Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2025
From April 23 to 27
Play, playing, performance
The 12th Riga Pasaules Film Festival will take place from April 23 to 27 at the cinema "Kino Bize". The five days programme will consist of documentary films that engage with play as an approach to filmmaking and as a theme of inquiry. Stories that capture the ways in which life is constituted through play.
Ideas that approach the creative process as simultaneously ludic and serious, real and fantastic, individual and collective, pleasurable and productive, structured and free. Performative aspects of play, where players wilfully engage with each other through pre-established conventions in the process of constructing a project for their future.
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Curators’ Statement
Play as a willful act of engagement
Play speaks to our capacity to act as if the world is still open and responsive. To play is a willful act, a deliberate act of engagement with the world, not an escape from it.
Curators’ Statement
Play as a willful act of engagement
Play speaks to our capacity to act as if the world is still open and responsive. To play is a willful act, a deliberate act of engagement with the world, not an escape from it.
News
Festival opening with a film "Grand Theft Hamlet"
On Wednesday, April 23 at 18:00 a documentary "Grand Theft Hamlet" by British director Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, shot entirely in the Grand Theft Auto Online virtual game, will open the 12th Riga Pasaules Film Festival.
News
Festival opening with a film "Grand Theft Hamlet"
On Wednesday, April 23 at 18:00 a documentary "Grand Theft Hamlet" by British director Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls, shot entirely in the Grand Theft Auto Online virtual game, will open the 12th Riga Pasaules Film Festival.