The international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso (b.1959) is the festival director (since 2002) and president of the board of directors at Tampere Film Festival. He has worked for the festival already in early 80´s on the floor level, and has been involved with the selection and programming since 2000.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso acts also as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre (since 1998), a local film centre in Tampere. The film centre is a non-profit organisation that runs an art-house cinema and works extensively with media education. He has also worked as a free-lance filmcritic for radio and magazines.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso acted as the chairman of the National Council for Cinema 2004-2009 This position bought him also a seat at the National Council for the Arts. He is member of European Film Academy.

The 26 years old Paris filmmaker Léa Rinaldi holds a masters degree in media studies (obtained at the Sorbonne university in Paris IV) and in Literature (obtained at the Havana university in Cuba).

She started as a media reporter for channels Canal Plus, Ciné Cinéma and MK2, shooting and editing film related newsflash. She then moved on to directing short fictions, documentaries and experimental films.

Selected filmography:
2010 Box, fiction 12'
2009 Behind Jim Jarmusch, documentary, 52
2008 Migration, fiction, 5'

Line Klungseth Johansen was born in Fauske, Norway. She has a master in Film Science, and has worked as an director and photographer for fiction and documentaries productions. Line currently works as a festival producer for Minimalen Short Film Festival in Norway.

Line is also present in the Short Film competition with her film "Flimmer".