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Inviting the audiences to revel in a magnificent short film celebration in October, Riga International Film Festival (RIGA IFF, 17\u201327 October) announces the contestants of the\u00a0international<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0national<\/a>\u00a0short film competitions. Tickets to the short film competitions\u2019 screenings are available on the festival website (rigaiff.lv<\/a>), and at Bi\u013ce\u0161u Serviss sales points.<\/p>\n RIGA IFF short film competitions represent the most precise and bold mirror of the zeitgeist in the festival programme, offering to discover new points of view and dimensions of the cinema screen in a short and succinct form. The 34 works, filled with colours, impressions, genres, and textures, have been selected from over 2000 submissions, and, with the participation of their creators, will be screened in four Short Film International Competition screenings at Forum Cinemas, and a special Short Film National Competition screening at cinema Splendid Palace, Large Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n The films will be judged and festival prizes, among them the candidacy for the prestigious European Short Film 2025 Award, will be awarded by a\u00a0jury<\/a>\u00a0of film industry professionals \u2013 journalist and art critic Carmen Gray (New Zealand), Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle executive team Chief of Staff Florian Weghorn (Germany), and director Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic).<\/p>\n Upon introducing the competition participants, RIGA IFF short film competition curator and French film critic L\u00e9o Soesanto points out:<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re very happy to again celebrate short films and remind the audience that whatever the film length is, cinema is cinema. In the International competition, we wanted to once again show all that cinema allows \u2013 making a film with a video game, VHS tapes, sand, or any tool or location to re-enchant the world. But above all, a number of films with people trapped in melancholy, in the past, but trying to overcome it, to fight the current feeling that we live in a perpetual, everlasting present \u2013 a \u201cfuture nostalgia\u201d. Meanwhile, there is a lot of young energy in the national competition line-up. And that\u2019s their main theme \u2013 what do we do with all these possibilities, as characters and filmmakers? This energy produces top-notch animation as usual and live-action films where the protagonists seem overwhelmed by what they can do, but always in a poetic way.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n RIGA IFF Short Film International Competition<\/a>\u00a0films, 25 brilliant shorts from all corners of the world, are divided into four lavish competition screenings \u2013\u00a0The Name of the Game<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0The Sensual World<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Back to Where You\u2019ve Never Been<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Fight Your Future<\/i><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which will allow to discover deeply personal dilemmas and character tenacity, to delight the senses with a plethora of impressions, and to set off on journeys through utopias. As part of the competition, RIGA IFF will screen 11 premieres of various scales, among them world premieres of short films\u00a0Richard<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Eva<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0I Wish You to Love Me, I Wish to Love You<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Hasta La Futura<\/i><\/a>,\u00a0Flow of Being<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and 2023\u00a0SHORT RIGA Test Screenings<\/a>\u00a0winner\u00a0Yummy<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n