International Portrait Film Festival

International Portrait Film Festival (IPFF) welcomes films featuring images and characters, telling stories, cracking the surface of perceptions and reaching the core. A portrait is an image heavy with meaning. Multilayered and multifaceted, it has a visual, psychological, material, emotional and spiritual dimension. The film portrait is captured in time. It is not motionless - literally and metaphorically. The cinematographic portrait is a soul in the form of light encountering the canvas of the white screen. The portrait is a trace. And a sign. A secret. A reverie. IPFF launches its first edition in 2020 with confidence in the ability of the portrait film to move, affect, educate, transform. FOCUS The portrait is the focus of the films that will be screened at IPFF. We are looking for portrait films that have already been completed, as well as such that will be created with the concrete idea of 'portrait'. Of a person. A group of people. An object. Something invisible, but substantial. Of the self. Or of something else. AIM IPFF aspires is to bring together artists and viewers who sincerely long for enrichment with art, intellectual discussion and an experience of cinema through a new prism - that of the portrait film. CHARACTER IPFF is a hybrid event. A symbiosis of intriguing live encounters and memorable virtual experiences. The interweaving of portrait cinema from around the world, debates, lectures, master classes. SPIRIT IPFF is for those profoundly needing art and excitement. And for the ones in search of their catharsis. For the unafraid to stare at the screen even when it is empty. The hungry - for experimental viewpoints. For those forever in love with cinema, caught in its loop. IPFF welcomes all kinds of films and filmmakers, students, professionals, low budget, small scale, big-budget, cosmic scale, alternative and independent film by individuals and collectives.