2017 RIFF Audience Choice Award goes to "Eagle Huntress", Founder's Award to "Dolores"

The film "The Eagle Huntress" won our first-ever Rochester International Film Festival Audience Choice Award - scoring the highest on film balloting.

The Film "Dolores" was given  the special Founder's Award in honor of Dr. Alan Hoffman, the founder of RIFF.

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to  everyone who attended the 2017 Rochester International Film Festival!

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MSP Intl Film Festival
​April 13-29

The largest premier film event in the region and one of the longest running film festivals in the country,  MSPIFF is a catalyst for artistic discovery and an essential.  The RIFF is a proud to be a venue of the MSPIFF.

​The MSPFF will be showcasing 250+ new feature length and short narrative and documentary films from 60+ countries.  The Rochester location will screen 20+ films from this selection.

Our film festival is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.

More about The Rochester International Film Festival

The 22nd Annual Rochester International Film Festival will present 20+ high quality international and Minnesota-made films which we have chosen from top current films not on the commercial theater circuit.

The festival will offer southeastern Minnesota audiences a unique chance to experience the latest in world cinema, including some which have received awards or recognition in other international film festivals. The festival will also include some family-friendly movies which are enjoyed by audiences of all ages who love movies and want to watch them together in a theater setting.  We will again invite some filmmakers to speak to our enthusiastic audiences after showing their work.

We believe the Rochester International Film Festival can broaden an audience's experience of film art as well as well as knowledge and appreciation of the world and its people.

iFilm June 14 - Apprentice
6pm @ Rochester Public Library

DIRECTED BY
BOO JUNFENG
SINGAPORE / 2016 / ENGLISH/MALAY WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

SYNOPSIS:
When ambitious young correctional officer Aiman is transferred to the country's highest-security prison, he catches the attention of the seasoned chief executioner Rahim. Aiman's desire to become the hangman's apprentice is not only professional but born of an unspeakable urge to reconnect with a past that haunts him. Far from being a conventional prison movie, this slow-burning psychological thriller is a "stunning" (Film School Rejects) and "tightly focused and ambitious" (Screen Daily) look at all the lives affected by capital punishment.

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2017 Films & Times at a Glance

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