RIFF - FESTIVAL - NORWAY

After a great 8th edition with an expansive festival program and artists form all over the world, we are now opening our call to receive films related to dance, movement, art and cinema for RIFF 9TH EDITION. It will take place from May 30th to June 1st 2025, at our venue in Norway: R.E.D.

In addition to its rich and carefully selected national and international film program, the festival will also contain:
•Dance performances
•Exhibitions by festival artists.
•Workshops for kids and youngsters.
•Laboratories for filmmakers, dance and visual artists.
•Expert panel on film.
•Film exhibitions.
•Drive-in cinema.
•Shooting star.
•Café and bar
•And much much more…

Thanks for your interest in the festival. We specially thank creators participation in RIFF OPEN CALL.
Let's keep our interest in Art Alive!!!

Ella Fiskum,
RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL DANCE, ART & FILM FESTIVAL

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RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL DANCE, ART & FILM FESTIVAL
dance- art- cinema

RIFF 9TH EDITION will take place from May 30th to June 1st, 2025.

This festival was born in July 2015. It is settled on a farm overlooking Eina Lake, just outside Oslo. Surrounded by breathtaking Norwegian countryside.

Its mission is to build a bridge between the different fields of performing, as well as visual art, and the film industry; hence the subtitle: dance, art & cinema*. The festival aims to show films that exceeds boundaries and contains strong elements of movement and dance including expressions such as screendance, art films, more traditional and conventional short films, documentaries and full feature films.

*Cinema is from the French cinématographe which comes in part from the greek kinema, meaning movement. So, cinema is really just another word meaning moving picture.

We are aiming to develop RIFF as an important arena to show films of excellence; a platform to give workshops and master talks; a place for special guests and public to share thoughts, knowledge and experiences.

We have celebrated RIFF PRELUDE EDITION in 2015, RIFF FIRST EDITION in 2016 and so on. During the 8TH EDITION in 2024 we showed 35 films from all genres at our main venue, the R.E.D. ARENA and we filled the festival with outdoor and indoor screenings, concerts, exhibitions, live performances, red carpet, and various activities.

The AWARD WINNERS in the 8TH EDITION is:
Short Films (under 20 minutes): art-dance-cinema
“Circology” by Tero Peltoniemi. Finland.
“Somber Tides” by Chantal Caron. Canada.
“Prisoner” by Chanchan Gou. China.

Feature films and documentary films (over 20 minutes):
“Revealing the Invisible”, by Tony Chong and Marlene Millar. Canada

HONORARY MENTION:
“Urban Genesis”, by FuLe. France.

**AUDIENCE AWARDS: “Circology” by Tero Peltoniemi. Finland.
Jury: Christian Lo (NO). The jury also consists of curator Yolanda M. Guadarrama (MX) and director Ella Fiskum (NO).

EINAWOOD
As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded as a neighborhood where the motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was led by Ella Fiskum, Yolanda M. Guadarrama and Madeline Wood, RIFF Team: director, curator and visual creator of the sign. It is a playful action and also it is reality, as everything happens in the motion picture world.

OUR VENUE
RIFF is based at R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), which is an regional competence centre for dans in Innland County, and an international arena for arts and culture, running with a full year residency program, production house and stage for dance, circus, film, art and interdisciplinary cultural expressions, located at Nyland farm in Eina, Norway. It was recognized as a Regional Competence Centre for Dance since 2018, and is now founded by The Government, Innland County, Vestre Toten Municipally and Østnorsk Film Centre. It is located one hour from Oslo.
R.E.D. was founded by Ella Fiskum in 2013.