About festival

Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS 2025 will take place for the 29th time and as usual offers original, innovative, challenging, socially active short films and medium-length films to viewers. 2ANNAS exists in a context in which the short-film format is not only a step to the first full-scale work but also a deliberate, consistent choice resulting in high-quality art. Similarly, the festival is known as crazy parties in unaccustomed places, a free atmosphere, and creative manifestations, not only in the form of cinema.

2ANNAS offers four tender programs each year: the International Short Film Competition, the Baltic Short Film Competition, the International Small Film Contest, and the competition for films for children and young people. Also in 2024 the festival will take place on-site and online.

Since 2013, the festival has also developed thematic out-of-competition programs. Including 3-year cycles of focus programs aimed at encouraging public discussion on selected focus topics.

Every three years, the cycle of program topics is changed and its purpose is to stimulate discussion in society about the selected focus topics and the focus cycle of 2023 - 2025 has been chosen "Body and flesh" (2023), "Mind" (2024) and "Symbiosis" (2025).

In the theme of the 2025 festival "Symbiosis", we will focus on symbiotic political relations, new types of relations in the 21st century society, as well as offer feminist eroticism to the adult audience.

Also in 2025, for the second time in the history of the festival and the Latvian film industry, 2ANNAS will represent special LGBTQ+ section "Pure Queer".

Alongside the festival, “2ANNAS” also holds open discussions between film viewers and creators, participates in a variety of cultural events, such as international music festival “Laba Daba, contemporary culture forum “White Night”, Art Academy of Latvia carnival etc., and go on tour every year, showing the most vivid works in different places of Latvia from programs of previous years of the festival.