Jukka-Pekka Laakso is the festival director of Tampere Film Festival and an executive director of Pirkanmaa Film Centre.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso
Jukka-Pekka Laakso participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Jukka-Pekka Laakso’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Let There Be Light | John Huston | USA | 1946 | 58’ | ||
| Dimensions of Dialogue Možnosti dialogu | Jan Švankmajer | Czechoslovakia | 1983 | 12’ | ||
| World of Glory Härlig är jorden | Roy Andersson | Sweden | 1991 | 17’ | ||
| Neighbours | Norman McLaren | Canada | 1952 | 9’ | ||
| The Immigrant | Charlie Chaplin | USA | 1917 | 30’ | ||
| Creature Comforts | Nick Park | United Kingdom | 1989 | 5’ | ||
| Kustom Kar Commados | Kenneth Anger | USA | 1965 | 3’ | ||
| For the First Time Por primera vez | Octavio Cortázar | Cuba | 1967 | 10’ | ||
| Two Men and a Wardrobe Dwaj ludzie z szafa | Roman Polanski | Poland | 1958 | 15’ | ||