Program

Program

What to expect at this years festival?

Screenings

At this educational film festival, we will show films that are connected to education in some way. The filmmakers and/or educators behind the films will present their projects and the pedagogical thought behind the films. After each screening there will be a Q & A where the audience can ask questions.

Pedagogical background

TREFF is not only a film festival, but also an arena for finding inspiration for teaching practices and discussing how to combine film with learning. We want to explore the pedagogical potential of every film. Because of this the audience won’t just see a film but might also find some new ideas for their teaching 

Keynotes

In addition to screenings and the presentations of the films we will this year have 3 professional key notes that will speak about film in education. This is something that makes us, not just a festival, but also a conference with a platform for learning and inspiration.

Awards

At TREFF  we want both learning and film to be in focus. Therefore, we will also give recognition to the contributions that best exemplifies this . There will be a jury of professionals in the field that will decide who will be awarded prizes within various categories. 

Screenings

Here you can see the trailer and read more about each film and project that is selected for the festival in 2024. 

Seeing the person before the teeth a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF)

Andrej at the dentist

This film provides insight into the challenges that some patients may face during seemingly simple dental procedures. It stresses the significance of clear communication, building trust, and paying attention to subtle cues that indicate a patient’s discomfort in the dental chair.

A World of Rhythm a film selected for screening at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

A World of Rhythm

The film focuses on the experience of rhythms in everyday life. The intriguing audiovisual production inspires and motivates learning more about rhythmic phenomena.

"Fortell meg hva jeg ser" a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF)

Tell me what I see

The film is about Simen who studies sociology. As a visually impaired student, it requires a little extra to study on an equal footing with others.

Wind power and Law - AR app for school students selected to be showcased on Tromsø Educational FIlm Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Wind power and Law

An AR app that aims to visualize dilemmas and problems connected to development of wind power, and the judicial balance between several conflicting interests.

The Toxic Reigns of Resentment a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

The Toxic Reigns of Resentment

An interview film on the emotion of resentment and how it defines culture and politics today.

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

The Music Factory

In “The Music Factory” we meet Herbert, who has synesthesia; a cross-sensory condition that makes him see shapes and colours when he hears sound and music and we are presented with the story of how he found his way to the music factory.

Classified people a film selected for TREFF - Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024.

Classified people

Yolande Zauberman’s first documentary is a reminder of the relentless and absurd violence of racial segregation, set against the tender chronicle of the couple formed by Doris and Robert. More than three decades have passed and the incredible strength they draw from their love to overcome obscurantism is still deeply moving.

Speaking through me a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Speaking Through Me

Speaking Through Me was created to empower teens and young adults with knowledge and awareness about the most precious and amazing supercomputer they will ever own: their developing brain.

Quest for Antibodies a film selected as a part of the program at TREFF 2024 (Tromsø Educational Film Festival).

Quest for antibodies

When art meets science – and hyperflexible dancing bodies meet their hyperflexible antibodies!

Ocean Portrait - The children by the North Sea a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Ocean Portrait – The children by the North Sea

This documentary is about a research and art project carried out in kindergartens in Øygarden municipality in 2022, near Bergen. In a joint project, we staged joint exploration of life in the biotope between land and sea with the aim of an aesthetic look at the sea and a local mindset and value set.

Nurse Anesthetist a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Nurse Anesthetist

This is one of the series of videos showing how Nurse Anesthetist and Student Nurse Anesthetist is coworking together when the student has their praxis in the hospital.

TeraVri - Meet the Hansen family a project selected to be a part of the showroom on Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2023 (TREFF).

TeraVri – Meet the Hansen family

In the learning resource about the Hansen family, students get to do a virtual home-visit and discover by themselves the situation of the family. There are several small videos about the family presented throughout the virtual house, which teaches the students about risk- and resilience.

Hereafter (3:3) is a selected film for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Hereafter (3:3)

Imagine that you are 11 years old and you learn that your mother is seriously ill and may die. This was the reality for Hani, a young man who experienced the unthinkable: losing his own mother to cancer at a young age. How to live with the grief?

Attachment theory a film selected to be screened at Tromsø Educational Film Festival (TREFF).

Attachment Theory: How childhood affects life

The attachment theory argues that a strong emotional and physical bond to one primary caregiver in our first years of life is critical to our development.

Photo gallery

Some moments from TREFF 2024!

Joseph Schumpeter a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 - TREFF.

Joseph Schumpeter

An animated video that explains Joseph Schumpeter´s theories.

What is platics? - a film selected to be screened at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF)

What are plastics?

While making an online course about reducing plastic waste, Jostein realizes he doesn’t quite know what plastic really is. He embarks on a quest to the university to find out.

"Trans hate on your phone" a selected film for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024, UiT.

Trans-Hate on your phone

The film Trans-Hate on your phone is designed to be watched on a mobile phone. It catapults the viewer into the everyday life of a transperson, continuously experiencing discriminations, verbal attacks and fear.

You arrive a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

You Arrive

Based on the extensive career of Montreal therapist and professor Bonnie Harnden, YOU ARRIVE is an educational docu-drama that explores how to break free from the cycles of trauma that impact our lives, our children’s lives, and our relationships

About my blood film screened on Tromsø Educational Film Festival

About my blood

This film is a bit of a film essay and a bit of a documentary. It is an exploration of menopause and of the ways to explore it, the gaps of knowledge about it, the shame, the silences surrounding it.

Bands and storytelling: Tony's Chocolonely a selected film for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Brands and storytelling: Tony’s Chocolonely

Storytelling is vital in building a strong brand. In the Netherlands, a a group of committed individuals with strong beliefs built the biggest Dutch chocolate brand through storytelling.

Shifting Consensuses a film selected as a part of the program at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Shifting Consensuses

The film stages Wolfgang Saus, a German Obertone singer. He represents European values by singing key words of the European anthem: Brüder (brothers) and Freude (Joy). Meanwhile an amplifier, standing nearby, emits sounds that grow into words and finally into comprehensible sentences

Perpetual Search a film selected for screening at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Perpetual Search

This documentary focuses on Mr. Bhim Bahadur Thapa, his enduring legacy, and the mythical aspects of his life. It serves both as a biographical account and as an enduring piece of social commentary.

Students going abroad a film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF)

Student teachers going abroad

These films are made for preparing student teachers going abroad for their practicum. Based on students earlier experiences, we developed three different cases.

Battery Fjell - 1945 a VR-experience selected as an installation at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Battery Fjell – 1945

«Battery Fjell 1945» takes the players back in time to the year 1945, to the historical fortress, Fjell Battery, located at the Norwegian west coast. Through a VR experience, players get to explore the problems and challenges that followed the end of the Second World War.

Incognito mode a selected film for Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).

Incognito mode

This animation addresses the need for education to address easily accessible internet pornography, especially as it impacts young people’s lives.

AKMA 2. Ocean Senses Research Expedition, a film selected for TREFF 2024 (Tromsø Educational Film Festival).

AKMA 2. Ocean Senses Research Expedition

May 2022. Longyearbyen. While the engineers are still working hard to mobilize all the instruments needed for the expedition, the AKMA team is planning and discussing how the samples will be taken.

Encounter film selected for Tromsø Educational Film Festival

Encounters

A conversation with an anonymous fossil, who has a lot to tell.

Program content

Wednesday March 13th
08.30 Registration
09.00 Openingshow
09.15 Keynote 1; Kine Maridatter Maxwell Dørum
10.00 Introduction to show room
10.30 Coffee break – visiting show room
11.00 Film screenings
12.00 Lunch – visiting show room
13.00 Film screenings
14.00 Break
14.10 Film screenings
15.20 Break
15.30 Film screenings
16.25 Coffee break
16.45 Film screenings until 17.30
18.00 The Northern Lights Planetarium
18.20 Reception dinner
Thursday March 14th
09.00 Key note 2; Eilert Torsnes
10.00 Break
10.10 Movie screenings
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Film screenings
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Key note 3; Jouko Aaltonen
14.20 Break
14.30 Film screenings
15.10 Coffee break
15.35 Film screenings
16.25 Break
16.35 Film screenings until 17.35
20.00 Festival Dinner at Maskinverkstedet
Friday March 15th
09.00 Introduction at Verdensteateret
09.30 Film screenings – Intro with Trond Waage
10.30 Break
10.40 Film screenings
11.45 Lunch
12.45 Award ceremony/ closing party until 14.00

Keynotes

At our festival we have invited some keynote speakers to participate. Their common ground is their expertise in education and film, and they will contribute with their knowledge within the field. Read more about this year’s keynotes here. 

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 years 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

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 years 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.

Meet the jury

On the last day of the festival there will be an award ceremony where the contributions that best promote our ambition of connecting pedagogical practice and film together in a professional manner will gain recognition. There will be 6 people on the jury, and they will be presented here.

Jurymedlem Terje Bergli
Terje Bergli, Result

Terje Bergli is a filmmaker who works at Result at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Terje is the program director for TREFF, and he has been working with film in education for 20 years. Early on he was an educator within the film field at secondary school and in higher education. He has also worked for NRK, the national broadcaster in Norway. 

Jurymedlem Terje Bergli
Ellen Sethov, OsloMet

Ellen is affiliated at OsloMet (Oslo Metropolitan University) where she works at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design. She is currently working with the EQUALS-EU project that aims to give more women access to technology, digital skills, and leadership positions. 

In terms of video there is more than just the technical and visual parts. The pedagogical context where and how the video is used is also important. Ellen’s curiosity and courage to use technology and video in her academic teaching is admirable and we are happy to have her as a representative on the jury.  

Jurymedlem Terje Bergli
Kelsey Brannan, Premiere Gal

Kelsey Brannan is the creator of the popular post-production focused YouTube channel: Premiere Gal. Kelsey is a video editor but also a multimedia expert with a special focus on sharing her knowledge on Adobe Creative Coud apps. With her online tutorials she has helped millions “creating better videos with the Gal”, as she says. 

She holds an MA in Communication, Culture and Technology and her experience in both creating and tutoring relatable content for video creators is well reputed.  We and the jury are lucky to be joined by Kelsey and her expertise on post-production, social media, and video in particular. 

Jurymedlem Terje Bergli
Matt Pierce, TechSmith

Matthew Pierce, Learning & Video Ambassador from TechSmith Corporation, has created videos for learning and marketing for over a decade. He is the lead behind TechSmith Academy, a free platform teaching video and image creation for business, which has been used by tens of thousands of users. He is the host of The Visual Lounge Podcast from TechSmith, which streams live on Youtube and LinkedIn weekly. Matthew is a regular speaker at multiple learning and development-focused conferences and is a regular contributor to various training publications. And now also a member of the TR.E.F.F jury. 

Jurymedlem Terje Bergli
Dr. Steven Hayward, Colorado College

Steven Hayward is a professor of English at Collorado College and a founding member of IBILTA (the International Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching Association). He presented the “Is It Time for the One-Week Semester?” at TEDx In May 2023. He is also the director of the acclaimed documentary “The Block Plan” which won the best picture at 2022 Helsinki international Educational Film Festival.  He has published four books of fiction, including the Canadian national bestseller Don’t Be Afraid. His experienced contribution makes our jury both versatile and competent.  

May-Eldri Hanssen as a studenty jury at Tromsø Educational Film Festival 2024 (TREFF).
May-Eldrid Hanssen, Student

May-Eldrid is 24 years old and works at a daily basis as a nurse at Tromsø Kommune. She studied to become a nurse at UiT the Arctic University of Norway and is still a student at UiT where she is building on previous competence. When she was a bachelorstudent she was an actor in some educational films as well as exposed to educational films in her tuition. Now she represents the student view at TREFF and we are happy to have her as a part of our jury.

UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet

Hansine Hansens veg 18, 9019 Tromsø