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Brace Your Heart + Masterclass<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
1.10.2026, kl 17:00 (5:00pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Amanda Kernell\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swedish-S\u00e1mi director Amanda Kernell, whom RIFF 2026 is honouring as an Emerging Master,<\/strong>brings her latest film, Brace Your Heart<\/em> (Garrat du v\u00e1immu<\/em>), to the festival following an impressive run at major international film festivals. The film received a Special Jury Prize in the Platform Competition at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere, and Kernell was awarded the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebasti\u00e1n International Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brace Your Heart<\/em> <\/strong>is set in a remote S\u00e1mi mountain village and follows twenty-year-old Ejva, who inherits her father\u2019s reindeer herd after his death and struggles to shape her own future and preserve her independence. The film is a co-production between Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Bulgaria. Following the screening, RIFF audiences will have the opportunity to meet Kernell in a masterclass and gain insight into her filmmaking process and the themes that shape her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Music and Magic: Reykjav\u00edk Queer Choir\u00a0and Fado Bicha<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3<\/strong>
1.10.2026, kl 20:30 (8:30pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fado Bicha is a Lisbon-based duo charting its own course as it redefines one of Portugal\u2019s best-known and most beloved musical traditions: fado. Singer Lila Fadista and guitarist Jo\u00e3o Ca\u00e7ador give fado a new voice by weaving together tradition and modernity while exploring identity, gender and social change. The duo will be joined on stage by Reykjav\u00edk Queer Choir for a unique event that brings Icelandic choral tradition together with Portuguese folk music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paper Tiger<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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1.10.2026, kl 19:35 (7:35pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: James Gray<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In James Gray\u2019s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafia, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences. Starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00dea\u00f0 sem hverfur + Samtal til \u00e1hrifa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
1.10.2026, kl 17:00 (5<\/em>:00pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directors:<\/strong>: Pepe Andreu, Rafa Mol\u00e9s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Piet\u00e0<\/em> is rooted in a landscape undergoing profound transformation. Beneath Vatnaj\u00f6kull, the story of Flosi Bj\u00f6rnsson and his family becomes inseparable from the glacier itself\u2014a place of memory, livelihood and identity that is now rapidly changing. Taking the film as a point of departure, this Impact Talk<\/em> will explore what it means to live alongside environmental change that unfolds gradually but alters both landscapes and the communities connected to them. The discussion will look at glaciers not only as indicators of the climate crisis, but as places carrying personal histories, cultural memory and a sense of belonging. Filmmakers Pepe Andreu and Rafa Mol\u00e9s will be joined by Helga \u00d6gmundard\u00f3ttir, environmental anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Iceland, whose work explores human relationships with nature and environmental change, and Gu\u00f0finna A\u00f0algeirsd\u00f3ttir, Professor of Glaciology at the University of Iceland and one of Iceland\u2019s leading experts on glaciers. Together, they will discuss what is lost when familiar landscapes begin to disappear, how environmental change is understood both scientifically and through the lived experience of communities, and how cinema can make slow, often abstract processes such as climate change feel immediate and personal. Moderated by El\u00eds Gu\u00f0nason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panel: Film as a Weapon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Nordic House
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl. 15:15 (3<\/em>:15pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a media landscape increasingly shaped by misinformation, propaganda and the strategic use of images, cinema occupies an uneasy position. Film can reinforce dominant narratives, simplify complex realities or become part of political messaging but it can also challenge misinformation, preserve memory and create space for perspectives that are otherwise pushed aside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bringing together filmmakers, producers, broadcasters and distributors, this panel will look at how politically charged stories are created, supported and circulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What responsibilities come with telling stories about conflict, social rupture or contested histories? How do funding, commissioning, distribution and audience expectations shape the way those stories are told? And when images are already being used as tools of persuasion, can cinema offer something slower, more complex and more accountable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation will move between the wider media environment and the practical realities of filmmaking, asking how cinema can respond to propaganda and misinformation without simply becoming another form of messaging itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists are Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur, Susan Wendt, R\u00e9mi Burah, Erik Hemmendorff, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir and Elfa Gylfad\u00f3ttir. Moderator is \u00deorfinnur \u00d3marsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Brothers, My Sister + Intro<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 21:50 (9:50pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Teresa Villaverde<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acclaimed actress Maria de Medeiros will introduce the screening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisbon, mid-1990s. Maria, Jo\u00e3o and M\u00e1rio live together, careless of the future, or even the present. They love each other but one day they go their separate ways. When Maria needs their help, the three brothers will reunite once again - but a trifle too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the 1994 Venice Film Festival, Maria de Medeiros received the Best Actress Award for the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S\u00e1mi Blood + Q&A<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 19:40 (7<\/em>:40pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Amanda Kernell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the masterclass, we will screen Amanda Kernell\u2019s S\u00e1mi Blood, followed by a Q&A with the director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding S\u00e1mi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dashed Lines + Q&A<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 17:30 (5:30pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Anxos Faz\u00e1ns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film\u2019s director will take part in a Q&A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bea, a 50-year-old woman navigating a divorce, and Den\u00eds, a 28-year-old trans man facing an uncertain future at work, are brought together by an unexpected incident. Their chance encounter will transform both of their lives forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panel: From Festival to Audience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3 
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 13:15 (1:15pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finishing a film is one thing\u2014what happens next is another. This session follows the real journey of Amanda Kernell\u2019s new feature Brace Your Heart, represented internationally by TrustNordisk, with Managing Director Susan Wendt offering a behind-the-scenes look at how films travel through festivals, sales and distribution. How are festival strategies decided? What drives sales and distribution choices? Olivier Barbier brings a wider perspective from international sales, while Icelandic producer Tinna Propp\u00e9 adds the producer\u2019s perspective on navigating co-production, broadcasters and international distribution, connecting the case study to broader industry realities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists are Amanda Kernell, Susan Wendt, Olivier Barbier and Tinna Propp\u00e9. Moderator is Frederic Boyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Them, Fado Bicha<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 5:15 (5:15pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Justine Lemahieu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Portugal, the songs of Lila and Jo\u00e3o, the two artists of the band Fado Bicha, give body and voice to LGBTQI+ stories and struggles. In the intimacy of the dressing rooms, words and glances cross paths, questioning our relationship with appearances, gender norms, language and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dissociated Me + Intro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
30. september, kl. 21:40 (9<\/em>:40pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director will introduce the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Encouraged by editor El\u00edsabet Ronaldsd\u00f3ttir, a woman attempts a film about her chaotic past. Without a script, she casts actors, location scouts, relives childhood trauma until she is struck by a car mid-production. In the wreckage of the film\u2019s unraveling, she lets go of the story she thought she had to tell to finally reclaim her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Light Pillar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3<\/strong>
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 22:15 (10:15pm)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director<\/strong>: Xu Zao<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future. Winter. Space travel is no longer a dream. A lonely janitor looks after the grounds of a run-down, bankrupt film studio. One day, however, a romantic journey begins when he meets an actress in a breathtaking virtual world, where the boundaries between reality and imagination become increasingly blurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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International Shorts I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3<\/strong>
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl 22:15 (10:15pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As always, RIFF celebrates short films with an extensive programme featuring works from around the world. In short filmmaking, few - if any - rules apply: the form is constantly reinvented, allowing inspiration of every kind to flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No Ghosts on Good Street<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

H\u00e1sk\u00f3labi\u00f3
1. okt\u00f3ber, kl. 19:15 (7<\/em>:15pm<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director:\u00a0<\/strong>Emi Buchwald<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four siblings on the verge of adulthood try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them. The youngest, Benek, struggles with rejection from his older brother Franek, who was once his best friend but currently has problems of his own. Nastka is searching for love while Jana, the eldest, hopes her art project will bring relief to both herself and her siblings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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