BOF: Tromsø International Film Festival

IONCINEMA.com presents: Best of Fests
Tromsø International Film Festival

When: January 16th to 21st, 2007
Counting Down:
Where: Location: Tromsø, Norway
Official Website: http://www.tiff.no/

What: TIFF is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF07 will be Tromsø's 17th international film festival. Tromsø International Film Festival had in 2006 a total admission of 44 804. This makes TIFF Norway' largest festival.

Accredited: No 

Film Line Up:

Opening Night
SPANDEXMAN – Bobbie Peers, 2007
WINTERLAND – Hisham Zaman, 2006

Closing Night
ONCE IN A LIFETIME – John Dower, Paul Crowder, 2005

Competition Program
BORDERPOST – Rajko Grlic , 2006
BORN AND BRED – Pablo Trapero , 2006
CHRONICLE OF AN ESCAPE – Isreal Adrián Caetano, 2006
COLOSSAL YOUTH – Pedro Costa, 2006
FAMILY TIES – Kim Tae-Yong, 2006
GLUE – Alexis Dos Santos, 2005
GYPO – Jan Dunn, 2005
LONGING – Valeska Grisebach, 2006
LUCY – Henner Winckler, 2006
REQUIEM – Hans-Christian Schmid , 2005
STILL LIFE – Zhang Ke Jia, 2006
TAKING FATHER HOME – Ying Liang, 2005
WAITING – Rashid Masharawi, 2005

Horizons
…MORE THAN 1000 WORDS – Solo Avital, 2006
A NEW DAY IN OLD SANA'A – Bader Ben Hirsi, 2005
ALONG THE RIDGE – Kim Rossi Stuart, 2006
ARAFAT, MY BROTHER – Rashid Mashawari, 2005
AURA – Fabien Bielinsky, 2005
BET COLLECTOR, THE – Jeffrey Jeturian, 2006
CATS OF MIRIKITANI, THE – Linda Hattendorf, 2006
CHILDREN – Ragnar Bragason, 2006
CONTACT – Sergej Stanojkovski, 2006
EMMA'S BLISS – Sven Taddicken, 2006
GREAT MATCH, THE – Gerardo Olivares, 2006
INGA TÅRAR – Håkan Bjerking, 2006
INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM PROGRAM – Various directors, 2005
JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN, THE – Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, 2006
LOVING MARADONA – Javier Martín Vázquez, 2005
NOT HERE TO BE LOVED – Stéphane Brizé, 2005
PAPER WILL BE BLUE, THE – Radu Muntean, 2006
RED ROAD – Andrea Arnold, 2006
RESTART – Julius Sevcík , 2005
TASUMA THE FIGHTER – Kollo Daniel Sanou, 2003
THE FREE WILL – Matthias Glasner, 2006
TICKET TO JERUSALEM – Rashid Mashawari, 2002
USA VS AL-ARIAN – Line Halvorsen, 2007
VIOLIN, THE – Francisco Vargas Quevedo, 2006
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS – Spike Lee, 2006
WWW, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD – Faouzi Bensaïdi, 2005

Horizon East
EMPTY – Veiko Õunpuu, 2006
FROZEN CITY – Aku Louhimies, 2006
GARPASTUM – Alexei Gherman jr. , 2005
RELATIONS – Avdotia Smirnova, 2006
REVOLUTION – Jouko Aaltonen, 2006
YOU AM I – Kristijonas Vildziunas, 2006

Critics' Week
4:30 – Royston Tan, 2006
A TRIP TO KARABAKH – Levan Tutberidze, 2005
THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, THE – Tommy Lee Jones, 2005
TOMORROW MORNING – Oleg Novkovic, 2006
WHO IS BOZO TEXINO? – Bill Daniel, 2005

Overdrive
BLACK SHEEP – Jonathan King, 2006
HOST, THE – Bong Joon-Ho, 2006
KILL BULJO – Tommy Wirkola, 2007
PRINCESS – Anders Morgenthaler, 2006
WE WERE NEVER HERE – Antonia Ganz, 2004

Films from the North
DOCUMENTARIES IN COMPETITION 1 – Various directors, 2006
DOCUMENTARIES IN COMPETITION 2 – Various directors, 2006
DOCUMENTARIES IN COMPETITION 3 – Various directors, 2006
FILMS FROM TROMSØ – Various directors, 2006
KJELL FJØRTOFT SPECIAL – Skule Eriksen & Kjell Fjørtoft, 2007
OVERDRIVE – Films from the North goes extreme! – Various directors, 2006
PORTRAITS 1: THE SÁMI – Markku Lehmuskallio & Anastasia Lapsui, 2006
PORTRAITS 2 – Various directors, 2006
PORTRAITS 3 – Various directors, 2006
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION 1 – , 2006
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION 2 – , 2006
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION 3 – Various directors, 2006
YOUNG DIRECTORS / STUDENT FILMS – Various directors, 2006

Special Screenings
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN – Alan J. Pakula, 1976
ALLEGRO – Christoffer Boe, 2005
BENNY'S GYM – Lisa Marie Gamlem, 2007
CLERKS II – Kevin Smith, 2006
CLOSE-UP – Abbas Kiarostami , 1990
KITCHEN STORIES – Bent Hamer , 2003
MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO – Hayao Miyazaki, 1988
NINA'S JOURNEY – Lena Einhorn, 2005
NO MAN'S LAND – Danis Tanovic, 0
RESCUE DAWN – Werner Herzog, 2006
RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES – Yimou Zhang, 2005
ROCKLAND NORWEGEN – Elmar Sommer, 2006
SILENT FILM CONSERT: HANS RICHTER'S SILENT SHORT FILMS – Hans Richter, 1921
TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON – Peter Whitehead, 1967

Norwegian premieres
BENNY'S GYM – Lisa Marie Gamlem, 2007
FOUNTAIN, THE – Darren Aronofsky, 2006
LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, THE – Kevin Macdonald, 2006
NOTES ON A SCANDAL – Richard Eyre, 2006
SECOND ROUND – Hilde Heier, 2007
SECRET LIFE OF WORDS, THE – Isabel Coixet, 2005
SMOKIN' ACES – Joe Carnahan, 2006
 
Winners: TBA