Tampere Film Festival presents evry March more than 400 films in 120 screenings with a vast majority of European works (80 %). The core of the festival is the International and the National Competitions and the special programmes. About 100 films from 40 countries, including most of the EU member states, are screened in the competitions. The special programmes consists of a great number (about 20 each year) of retrospectives, tributes and thematic programmes all of which allows a wide selection of European works from the early years of cinema up to the most recent works. Tampere Film Festival will be visit by about 120 foreign and 550 Finnish accredited guests (about 120 journalists). TFF will have a high number of public - 19 000 spectators in 5 days. Tampere is very active on bilateral activities regarding promotion, programming and consulting with several European festivals. Promoting Finnish, Nordic and European Short Film is one of our primary missions. Professional meetings include discussions, workshops and seminars of different topics, a meeting of film festivals and meetings between filmmakers, producers, film students and general audience.