Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2024
From April 25 to 28
Ross McElwee retrospective and masterclass
The programme of the 11th Riga Pasaules Film Festival is linked together by the theme of "Life".
Cinematic stories that deal with being alive, a notion that focuses on experience, sensitivity and curiosity, rather than on categories embedded in cultural values and represented through language. Instead of reflecting on the question “who are we?”, we want to ask questions like “what matters to us?” and “what drives our existence?”
The special guest of the festival will be Ross McElwee, the renown American cinéma vérité documentary filmmaker and professor at Harvard University, who previously visited Latvia in 1990 shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Q&A sessions with filmmakers after the screenings.
Marta Kucza
Film gaze of Ross McElwee embodies life
As part of our celebration of life as defined and experienced through cinema, we are thrilled to hold a retrospective of films by Ross McElwee. Ross’s film gaze embodies life, allowing us to understand better not only the experience of cinema, but also of life itself.
Marta Kucza
Film gaze of Ross McElwee embodies life
As part of our celebration of life as defined and experienced through cinema, we are thrilled to hold a retrospective of films by Ross McElwee. Ross’s film gaze embodies life, allowing us to understand better not only the experience of cinema, but also of life itself.
Curators’ Statement
The Problem of Describing Life
The challenge of describing life is that it is a concept with no clear substance. Life describes a process which cannot be seen or apprehended directly, we can only see its effects.
Curators’ Statement
The Problem of Describing Life
The challenge of describing life is that it is a concept with no clear substance. Life describes a process which cannot be seen or apprehended directly, we can only see its effects.
News
Festival will look into films that deal with being alive
Films that focus on experience, sensitivity and curiosity, that ask questions like “what matters to us?” and “what drives our existence?”
News
Festival will look into films that deal with being alive
Films that focus on experience, sensitivity and curiosity, that ask questions like “what matters to us?” and “what drives our existence?”
News
Special guest of RPFF 2024 will be the renowned filmmaker Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee four film retrospective with the filmmaker present for Q&As led by Latvian filmmakers and a moderated masterclass.
News
Special guest of RPFF 2024 will be the renowned filmmaker Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee four film retrospective with the filmmaker present for Q&As led by Latvian filmmakers and a moderated masterclass.