FACTS OFF25

OFF – Odense International Film Festival started in 1975, which makes it Denmark’s oldest film festival, and Denmark’s only short film festival that qualifies for both Academy Award, BAFTA, the EFA Award and the Danish Robert Award.
OFF25 marks the festival’s 50-year-anniversary.
OFF is located in Odense – in the heart of Denmark. The festival is held every year in the last week of August – this year from the 25th of August to the 31st of August. Filmmakers from Denmark and all over the world, industry guests and local film lovers all celebrate short films at OFF.
An astounding number of 3740 short films have been submitted to OFF25. 163 films from 47 countries have been selected for this years’ competition program.
Birgitte Weinberger is OFF’s program and artistic director and has been the face of the festival since 2009.
The selection jury members are animator Sara Koppel, screenwriter Christian Gamst Miller-Harris and OFF’s artistic director Birgitte Weinberger.
The selected films will be shown in venues in Odense and for two weeks on our streaming service, OFFstream.dk. OFFstream will be geo-blocked and limited to streaming in Denmark and all films will be password protected behind a payment wall.

The competition program for OFF25 consists of four central competitions: the International Competition, the Danish Competition, the Animation Competition and the Documentary Competition. All four competitions are Academy Award-qualifying.
In addition to the four central competitions, OFF has a Youth Competition, a Danish pitching contest called “Pitch Me Baby” and in 2022 OFF introduced a prize for the Best Danish Actor.
At the end of the festival, OFF presents an Audience Award for the short film in competition that receives the most audience votes during the festival.
OFF is an EFA-Qualifying short film festival. This means that one eligible film from the International Competition will be given the chance to compete for a European Film Award.
In 2024, OFF became BAFTA-qualifying, meaning that eligible British films selected to OFF’s program may also compete for a BAFTA Award.