RIFF - FESTIVAL - NORWAY

RIFF: R.E.D. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
-dance-art-cinema-

RIFF FIFTH EDITION will take place on July 3th-11th, 2020.
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 have a strong element of movement and dance including expressions such as screendance, art films, more traditional and conventional short films and full feature films.

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 FOURTH EDITION in 2019 we showed 35 films from all genres at our main venue, the R.E.D. ARENA, as well as we built a Drive-In-Movie-Theatre, an outdoor cinema in the outskirts of the farm in the woods where we screened some feature films on a huge screen at midnight.

During the five years that the festival has been running, we have offered live performances, shooting stars, concerts, red carpet, panel conversations, laboratories, and much much more.

The awards list in 2019 is:
Jury Award:
ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL? By Mohammad Bakhshi. Iran.
BÓRIA by Iwona Pasińska. Poland.
THIS DANCE HAS NO END by Fenia Kotsopoulou. Greece.
Honorary mentions:
THE BIG RACE by John Williams. USA.
KAORI ITO, A BODY OF LIFE by Tatjana Jankovic. France.
Audience Award:
ARE YOU VOLLEYBALL? By Mohammad Bakhshi. Iran.
VARIATION OF SUSPENSION | DROP. By David Alræk, Katrine Patry & Lisa Collete Bysheim. Norway-Canada.

EINAWOOD
As the Hollywood sign was erected in Los Angeles in 1923, Einawood was founded as a neighborhood where motion picture industry is emerging. EINAWOOD sign was inaugurated in Eina, Norway, on July 20th, 2017. The event was leaded 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.

RIFF is based at R.E.D. (Residency Eina Danz), which is an international, national and regional arena for arts and culture, running with a full year residency program, production house and stage for dance, film, art and interdisciplinary cultural expressions, located at Nyland farm in Eina, Norway. It has been recognized as a Regional Competence Centre for Dance since 2018, founded by Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Film Institute and Oppland County. It is located one hour and ten minutes from Oslo.
R.E.D. was founded by Ella Fiskum in 2012-2013.