RESEARCH 5 - SHORT FILM FESTIVALS

A LIST OF SHORT FILM FESTIVALS

There are a huge range of short film festivals! Festivals are the making of your film and luckily they vary from place to place such as from the USA to Ireland, making sure there is an opportunity for all short film directors everywhere. Here is a list of short film festivals and where they’re based in. 

By researching this, I was able to look at the range of film festivals and find out more of their importance in the film industry in general. I also found out that by simply submitting and meeting the requirements of the festival it could be the starting point of a successful short film. 

The Top 5 Must-Submits

• Sundance Film Festival (USA)
• Cannes Film Festival (France) – for shorts under 15 minutes only
• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films (USA)
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (France)
• Aspen Shortsfest (USA)

USA

• AFI Fest 
• Los Angeles Film Festival 
• Tribeca Film Festival
• SXSW: South By Southwest Film Festival 
• Atlanta Film Festival 
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival 
• Rhode Island International Film Festival 
• Florida Film Festival 
• Nashville Film Festival 
• Hamptons International Film Festival 
• USA Film Festival – for American shorts only
• Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 
• Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 
• Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival 
• Ann Arbor Film Festival 
• Athens International Film Festival 
• Black Maria Film Festival 
• New Directors/New Films Festival 
• Gen Art Film Festival – for American shorts only

Canada

• Toronto International Film Festival 
• Montreal World Film Festival 
• Montreal International Festival of New Cinema
• Canadian Film Centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival 
• Edmonton International Film Festival 
• Calgary International Film Festival

Australia

• Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 
• Melbourne International Film Festival
• Sydney Film Festival

Brazil

• Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival 
• Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Argentina

• Mar del Plata International Film Festival 

Chile

• Santiago Chilean International Short Film Festival

Colombia

• Cartagena International Film Festival

Bermuda

• Bermuda International Film Festival

Japan

• Short Shorts Film Festival

South Africa

• Durban International Film Festival 
• Cape Town World Cinema Film Festival  

UK

• Raindance Film Festival
• London Short Film Festival
• Edinburgh International Film Festival 
• London Short Film Festival 
• Manchester International Film Festival 
• Encounters International Short Film Festival 
• Leeds International Film Festival

Ireland

• Foyle Film Festival 
• Cork International Film Festival

Germany

• Berlin International Film Festival 
• Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 
• Oldenburg Film Festival 
•  Berlin Short Film Festival 
• Film fest Dresden 
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival

Spain

• Huesca International Film Festival 
• Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films 
• Gijon International Film Festival for Young People 
• Valladolid International Film Festival

Italy

• Venice International Film Festival 
• Turin International Film Festival of Young Cinema – for Italian shorts only

Switzerland

•Locarno Film Festival

France

• Angers First Film Festival

Greece

• Drama International Short Film Festival

Bosnia-Herzegovina

• Sarajevo Film Festival

Poland

• Cracow International Documentary and Short Film Festival 
- Wroclav Era New Horizons

Czech Republic

• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Belgium

• Brussels International Short Film Festival 
• Ghent Flanders International Film Festival 
• Leuven International Short Film Festival

 Denmark

• Odense International Film Festival 
• AFIA Film Festival, Aarhus

The Netherlands

• Rotterdam International Film Festival

Sweden

• Uppsala International Short Film Festival 
• Stockholm International Film Festival  
•Gothenberg International Film Festival

Finland

• Tampere International Short Film Festival

Norway

• Grimstad Norwegian Short Film Festival 

source: http://www.raindance.org/worlds-top-short-film-festivals/