Festival Director

Ida Thorén

Program Director

Ulrika Bandeira

Programmer International section

Cecilia Björk

Board Tempo Documentary Festival

Jannike Åhlund (chair person)
Anna J Ljungmark
Bengt Bok
Mónica Hernández Rejón
Pratik Vithlani
Rosa Fernandez
Malin Hüber

Employees Tempo Dokumentärfestival 2023

Festival producer: André Hasselgren
Press manager: Louise Bodin
Press & marketing coordinator: Olga Ruin
Marketing manager and newspaper editor: Julia Nilsson
Web & Social Media Editor: Soban Moallim
Content creator: Kevin Nyeko Moini
Administrative assistant: Felicia Fågelhammar Egaña
Editor for the international program: Cecilia Björk
Editor Tempo Documentary Award: Christina Höglund
Editor Tempo Short Award & New Doc: Jennifer Norström & Cecilia Björk
Sound editor: Mona Abbasnejad
Industry producer: Sigrid Hadenius-Ebner
Industry and pitch coordinator: Lena Nitsch
Guest manager: Susana Santa-Marta
Coordinator Tempo Meet Up: Marina Lesauvage
Digital producer & film coordinator: Ivana Petrikova
Technicians: Tängman & Åsa Hoflin
Volunteer manager: Edith Lebert
Accreditation and industry center manager: Julia Welander
Controller: Julia Welander

Tempo: a unique forum for the presentation of documentary work across traditional boundaries

Tempo Documentary Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Sweden. Founded in 1998, Tempo has since the start presented creative documentaries from all over the world, which would otherwise not reach the Swedish audience.

Tempo has established a unique forum for the presentation of documentary work across traditional boundaries – Film, radio, photography, VR as well as more experimental forms of expression. The festival and other associated events are arranged and developed by the non-profit organisation Tempo Documentary Festival.

Tempo acts as the host for seven competitions: The Tempo Documentary Award, one of Europe’s largest documentary prizes, for best Swedish documentary, Tempo Short Award for best Swedish short documentary, Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award, for best International documentary, New Doc, Tempo Pitch Short Dox Radio and Tempo Sound Award.

The festival has been staged at a number of major venues in Stockholm including Kulturhuset, Filmhuset, Södra Teatern, the Finnish Institute and the film theaters Victoria, Reflexen and Zita, amongst others. Since 2008, Tempo takes place in the beginning of March.

Tempo is also a forum for the documentary industry. During the festival week, there are several activities targeting professionals such as works in progress, seminars, master classes and Tempo Pitch for projects in early development. 

Since the autumn of 2021, Tiny Tempo, a documentary festival specifically aimed at children and young people, has been organized. The festival offers both school- and public screenings of both film and audio documentaries, just like at Tempo.

Tempo hosts several competitions in film and radio, both national and international. The prizes are awarded by our partners for the various competitions.

Stefan Jarl International Documentary Award, for best international documentary, Tempo Documentary Award, for best international feature length documentary. Tempo Short Award for best Swedish feature length documentary, Tempo Sound Award for best sound. New Doc for newly established filmmakers' documentaries, Tempo Pitch for best-performing pitch and Short Dox Radio for best radio documentary in short format.

Photo by Hedda Axelsson.

Do you want to be a volunteer at the festival?

Do you want to join us in creating the biggest festival in Sweden for documentaries? Become a volunteer at the upcoming edition of the festival. Get in touch with us to be part of the festival in March 2024. You are social and responsible and like meeting our audience, answering questions,  selling tickets and helping out at screenings, social events and festivities during the festival.  In return, you will get a festival pass that gives you access to everything at the festival upon availability, food when you work and not least be part of a great crowd! 

Does this sound interesting?

E-mail your questions to volontar@tempofestival.se ! 

For other spontaneous applications, contact Ida Thorén (Festival Director).

The Tempo Chronicle

Tempo Documentary Festival has been developed since the start in 1998 and many are those who have been involved in the festival. Follow the festival from the start, seen through the eyes of different key people.

Warm thanks to all financiers, sponsors and partners.