ABOUT NUFF
The Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) is an annual short film festival and film workshop, for young filmmakers up to 26 years old from the Nordic countries & the world.
NUFF has been an important international platform for youth film and a meeting place for many young filmmakers since 2003. NUFF is now divided into 2 parts: the eternal sunshine of the midnight sun in June for the NUFF Workshop, and the ethereal glow of the polar night in November for the NUFF Festival.
Based at the youth culture house Tvibit in Tromsø, Northern Norway, NUFF has already a long success-story. The goal is to promote and support youth cinema, as well as provide educational tools to aspiring filmmakers in Norway and beyond.
With its film and film music workshop gathering around 40 young participants every year in June, great selection of films screened in October, and other events in collaboration with our partners throughout the year, NUFF is a unique meeting point for upcoming filmmakers.
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”
The film competitions
NUFF has two film competitions for short films (under 20 minutes) made by filmmakers who are under 26 years old. The film must have been made maximum 2 years prior to NUFF. We accept fiction, documentary, animation as well as experimental films. All genres are welcome!
For the Nordic film competition the films have to be produced in a Nordic country, or made by a filmmaker who comes from or lives in a Nordic Country. Nordic Countries are defined as Greenland, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Finland.
For the International film competition the films have to be produced outside the Nordic countries or by filmmakers who come from or live outside the Nordic countries.
Juries & awards
About 25 films will be nominated to each competition. The nominated films will be screened during the NUFF festival at the Verdensteatret cinema 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 award for the Nordic competition is for the best film. The best Nordic youth film will be awarded with a prize of 10 000,- NOK given by Foreningen Norden.
The winner films will also be screened at Tromsø International Film Festival - TIFF in the NUFF@TIFF program.
The workshops
Each year, NUFF is gathering about 40 young filmmakers from all over the world in Tromsø, Norway. Divided into groups, they make a film "from idea to finished film" in 6 days. The participants work with professional filmmakers on their short film project through all stages of filmmaking.
NUFF annually invites professional filmmakers from different countries to supervise the workshop groups. The mentors come from different backgrounds within the film industry – producers, script writers, film directors or documentary filmmakers.
The workshop groups themselves decide on the script, the content of their film and the technical aspects of the film. Every participant will find the role that fits best in the group. 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.
The Organization
Founded in 2002 as a project at the youth culture centre Tvibit in Tromsø, NUFF has taken place annually since then. As of this year, NUFF is located at TVIBIT and led by the NUFF team. The project manager of NUFF is Marion Bouvier.