After much discussion about the excellent proposals from APURI students, Artistic Director Katarina Kožul and longtime STIFF designer Gea Rajić have chosen the design that will represent the festival this year, marking the entry into a new decade — congratulations to Ira Andrea Potnar for the winning design! Once again, a big thank you to…
SDF x STIFF: A Cinematic Spectacle at the Žilav Park Campus was a Full-House! As you can see for yourselves, students and films — love each other And Žilavi Park didn’t mind opening its doors to such a large audience, award-winning films, free popcorn, and especially the extra cocktails mixed by the team from the…
This year’s Student Day Festival brings something truly new – something unseen – as part of the warm-up for SDF! On Wednesday, June 5th at 9:30 PM, we are transforming Žilavi Park (the newly opened basketball court), in collaboration with Art-kino, into a cinema under the stars filled with award-winning student films. ???? Given the…
On Monday, May 27th at 3:00 PM, the team from the Cinehill festival, the younger sibling of the Motovun festival, led by director Igor Mirković, will arrive at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Rijeka to present the program and festival opportunities for students in Rijeka (benefits, educational workshops, and volunteering opportunities). Everyone is welcome…
This year we are part of hard working ants helping to build Cinehill’s film hill. Join us and become a Cinehill volunteer and let’s watch the best of the best STIFF films together on Cinehill’s green carpet. And then, upon returning to the academic rhythm, we will start together to build a new decade of…
Entering a new decade, the International Student Film Festival – STIFF, welcomes a fresh team. Maša Drndić, after initiating and leading the first international student film festival in Croatia for the past decade, passes on the role of artistic director to Katarina Kožul, a long-time collaborator with STIFF. Maša Drndić remains part of the team…
International Student Film Festival – STIFF invites artists to submit their works to the international exhibition as part of the supporting programme of the festival. With this supporting programme, we want to create a space for critical reflection, meeting, education and dialogue with the audience. The exhibition program brings together artists from all over the…
Early bird catches the worm – and free film submission. Free submissions close at midnight on April 20th, and afterward, submissions will be $5. STIFF – the Student International Film Festival, invites aspiring student and debutant filmmakers to submit their creations for consideration in its 11th annual edition, set to unfold from November 21 to…
STIFF – Student International Film Festival is now calling on all student and debutant filmmakers to submit their films for the11th festival edition which will take place from November 21 to November 23 2024, in Rijeka, Croatia. Works entering the competition program must be original, student-created films or debutant films of all genres: fiction, documentary,…
Thank you all for building the wonderful 10th edition of STIFF, an edition that celebrated unity, imagination, creativity, creation, and — film. A edition that celebrated the past and envisioned the future. An edition that closed one decade and opened the doors to a new one. Seven more titles joined the sea of the best…
The last day of the 10th International Student Film Festival was marked by the award ceremony honoring the best films in the categories of documentary, fiction, and animated film. Among more than 650 submissions and 40 selected films, students from Georgia, Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, and the USA were recognized. Over the past…
The last day of the festival is an ideal moment to relax, and so we bring you a special event called Tales of Studying. We will let ourselves be carried by the inspiring tales of filmmaking and hear about challenges that authors face in their quest to bring their ideas to the big screen. After…