RIFF 2023

REAKTOR International Film Festival will celebrate its 6th anniversary.
The five-day festival screens high quality films that have an unusual point of view, which are not frequently shown in film festivals. Concentrating on something that has friction and shares an original and authentic art position, with focus on directing, storytelling, cinematography, and editing.

Award Categories & Winners

Best Film – The Tashkent Files directed and produced by Vivek Agnihotri

Best Director – Yannis Aivazis for Abyss in

Best Actor – Reena Aggarwal in Alpha Beta Gamma directed by Shankar Srikumar

Best Supporting Actor – Asif Basra - The Tashkent Files

The Reaktor 2023 Award – To Caterpillar, from Butterfly by Aakarsh Sansanwal & Agrim Sansanwal

Best Screenplay – Paula Lussi – Seven dogs directed by Rodrigo Guerrero

Most Innovative Film – Notes to a Lover from Jenny Adam and her beautiful family/Astidah Al-ruh directed by Sudeep Ranjar Sarkar

Most Compelling Storytelling – Leaks directed by Alain Declercq

Best performance – Ensemble Cast – Unpacking directed by Alexandra Clayton & Michal Sinnott

Best Editing – To Caterpillar, from Butterfly directed by Aakarsh Sansanwal & Agrim Sansanwal

Best Music – The Tashkent Files – Satya Manik Afsar

Best Short film – Woman on the hill, directed, produced, and written by Surbhi Sharma

Programme

14. September 2023

18:30

Opening | Award Ceremony

19:00

To Caterpillar, from Butterfly (IN, 2021) by Aakarsh Sansanwal & Agrim Sansanwal

21:00

Notes to a Lover from Jenny Adams and her beautiful family/ Astidah Al-ruh (IN, 2022) by Sudeep Ranjar Sarkar

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15. September 2023

17:00

Tramway (PL, 2021) by Bartosz Reetz

I am not down (IN, 2023) by Jyoti Madnani Singh

Spellbound (CH, 2022) by Robin Rippmann

Re-record (UA, 2022) by Kyrylo Zemlyanyi

Zarzal (CO, 2022) by Sebastián Valencia Muñoz

Reprise (DE, 2021) by Kenji Ouellet

Hair Tie, Egg, Homework Books (CN, 2021) by Runxiao Luo

19:00

Four Nights (NP, 2021) by Deepak Rauniyar

Fatih The Conqueror (TR, 2023) by Onur Yagiz

Woman on the Hill (IN, 2022) by Surbhi Sharma

21:00

Alpha Beta Gamma (IN, 2021) by Shankar Srikumar

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16. September 2023

17:00

You can't automate me (NL, 2021) by Katarina Jazbec

Preserve (AT, 2022) by Manuel Baus

Survivor (IR, 2022) by Karim Azimi

Bubbles (IT, 2023) by Meri Dishnica

Dead Man Dancing (AT, 2022) by Elias Kilgus

Moonskin Fever (US, 2023) by Hannah Bisewski & Tara Elliott

Giti jan (IR, 2022) by Shayan Shahverdi

19:00

Leaks (FR, 2023) by Alain Declercq

21:00

The Tashkent Files (IN, 2019) by Vivek Agnihotri

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17. September 2023

17:00

Negative/Positive (IT, 2023) by Federica Foglia

Skyscraper (IT, 2023) by Federica Foglia

Geisha (IT, 2022) by Antonio Longobardi

Wet Paper (ES, 2023) by Mercè Hernández Carbonell

Off-Season (FR, 2023) by Francescu Artily

The Sower of Stars (ES, 2021) by Lois Patiño

Innesti Neri e Bianchi (IT, 2022) by Federica Foglia

Damp Moss (US, 2023) by by Christopher Thompson

Fixing Things (AT, 2022) by Jan Prazak

19:00

Abyss in (GR, 2022) by Yannis Aivazis

20:00

Searcher (IN, 2022) by Divya Sachar

Reverse (FR, 2023) by Christophe Lenoir

21:00

Seven Dogs (AR, 2021) by Rodrigo Guerrero

22:00

15 Seconds A Lifetime (IN, 2022) by Divya Kharnare

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18. September 2023

19:00

Unpacking (US, 2022) by Alexandra Clayton & Michal Sinnott

21:00

A Passenger in Love (IN, 2022) by Abhishek Bhatnagar

Jury

Amit R Agarwal
Bernhard Kammel
Anastasia Maltseva
Vivek Singhania
Kasra Tirsahar

Doors open one hour before the first screening.