2022 RIFF Winners Record: ‘Rodeo,’ ‘A Marble Travelogue’ Amongst Victors

The annual Reykjavík Worldwide Movie Pageant (RIFF) got here to an in depth Saturday night, concluding an 11-day occasion by screening the 12 months’s high honorees at Háskólabíó alongside the award-winning Austrian drama “Vera.”

Victors within the New Visions class, which solely options debut and sophomore movies from filmmakers, are among the many works which earned an on-screen reprisal. Winners embrace Golden Puffin recipient “Rodeo,” persevering with the movie’s early success within the awards circuit at festivals like Cannes and Champs-Élysées.

“I spent 5 years writing what grew to become ‘Rodeo,’” director Lola Quivoron beforehand informed Selection in regard to her function debut. “I needed to create a real fiction story and weave in components of style, gangsterism and a little bit of western. The thought was to make a movie that had an aesthetic and a cinematic dimension.”

Particular mentions have been awarded to “Sister, What Grows The place Land Is Sick?” and “I Have Electrical Desires” within the New Visions class.

The 2021 documentary “A Marble Travelogue” from Beijing-based director Sean Wang can even be screened. The movie earned the A Completely different Tomorrow award for spreading consciousness on how social class and the manufacturing chain interconnect.

See full listing of this 12 months’s award recipients at RIFF.

Golden Egg

“Ship the Rain” (dir. Haley Grey)

Icelandic Shorts Awards

Greatest Icelandic Scholar Brief

“The Paladins” (dir. Elin Palsdottir)

Greatest Icelandic Brief

“Chasing Birds” (dir. Una Lorenzen)

Particular Point out: Icelandic Scholar Brief

“The One Who Went South” (dir. Steiní Kristinsson)

“Exalted Mars” (dir. Jean Sebastien Chauvin)

Particular Point out: Worldwide Shorts

“Domy+Ailucha: Cenas Ket!” (dir. Ico Costa)

Younger Folks’s Jury Award

“Everlasting Spring” (dir. Jason Loftus)

A Completely different Tomorrow Awards

“A Marble Travelogue” (dir. Sean Wang)

Particular Point out: A Completely different Tomorrow

“Woman Gang” (dir. Susanne Regina Meures)

New Visions Awards

The Golden Puffin

“Rodeo” (dir. Lola Quivoron)

Particular Mentions: New Visions

“Sister, What Grows The place Land Is Sick?” (dir. Franciska Eliassen)

“I Have Electrical Desires” (dir. Valentina Maurel)