Short Film Festivals

The Top 5 Must-Submits

• Sundance Film Festival (USA)
• Cannes Film Festival (France)
• 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

• Telluride Film Festival

• Seattle International Film Festival

• San Francisco International Film Festival

• Slamdance Film Festival

• Chicago International Film Festival

• Austin Film Festival

• St. Louis International Film Festival

• Cinequest 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
• 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
• Heartland Film Festival

• Starz Denver International Film Festival

• Mill Valley Film Festival

• Woodstock Film Festival

• Hawaii International Film Festival

• San Diego Film Festival

• Cleveland International Film Festival

• Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival

• Philadelphia Film Festival

• New Orleans Film Festival

• Stony Brook Film Festival

• CineVegas International Film Festival 
• Bumbershoot 1 Reel Film Festival

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

• Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival

• Filmfest 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

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

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