“MAY NUFF SPREAD ITS WINGS AND FLY!"
«A truly wonderfully and unique experience. Incredible! I have traveled the world extensively making films and attending festivals and have never experienced such a loving, poignant and profound time as this one. Your dedication to media activism and global media literacy is astounding. May NUFF spreads it wings and fly!» (Paolo Davanzo, experimental filmmaker, USA)
Nordic Young Film Festival - NUFF is an annual short film festival for young filmmakers up to 26 years old from the Nordic countries & the world with short films (max 20 min) made in the last 2 years.
NUFF has been an important international platform for youth film and a meeting place for many young filmmakers since 2003.
Based at the youth culture house Tvibit in Tromsø, Northern Norway, NUFF has already a long success-story. Started by the wish to support young local filmmakers and to get an idea how our neighbours are making films and telling stories, NUFF discovered the world of Youth Cinema and all of the exciting potential that came with it.
The quality of submitted films has steadily been increasing and so too has the incredible atmosphere of the workshops and the growing network of filmmakers, partners and projects. All of this is making NUFF a unique summer event above the polar circle and under the overwhelming midnight sun.
NUFF OFFERS
Nordic film competition
International film competition
International film workshop
International film network
International film seminars, discussions and a lot of fun!
«NUFF has been one of my life’s best weeks» (Stian Skjelstad, Norway)
THE FILM COMPETITIONS
NUFF has two film competitions for short films made in the last two years (with a max length of 20 minutes) by filmmakers under the age limit of 26 years old. All genres are possible!
For the Nordic film competition the films have to be produced in a Nordic country or the filmmaker comes from or lives in a Nordic Country. Nordic Countries are defined as Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Island, Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Finland. This competition is divided in three age groups: <18, 19-21 & 22-26.
For the International film competition the films have to be produced outside the Nordic countries or the filmmaker comes from or lives outside the Nordic countries.
The submission deadline for both competitions is March 1st!
THE WORKSHOPS
Each year NUFF is gathering about 40 young filmmakers from all over the world. Divided into groups, they will then each make a film "from the idea to a finished film" in one week. The participants work with professional filmmakers on their short film project through all stages of filmmaking.
NUFF annually invites prolific and professional filmmakers from different countries to supervise the five workshop groups. With different backgrounds from professional filmmaking - film producers, script writers, film directors or documentary filmmakers guide and teach NUFF participants from their experience of daily professional work with film.
NUFF has no classes! The groups are deciding the ideas, the content and the methods. Every participant will find his/her place in the group and the position which fits best in the production team. The goal is to get the film ready towards the deadline and watch the results together on the big scene in one of Northern Europe's oldest cinema Verdensteatret Kino.
JURIES & AWARDS
About 30 films will be nominated to each competition. The nominated films will be screened during the festival at the cultural landmark, Verdensteatret in Tromsø and published as official festival film program in the festival catalogue and online. All films have to be subtitled in English.
Each competition has its own jury containing three members.
The awards for the Nordic competition are for the best film in each age-group and for the best Nordic youth film from all age-groups. The best Nordic youth film will be awarded with a prize of 10000,- NOK given by Foreningen Norden.
The winner films will also be screened at Tromsø International Film Festival - TIFF in the NUFF@TIFF program.