Prepare yourself for an unforgettable cinematic experience! RIFF - Reykjav\u00edk International Film Festival's Opening ceremony is tonight, as the festival kicks off for the 21st time. 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. The film received a standing ovation at The Karlovy Vary Film Festival in July, and won five awards.<\/p>\n
Before the opening film, RIFF will screen the short Birnir og Br\u00edet, 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 German actress Nastassja Kinski will receive an honorary award for Creative Excellence, presented by actor and director G\u00edsli \u00d6rn Gar\u00f0arsson. Filmmaker Gagga J\u00f3ns will deliver this year's Festival Splash.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
B\u00fai\u00f0 ykkur undir \u00f3gleymanlega kvikmyndaveislu! Al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0leg kvikmyndah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0 \u00ed Reykjav\u00edk hefst \u00ed dag \u00ed 21. sinn vi\u00f0 h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0lega ath\u00f6fn \u00ed H\u00e1sk\u00f3lab\u00ed\u00f3i.\u00a0Norsk-\u00edslenska kvikmyndager\u00f0arkonan\u00a0Lilja Ing\u00f3lfsd\u00f3ttir \u00e1 hei\u00f0urinn a\u00f0 opnunarmynd Al\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0legu kvikmyndah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0arinnar \u00ed Reykjav\u00edk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":57249,"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":[153,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir","category-news"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245","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\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57253,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57245\/revisions\/57253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riff.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}