Around eighty films are already confirmed for RIFF 2024 and many more are joining the selection. Including films that have received prestigious awards at film festivals abroad, such as:<\/p>\n
\u201cPepe\u201d<\/b>\u00a0by Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias, which was screened in a competing category at the Berlinale and received special recognition from the jury. The movie is about\u00a0Pepe<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe first and last hippopotamus killed in America,\u201d who appears as a ghost and tells his story. \u201c78 Days\u201d<\/b>\u00a0by Emilija Ga\u0161i\u0107, which was screened at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam (IFFR) and recieved the Tiger Award for best new film. The film is a tender coming-of-age story of people in a war-torn country. "Crossing\u201d<\/b>\u00a0by Levan Akin, which was screened at Berlinale and received the Teddy Awars for outstanding contribution to LGBTQ+ film. The main theme of the film deals with the experience of gay people in Turkey. \u201cGrand Tour\u201d<\/b>\u00a0by Miguel Gomes, which was screened at Cannes and won the FIPRESCI award. The film is a story of fate and love, and the setting is the First World War. Among other films that have attracted a lot of attention at major festivals abroad include:<\/i> "Samia\u201d,<\/b>\u00a0tells the story of a Somali runner aiming for the Olympics, and premiered at Tribeca. \u201cRising Up at Night\u201d,<\/b>\u00a0A moving Congolese film by Nelson Makengo, which deals with the energy crisis in Africa, was screened at the Berlinale and Hot Docs. "A New Kind of Wilderness",<\/b> an award-winning Norwegian film by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, which tells the story of a family living in the wilderness who experiences a traumatic incident and has to return to technologically-driven society. The film was, among others, a hit at the Sundance Film Festival. \u00c1 \u00e1ttunda tug kvikmynda eru \u00feegar sta\u00f0festar \u00e1 RIFF 2024 og s\u00edfellt fleiri b\u00e6tast \u00ed h\u00f3pinn. \u00dear \u00e1 me\u00f0al eru kvikmyndir sem hloti\u00f0 hafa virt ver\u00f0laun \u00e1 kvikmyndah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0um erlendis, svo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":898,"featured_media":54639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54640,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54630\/revisions\/54640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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