The 8th Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF) invited audiences and filmmakers to a carefully curated selection of exceptional and current films, and to continue enhance the northern European cultural space by developing an internationally recognised cinema event in Latvia.
The 2021 edition slogan, “There is always time”, is a reflection of the festival creators’ own ideas and contemplations, as well as of the way that the format of cinema plays with time, a concept that simultaneously anchors reality and is its seemingly most undefinable feature.
Time for a conversation. Time to wonder. Time for a film. Time to reconsider. Time to start all over. Time to go. Time to let go. Time can be empty, and it can be filled. Cinema can pause time, slow it down, it can reveal and explain time, but never waste it.’’
In an attempt to visualise time, we came up with the outline of an uneven circle – everything that happens inside it blends together, taking on the most vibrant shades, spilling over the edges and being washed over with white.
Dans Jirgensons, Marta Folkmane, 2021
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