| Film Festival |
Country |
Type of Festival / Categories |
Dates |
| 25 FPS Festival |
Croatia |
Short experimental film and video |
20 - 24 Sept |
| Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts (AFIA) |
Denmark |
Features, shorts, documentary, animation, music video (any genre) |
25 - 30 April |
| Academia Film Olomouc |
Czech Republic |
Documentary, scientific, popular-scientific and educational programmes |
17 - 22 April |
| Anima - Brussels Cartoon and Animation Film Festival |
Belgium |
Shorts; Shorts for Children; Student Film, Features; Features for Children |
16 - 25 February |
| ANIMA - Cordoba Animation Festival |
ARGENTINA |
Animation. Several categories (narrative, experimental, interactive and Internet, etc.) |
27 to 30th April |
| Anima Mundi - International Animation Festival of Brazil |
Brazil |
All types of animation films. In competition: shorts, video, computer graphics, television series, commercials, showreels. Out of competition: features |
29th June - 8th July |
| Athens International Film Festival |
Greece |
Animation, shorts, documentary, experimental |
20 Sept - 1 Oct |
| Athens Video Art Festival |
Greece |
Video art; video installations; artistic constructions; live art |
19 - 21 April |
| Auburn International Film and Video Festival for Children and Young Adults |
Australia |
Works for and by children and young people |
17 to 21 September |
| Australian International Animation Festival (AIAF) |
Australia |
Animation |
July - September |
| Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival |
Finland |
Experimental film and video, abstract film and video, film and video with experimental soundtracks |
17 - 19 Nov |
| Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival |
Brazil |
No restrictions |
21 - 30 July |
| Bermuda International Film Festival |
Bermuda |
Features, shorts, documentary, animation. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has elected to recognise the Bermuda International Film Festival as a qualifying festival for the Short Films category for the Annual Academy Awards |
16 - 24 March |
| Brisbane International Animation Festival |
Australia |
Animated film, flipbook and web animation competitions |
14 - 17 October |
| Brisbane International Film Festival |
Australia |
World cinema, Asian-Pacific focus, video, shorts |
2 to 13 August |
| Brussels European Film Festival |
Belgium |
All first or second European films; competition for feature or documentary |
30th June - 8 July |
| Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film |
Belgium |
'Fantasy' defined as 'any film which in theme or approach departs from everyday reality to some degree'. Features and shorts, including animation |
5 - 17 April |
| Budapest Short Film Festival |
Hungary |
Fiction; experimental; animation |
4 - 8 August |
| Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Films |
ARGENTINA |
Features, shorts, first or second film |
3 to 15 April |
| Buster - Copenhagen International Children's Film Festival |
Denmark |
All genres of children's and youth films |
8 - 15 September |
| Byron Bay Film Festival |
Australia |
Best Film; Young Filmmaker (under 25); Animation; Experimental; Surfing; Drama; Documentary; Marine; Comedy; Cinematography |
9 - 17 February |
| Cairo International Film Festival |
Egypt |
Competition for long feature films, out-of-competition section, festival of festivals, special programmes |
28 Nov - 8 Dec |
| Cartagena International Film Festival |
Colombia |
Features, shorts, documentary. Competition for films produced in Latin America, Spain and Portugal only |
2 - 9 March |
| Changchun Film Festival |
China |
Feature films (minimum Duration: 70 minutes) |
January |
| Cinemania - World Film Panorama |
Bulgaria |
Feature films not yet released in Bulgaria. |
November |
| Copenhagen International Film Festival |
Denmark |
Feature films only, European focus |
21 Sept - 1 Oct |
| COURTisane Festival for short film, video & new media |
Belgium |
Short film/video projects; narrative, non-narrative, fiction, experimental, new media |
3 - 6 May |
| Croatian Minute Movie Cup |
Croatia |
Films and videos of one minute or less including titles. No advertisements |
25 - 26 May |
| DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival |
Finland |
Documentary |
24 Jan - 28 Jan |
| Drama International Short Film Festival |
Greece |
Fiction, documentary, animation |
September |
| Dubrovnik International Film Festival |
Croatia |
Features, documentaries, shorts |
May |
| Ecocinema International Environmental Film Festival |
Greece |
Documentary, shorts, features |
11 - 17 May |
| Espoo Ciné International Film Festival |
Finland |
New European cinema, American independents, fantasy films, special screenings for children. Mainly features, some short films, retrospectives |
21 August - 26 August |
| European Youth Film Festival of Flanders |
Belgium |
Features, animation |
February |
| Festival de Cine de Bogotá |
Colombia |
Features, animation, shorts, experimental, documentary |
4 to 12 October |
| Festival do Rio - Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival |
Brazil |
Features , documentaries, children's films |
21st September - 5th October |
| Festival Inernacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata |
ARGENTINA |
Shorts; documentaries; features; experimental; indies |
20-29th October |
| Fica - International Festival of Environmental Film and Video |
Brazil |
Feature and short documentaries, animation, fiction, and TV series, focusing on environmental issues |
June |
| Flanders International Film Festival |
Belgium |
Contact festival for details |
9 - 20 October |
| Flickerfest International Short Film Festival |
Australia |
Fiction; documentary; animation; experimental |
5 to 14 January |
| Fluxus - International Film Festival On the Internet |
Brazil |
Up to 15 Minutes, any format, documentary, animation, webart,docs, experimental, videoart, mobile |
November |
| Fresh Film Fest International Student Film Festival |
Czech Republic |
Student films: fiction, documentaries, animation, experimental |
22 - 26 August |
| Golden Chest International Festival |
Bulgaria |
Bulgarian full-length films and series; Bulgarian documentaries and foreign full-length films and series |
30 October - 4th November |
| Golden Rhyton Festival of Non-Feature Film |
Bulgaria |
Contact festival |
October |
| Golden Rose Festival |
Bulgaria |
Features and short films |
September |
| Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival |
China |
Documentary |
4 to 9 December |
| Heart of Gold International Film Festival |
Australia |
Shorts, Docs, Animation, Children's, Comedies |
October |
| Helsinki International Film Festival - Love and Anarchy |
Finland |
Features, shorts, documentary, animation, experimental |
14 - 24 Sept |
| Helsinki Woman Film Festival - Woman or Artichoke |
Finland |
Features. Women on the screen as directors, makers and actresses |
9 - 11 Feb |
| Hong Kong International Film Festival |
Hongkong |
Features, documentary, shorts, animation |
20 March - 11 April |
| Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival |
Hongkong |
Features, shorts, documentary |
11 - 19 November |
| IIFW - 2009 |
India |
FILM |
12/12/09 |
| Indie - World Film Festival |
Brazil |
music documentaries and fictions (new directors) |
24 - 31 August |
| International Amateurfilm Festival |
Hungary |
Shorts; documentaries; experimental |
10 - 11 Nov |
| International Children's Film Festival |
Finland |
Fiction, documentary, animation |
13 - 19 Nov |
| International Festival for Student Films |
Bulgaria |
All types of student productions: features, shorts, documentary, animation, experimental |
August |
| International Festival of Animated Films AniFest |
Czech Republic |
Animation |
3 - 9 May |
| International Festival of Film, Videospots and Multimedia on Tourism - Tourfilm |
Czech Republic |
Films and video recordings which promote the popularisation of tourism or support its commercial aims, documentary, television films, publicist and popular science films/videos related to tourism, advertisements of up to five minutes |
3 - 4 Oct |
| International Festival of Films on Science, Technology and Art TECHFILM |
Czech Republic |
Shorts |
November |
| International Festival of New Film Split |
Croatia |
Features, shorts, animation, experimental, documentary |
25 Sept - 1 Oct |
| International Festival of New Latin-American Cinema |
Cuba |
Fiction, documentary, animation |
December |
| International Film Festival Bangladesh |
Bangladesh |
Feature Film |
December |
| International Film Festival for Children and Youth |
Czech Republic |
Feature films for children, feature films for youth, animation, student films, documentaries, European debuts |
27 May - 2 June |
| International Panorama of Independent Film and Video |
Greece |
All |
September |
| International Portable Film Festival |
Australia |
Animation; documentaries; short narrative films; music clips and others |
September |
| International Short Film Festival Leuven |
Belgium |
Short live action films |
December |
| International Students Festival Of Film Art |
Bulgaria |
Fiction, documentary, animation |
September |
| It's All True - International Documentary Film Festival |
Brazil |
All types of documentary, new films and retrospectives |
22 March - 1 April |
| Karlovy Vary International Film Festival |
Czech Republic |
International competition of full-length and short documentary films, a non-specialised international competition of feature films |
29 June - 7 July |
| Libertas Film Festival |
Croatia |
Narrative and Documentary Features and Shorts |
29 June - 4 July |
| Love is Folly Film Festival |
Bulgaria |
Features linked to romance |
August / September |
| Mar del Plata International Film Festival |
ARGENTINA |
All types of films in various sections: official competition, informative, retrospective |
8th to 18th March |
| Mardi Gras Film Festival |
Australia |
Features, documentary and shorts in no defined categories |
15 Feb - 1 March |
| Mediawave 'Another Connection' International Film and Music Festival |
Hungary |
Short films (animation, short fiction, experimental), documentary, films adapting and comparing East and West European visual and cultural values |
27 April - 5 May |
| Melbourne International Animation Festival |
Australia |
Animation |
19 to 24 June |
| Melbourne International Film Festival |
Australia |
Features, documentary, shorts (fiction, animation, experimental, student production), new media |
25th July - 12th August |
| Midnight Sun Film Festival |
Finland |
New films and classics, silent films |
13 - 17 June |
| MostraMundo - The Moving Image Festival |
Brazil |
Shorts |
16 - 19 November |
| Motovun Film Festival |
Croatia |
Features, online shorts up to 15 in length |
24 - 28 July |
| Music on Film - Film on Music |
Czech Republic |
All genres of film related to music |
18 - 22 Oct |
| Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival |
Greece |
Short films; for more information please visit website |
3 - 6 May |
| Natfilm Festival |
Denmark |
Features only. Contact festival for further details |
23 March - 1 April |
| Odense International Film Festival |
Denmark |
Short films which emanate from and radiate an original and imaginative sense of creative delight in the spirit of Hans Christian Andersen (experimental, imaginative and fairy-tale films). Live action or animation. International and Danish shorts and anim |
15 - 20 August |
| Ohne Kohle (No Budget) Independent VideoFilmfestival |
Austria |
Short fiction, art, documentaries, features |
July |
| Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People |
Greece |
Features, shorts, animation, documentary |
2 - 9 December |
| One Take Film Festival |
Croatia |
Any film genre so long as it was shot in one take |
17 - 19 Oct |
| One World - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival |
Czech Republic |
Main competition for feature-length and short documentary films and videos on human rights topics |
28 Feb - 8 March |
| Panorama of European Cinema |
Greece |
Features, documentary |
September / October |
| Parnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival |
Estonia |
Documentaries |
1 - 22 July |
| Port Shorts Film Festival |
Australia |
3 minute short - Super 8, Digital, Animation |
November |
| Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival |
Brazil |
Shorts |
November / December |
| Santiago Festival Internacional De Cine |
Chile |
Fiction and documentary films |
August |
| Santiago International Short Film Festival |
Chile |
Fiction, experimental, animation, documentary |
November |
| São Paulo International Film Festival |
Brazil |
Features, shorts, documentary. Two sessions: 'International Perspective' and 'New Filmmakers Competition' |
19th Oct - 1st Nov |
| São Paulo International Short Film Festival |
Brazil |
All genres accepted: Brazilian panorama, Latin America panorama festival, international film festival, Brazilian retrospective, special programme |
24th August - 2nd September |
| Sarajevo Film Festival |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
First and second feature fiction films, international short, feature and animated films, films of all genres from south-eastern Europe - please contact festival for more details |
17 - 25 August |
| Shanghai International Film Festival |
China |
Feature films |
16 to 24 June |
| Sofia International Film Festival |
Bulgaria |
International competition for first and second feature films |
1 - 11 March |
| Sony Tropfest |
Australia |
Short films of all genres. |
February |
| Sydney Film Festival |
Australia |
Features, documentary and shorts in no defined categories |
8 th to 24th June |
| Tabor Film Festival |
Croatia |
Shorts all generes |
10 to 14 July |
| Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival |
Estonia |
Features, animation, student films |
23 Nov - 10 Dec |
| Tampere International Short Film Festival |
Finland |
Animation, documentary, fiction, experimental. Also a short film market, specialising in work from Nordic, Baltic and European countries |
7 - 11 March |
| Tbilisi International Film Festival |
Georgia |
Feature films, documentary, film schools |
10 - 15 Oct |
| The Mediterranean Festival of Documentary Films |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Documentaries |
September |
| Thessaloniki International Film Festival |
Greece |
Competition section for first or second full-length feature films |
17 - 26 November |
| Titanic Film Festival Budapest |
Hungary |
Non-commercial features by independent film-makers, plus film feature-length documentary (special section for films reflecting film history), feature-length animation |
12 - 22 April |
| Tricky Women |
Austria |
Animation |
1 - 5 March |
| Vienna Short Film Festival |
Austria |
Music, fiction, documentary, animation, trailer |
6 to 8 July |
| Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival |
Austria |
Features, documentary, animation, short films |
19 to 31 October |
| Wildlife Vassa International Nature Film Festival |
Finland |
Documentaries; shorts; animation; scientific; experimental |
November |
| World Festival of Short Films |
Belgium |
Amateur (film-makers, affiliated members) and independent (cinema schools and professionals-to-be) in the categories: fiction, documentary, reality, animation, genre |
October |
| World of Women International Film Festival |
Australia |
Drama (Australia and New Zealand), documentary (Europe) |
October |
| Worldfilm. Tartu Festival of Visual Culture |
Estonia |
Socumentaries; anthropological documentaries; ethnographic film |
26 March - 1 April |
| Zagreb Film Festival |
Croatia |
Feature; documentaries; shorts |
16 - 21 Oct |
| Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films |
Croatia |
Animation. Extra competition for student films |
12 - 17 June |
