Red Gaia - FINALIST at Annual Aarhus Film Festival

Welcome to Annual Aarhus Film Festival, an event dedicated to showcasing independent filmmaking.

From the same team behind the hugely successful Annual Copenhagen Film Festival, AAFF aims to recreate the familiar cozy atmosphere and rigorous programming in Denmark’s City of Smiles. 

Annual Aarhus Film Festival provides not only a diverse cinematic experience for audiences, but also an enriching festival event for independent filmmakers. Our main goal is to increase your audience reach and engagement, as well as to further support your development beyond the festival circuit. 

In addition to live screenings, we organize: 
✓ Networking events 
✓ Audience Awards 
✓ Filmmaker roundtables and workshops

At Annual Aarhus Film Festival we believe that independent cinema is a state of mind. It is ambitious, radical, thought-provoking filmmaking and it is, sadly, hard to come by. In an age of instant media gratification, we aim to re-create a nostalgic space for that state of mind. We bring quality independent cinema from all around the world to the city’s unique art cinema, Øst for Paradis.

We consider ourselves very lucky to be able to honor the latest and the best in international cinema in such a wonderfully cozy venue. Described as “a rather unconventional cinema”, Øst for Paradis specialises in handpicked films from all over the world, presented in auditoria steeped in atmosphere. We look forward to welcoming filmmakers to our "hyggelig", cinephile venue.

Annual Aarhus Film Festival is organized by HF Productions, an international production company that runs several film festivals around the world. A collective of filmmakers, producers and marketing professionals with a common goal: to forge productive and lasting relationships between independent filmmakers and audiences.