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Festivals

Film Festivals

Cannes IFF (May, 10d)
Berlin IFF (Feb, 15d)
Venice FF (Aug, 10d)

Sundance (Park City, Utah, Jan, 11d)
SXSW FF (Austin, Mar, 9d)
Toronto IFF (Sep, 11d)

BFI London (Oct, 10d)
Brooklyn FF (Jun, 10d)
Cleveland FF (Mar, 10d)
ECU (Paris, Apr, 3d)
Fantasia IFF (Montreal, Jul, 21d)
Fantastic Fest (Austin, Sep, 8d)
FilmQuest (Provo, Utah, Oct, 8d)
IFF Rotterdam (Jan, 12d)
Karlovy Vary IFF (Czech Republic, Jul, 9d)
Locarno IFF (Switzerland, Aug, 11d)
Mammoth Lake FF (Mammoth Lake, CA, May, 5d)
Movies that Matter (The Hague, Mar, 9d)
Santa Barbara IFF (Mar, 10d)
Slamdance FF (Park City, Utah, Jan, 10d)
Sydney FF (Jun, 10d)
Telluride FF (Colorado, Sep, 5d)
Tribeca FF (NYC, Jun, 12d)
Vancouver IFF (Sep, 10d)

Documentary Film Festivals

The Big Four

IDFA (Amsterdam, Nov, 12d)
Hot Docs Canadian IDF (Toronto, Apr, 11d)
CPH: DOX - Copenhagen IDFF (Mar, 12d) #innovation #hybrid #science
Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland, Apr, 10d) #essayistic #bold #globalSouth #artisticPrestige
DOX: LAB at CPH: DOX

"Industry & Awards" Gatekeepers

Sheffield DocFest (Jun, 6d)
DOK Leipzig (Leipzig, Oct, 7d) #animation
Doc NYC (Nov, 19d) #oscarQualifying #industry #networking
South by Southwest (Austin, Mar, 7d) #indieFilm #techConvergence #popCulture
Full Frame DFF (Durham, Apr, 4d) #filmmakerCentric #prestigious #americanSouth
AFI Fest (Los Angeles, Oct, 5d) #policy #advocacy
Camden IFF (Camden, Maine, Sep, 4d)
Hot Springs DFF (Arkansas, Oct, 8d) #usOldest #community #discovery

Formalist & Avant-Garde

DocLisboa (Lisbon, Oct, 10d) #political #bold #history #antiColonial #labor
FIDMarseille (Marseille, Jul, 7d) #hybrid #experimental #bold #boundaryPushingStyles
Cinéma du Réel (Paris, Mar, 8d) #experimental #hubOfVérité #raw #unfiltered #essayist
True/False FF (Columbia, Missouri, Mar, 4d) #creative #boundaryBlurring #experiential
Bilbao IF of Documentary & Short Films (Zinebi, Spain, Nov, 8d) #political #bold #experimental
Ji.hlava IDFF (Prague, Oct, 10d)

Human Rights & Political

One World (Prague, Mar-Apr, 43d) #humanRights #massiveScale #activism
Artdocfest (Riga, Latvia, Mar, 7d) #essayistic #political #bold #foreignDocsBannedAtHome
Karama Human Rights Film Festival (Amman, Jordan, Dec, 7d) #humanRights #socialJustice

Specialized & Ethnographic

Ethnocineca (Vienna, May, 7d) #ethnographic #antiColonial #migration #identity
Astra Film Festival (Sibiu, Romania, Oct, 7d) #ethnographic #slow #balkans #caucasus
Fribourg IFF (Fribourg, Switzerland, Mar, 10d) #essayistic #culturalUnderstanding

New Media & Digital Arts

transmediale (Berlin, Feb, 5d) #digitalCulture #theory
Ars Electronica (Linz, Sep, 5d) #artScience #futureTech

Academic

Visible Evidence Conference (rotating, Aug-Dec, 5d) #theory #conference
Essay Film Festival (London, Mar, 7d) #archival #scholarly #essayistic #experimental

Major Continental Powerhouses

Yamagata IDFF (Yamagata, Japan, Oct, 8d) #biennial
Thessaloniki DF (Mar, 11d)
Millennium Docs Against Gravity (Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdynia, May, 10d) #multicity
It's All True (E Tudo Verdade) (Sao Paulo, Apr, 11d)
DMZ Docs (Seoul, Sep, 7d)

Regional

DOXA DFF (Vancouver, May, 11d) #canadianIndie
Mumbai IFF for Documentary, Short & Animation Films (May, 7d) #socialIssues #shorts #animation
Sakhalin IFF (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia, Sep, 9d) #humanist #eastAsia

Short Film Festivals

Aspen Shortsfest (Apr, 6d)
Cinequest FF (San Jose & Redwood City, CA, Mar, 17d)
Clermont-Ferrand SFF (France, Jan, 9d)
Flickerfest ISFF (Sydney, Jan, 10d)
Foyle Film FF (N Ireland, Nov, 9d)
HollyShorts FF (Aug, 10d)
LA Shorts Fest (Jul, 8d)
Oberhausen ISFF (Germany, Apr, 6d)
Palm Springs Int'l ShortFest (Jun, 7d)
Rio de Janeiro ISFF (Nov, 4d)
Short Shorts FF (Tokyo, Jun, 14d)
Tampere ISFF (Finland, Mar, 5d)
USA FF (Dallas, Apr, 5d)

Other Interesting Film Festivals

Julien Dubuque IFF (Dubuque, Iowa, Apr, 5d)
Festival De Cine De Huesca (Spain, Jun, 9d)
Gen Con FF (Indianapolis, Aug, 5d)
Salute Your Shorts FF (Los Angeles, Aug, 3d)
Dragon Con Independent FF (Atlanta, Sep, 5d)

Wikipedia

List of film festivals
List of documentary film festivals
List of short film festivals

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