The Essential Film Festival List
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January
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Flickerfest International Short Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)
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Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Santa Barbara, California USA)
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Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, Utah USA)
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Sundance Film Festival (Park City, Utah USA)
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International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
February
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Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
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Berlin International Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
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Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
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New York International Children's Film Festival (New York, USA)
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March
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Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
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Cartagena Film Festival (Cartagena, Columbia)
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Cinequest Film Festival (San Jose, California, USA)
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Cleveland International Film Festival (Cleveland, Ohio, USA)
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Guadalajara International Film Festival (Guadalajara, Mexico)
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REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival (Saguenay, Canada)
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RiverRun International Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC USA)
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South by Southwest (Austin, Texas USA)
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Tampere Film Festival (Tampere, Finland)
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April
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Aspen Shortsfest (Aspen, Colorado USA)
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Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, Ohio, USA)
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Brussels Short Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium)
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Busan International Short Film Festival (Busan, South Korea)
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Florida Film Festival (Orlando, Florida, USA)
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Go Short - International Short Film Festival (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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San Francisco International Film Festival (San Francisco, California USA)
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Tribeca Film Festival (New York, USA)
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May​
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Animayo International Film Festival (Gran Canaria, Spain)
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Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
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Cannes Film Festival (Cannes, France)
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Chilemonos International Animation Festival (Santiago, Chile)
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Kraków Film Festival (Krakow, Poland)
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Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen, Germany)
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St Kilda Film Festival (St Kilda, Australia)
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Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, Washington USA)
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Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (Stuttgart, Germany)
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VIS Vienna Shorts Festival (Vienna, Austria)
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June
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Animafest Zagreb World Festival of Animated Film (Zagreb, Croatia)
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Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Annecy, France)
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Huesca International Film Festival (Huesca, Spain)
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Norwegian Short Film Festival (Oslo, Norway)
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Palm Springs International Shortfest (Palm Springs, California USA)
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Short Shorts Film Festival (Tokyo Japan)
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Sydney Film Festival (Sydney, Australia)
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July
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LA Shorts International Film Festival (Los Angeles, USA)
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Animator International Animated Film Festival (Poznan, Poland)
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Galway Film Fleadh (Galway, Ireland)
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Guanajuato International Film Festival (Guanajuato, Mexico)
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Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel)
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August
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BronzeLens Film Festival (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
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Hiroshima International Animation Festival (Hiroshima, Japan)
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Locarno International Film Festival (Locarno, Switzerland)
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Melbourne International Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
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Odense International Film Festival (Odense, Denmark)
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Rhode Island International Film Festival (Providence, Rhode Island USA)
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Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival (Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts USA)
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Sarajevo Film Festival (Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina)
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Venice International Film Festival (Venice, Italy)
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Toronto Shorts International Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
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September
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Calgary International Film Festival (Calgary, Canada)
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Edmonton International Film Festival (Edmonton, Canada)
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Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (Bristol, United Kingdom)
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In the Palace International Short Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria)
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Nordisk Panorama Film Festival (Malmö, Sweden)
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Ottawa International Animation Festival (Ottawa, Canada)
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Raindance Film Festival (London, United Kingdom)
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Tirana International Film Festival (Tirana, Albania)
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Urbanworld Film Festival (New York, USA)
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Toronto International Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)
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October
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AFI Fest (Los Angeles, USA)
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New York Shorts International Film Festival (New York, USA)
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Anim'est International Animation Festival (Bucharest, Romania)
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Austin Film Festival (Austin, Texas, USA)
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Bucheon International Animation Festival (Bucheon, South Korea)
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Chicago International Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
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Hamptons International Film Festival (Hamptons, New York, USA)
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Heartland International Film Festival (Indianapolis, Indiana USA)
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Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Leipzig, Germany)
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Montreal Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, Canada)
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Morelia International Film Festival (Morelia, Mexico)
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Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, Tennessee)
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New Orleans Film Festival (New Orleans, Louisiana)
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Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival (New York, USA)
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Rio De Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
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Show Me Shorts Film Festival (Auckland, New Zealand)
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Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia (Sitges, Spain)
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Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Uppsala, Sweden)
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Warsaw Film Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
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November
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Alcalá de Henares International Film Festival (Madrid, Spain)
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Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival - ZINEBI (Bilbao, Spain)
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Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
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Cork Film Festival (Cork, Ireland)
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Foyle Film Festival (Northern, Ireland)
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Gijón International Film Festival (Gijon, Spain)
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Interfilm International Short Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
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Leeds International Film Festival (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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St. Louis International Film Festival (St. Louis, Missouri USA)
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Singapore International Film Festival (Singapore)
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Winterthur International Short Film Festival (Winterthur, Switzerland)
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December
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Bogota Short Film Festival - BogoShorts (Bogota, Columbia)
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Leuven International Short Film Festival (Leuven, Belgium)
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Dubai International Film Festival (Dubai, UAE)
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