29 Nov The winners of the 24th edition have been announced – Best International Feature Film: Violent Butterflies by Adolfo Dávila (Mexico) – Best Italian Feature Film: E se mio padre by Solange Tonnini

The announcement of the winners concludes the 24th edition of RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival, which took place from November 21 to 28, 2025. The artistic direction was entrusted to Academy Award winner Paul Haggis, who, taking over from founder Fabrizio Ferrari, helped consolidate...

27 Nov RIFF Awards 2025 Ceremony – Friday, November 28 – 9:00 PM – In the presence of the Jury and the directors of the competing works – Nuovo Cinema Aquila – Via l’Aquila 66/74

26 Nov Goffredo Mameli Library in Rome on Thursday, November 27 at 6 p.m. Lapo Gresleri and Fabio Germani present Black Images Matter (@odoya_edizioni) through cinema, music, and American society and beyond.

Black Images Matter è il primo studio italiano interamente dedicato al nuovo cinema afroamericano. Un viaggio attraverso le opere e le visioni di autori emersi - o esplosi - dagli anni Duemila in poi, come Jordan Peele, Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins e Lee Daniels,...

25 Nov Friday 28 November, the last day at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, opens at 4pm with the special event AntropicA: Ethnographic Filmmaking LAB and at 7pm arrives She by Parsifal Reparato

Friday, November 28th, the final day at the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, kicks off at 4:00 PM with the special event AntropicA: Ethnographic Filmmaking LAB, a workshop open to the public dedicated to cinema as a tool for anthropological research. At 7:00 PM, She by Parsifal...

25 Nov On Thursday, November 27, from 4:00 pm, it’s the turn of Wedlock (Wedding) by Magdalena Ralcheva. At 6:00 pm, Magdalena Hausen: Frozen Time by Yannis Karpouzis and Stop Killing Our Women by Marco Venditti will be presented.

On Thursday, November 27, starting at 4:00 PM, Magdalena Ralcheva's Wedlock will be screened, an intense Bulgarian melodrama set in the Rhodope Mountains, where the forbidden love between Hathe and Meto is intertwined with traditions, guilt, and desires that overwhelm all certainties. At 6:00 PM,...

25 Nov On Wednesday, November 26th, starting at 4:30 PM, the Nuovo Cinema Aquila will host a new group of international short films. At 6:00 PM, the documentary “Dialogues from the Land of Ice” will be screened, followed at 8:10 PM by the feature film “And if My Father.”

On Wednesday, November 26, starting at 4:30 PM, the Nuovo Cinema Aquila welcomes a new group of international short films. Meteoric, by Irish director Paul Ó Muiris, constructs a dimension suspended between reality and perception; Anima, by Canadian director Fabio Bonvicini, explores the boundaries between...

24 Nov At the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, the program for Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th with the premiere of the Mexican feature film Violent Butterfly by Adolfo Dávila at 8.15pm

At the Nuovo Cinema Aquila, the program on Monday the 24th will feature Luca Immesi's "Arte Sciopero" at 6:30 pm, Adolfo Dávila's Mexican film "Violent Butterfly" at 8:15 pm, and the international shorts "Magid/Zafar" by Luís Hindman and "Pies Manos" by Paco Calvo at 4:00...

21 Nov Guests of the RIFF at the Cinema Farnese on Wednesday 26th, directors Edith Bouvier, journalist, war correspondent and director, and Daniel Vidal Toche, Peruvian director, will present their works in the theater.

Syria: The Fall of The Assad Clan - France, 2025, Color, 70’ - L’8 dicembre 2024, il dittatore siriano Bashar al-Assad e la sua intera famiglia sono fuggiti dal Paese, chiedendo asilo in Russia. La rapida caduta del “Macellaio di Damasco”, l’uomo che, dopo aver...

21 Nov The program at the Cinema Farnese for the international section: Tuesday 25th at 7 pm The Sami Song by Iara Lee and from 9 pm the feature film Where Do We Begin by Monika Majorek.

The Sami Song of Survival - USA/Norway/Sweden/Finland/Russia, 2025, Color, 49’35’’ - Il popolo Sámi, stanziato principalmente in Norvegia, Svezia, Finlandia e Russia, continua la propria lotta contro le forme nuove e antiche di oppressione e colonialismo. Da secoli affronta il razzismo istituzionalizzato, l’emarginazione e la...