Over 100 films from 30 countries competed across four main categories: International, Baltic, Mid-length, and Children & Youth.

The festival was held 4 – 10 April 2025.

Winners of the 29th Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS:

Grand Prix:
Vox Humana (Philippines)
Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan

Best Short Animated Film:
Fish River Anthology (Finland)
Directed by Veera Lamminpää

Best Short Fiction Film:
Sauna Day (Estonia)
Directed by Anna Hints, Tushar Prakash

Best Short Documentary:
A Move (Iran)
Directed by Elahe Esmaili

Best Baltic Short Film:
Darwin’s Darlings (Latvia)
Directed by Ildze Felsberga

Best Mid-length Film:
The Inside of Our Lives (the Netherlands)
Directed by Misja Pekel

Best Experimental Film:
Lick a Wound (France)
Directed by Nathan Ghali

Special Mentions:

Male Gaze Recipe (Germany)
Directed by Joey Arand, Alma Weber

Made of Sugar (Spain)
Directed by Clàudia Cedó

The Diary of a Sky (Lebanon)
Directed by Lawrence Abu Hamdan

Motivation Prize Golf Club Viesturi Gift Certificate (Latvian Only):
Wandering Dot and the Blank Square Page Universe (Latvia, Bulgaria)
Directed by Ieva Lība Ratniece

Children’s Audience Award:
Daim (Latvia)
Directed by Kristina Parvatkina

Youth Audience Award:
Little Ancestor (Canada)
Directed by Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur

Emerging Critics Choice Award:
Darwin’s Darlings (Latvia)
Directed by Ildze Felsberga