RIFF 2024

Maria juggles with four children and a demanding career while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One day they get into an ugly argument which led Sigmund to eventually ask her for a divorce.

After their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, three sisters begin a Hi8 video diary in their countryside home. They film each other putting on make-up, picking cherries, playing party games, getting into fights and helping their mother cook. This fragile, intimate world is perhaps their only shelter from the reality of bombings, sirens and war.

Young drug dealer Pablo and his sister Appoline bond over an online game called Darknoon. Pablo falls for Night, neglecting his sister. While Appoline finishes the game, Pablo and Night become embroiled in a dangerous gang conflict.

A voice that claims to be from a hippopotamus. A voice that doesn't understand the perception of time. Pepe, the first and last hippo killed in the Americas, tells his story with the overwhelming orality of these towns.

August 19, 2023. Childhood friends Sano and Miyata visit a resort hotel in Izu, searching for a lost red hat while revisiting places where Sano first met and fell in love with his late wife Nagi five years prior.

Dreaming of an escape from the bleakness of their hometown, two teens form a unique bond at a local modeling school, where the promise of a better life pushes girls to violate their bodies in increasingly extreme ways.

In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

A woman's world turns upside down after her father's death, as she experiences a recurring dream of a little girl, compelling her to dive into international adoption, risking her marriage, family stability, and moral compass.

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Abel is a high school student struggling to focus on his final exams, while being hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancée Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.

In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan. With the forest under greater threat than ever, Kéria, Selaï and the little primate, Oshi, will have to face many obstacles.

Sergei Loznitsa questions the consequences of the invasion of one country by another.

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

In the Norwegian wilderness, a family seeks a wild free existence but a tragic turn of events shatters their isolation, compelling them to adapt to the demands of contemporary society.

Determined volunteer firefighters band together to combat turbulent wildfires ravaging the port city of Valparaíso, Chile.

Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.

Follows an assertive young woman as she fights to become an Olympic athlete.

A journey across Europe to question each person's rights to bodily autonomy.

A Paris food delivery cyclist and asylum seeker named Souleymane has two days to prepare his story for a make-or-break interview to secure legal residency.

A small farm is about to change hands into a new generation, from father to daughter. A film about traditions, knowing when it's time to go on, to inherit, and other of life's big questions.

Two struggling actors find solace from lockdown isolation by staging Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto Online (2013), battling griefers as they connect through William Shakespeare.

Two filmmakers document over a decade Sanyi, a Budapest boy's turbulent childhood in dysfunctional home, charting his path from mischievous kid to troubled adolescent amid poverty and parental neglect.