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Thursday 8.3.2001
Two World Premieres at the Festival's Opening
Not one but two world premieres were screened at the opening of the 31st Tampere Film Festival Wednesday evening in Tullikamari's Pakkahuone.
In his opening speech, festival director Antti Vuorio noted that both short and full-length films are included in this festival. He emphasized that many of these films will not be shown in normal movie theaters.
Festival director Antti Vuorio noted that both short and full-length films are included in this festival.
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Nowadays you can watch films on the Internet, via telephone and other equipment, Vuorio said, pointing out that Tampere is also hosting Resfest, a festival of digital film which gives us a glimpse of the future of filmmaking.
Some ten short films, all very different, were shown at the opening. Children would most certainly have been delighted with a few of these.
Katariina Lillqvist's Mirror of the Romanies as well as Marko Härkönen's and Ismo Virtanen's Turilas and Jäärä received their world premieres.
Mirror of the Romanies was a particularly impressive nine-minute animation that resonated well with both voice and music.
Without a doubt, the stars of Härkönen and Virtanen's eight-minute fiction were the bustling, clever inventor Jäärä and the good-natured gourmet Turilas.
The award-winning Shooting Star films and Michael Overbeck's Tongues and Taxies received resounding applause.
Perhaps the most unusual of the short films was Len Lye's experimental documentary, Lambeth Walk (1941), which pokes fun at Hitler and the Nazis.
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