We will spend the last day of the festival enjoying a breakfast that heals even the worst hangover. An afternoon breakfast. A student breakfast. Stuffed cabbage, conversation, and films. Mirela Džafić will take us through Tales of Studying, a conversation about film schools, film financing and workshops, brought to you first-hand by experienced people. We…
Time flies, days pass by, and the penultimate day of the festival is here. We have two workshops for you this afternoon. First up is Distribute this! with Morana Ikić Komljenović in Mini Art-kino from 1 until 3 PM. Morana will teach you all you need to know about filmmaking, from production to distribution. Next,…
We enter the third day of the festival with Beats, exploring the dynamics of the future, especially the fast pace and instability of it. How to address the unknown, what frightens us about it, what is it that makes us uncomfortable – these are some of the questions posed in this block. We open with…
Walk with us to the second day of the festival, with a programme block titled Prophecies, exploring how the past shapes our future, and how the signs around us only acquire meaning over time. First up, a documentary film Uncle Vakho’s Dream follows a blind man in a remote mountains in Georgia, battling his suffering and…
The jubilee 10th STIFF – International Student Film Festival was opened in Art-kino Rijeka on Wednesday, November 22, 2023, at 7:00 PM, organized by Filmaktiv and the Student Cultural Center of the University of Rijeka. It was officially opened by Slobodanka Mišković, the director of Art-kino; Marta Žuvić, the vice-rector for studies, students, and quality…
The time has come for the first day of the 10th STIFF. We are bidding farewell to a decade of best international student films and openly embrace new decades. The first celebratory drinks bring us three fabulous films in a programme block named Aberrations. First up is a the Russian drama Red, Yellow, Green, a…
In precisely 24 hours, the 10th edition of International Student Film Festival starts, with illustrious guests in attendance at the opening ceremony: Slobodanka Mišković, Head of Art-kino; Maša Drndić, Artistic Director of STIFF; Sonja Šišić, head of Culture, Sport and Technical Culture Department of the Primorje-Gorski kotar County; Marta Žuvić, vice-rector for Studies, Students and…
STIFF’s side programme makes sure the tenth edition will be celebrated in the best possible way. This year’s programme is focused on marking the past decade through an exhibition programme made in collaboration with the curatorial workshop Paspartu. The initiative invites students to actively engage in creating and setting up an exhibition, as well as…
The tenth edition of International Student Film Festival – STIFF is just around the corner, bringing you 40 fantastic short- and medium-length films from all over the world. These 40 films, presented in 11 programme blocks, were carefully selected by Maša Drndić and Marta Ban. As is the tradition, the festival is happening in Art-kino…
STIFF has three juries – for fiction, documentary, and animated film. As always, each jury is made up of a film professional, a last year’s winner, and a student. In this structure, students can learn from professionals as active members of the jury, Croatian authors can network with their peers, and it enables overall cooperation…
At a press conference held at the Art Cinema, Maša Drndić, Jana Ažić, Katarina Erak, and Slobodanka Mišković announced the upcoming festival. This year’s edition is dedicated to the 10th anniversary, with the official opening scheduled for next Wednesday, November 22. Maša Drndić, artistic director and selector of STIFF, thanked Art Cinema and SKC…
Alongside students and workers, the 10th edition of STIFF is made out of these 11 curated programme blocks of the best student films in the world: Aberrations • This block offers new perspectives and widens the view on a problem that has been observed, unsuccessfully, from too near and too narrowly. In the Russian…