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The 8th edition of Reykjavík International Film Festival opens in nine days! The program includes new works by filmmakers Aleksandr Sokurov, Wim Wenders, Giorgios Lanthimos, Michael Radford, James Marsh, Lynne Ramsay, Spike Jonze, Liz Garbus, Kevin Smith, Béla Tarr, Lone Scherfig and Andrea Arnold.

As always, however, the competition category is limited to new talent - filmmakers' first and second features admitted only.

Click 'more' for a list of the titles in competition at RIFF 2011.

The RIFF 2011 “Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cinema” will be awarded to Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Three of his films will be screened at the festival, including his latest work The Turin Horse (2011). It can also be considered his last film as he recently announced his retirement from filmmaking.

Reykjavik International Film Festival announces a cool collaboration with Couch Fest Films. The aim? To invite movie lovers into private homes to enjoy several programs of short films in an intimate and unassuming environment on Saturday, September 24th, 2011.

This year’s national focus of Reykjavik International Film Festival will be on Romania, with a special category of recent Romanian films presented within the RIFF 2011 screening programme, in partnership with Romanian Cultural Institute London.

British filmmaker James Marsh has been confirmed as a guest of the 2011 edition of Reykjavik International Film Festival. Marsh, Academy Award winner for Best Documentary in 2008 for Man On Wire, will attend public screenings and participate in Q&A’s.

RIFF announces the appointment of Giorgio Gosetti as the Director of the main section and General programme advisor of the Reykjavik International Film Festival, which takes place September 22 – October 2. Gosetti replaces Founding Artistic Director Dimitri Eipides who has taken on the directorship of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival as well as his programming duties in Toronto and Montreal.

After some very nice years at Frikirkjuvegur 1 in downtown Reykjavik, RIFF has relocated to a new building at Tjarnargata 12. It's a new home, but in truth we moved out of a building that used to be an old school to another that used to be an old fire station.

RIFF's award ceremony took place last night. Here you can find out which films received an award.

THE GOLDEN PUFFIN

Discovery Award

Italian director Michelangelo Frammartino´s film THE FOUR TIMES (Le Quattro Volte) which tells the story of an old shepherd living his last days in a quiet medieval village perched in the hills of Calabria.

Reykjavik International Film Festival is drawing closer and some 20 films have already been confirmed for RIFF 2010. About one hundred films will be screened starting the 23th of September and among them are some very interesting Danish ones....