Festival News 2005 - Web Magazine of the 35th Tampere Film Festival

World’s Northernmost Film Festival?

Heidi Hölsömäki

Each of the film festivals below claims on their homepage to be the world’s northernmost film festival. Do you know which one actually is the northernmost?

1) Anchorage, Alaska

2) Tromsø, Norway

3) Sodankylä, Finland

Answer: The northernmost of these three film festivals is Tromsø at latitude 69°N. Sodankylä is situated on the 67th parallel of latitude, Anchorage on the 61st.

Elsewhere in the Web

Anchorage Film Festival
www.anchoragefilmfestival.com

Tromso International Film Festival
www.tiff.no

Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä
www.msfilmfestival.fi

Updated 10 March 2005 9:53

Festival News 2005
Thursday 10th March

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