Reykjavik International Film Festival, RIFF, will kick off on September 26th with an opening ceremony in H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3. This year's opening film is made by the Icelandic-Norwegian director Lilja Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n
Loveable (Elskling), directed by Lilja, marks her debut feature film, having first premiered in Oslo earlier this year. The film quickly became a talking point due to its intense emotional themes and Helga Guren\u2019s standout performance in the leading role, which Variety described as a 'gutsy performance' in their review. In Loveable, Guren plays Maria, a woman struggling to balance her career ambitions with the demands of caring for her four children, while her husband, Sigmund, is frequently absent due to work-related travel. The couple's relationship reaches a breaking point during a heated argument, leading Sigmund to ask for a divorce.<\/p>\n
\"emotionally jagged debut\"<\/strong><\/p>\n which got a standing ovation at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in July <\/strong><\/p>\n In their review of Loveable, Variety furthermore describes Lilja's film as an emotionally jagged debut, and notes that that the film is an 'unusual, intelligent marriage story [which] wonders what happens when a second chance goes the way of the first, and who, if anyone, is to blame.'<\/p>\n The movie received a standing ovation at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in July.<\/p>\n Screened before: Br\u00edet and Birnir in outer space<\/strong><\/p>\n Before the opening film, RIFF will screen the short Birnir og Br\u00edet<\/strong>, by Erlendur Sveinsson. It follows a couple in outer space who attempt to erase the memories of their relationship. The short, which was filmed in one of Icelandair's airplanes, is a visual journey through Birnir and Br\u00edet's album 1000 Words, that the pair recently released.<\/p>\n The 21st edition of RIFF will take place this fall, primarily at H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3, where each screen will showcase a diverse selection of high-quality films from around the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Norsk-\u00edslenska kvikmyndager\u00f0arkonan Lilja Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir \u00e1 hei\u00f0urinn a\u00f0 opnunarmynd Al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0legu kvikmyndah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arinnar \u00ed Reykjav\u00edk \u00ed \u00e1r, RIFF, en h\u00fan hefst \u00ed H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3i 26. september n\u00e6stkomandi og stendur til 6. okt\u00f3ber. Elskling eins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":55979,"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-55978","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\/55978","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\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56419,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55978\/revisions\/56419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}