A riff is an example of ostinato, a short, repeated musical phrase.

Riff, RIFF, The Riff, or Riffs may also refer to:

Acronyms

Film festivals

• Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland

• Riga International Film Festival, Latvia

• Riverside International Film Festival, California, U.S.

• Riviera International Film Festival, Italy

• Rome Independent Film Festival, Italy

Other acronyms

• Rajasthan International Folk Festival, a music and arts festival in Jodhpur, India

• Resource Interchange File Format, a file container format for storing data

Fictional characters

• Riff, a character in Allegra's Window

• Riff (dinosaur), on Barney & Friends, a supporting character from 2006 to 2018

• Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film Rock 'n' Roll High School

• Riff (Sluggy Freelance)

• The Riffs, a gang in the film The Warriors

• Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story

Music

• Riff (American band), a 1980s–1990s R&B a cappella group

• The Riffs, American punk rock band

• Riff (Argentine band) a hard rock band

• "The Riff Song", a musical number from The Desert Song

• Riffs (Jimmy Lyons album)

• "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013

• Riffs (Status Quo album), 2003

• "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from the album Supernaturalistic

Media

• The Riff, an Australian music video television show

• Riff: Everyday Shooter, a 2007 video game

• "The Riff", a name for WRIF, a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, US

See also

• RIF (disambiguation)

• Rif, a region of Morocco

• Riffian people, a Berber people of the Rif

MSTing, or "riffing", a form of humorous media commentary

• RiffTrax, a company that produces such humor