Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS

Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS is an independent festival of film and audiovisual arts, held annually in Riga, Latvia, and is dedicated to seeking out and presenting innovative modes of visual communication. 2ANNAS is a platform which, in addition to the traditional means of filmmaking promotes new forms of content and expression. Main objective is promote the works of professional filmmakers outside of and as an alternative the mainstream cinema products, both locally and internationally. 

Every year 2ANNAS offers a range of short film collections – International and Baltic Competition programmes, guest programmes, retrospectives, and others, presenting films of all genres - fiction, animation, documentary, experimental film / video art, etc. In our programmes festival seeks for the innovative, experimental, unseen or long-forgotten in the film world. The festival hosts lectures and photo exhibitions, as well as theater and music performances, “out-of-box events”, and other activities within the rich city environment and the vibrant multi-talented 2ANNAS atmosphere. The festival invites special guests – film directors, VJs and DJs, lecturers, jury members and collaboration partners – from a number of different countries. 2ANNAS draws large crowds of visitors, most of which are filmmakers, artists, and students from the Baltic and European countries.