# Tromsø International Film Festival

The Tromsø International Film Festival (TIFF) is an annual film festival held during the third week of January in Tromsø, Norway.
The inaugural Tromsø International Film Festival was held in 1991.
TIFF has 6 screening venues, including Verdensteatret (Norway's oldest cinema in continuous use) and the Hålogaland Teater. Because the festival takes place toward the end the polar night, it also offers mid-day screenings in an outdoor cinema.
The total of admissions in 2020 it was 58500, which makes TIFF Norway's biggest film festival.
Movies with world premiere at Tromsø International Film Festival:
* 2001 Cool and Crazy
* 2008 The Kautokeino Rebellion
* 2016 Doing good
* 2021 Ninjababy
* 2025 Everything Must Go

## Awards

The film festival presents several awards:
* The Aurora Prize (TIFF's main prize. Films must have their Norwegian premier at TIFF to compete)
* The FIPRESCI Prize (International critics award with jury members from FIPRESCI)
* The Don Quixote Prize (awarded by the Federation internationale des cine-clubs)
* The Norwegian Peace Film Award (awarded to a film spotlighting and encouraging understanding of violence)
* The Tromsø Palm (awarded to the best short film under 60 minutes)
* The Tromsø Audience Award
* The Faith in Film Award (awarded to a film which encourages reflection and critical thinking about religion)

## Audience Award

Film voted as best movie by popular vote.
| Year | Film | Director | Country |
| 1995 | Spider and Rose | Bill Bennett | Australia |
| 1996 | Accumulator 1 | Jan Svěrák | Czech Republic |
| 1997 | Palookaville | Alan Taylor | France |
| 1998 | Gadjo dilo | Tony Gatlif | Romania and France |
| 1999 | When the Light Comes | Stijn Coninx | Germany / Belgium / Netherlands / Norway |
| 2000 | Une Liaison Pornographique | Frédéric Fonteyne | Belgium / France / Switzerland / Luxembourg |
| 2001 | In July | Fatih Akın | Germany |
| 2002 | The Princess and the Warrior | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
| 2003 | The Sea | Baltasar Kormákur | Iceland |
| 2004 | The Return | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2005 | As It Is in Heaven | Kay Pollak | Sweden |
| 2006 | Innocent Voices | Luis Mandoki | Mexico |
| 2007 | USA vs. Al-Arian | Line Halvorsen | Norway |
| 2008 | L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio | Agostino Ferrente | Italy |
| 2009 | Shooting the Sun (US title: The Storm in My Heart) | Pål Jackman | Norway |
| 2010 | For a Moment, Freedom | Arash T. Riahi | Austria / France / Turkey |
| 2011 | Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | U.S.A. |
| 2012 | Play | Ruben Östlund | Sweden |
| 2013 | No | Pablo Larraín | Chile |
| 2014 | Of Horses and Men | Benedikt Erlingsson | Germany/Iceland |
| 2015 | The Salt of the Earth | Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | France, Italy og Brazil |
| 2016 | Rams | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland and Denmark |
| 2017 | Sealers - One last hunt | Trude Berge Ottersen and Gry Elisabeth Mortensen | Norway |
| 2018 | Close-Knit | Naoko Ogigami | Japan |
| 2019 | Woman at war | Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland |
| 2020 | Parasite | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea |
| 2021 | Ninjababy | Yngvild Sve Flikke | Norway |
| 2022 | Beans | Tracey Deer | Canada |
| 2023 | Let the River Flow (Ellos eatnu – La elva leve) | Ole Giæver | Norway |
| 2024 | The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Benjamin Ree | Norway |
| 2025 | Touch | Baltasar Kormákur | Iceland |