Rijeka Film Forum Starts on 28 August

Rijeka Film Forum Starts on 28 August

Published: 10.08.2020.

Through immersion into the screen and opening-up of the barriers between film and audience, films are given a quite new, communal life. A film is viewed, it is discussed, the cinema is a place to get together. On a city’s cultural horizon film and audience merge – at the upcoming Rijeka Film Forum.

The first Rijeka Film Forum, organised by Art-kino as part of Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture's flagship named Times of Power, will be held from 28 August to 2 September at Art-kino.

Same as Rijeka 2020 – Port of Diversity, all RIFF films are treated equally: no distinction shall be made on the basis of film format or genre because FILM is FILM, and titles that are screened at the forum are exclusively required to be original, fresh, dynamic, innovative, recent and, certainly, radical.

RIFF is not concerned with the film's origin – it is open to the whole world. The only condition is that it elicits a desire for discussion and questioning, because Art-kino is not only a place for screening and watching films, but also a place for discussion, education, communication, and researching the art of motion picture, film reflection and reflection on film.

Thus, the film programme of Rijeka Film Forum brings a total of thirteen feature and documentary films from all over the world, which will have its Croatian premiere for the most part in Art-kino. Guided by the previously mentioned principles, RIFF's selection seeks to create a strong foundation for joint discussion and questioning, therefore the forum nature of the new film event in Rijeka will be complemented with relevant conversations and encounters, in and around the cinema.

In this way, RIFF will offer to the Times of Power flagship - inspired and dedicated to questioning different forms and relations of power, a film form and content in which the Rijeka audience has not yet had the opportunity to participate.

The entire RIFF programme is held around the cinema, a safe and well-known base for organisers and visitors, a unique meeting place for film and words, which, in its basic meaning, a film forum implies.

With a departure from the competitive character and numerous (planned in the original festival edition) accompanying content, Rijeka Film Forum emphasizes solidarity, openness and collaboration, together with the question that is essentially the most important - what can films offer to its viewers?

And what about the audience? The audience is the face of Rijeka Film Forum, and its most important protagonist. With viewers who come first, Art-kino embarks on a new and exciting adventure in Rijeka, a new port of film encounters.