{"id":22440,"date":"2026-02-23T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22440\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:19:25","slug":"riga-iff-2025-announces-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22440\/","title":{"rendered":"RIGA IFF 2025 Announces Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIGA: Nine titles from Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Ukraine, and Sweden have been chosen for the Feature Film Competition of the upcoming Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF<\/a>, 16 \u2013 26 October 2025).<\/p>\n

Two domestic films will have their world premiere in the main competition of the festival: J\u0101nis \u0100bele\u2019s detective\u00a0documentary\u00a0The Last Will \/ Testaments, and the musical outdoor play All Birds Sing Beautifully \/ Visi putni skaisti dzied\u00a0by Krista Bur\u0101ne.<\/p>\n

Brothers \u0100beles\u2019 animated film Dog of God \/ Dieva suns, Latvia\u2019s candidate for the Academy Award in the Best International Feature Film category, is also in the main competition and will open the festival.<\/p>\n

The Feature Film Competition Jury is composed of French curator and industry events programmer Thibaut Bracq, Estonian director Anna Hints, Latvian producer Alise \u0122elze, Norwegian producer Gudny Hummelvoll, and Christian Jeune, Director of the Film Department at Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

RIGA IFF is made possible with the support of the State Culture Capital Foundation<\/a>, Creative Europe \u2013 MEDIA, Riga City Council, the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, the National Film Centre of Latvia<\/a>, and the Investment and Tourism Agency of Riga.<\/p>\n

Feature Film Competition:<\/p>\n

The Last Will \/ Testaments (Latvia)
Directed by J\u0101nis \u0100bele<\/p>\n

All Birds Sing Beautifully \/ Visi putni skaisti dzied\u00a0(Latvia)
Directed by Krista Bur\u0101ne
Produced by\u00a0VFS Films<\/a>
Supported by the\u00a0National Film Centre of Latvia<\/a>, the\u00a0Latvian Public Broadcaster LTV<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dog of God \/ Dieva suns (Latvia, USA)
Directed by Lauris and Raitis \u0100bele
Produced by\u00a0Tritone Studio<\/a>
Coproduced by Lumiere Lab
Supported by the EU\u2019sRecovery assistance for cohesion and the territories of Europe\u00a0(REACT-EU) by the\u00a0National Film Centre of Latvia<\/a><\/p>\n

Special Operation \/ Spetsialna Operatsiia (Ukraine, Lithuania)
Directed by Oleksiy Radynski<\/p>\n

The Visitor \/ Sve\u010dias\u00a0(Lithuania, Norway, Sweden)
Directed byVytautas Katkus
Produced by\u00a0M-Films<\/a>
Coproduced by Staer, Garagefilm International
Supported by the\u00a0Lithuanian Film Centre<\/a>, Creative Europe MEDIA, the\u00a0Lithuanian National Radio and Television<\/a>, Film Fond Nord, the Swedish Film Institute<\/p>\n

Back to Family \/ Apsilankymas namuose (Lithuania, France, Poland, Latvia)
Directed by \u0160ar\u016bnas Bartas
Produced by Studija Kinema<\/a>, KinoElektron
Coproduced\u00a0by\u00a0Mistrus Media<\/a>, Cineline EDelivery<\/a>, Message Film
Supported by the\u00a0Lithuanian Film Centre<\/a>, the\u00a0Lithuanian Tax Incentive<\/a>, Aide aux cin\u00e9mas du monde – Centre national du cin\u00e9ma et de l’image anim\u00e9e, Institut Fran\u00e7ais, the\u00a0National Film Centre of Latvia<\/a><\/p>\n

Solomamma (Norway, Latvia, Lithuania)
Directed by Janicke Askevold
Produced by\u00a0Bacon Pictures Oslo, Bacon Pictures Copenhagen, Mistrus Media<\/a>, Dansu<\/a>, It\u2019s AliveFilms
Supported by the\u00a0Lithuanian Film Centre<\/a>, the\u00a0National Film Centre of Latvia<\/a>, med st\u00f8tte fra, Norsk Filminstitutt, Norsk Filminstitutt and YLE, in partnership with Post Control Helsinki, Norsk Filminstitutt<\/p>\n

Weightless \/ V\u00e6gtl\u00f8s (Denmark)
Directed by Emilie Thalund<\/p>\n

Redoubt \/ V\u00e4rn (Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark)
Directed by John Skoog<\/p>\n

Click HERE<\/a>\u00a0for a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGA: Nine titles from Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Ukraine, and Sweden have been chosen for the Feature Film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[2413,2414,2415,2412,2417,2416,2406,2401,2411,2418,1138,2403,2396,2399,2395,2400,2398,2397,2404,2405,2419,169,2420,2421,2422,2409,2423,2407,2408,168,2424,2402,2425,2410,2426],"class_list":["post-22440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-16mm-film","tag-8mm-film","tag-bulgarian-film","tag-central-european-film","tag-cyprus-film","tag-czech-republic-film","tag-director","tag-documentary-film","tag-eastern-european-film","tag-estonia-film","tag-film","tag-film-company","tag-film-database","tag-film-distribution","tag-film-grants","tag-film-industry","tag-film-production","tag-film-schools","tag-film-studio","tag-filmmaking","tag-hungary-film","tag-latvia","tag-latvia-film","tag-lithuania-film","tag-malta-film","tag-movie","tag-poland-film","tag-producer","tag-production","tag-riga","tag-romania-film","tag-short-film","tag-slovenia-film","tag-television","tag-turkey-film"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}