Odense International Film Festival

The Odense Film Festival is an independent short film festival with both an international and a national competition, and with its launch in 1975, it is also the country’s oldest film festival. The festival is designed to screen unusual short films of high quality with an original and imaginative sense of creativenes as found in the works of Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous writer of fairy-tales, who was born in Odense in 1805.
In 2013 we were rewarded a very prestigious title, as OFF was acknowledged as Denmark’s first Oscar qualifying film festival. This meant that we could send the winners from our Main Competition and from our Danish Competition straight to the pre-jury of the Academy Awards in Hollywood. As of 2015, we are furthermore so lucky as to have been given yet another Oscar qualifying category, which means that this year, the winner of the Animation Competition will also be in the running for an Oscar nomination.