Incident by a Bank sweeps Tampere awards
Swedish film Incident by a Bank by Ruben Östlund won the Grand Prix, Best Fiction and Audience Award in the International Competition of the 41st Tampere Film Festival (March 9-13).
The Diploma of Merit in the fiction strand went to Nicolas Provost’s experimental Stardust (Belgium).
David O’Reilly’s The External World (Germany) won Best Animation, and Canada’s Theodore Ushev received the Diploma of Merit for Lipsett Diaries.
Best Documentary went to Finland’s Elina Talvensaari for her impressive 19-minute How to Pick Berries, as well as the Student Award. Marcin Koszalka’s Declaration of Immortality (Poland) got the Diploma of Merit.
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu’s Silent River (Germany/Romania) was chosen as the Tampere nominee for the European Academy Awards.
In the National Competition under 30 minutes, the Main Prize went to Jan Andersson’s animation The Illustrated City, and Elli Vuorinen’s The Tongueling, also an animation, received the Special Prize and the Youth Jury Award. Erkki Määttänen’s documentary Rubens of Siurua got the Diploma of Merit.
Juho Kuosmanen’s The Painting Sellers won the Main Prize in the National Competition over 30 minutes, Elias Koskimies got the Special Prize for Beauty Sleep, and Iiris Härm’s documentary Look at Me received the Diploma of Merit.
The Risto Jarva Prize was given to Jan Ijäs for experimental Sweet Mov(i)e, and the Audience Award in the National Competition went to Elina Kivihalme for documentary The Unknown Woman.
The 41st Tampere Film Festival sold 29,000 tickets, and numerous screenings were sold out, including for retrospective film The Fall of the House of Usher, the silent classic by Jean Epstein, which featured live music accompaniment.
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