INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PROFILES

Adelaide Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 18 Oct 2023
End: 29 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early Bird 1/5/2023, Regular 29/5/2023, Last Chance 5/6/2023

AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs)

• Documentary

United States
Start:
End:
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised

Annecy International Animation Film Festival

• Animation

France
Start: 09 Jun 2024
End: 15 Jun 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was Feb and March in 2023.

Aspen Shortsfest

• Shorts

United States
Start: 01 Apr 2024
End: 07 Apr 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 4/08/2023, Regular 22/09/2023, Late 17/11/2023

Berlin International Film Festival

• All genres

Germany
Start: 15 Feb 2024
End: 25 Feb 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Features 1/11/2023, shorts 15/11/2023

BFI London Film Festival

• All genres

United Kingdom
Start: 04 Oct 2023
End: 15 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
International shorts 2/06/2023. Not currently accepting international feature submissions.

Brisbane International Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 26 Oct 2023
End: 05 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 30/04/2023, regular 14/06/2023

Busan International Film Festival

• All genres

Korea
Start: 04 Oct 2023
End: 13 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Shorts 21/06/2023, features 19/07/2023

Cannes Film Festival

• All genres

France
Start: 14 May 2024
End: 25 May 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Usually mid March for features.

CinefestOZ

• All genres

Australia
Start: 29 Aug 2023
End: 03 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
1/06/2023

Cinema Du Reel

• Documentary

France
Start: 22 Mar 2024
End: 31 Mar 2024
Submission Deadlines:
TBA. Was Sept and Nov last time.

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

France
Start: 02 Feb 2024
End: 10 Feb 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Films completed after 1 Oct 2022 deadline is 11/07/2023. Films completed in 2023 deadline is 3/10/2023

Cork International Film Festival

• All genres

Republic of Ireland
Start: 09 Nov 2023
End: 19 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early bird 10/03/2023, Regular 19/05/2023, Late 14/07/2023

Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival

• All genres

France
Start: 15 Mar 2024
End: 24 Mar 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Deadline, send before 30/10/2023

DOK Leipzig

• Documentary, Animation

Germany
Start: 08 Oct 2023
End: 15 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Films 15/06/2023; XR works 29 June 2023

Frameline - San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 14 Jun 2023
End: 24 Jun 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early 4/12/2022; Regular 22/01/2023; Late 12/02/2023; Extended 1/03/2023

Goteborg Film Festival

• All genres

Sweden
Start: 26 Jan 2024
End: 04 Feb 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Non-Swedish films 12/10/2023

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival

• Documentary

China
Start: 01 Dec 2023
End: 01 Dec 2023
Submission Deadlines:
31/08/2023

Hamburg International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Germany
Start: 04 Jun 2024
End: 09 Jun 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was 14 Feb last ime.

Hof International Film Festival

• All genres

Germany
Start: 24 Oct 2023
End: 29 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
27/08/2023

Hong Kong International Film Festival

• All genres

China
Start: 28 Mar 2024
End: 08 Apr 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 6/11/2023, Regular 31/12/2023

Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival

• Documentary

Canada
Start: 27 Apr 2023
End: 07 May 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early 19/10/2022, Regular 16/11/2022, Late 14/12/2022; Extended 5/02/2023

ImagineNATIVE

• All genres

Canada
Start: 17 Oct 2023
End: 22 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
19/05/2023

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

• Documentary

Netherlands
Start: 08 Nov 2023
End: 19 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early film deadline 13/04/2023; 2nd film deadline 1/06/2023; Immersive deadline 27/06/2023; Final film deadline 13/07/2023

International Festival for Young People of Gijon

• All genres

Spain
Start: 17 Nov 2023
End: 25 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Enfants Terrible before 25/08/2023. Features before 10/09/2023. Shorts Early Bird before 10/09/2023, Late entries before 17/09/2023.

International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

• Features

Germany
Start: 16 Nov 2023
End: 26 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
30/06/2023

International Film Festival Rotterdam

• All genres

Netherlands
Start: 25 Jan 2024
End: 04 Feb 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Features 20/09/2023. Shorts and mid-length completed before 1 July deadline is 23/08/2023, completed after 1 July deadline is 13/09/2023. Art Direction/Immersive 1/09/2023

International Rome Film Festival

• All genres

ITALY
Start: 18 Oct 2023
End: 29 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
TBA. Was August in 2022

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

• Shorts

Germany
Start: 01 May 2024
End: 06 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Competition Early Bird 5/10/2023; Regular 1/02/2024

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

• All genres

Czech Republic
Start: 28 Jun 2024
End: 06 Jul 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised: Was Feb in 2023

Locarno International Film Festival

• All genres

Switzerland
Start: 07 Aug 2024
End: 17 Aug 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was April in 2023.

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

• Documentary

United States
Start: 03 Dec 2022
End: 04 Dec 2022
Submission Deadlines:

Melbourne International Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 08 Aug 2024
End: 25 Aug 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Open 16/10/2023. Deadline 15/02/2024.

NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 12 Oct 2023
End: 24 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 16/03/2023; Regular 24/05/2023; Late 19/06/2023; Extended 20/07/2023

Ottawa International Animation Festival

• Animation

Canada
Start: 20 Sep 2023
End: 24 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
31/05/2023

San Sebastian International Film Festival

• All genres

Spain
Start: 22 Sep 2023
End: 30 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
General 19/06/2023

Sao Paulo International Film Festival

• All genres

Brazil
Start: 19 Oct 2023
End: 01 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
31/07/2023

Sheffield DocFest

• Documentary

United Kingdom
Start: 12 Jun 2023
End: 17 Jun 2024
Submission Deadlines:
2024 dates to be advised. in 2023 deadline was 10 Feb for standard entries.

Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival

• Features, animation, shorts - fantasy, horror

Spain
Start: 05 Oct 2023
End: 15 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
17/07/2023

South by Southwest Film &TV Festival (SXSW)

• All genres

United States
Start: 08 Mar 2024
End: 16 Mar 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Final Deadline 3/10/2023

Stockholm International Film Festival

• All genres

Sweden
Start: 08 Nov 2023
End: 19 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early 25/03/2023; Regular 8/07/2023; Late 15/08/2023

Stuttgart International Animation Festival

• Animation

Germany
Start: 23 Apr 2024
End: 28 Apr 2024
Submission Deadlines:
1/12/2023

Sundance Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 18 Jan 2024
End: 28 Jan 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Features Early 11/8/23, Official 4/9/23, Late 25/9/23; Shorts Early 31/7/23, Official 18/8/23, Late 4/9/23; Episodic Early 7/8/23, Official 1/9/23, Late 18/9/23; New Frontier Projects Early 4/8/23, Official 21/8/23, Late 1/9/23.

Tampere International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Finland
Start: 06 Mar 2024
End: 10 Mar 2024
Submission Deadlines:
International Competition Earlybird 31/08/2023, Regular 30/09/2023, Final 1/11/2023

Telluride Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 31 Aug 2023
End: 04 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Deadline 1/07/2023

The Sydney Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 07 Jun 2023
End: 18 Jun 2023
Submission Deadlines:

Tokyo International Film Festival

• Features

Japan
Start: 23 Oct 2023
End: 01 Nov 2023
Submission Deadlines:
14/07/2023

Torino (Turin) Film Festival

• All genres

Italy
Start: 24 Nov 2023
End: 02 Dec 2023
Submission Deadlines:
15/09/2023

Toronto International Film Festival

• Features, shorts

Canada
Start: 07 Sep 2023
End: 17 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early-bird 31/03/2023; Standard 12/05/2023

Tribeca Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 05 Jun 2024
End: 16 Jun 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Features, NOW early 23/20/2023, official 27/11/2023, extended 17/01/2024; Shorts early 1/11/2023, official 15/12/2023, extended 17/11/2024.

Uppsala International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Sweden
Start: 23 Oct 2023
End: 29 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Early 31/01/2023; Regular 30/04/2023; Late 31/05/2023

Valladolid International Film Festival

• All genres

Spain
Start: 21 Oct 2023
End: 28 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
4/07/2023

Venice International Film Festival

• All genres

Italy
Start: 30 Aug 2023
End: 09 Sep 2023
Submission Deadlines:
VR 29/05/2023; Shorts 01/06/2023; Features 15/06/2023

Visions du Reel - International Documentary Film Festival Nyon

• Documentary

Switzerland
Start: 12 Apr 2024
End: 21 Apr 2024
Submission Deadlines:
First deadline 6/11/23 for films finished by Oct22 and projects ready for submission; Final deadline 20/12/2023

Warsaw Film Festival

• All genres

Poland
Start: 06 Oct 2023
End: 15 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
Regular 15/07/2023; Late 31/07/2023

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

• Documentary

Japan
Start: 05 Oct 2023
End: 12 Oct 2023
Submission Deadlines:
First Deadline 15/12/2022 for works completed by 31/10/22. Second deadline 15/04/2023 for works completed after 1/11/2022. New Asian Currents 15/05/2023