Tromsø Educational Film Festival (TREFF) A festival that focus on films that educate and teach Films for education and teaching

Moving education

March 2026

NEWS

Call for films – TREFF 2026

We are thrilled to announce that film...

2024 Awards

The closing ceremony of the inaugural TREFF at Verdensteatret was a joyous occasion, with many winners present to receive their awards in person.

Thank you

Thank You for Making TREFF 2024 a Success!

Welcome to Tromsø Educational Film Festival!

Moving education…

This festival is all about moving education. We will watch films, learn from each other, get new ideas for teaching and find inspiration to use film as a pedagogical tool. This film festival combines the best of both worlds where the concept of festival and conference meet. Come join us!

Screenings

Look at last TREFF screenings!

Here you can find all the selected films for TREFF 2024. We have a broad selection from all over the world that is showcasing different genres within different fields of education.

Overview screenings from 2024

The music factory a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Keynotes 2024

Kine Maridatter Maxwell Dørum, NO

Associate professor, Result – UiT the arctic university of Norway

We are pleased to announce Kine Maridatter as one of the main speakers during this year’s festival. The topic she will bring forward is film in education and what her experience with using film as a pedagogical tool is. At UiT her expertise is learning design and she will bring up how to use video when designing for learning.

Jouko Aaltonen, FI

Film producer, Illume Oy

Jouko Aaltonen is an award winning documentary filmmaker. He is also a researcher and lecturer at Aalto University. He has over 30 years of experience from the world of documentaries with directing, writing and producing. We are lucky to have him at TREFF. Aaltonen is going to talk about the power of film, what you can do with it and how you can teach with it.

Main attraction at Tromsø Educational Film Festival, Jouko Aaltonen

Eilert Torsnes, NO

Head of Learning & Development, NRK The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

We are pleased to announce Eilert Torsnes as one of the main speakers during this year’s festival. He works at NRK The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and has over 10 years of experience with using film as a pedagogical tool in corporate learning and development, both in the financial sector and in the world of broadcasting. His background is from the University of Oslo where he examinated as a Master of Pedagogics and wrote his master thesis on Pedagogical usability of digital learning. Torsnes is going to share how NRK uses video as a tool both in traning of skills, compliance courses and for informal sharing and knowledge.

Program