WE ARE WHAT THE EARTH MADE US TO BE – WE ARE NOT ABOVE THE NATURE AND HISTORY THAT SHAPES US

Every story has a landscape behind it. A mountain that pressed itself into a culture’s myths. A river that drew the borders of a community’s life. A forest, a coastline, a desert, a valley — shaping the food people eat, the language they speak, the grief they carry, the gods they imagine.

The Rinjani International Film Festival exists for the films that know this.
RIFF is an independent international film festival held annually in Sembalun, Lombok Timur, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia — in the shadow of Gunung Rinjani, within the Rinjani-Lombok UNESCO Global Geopark and Biosphere Reserve. We celebrate cinema from every corner of the world, in every genre, across every form — feature films, short films, documentaries, animation, and beyond.

What unites our films is not a subject. It is a quality.

We look for stories that bear the unmistakable imprint of the place, the heritage, and the Earth that made them. Stories that could only have been told here, by these people, at this moment in history. Stories that illuminate the natural and cultural inheritance of our world — and the urgent challenges it now faces.

Our slogan is our entire programme in four words:
Stories Shaped by Our Earth.