Silk Road Film Festival 3.8

ABOUT
Founded in 2012, the Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF) is fast becoming an international acclaimed film festival which is held annually during the month of March in Dublin, Ireland. The festival also holds year-round screenings, talks & events.

SRIFF celebrates world cinema where we discover new films and voices from around the world.
As well as screening international films there is a “Silk Road Panorama” of films from countries part of the historical network of the Silk Road ancient trade routes. The Panorama includes Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, African, Mediterranean and European cinema.

SRIFF identifies emerging international talent and connects them with audiences and industry.

MISSION
Celebrate excellence in screen based storytelling. Promote cinema of the world with a Panorama of Silk Road cinema. Facilitate international contacts between filmmakers. Narrow distances between people & cultures, break boundaries & foster cross-cultural collaboration & social change.

VISION
SRIFF produce screenings, talks and events as a catalyst for a diverse community to discover, discuss and share the creativity and craft of storytelling on screen.
SRIFF holds film screenings, premieres, exhibitions, panels, chats with industry guests.
SRIFF provides a platform for professional & student filmmakers to showcase their work internationally.
SRIFF provides a platform for filmgoers to view and learn from the countries invited other cinematic influences.
SRIFF bridges cultures and minds through the medium that is film.
SRIFF facilitates international contacts between filmmakers, thus raising international dialogue, understanding and cultural integration.
SRIFF encourages co-production opportunities and new film treaties
SRIFF can become a ‘traveling festival’, the Silk Road International Film Festival can be held in any country internationally.
SRIFF is a member of the “Belt & Road Initiative” promoting and supporting Film Culture Exchange along the Silk Road

LOCATION
Ireland

CATEGORIES
Documentary
Feature
Animation
Short
Student Film

MASTERCLASSES
World renowned filmmakers attend each year to give masterclasses, previous guests have included Mahmoud Kalari, Vittorio Storaro & Béla Tarr.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
Exhibitions, chats with industry guests, masterclasses and seminars.

BELT AND ROAD
Support & promote the multinational production alliance under the China’s “Belt & Road” Initiative. At the 20th Shanghai International Film Festival, film festivals and film institution representatives from 14 “The Belt and Road” countries signed a MOU on “The Belt and Road” Film Culture Exchange.

FILM FESTIVALS CINERGY
A union of Film Festivals around the world, to promote talents in filmmaking

Silk Road International Film Festival (SRIFF) is held annually during the month of March.
SRIFF celebrates world cinema where we discover new films and voices from around the world.
As well as screening international films there is a “Silk Road Panorama” of films from countries part of the historical network of the Silk Road ancient trade routes. The Panorama includes Asian, Arab, Persian, Middle Eastern, African, Mediterranean and European cinema.

The Silk Road changed history, largely because the people who managed to travel along its routes planted their cultures like seeds of exotic species carried to distant lands. Today, the Silk Road International Film Festival brings together filmmakers and creators from around the world to introduce their countries’ cultures and traditions through their films and carry out the Silk Road legacy of sharing and exchange.
Cinema is a reflection of society. Every country has stories to tell – about their past, their culture now and views of what the future will look like through their eyes. Film, therefore, holds a truly unique place in the story of our civilisation. It is an art, a language, a medium for education and collaboration.
The Silk Road International Film Festival brings an eclectic range of films to the audience – rich diversity of features, documentaries, animations, shorts and student films. Apart from film screenings, the SRIFF features masterclasses & chats with industry guests.
Besides creating a platform for international filmmakers to network and promote their work, the Silk Road International Film Festival gives student filmmakers an opportunity to showcase their work on an international scale.
The Festival is a caravanserai where people from different backgrounds, speaking different languages, and having varied interests can nonetheless stop for a moment on their life’s journey, gather with others, trade and share their art, knowledge, and perspectives.
Audiences are able to engage with new traditions and cultures by finding parallels with their own. This is why we believe that the Festival can provide a framework for how intercultural understanding and collaboration can be forged even outside the realm of cinema. The festival directors hope to narrow distances between people and cultures, to break boundaries and foster cross-cultural collaboration and social change.
The Festival is also a place to learn. Visitors, filmmakers, artists, and organizers alike share in the highly mutual act of learning about people, traditions, and ideas that, seemingly distant, become quite familiar.
We hope that followers of the Silk Road International Film Festival will be inspired & learn from other countries cinema and culture.

Benefits of Silk Road International Film Festival:
Audiences are able to engage with new cultures.
Promotes intercultural cinema which in turn promotes dialog; bridges cultures, and bridges minds.
Enriches humanity, expands people’s horizons and brings together cultures and communities through exploring our differences
Encourages cross-disciplinary encounters, professional collaborations and cultural entrepreneurship.
Facilitates international contact between filmmakers
Art and cinema effortlessly cross geographical borders and could have the power to solve economic and political challenges by creating opportunities for co-productions and cross-region and cross-country collaborations.
SRIFF seeks the edge where the arts, cinema and business come together to spark new ways of looking at the world
Facilitates tourism, enterprise, arts, cultural exchanges & social inclusion.


The Silk Road International Film Festival aspires to continue the Silk Road cultural heritage, which in its heyday sustained a multicultural collaboration that strung together diverse groups. Just like the silk moth weaves webs into luxurious fabrics, so do the silk routes entwine ideas and philosophies, fostering multicultural interaction & understanding.
Today, more than two thousand years after it originated, we invite you to travel along the new Silk Road with us through the Silk Road International Film Festival.


Reg.
Silk Road Film Festival CRO.540343
Silk Road International Film Festival CRO.532385