Heikki Jokinen reviews the Tampere Festival in Finland,a unique short film festival that makes sure to integrate animation into all of its programs.
AWN (01.04.1999 - Heikki Jokinen) "It's incredible! The Tampere Short Film Festival has a wider program of animation than some of the actual animation festivals," said one of the first time visitors I met at the XXIX Tampere International Short Film Festival in March.
Tampere is a traditional industrial town in Finland, Northern Europe, inhabited by 175,000 people and covered with a lot of snow in March. It's not the most likely place to find an almost 30 year old annual short film festival, which is often referred to as one of the leaders in its field in Europe, and even the world.
The name of the small town 15 kilometers away, Nokia, is without a doubt known much better, though for other reasons. Finland has the highest density of mobile phones in the world, and as a result, one can get the daily festival program on his phone screen as a text message.
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