INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL PROFILES

Adelaide Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 15 Oct 2025
End: 26 Oct 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early Bird 21/04/2025, General 19/05/2025, Last Chance 26/05/2025

AFI Fest (formerly AFI Docs & Silverdocs)

• Documentary

United States
Start: 23 Oct 2024
End: 27 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Shorts Official 12/4/2024. Longer formats curated by AFI staff

Annecy International Animation Film Festival

• Animation

France
Start: 08 Jun 2025
End: 14 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Shorts, graduation films, TV films, commissioned films 15/02/2025; Features 15/03/2025; VR works to be advised.

Aspen Shortsfest

• Shorts

United States
Start: 31 Mar 2025
End: 06 Apr 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 2/08/2024; Regular 27/09/2024; Late 8/11/2024

Berlin International Film Festival

• All genres

Germany
Start: 13 Feb 2025
End: 23 Feb 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Feature length films 30/10/2024; Short films 13/11/2024

BFI London Film Festival

• All genres

United Kingdom
Start: 08 Oct 2025
End: 19 Oct 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Brisbane International Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 24 Oct 2024
End: 03 Nov 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Early bird 31/05/2024; Regular 30/06/2024

United Kingdom
Start:
End:
Submission Deadlines:

Busan International Film Festival

• All genres

Korea
Start: 17 Sep 2025
End: 26 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Cannes Film Festival

• All genres

France
Start: 13 May 2025
End: 24 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Feature films 14/03/2025; Short films 3/03/2025. Directors Fortnight Shorts 14/03/2025; Features 21/03/2025. Critics Week 14/03/2025

CinefestOZ

• All genres

Australia
Start: 30 Aug 2025
End: 07 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early Bird 1/05/2025, Regular 1/06/2025

Cinema Du Reel

• Documentary

France
Start: 22 Mar 2025
End: 30 Mar 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Opening September 2021 and closing 1/11/2024

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

France
Start: 31 Jan 2025
End: 08 Feb 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Films completed in 2023 after 1 Oct the deadline 11/07/2024; for films completed in 2024 the deadline is 3/10/2024.

Cork International Film Festival

• All genres

Republic of Ireland
Start: 06 Nov 2025
End: 16 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised, was 17 May in 2024

Creteil Film Des Femmes Festival

• All genres

France
Start: 04 Apr 2025
End: 12 Apr 2025
Submission Deadlines:
31/10/2024

DOK Leipzig

• Documentary, Animation

Germany
Start: 27 Oct 2025
End: 02 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was 1 July in 2024.

Frameline - San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 18 Jun 2025
End: 28 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early 4/12/2024, Regular 24/01/2025, Late 14/02/2025, Extended 5/03/2025

Goteborg Film Festival

• All genres

Sweden
Start: 24 Jan 2025
End: 02 Feb 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Non-Swedish films deadline expires 24/10/2024

Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival

• Documentary

China
Start: 26 Nov 2025
End: 28 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Hamburg International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Germany
Start: 03 Jun 2025
End: 08 Jun 2024
Submission Deadlines:
7/02/2025

Hof International Film Festival

• All genres

Germany
Start: 22 Oct 2024
End: 27 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was27 August in 2023

Hong Kong International Film Festival

• All genres

China
Start: 10 Apr 2025
End: 21 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early bird 3/11/2024; Regular 31/12/2024

Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival

• Documentary

Canada
Start: 24 Apr 2025
End: 04 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early Bird 31/10/2024; Regular 12/12/2024; Final 9/01/2025

ImagineNATIVE

• All genres

Canada
Start: 03 Jun 2025
End: 08 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
No festival in 2024, date change to June 2025. Submissions open 1/11/2024 and close 7/02/2025.

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

• Documentary

Netherlands
Start: 13 Nov 2025
End: 23 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:

International Festival for Young People of Gijon

• All genres

Spain
Start: 15 Nov 2024
End: 23 Nov 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Enfants Terribles 23/08/2024; Features 8/09/2024; Shorts 15/09/2024

International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

• Features

Germany
Start: 07 Nov 2024
End: 17 Nov 2024
Submission Deadlines:
15/07/2024

International Film Festival Rotterdam

• All genres

Netherlands
Start: 30 Jan 2025
End: 09 Feb 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Features 20/09/2024; Short and Mid-length films up to 63mins-completed before 1July: 23/08/2024, completed after 1 July: 13/09/2024; Immersive Media 2/09/2024

International Rome Film Festival

• All genres

ITALY
Start:
End:
Submission Deadlines:
TBA. Was August in 2022

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

• Shorts

Germany
Start: 29 Apr 2025
End: 04 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Submission deadline for all competitions 26/01/2025. Early Bird deadline is 1/10/2024.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

• All genres

Czech Republic
Start: 04 Jul 2025
End: 12 Jul 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Locarno International Film Festival

• All genres

Switzerland
Start: 06 Aug 2025
End: 16 Aug 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early 20/02/2025; Regular 10/04/2025; Late 24/04/2025

Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

• Documentary

United States
Start: 02 May 2025
End: 04 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early bird 5/11/2024, regular 6/12/2024

Melbourne International Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 07 Aug 2025
End: 24 Aug 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Round 1: 31/10/2024, Round 2: 30/11/2024, Round 3: 31/12/2024, Round 4: 31/01/2025, Round 5: 13/02/2025

NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 10 Oct 2024
End: 22 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 14/03/2024; Regular 15/05/2024; Late 12/06/2024

Ottawa International Animation Festival

• Animation

Canada
Start: 25 Sep 2024
End: 29 Sep 2024
Submission Deadlines:
31/05/2024

San Sebastian International Film Festival

• All genres

Spain
Start: 19 Sep 2025
End: 27 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Sao Paulo International Film Festival

• All genres

Brazil
Start: 17 Oct 2024
End: 30 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Deadline 31/07/2024

Sheffield DocFest

• Documentary

United Kingdom
Start: 18 Jun 2025
End: 23 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Early 29/11/2024; Standard 7/02/2025; Late 28/02/2025

Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival

• Features, animation, shorts - fantasy, horror

Spain
Start: 09 Oct 2025
End: 19 Oct 2025
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was July in 2024.

South by Southwest Film &TV Festival (SXSW)

• All genres

United States
Start: 07 Mar 2025
End: 15 Mar 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Opening 23/07/2024 and closing 2/10/2024.

Stockholm International Film Festival

• All genres

Sweden
Start: 06 Nov 2024
End: 17 Nov 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 24/03/2024; Regular 7/07/2024; Late 15/08/2024

Stuttgart International Animation Festival

• Animation

Germany
Start: 06 May 2025
End: 11 May 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Shorts 15/11/2024; features 15/01/2025.

Sundance Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 23 Jan 2025
End: 02 Feb 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Features Early 9/08/2024, Official 6/09/2024, Late 23/09/2024; Shorts Early 29/07/2024, Official 16/08/2024, Late 6/09/2024; Episodic 60 mins or less Early 5/08/2024, Official 30/08/2024, Late 20/09/2024; Episodic over 60 mins Early 5/08/2024, Official 30/09/2024, Late 20/09/2024.

Tampere International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Finland
Start: 05 Mar 2025
End: 09 Mar 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Earlybird 1/09/2024; Regular 1/10/2024; Final 1/11/2024

Telluride Film Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 29 Aug 2025
End: 01 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:

The Sydney Film Festival

• All genres

Australia
Start: 04 Jun 2025
End: 15 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Regular 28/02/2025

Tokyo International Film Festival

• Features

Japan
Start: 27 Oct 2025
End: 05 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Torino (Turin) Film Festival

• All genres

Italy
Start: 22 Nov 2024
End: 30 Nov 2024
Submission Deadlines:
6/09/2024

Toronto International Film Festival

• Features, shorts

Canada
Start: 04 Sep 2025
End: 14 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Tribeca Festival

• All genres

United States
Start: 04 Jun 2025
End: 15 Jun 2025
Submission Deadlines:
Features early 26/10/24, official 4/12/2024, extended 15/01/2025; Shorts early 30/10/2024, official 18/12/2024, extended 5/02/2025; Tribeca Now early 23/10/2024, official 4/12/2024, extended 15/01/2025.

Uppsala International Short Film Festival

• Shorts

Sweden
Start: 21 Oct 2024
End: 27 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Early 31/01/2024; Regular 30/04/2024; Late 31/05/2024

Valladolid International Film Festival

• All genres

Spain
Start: 24 Oct 2025
End: 01 Nov 2025
Submission Deadlines:

Venice International Film Festival

• All genres

Italy
Start: 27 Aug 2025
End: 06 Sep 2025
Submission Deadlines:
To be advised. Was May and June in 2024.

Visions du Reel - International Documentary Film Festival Nyon

• Documentary

Switzerland
Start: 04 Apr 2025
End: 13 Apr 2025
Submission Deadlines:
First deadline 4/11/2024, Final deadline 13/12/2024.

Warsaw Film Festival

• All genres

Poland
Start: 11 Oct 2024
End: 20 Oct 2024
Submission Deadlines:
Regular 15/07/2024, Late 31/07/2024.

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

• Documentary

Japan
Start: 09 Oct 2025
End: 16 Oct 2025
Submission Deadlines:
International Competition First deadline 15/12/2024; Second deadline 15/04/2025.