Jukka-Pekka Laakso

Jukka-Pekka Laakso is the festival director of Tampere Film Festival and an executive director of Pirkanmaa Film Centre.

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’