Odense Film Festival
Odense Internationale Film Festival
Odense International Film Festival is a short film festival with a long and successful tradition since its first appearance in 1975.
Every year in August, the citizens of Odense and film enthusiasts from all over the world have the opportunity of experiencing films from all over the world, films that otherwise would never reach the big screen. And all this for free!
The festival takes place on Brandts Klædefabrik.
23rd edition
2008 | 19 - 24 August
Grand Prize
With a Little Patience
Hungary | 2007
Director: László Nemes Jeles
4
Most Imaginative Film
France | 2008 | 5:00
Director: Pablo Orlowsky
1
Most Surprising Film
Switzerland | Jun 2007 | 29:00
Director: Tobias Nölle
7
Best Children's Film - International
Toyland
Germany | 2008 | 13:00
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank
15
Germany | 2007
Director: Daniel Höpfner
Berlin, February 23rd 1959, 11.23 p.m. P.Hermann is entering the empty entrance hall of the Anhalter Station, which is released for demolition. The lo...
3
On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping the victim of a fight in the subway.
26
France | 2007 | 12:00
Director: Yann J
Berni, minor employee of a factory, makes up for his loneliness by buying a woman in kit form from the Third World.
9
Under the Skin
Switzerland | Sep 2007 | 11:00
Director: Zoltan Horvath
What should have been a simple pick-up on the beach at night whirlpools into an incredible world of black-ink tattoos, red fantasies, sex and mytholog
Belgium | Oct 2007 | 21:15
Director: Nicolas Daenens
Mario and Tom are two street punks who want to rob a bank. They ask the young Turkish Emin to be their driver that day. Emin can use the money and acc...
9
My Tree
Iran | 2007 | 6:00
Director: Sara Siadatnejad
A tree is brought to life by a painter.
2
Curse of the Remote Island
Finland | 2008 | 17:00
Director: CHRZU
A curse is cast on Sir Void while he's hunting his runaway moustache in the jungle of a tropical island. He switches to another channel and sets out o...
1
The Day of Glory...
France | 2007
Director: M Bruno Collet
The night before the offensive, a soldier hides in the bottom of an underground. Outside, the war shakes the ground and the man prepares himself with ...
4
United Kingdom | Sep 2007 | 6:33
Director: Mark Simon Hewis
The morose life story of one man told via a one-take live action shot of a human zoetrope containing the film.
1
France | Jan 2008 | 9:45
Director: Franck Dion
Mister Cok owns a large bomb factory. In the name of efficiency and profit, he decides to replace his workers with sophisticated robots. But one brave...
7
Türelem (With a Little Patience)
S.I.T.E.
A Day in a Life
Dans la Peau (Under the Skin)
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
O zi Buna de Plaja (A Good Day for a Swim)
Derakht-e-man (My Tree)
Short film types screened

Fiction / Live action

Animation

Documentary

Experimental

Music video
Competition and rewards

International competition

No cash awards

No screening fees