palestine 36 is a magnificent drama that brings a pivotal chapter in Palestine's history to life.

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Inuuteq Storch’s photographs from everyday life in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) weave together interiors, landscapes, animals and spirit life.

United Kingdom, Ireland, 2025
Regi: Harry Lighton

Alexander Skarsgård is brilliant as a dominant motorcycle stud in this British dramedy about rough love between vulnerable men.

France, Greece, Norway, 2025
Regi: Stavros Petropoulos

A sharp, playful exploration of tourism, performance, and the blurry line between hospitality and exploitation.

Norway, 0
Regi: Tandi Reason Dahl

A character embodies diverging viewpoints as a prologue to the film Acts Against Nature (work in progress). A first edit of the prologue was exhibited at the European Media Arts Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück, Germany. It has also been shown at the Arctic Moving Image Film Festival (AMIFF) in Harstad, Norway.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Jon Blåhed

In the remote Tornedalen of the 1930s, a principled wife must choose between her faith and her family's survival when her devout husband declares himself God's direct voice.

Canada, 2024
Regi: Douglas Joe

A Gwich’in elder in Canada’s far North dreams of the last remaining Datrin (Raven). Who would you talk to if you were the last speaker of your language? The dream sequence turns a mundane scene into a myth. Douglas Joe (White River First Nations) won first prize at the Dawson City International Film Festival for Raven.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Johannes Vang

This poetic film questions the very sustainability of combating climate change when green energy is pursued at the expense of traditional Sámi life and culture. It asks whether replacing one form of environmental destruction with another can truly be considered progress.

Norway, 2023
Regi: Aurora Gossé

Welcome to a Relæxt screening of the vibrant and brave feel-good film Dancing Queen! This screening is especially for everyone who needs some adjustments and more relaxed conditions to enjoy the cinema experience. Read more about the concept (in Norwegian) here.

Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, 2025
Regi: Chie Hayakawa

A tender portrait of the transition from child to teenager, seen through the eyes of eleven-year-old Fuki, who copes with her father's fatal illness with fantasy and daydreaming.

Ireland, 2024
Regi: John Kelly

Retirement Plan tells the story of Ray as he fantasises about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.”

Spain, 2025
Regi: Carla Simón

When 18-year-old Marina journeys to the Galician coast to trace the echoes of her parents’ past, her search turns into a pilgrimage through memory, where her family’s history reveals itself in unexpected ways.

Ireland, United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn

Saipan is the complex story of football player Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy, an internal rivalry between a captain and a coach that boiled over onto the global stage in epic fashion.

Norway, 2020
Regi: Amalie With Vedelsby

Through raw iPhone footage, the film examines the boundaries between love and transaction, between gaze, exploitation, and privilege in a love story between two young people from different worlds.

It is a matter of life and death, an era of great change, and hope for the future in the films of this year’s Films from the North program.

Iceland, 2025
Regi: Steiní Kristinsson

While burying their beloved dog, a father and son find that the shared work and silence speak louder than words, quietly leading them back into connection with one another. The filmmaker experiments with camera position and timelapse, underlining a play with time and creating a framework that gives room for the viewer to reflect. 

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Manna Bergström

A mischievous group of boys in their early teens sets off to spray paint and play robbers on a beautiful summer evening, but instead, they get to deal with far too big emotions. The film shows great sensitivity depicting the small, important moments between young friends.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Floortje Zonneveld

Jann is one of the last remaining eider duck keepers on the remote Arctic island of Sandøy in Træna. Anchored in coastal heritage, Jann has unique island skills that embody the rich tangible and intangible culture of Northern Norway. When teenage Træna islander Adam and Jann meet on Sandøy, they form an intergenerational bond as they visit the breeding eider ducks tending their nesting homes.

Brazil, 2025
Regi: Kleber Mendonça Filho

Kleber Mendonça Filho's intricate thriller is an intoxicating and riveting journey through Brazil's politically charged 1970s, starring a brilliant Wagner Moura in the lead role.

Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Joachim Trier

Sentimental Value is Joachim Trier at his most quiet and precise: a film about the memories, relationships, and places that shape us – and about how the traces of the past continue to operate in the present.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Eila Muotka

A young female Sámi reindeer herder must choose between pursuing further education or taking over her ancestors' traditional way of life. In this warm-hearted documentary, we follow her in her choice while exploring several aspects of an endangered cultural heritage in today's society.

Germany, France, Serbia, 2025
Regi: Nastia Korkia

Eight-year-old Katja has to stay with her grandparents for an entire summer while her parents get divorced. While Katja’s childhood holiday takes place in the summery post-Soviet countryside, Russian weapons and forces are transported toward the front line in Chechnya.

Belgium, 2025
Regi: Jasper De Maeseneer

Fifteen-year-old Cas feels attracted to Jard, a trainee teacher at his school and a keen amateur photographer. After posing for Jard, Cas becomes painfully aware of the power imbalance between them. To regain control, he decides to reverse the dynamic.

Sweden, 2024
Regi: Dea Saračević

In this unplanned meeting, we get to know Yubaldo, Rex, Dougan and Dennis, residents of Silver City.

United Kingdom, Canada, 2024
Regi: Jon M. Chu

Are you ready to defy gravity with a whole movie theatre of singing musical lovers? Ready to be part of the most popular crowd? Then you can't miss this year's Sing-along: last year's mega-success Wicked!

Spain, France, 2025
Regi: Óliver Laxe

A striking audiovisual work by Oliver Laxe. One of the major award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Four ski films to kick off our day of celebration snow at the Winter Cinema.

France, Spain, 2025
Regi: Guillermo Galoe

Sleepless City is a tender, neorealist coming-of-age drama set in La Cañada Real, Europe's largest shantytown, on the outskirts of Madrid.

Latvia, Norway, Lithuania, 2025
Regi: Janicke Askevold

Driven by curiosity, a single mother gets tangled up in a web of lies while searching for the identity of her son's sperm donor.

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Stroma Cairns

An authentic story about Jonah attempting to run from his mental challenges – from a claustrophobic London to open landscapes and views of the sea in the North of Scotland.

Germany, 2025
Regi: Mascha Schilinski

Sound of Falling is an ambitious film that portrays four generations of women sharing a common dark destiny.

USA, 1965
Regi: Robert Wise

The greatest musical of all time. Come and enjoy the amazing musical score and stunning choreography at our Winter Cinema!

Norway, 2025
Regi: Rasmus A. Sivertsen, Tommy Wirkola

Spermageddon is a crude, hyper-energetic, and genre-bending animated comedy that combines teenage romance with an absurd action-adventure inside a scrotum.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Bo Johan Sörensen

In 1980s Härnösand, a group of unaccompanied Eritrean boys faced mounting anti-refugee sentiment. When 17-year-old Sara founded the anti-racist movement "5i12," the town seemed ready for change — until she and her friend Sylvia were murdered by one of the refugees. After the tragedy, the town got shooked by burning crosses and attacks. Thirty years later, filmmaker Bo Johan Sörensen returns to his hometown to understand how it all went so terribly wrong.

Norway, 1993
Regi: Knut Erik Jensen

Knut Erik Jensen's first feature film is a modern classic and a gripping portrayal of a Northern Norwegian coastal community, spanning from the pre-war era to the post-war period.

USA, Norway, 2025
Regi: Ismaele Tortella

Driven by the dream of filming the iconic wolffish in Northern Norway's kelp forests, an Italian photographer moves north. His quest quickly turns into a chilling discovery: the ocean floor is stripped bare, and the thriving sea forests have almost vanished. As the filmmaker investigates the mystery of the missing kelp, he uncovers how exploding sea urchin populations and human impact have pushed the Arctic coast to the edge.

Two short films that gives us new perspective on the outdoors.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Toni Nordli

During Norway’s infamous “russ” celebration, a group of russ abduct a younger student into the woods. What begins as a harmless prank spirals into something darker. Where does tradition end—and malice begin?

Between Myth and Genre

Norway, Sweden, 2026
Regi: Ellen Astri Lundby

In a rare Indigenous-against-Indigenous courtroom battle shaped by a long history of state oppression, Northern and Southern Sámi descendants fight over land, reindeer herding – and ultimately the right to be Sámi.

Austria, 2024
Regi: Raoul Bruck

Kerstin hires a hitman named Söder on the dark net to get rid of her useless husband during a weekend trip to their cabin by the lake. However, the presumed hitman Söder is actually just a cocky couch potato who lives out fantasies on the internet. But when the murder weapon he ordered is not delivered in time, he is forced to improvise.

The team behind TIFF UNG invites you to a talk show at Kafe Kringla (Tvibit), featuring conversations with guests from two of this year’s TIFF UNG films: FRÄNK and THANKS FOR NOTHING!

When twelve-year-old Paul has to move to an unfamiliar town, he ends up in a spiral of violence and bad decisions in an attempt to fit in. Fränk is a gripping film about peer pressure, violence, and unexpected friendship.

France, 2024
Regi: Antoine Besse

A touching film based on a true story – featuring many beautiful visuals and music – about courage, mentorship, and how far one is willing to go to prove everyone wrong.

USA, 2025
Regi: Cole Webley

A nostalgic and genuine portrayal of childhood, with a beautiful soundtrack, that will move the audience.

A dark comedy about four young girls trying to cope with the absurdities of life.

Sweden, Norway, 2025
Regi: Jakob Arevärn

Josefine installs the world's fattest bass box in her car before her evening date with Billy. Young love fills the night air, but the loud music does not impress everyone. Soon, the date turns into a horrific battle for life and death, somewhere in the dark forests of Northern Sweden.

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Mona Fastvold

A daring and hypnotic musical about the visionary Ann Lee, who founded the Shaker movement, where faith and ecstasy are expressed through song and the body's radical choreography.

Germany, 2025
Regi: Stella Marie Markert

A dark comedy about four young girls trying to cope with the absurdities of life.

Denmark, Greenland, 2025
Regi: Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken

When his dog is stolen, Kaali, a young autistic boy, embarks on an intensive search for the thief across the East Greenland town of Tasiilaq. During his determined quest, Kaali is repeatedly confronted with the reality of being different from his peers. When he finally locates his dog, he plans to steal it back, but he must weigh the truth: Is the dog truly stolen, and is his mission worth losing his only friend?

Norway, 2026
Regi: Inge Wegge

The Think Tank is a philosophical documentary that follows the challenging work of transforming an old water tower into a unique space for contemplation and reflection, located out on the open sea on the windswept island of Røst.

Norway, 2026
Regi: Jenny Andersen

In 1923, the Norwegian Parliament decided that a railway should be built in Troms. A hundred years later, many are still waiting.

Germany, 1935
Regi: Leni Riefenstahl

A groundbreaking masterpiece and a symbol of megalomaniacal Nazi Germany. Leni Riefenstahl's famous documentary is a study in raw propaganda art.

Come and join us at an open reception at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, as we kick-off celebrating 25 years of Tromsø-Gaza friendship.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Viktor Johansson

Yoshi is preparing for one final attempt at becoming an artist in New York. Before he leaves, however, he must undertake the painful task of explaining to his 11-year-old son why the boy will be left behind in Tokyo. Dreams collide with obligations in this sensitive, poetically portrayed short about the relationship between father and son, told through Viktor Johansson’s truly distinctive cinematic language.

France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine, 2025
Regi: Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa returns with a dark and satirical excursion into the machinery of Stalinist repression.

Norway, Denmark, Romania, Poland, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Emilie Blichfeldt

Through a humorous and grotesque confrontation with Cinderellas and princesses as ideals of beauty, The Ugly Stepsister becomes a gruesome fairy tale for the big kids.

Russia, 2024
Regi: Arina Mado

On the eve of her grandfather’s funeral, a little girl discovers her beloved cow has disappeared. To find the animal, she is forced to contact the world of the dead. This Karelian language film's beautiful cinematography enhances the mystery of the story and the indefinite borders to the otherworldly.

2025
Regi: Elias Markkula

Uncanny Ice is a visual meditation on the "harmonious dichotomy" between two materials: glass and ice.

Norway, 2021
Regi: Tora Johanne Turøy

Frida takes a job on a garbage truck and tries to find her place in the uniform.

United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Harris Dickinson

Urchin is a compelling directorial debut by actor Harris Dickinson. A raw and absurd story about a young man trying to claw his way out of a self-destructive pattern.

Norway, 2018
Regi: Erik Poppe

On July 22, 2011, Norwegian democratic values were attacked by right-wing extremist terror—the most brutal attack on Norway since World War II.

Singapore, India, 2024
Regi: Rima Das

It's not often that TIFF offers sequels – but with Village Rockstars 2 you can look forward to a beautiful return to hope and despair in rural India.

Argentina, Spain, Mexico, 2025
Regi: Laura Casabe

No one is safe when a young girl's desire turns into bloody reality.

France, Tunisia, 2025
Regi: Kaouther Ben Hania

A shocking and compelling drama based on a true story about a group of aid workers racing against the clock to save the life of a 5-year-old girl during Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Sweden, 2026
Regi: Jonas Lawes

A nerve-wracking thriller in which a small theft has major consequences.

Palestine, Germany, United Kingdom, 2025
Regi: Phoebe Cottam

A meditation on daughterhood, motherhood and complex inheritance, the film explores the legacies of resistance passed down between Neta and Nawal at a moment of immense turmoil.

France, Belgium, 2025
Regi: Valery Carnoy

A hard-hitting coming-of-age drama about a young boxer who is trying to figure out who he is outside the ring.

Transformations: Identity, Trauma, and Renewal

Lines of Inheritance: What we carry and leave behind

Dangerous Play: Power games, blurred boundaries, and the thrill of going too far

Welcome to our Winter Cinema at Stortorget for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, specially selected for our youngest audience.

Welcome to our Winter Cinema at Stortorget for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, specially selected for our youngest audience.

Welcome to our Winter Cinema at Stortogert for preschools and elementary schools during Tromsø International Film Festival. Experience the outdoor cinema magic through short films from a variety of countries, specially selected for our youngest audience.

United Kingdom, France, 2025
Regi: Olivier Assayas

The Iron Curtain is descending once again.

Norway, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Sirin Sponga

The Woolgod is bitter that no one believes in it anymore. Plagued by an important message that it tries in vain to convey to the world, the Woolgod now begins to dream of finding a messenger. An experimental short film unlike anything you've seen before. 

Canada, 2025
Regi: Zacharias Kunuk

An Arctic adventure about two young Inuit destined for each other but separated by tragic events, by the legendary filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, a pioneer of Indigenous cinema.

The Xn conference is a meeting place and an arena for gaining knowledge and inspiration for everyone working in the creative industries.

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We wish everyone welcome to celebrate the opening of our 26th festival exhibition during Tromsø International Filmfestival.

TIFF's Opening Conference is the first get-together for the Norwegian Film Industry each year.