RIFF starts with a bang with its biggest Swim-in Cinema to date
The Reykjavik International Film Festival RIFF celebrates its 20
th
anniversary this year and is now opening with a bang this Friday. The annual Swim-in-Cinema event will be bigger than ever this year. The event starts at 19:00 on Friday, August 25, and
ticket
sales have already started.
Huge screen and food trucks
The Oscar awarded film Life of Pi will be shown on a huge 100 square metre screen and the venue’s swimming pool grandstand has seating capacity for 2600 people and will now be open to the public for the first time in decades. Furthermore, the entire pool area is open for guests, so they can watch the movie from the hot tub or the pool itself, or stroll around checking out the food trucks and RIFF merchandise stands.
Music and dancing
To keep in touch with the situation in the movie there will be rowboats in the pool where people can also sit while watching the movie. The whole swimming pool will be illuminated by Luxor, to make the ambience truly special.
Before the screening of Life of Pi the musicians Dísa Jakobs, Teitur Jakobs and the guitar virtuoso Björgvin Gíslason play music on the pool bank and there will also be dancing involved.
Life of Pi was premiered in 2012 and nominated for 11 Oscars, winning 4 that year. It is based on a novel of the same name by Yann Martel and records the story of the journey of a young Indian boy out in the open sea.
The event marks the beginning of RIFF this year, Iceland’s biggest annual Film Festival.