About Me

RIFF MySpace Shorts Competition!

The results are in!

Dylan Wiehahn's Project Blur (Video no. 2) and William Van Cuyck's Crazy Love (Video no. 3) took the voting by storm. A big congratulations to Dylan and William who will be visiting RIFF on Sunday.

We would like to thank all the filmmakers that participated and all those who voted as well.

My Interests

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RIFF is a film festival which takes place in downtown Reykjavik from September 27th - October 7th. We had lots of fun last year, check out these pictures:

Music:

Danielson, Hannah Schygulla, Daft Punk, Benni Hemm Hemm

Heroes:

We've had quite a few visitors over the years: Abbas Kiarostami, Atom Egoyan, Aleksandr Sokurov, Artur Reinhart, Goran Paskaljevic, Vijaya Mulay, Aku Louhimies, Amnon Buchbinder, Dorota Kedzierzawska, Agnes Kocsis, So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray, Andrea Arnold, Hans Steinbichler, Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo, Bahman Ghobadi, Barbara Albert, Arunas Matelis, Linda Hattendorf, Rhuhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, Yoko Ono, Niels Arden Oplev...

My Blog

Thirteen new docs at RIFF

Our documentary section is now closed. It contains thirteen documentaries bound together by a single trait - quality. Our goal is simple: to introduce our audiences to the best and most interesting do...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:19:00 PST

Danielson performs at RIFF

American indie-rock group Danielson will perform live at Reykjavik International Film Festival. The concert takes place in downtown Reykjavík church Fríkirkjan on October 5th.The concert is held in co...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:18:00 PST

RIFF opens with Sigur Rós

On July 24th 2006, musical group Sigur Rós began an unexpected two week tour around Iceland. The tour marked the end of a 13 month world tour in support of their fourth album Takk... Once details of t...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:19:00 PST

Fly to RIFF with Icelandair

So you want to experience the magic first hand?Icelandair is now offering package deals to the Reykjavik International Film Festival at its local websites. Packages are up and running from Scandinavia...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:14:00 PST

Six shorts to premiere

RIFF will premiere five Icelandic shorts and one English one featuring Icelandic actor Ingvar E. Sigurðsson in the leading role. Also, a selection of Icelandic quality shorts from the last twelve mont...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:16:00 PST

Hanna Schygulla attends RIFF

Renowned German actress Hanna Schygulla is the lifetime achievement award recipient of 2007. She will attend RIFF in early October to accept this award. While in Reykjavik Schygulla will give a musica...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:33:00 PST

War on Iraq

Reykjavik International Film Festival has since it was founded focused on human rights issues. This year we will dedicate our human rights section to films dealing with the current situation in Iraq f...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:32:00 PST

Fassbinder takes center stage

This year's programme will include nearly one hundred films and as before emphasis is placed on new cinema. We see ourselves as a starting point for films soon to take the festival circuit by storm. T...
Posted by Reykjavik International Film Festival on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST