Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2025

The festival’s curating team is calling for documentary films that engage with “PLAY” as an approach to filmmaking and as a theme of inquiry. We are interested in stories that capture the ways in which life is constituted through play. Our approach is informed by ideas that approach the creative process as simultaneously ludic and serious, real and fantastic, individual and collective, pleasurable and productive, structured and free. We are interested in the 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.

Ultimately, we are interested in the ways in which filmic realities are constructed through forms of play. We seek films with distinctive setup or rules, or a triggering gesture that sets the way for the spectator to enter the worlds of the film.

The 12th Riga Pasaules Film Festival call for films is open till November 15, 2024.

Submit your film HERE.