Film festival “Arsenals”

Riga International Film festival Arsenals is being organized biennially in September. During 12th to 21st of September it will celebrate its 19th edition. It will offer different sections: International Film Competition, Baltic Film Competition, World Panorama and special thematic programmes and retrospectives.
The main prize of Arsenal’s International Film Competition is 20 000 USD and the winner will be decided by a lottery, each of participating film directors will receive a special prize – The Magical Crystal.

The Baltic Film Competition will be evaluated by an international jury of cinema professionals choosing winners for following categories: the Best Feature Film, the Best Documentary Film, the Best Animated Film, and the Best Baltic Film.
Both Competitions will be evaluated by FIPRESCI jury. Different activities and exhibitions in the festival’s club and in different places of the city and in Keipene will enrich the festival’s programme.

Arsenals is being organized by International Centre of Cinema in collaboration with Riga City Council, Ministry of Culture of Latvian Republic and National Centre of Cinematography of Latvia.

Almost 100 films in 10 special programmes – it is a unique opportunity to each spectator to find his film. The focus of the festival emphasizes the period of birth of sound cinema before around 80 years. The special programme of the festival is dedicated to experiments of the sound and the silence.Films of Competition and World Panorama will bring the most remarkable actualities of the cinema to the screens. Meanwhile retrospectives of different countries and bright personalities will surprise us with new-found qualities of the past. Arsenals welcomes everyone to listen in themselves and in the world! Let’s watch and hear together!