List of international short film festivals
Filmmakers often ask us if we have a list of short film festivals around the world that they can enter. So we have put together this handy list to use when planning your festival strategy.
Argentina
Australia
- Flickerfest International Short Film Festival
- Melbourne International Film Festival
- Sydney Film Festival
Austria
Belgium
- Brussels International Short Film Festival
- Ghent Flanders International Film Festival
- Leuven International Short Film Festival
Bermuda
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Brazil
- Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
- Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Bulgaria
Burkina
Canada
- Calgary International Film Festival
- Edmonton International Film Festival
- Hot Docs
- imagineNATIVE
- Montreal International Festival of New Cinema
- Montreal World Film Festival
- Quebec City Film Festival
- REGARD International Short Film Festival (Sur le Court)
- Siggraph Computer Animation Festival
- Toronto International Film Festival
Chile
China
- Beijing International Film Festival
- Chinese Documentary Festival
- China International New Media Short Film Festival
- Jinzhen International Short Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
- Angers First Film Festival
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival
- Cannes Critics Week
- Cannes Directors Fortnight
- Cannes Film Festival – for shorts under 15 minutes only
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
- Festival Tous Courts
Germany
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Filmfest Dresden
- Interfilm Berlin Short Film Festival
- Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart
- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
- Oldenburg Film Festival
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Italy
Japan
- Hiroshima International Animation Festival
- Sapporo International Short Film Festival
- Short Shorts Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
Korea
- Asiana International Short Film Festival
- Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
- Busan International Film Festival
- Busan International Short Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
Laos
Latvia
Lithuania
Madagascar
Mexico
- Guadalajara International Film Festival
- Guanajuato International Film Festival
- Mexico International Short Film Festival
- Monterrey International Film Festival
- Morelia International Film Festival
- Muestra Intergalactica Short Film Festival
- Shorts Mexico
Netherlands
- Go Short
- IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
- Rotterdam International Film Festival
New Zealand
- Show Me Shorts Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
Norway
- Grimstad Norwegian Short Film Festival – international shorts by invitation only
- Minimalen Short Film Festival
Poland
- Cracow International Documentary and Short Film Festival
- Short Waves Festival
- Wroclaw New Horizons Film Festival
Portugal
Russia
South Africa
Spain
- Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
- Gijon International Film Festival for Young People
- Huesca International Film Festival
- Mecal – Barcelona International Shorts and Animation Film Festival
- Sitges Film Festival
- Valladolid International Film Festival
Sweden
- Gothenberg International Film Festival
- Stockholm International Film Festival
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Switzerland
- Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur *Oscar qualifying
- Locarno Film Festival
Taiwan
UK
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival
- BFI London Film Festival
- Edinburgh Short Film Festival
- Encounters International Short Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
- Leeds International Film Festival
- London Short Film Festival
- Manchester Kino International Film Festival
- Norwich Film Festival
- Raindance Film Festival *Oscar qualifying
- The Smalls Film Festival
Ukraine
USA
- AFI Fest
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Aspen Shortsfest
- Athens International Film Festival
- Atlanta Film Festival
- Austin Film Festival
- Black Maria Film Festival
- Bumbershoot 1 Reel Film Festival
- Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Cinequest Film Festival
- Cleveland International Film Festival
- Florida Film Festival
- Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
- Hamptons International Film Festival
- Hawaii International Film Festival
- Heartland Film Festival
- Los Angeles Film Festival
- Los Angeles International Short Film Festival
- Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
- Las Vegas International Film Festival
- Mill Valley Film Festival
- Nashville Film Festival
- New Directors/New Films Festival
- New Orleans Film Festival
- New York Film Festival
- New York International Children’s Film Festival
- Palm Springs International Shortfest
- Philadelphia Film Festival
- Rhode Island International Film Festival
- San Diego Film Festival
- San Francisco International Film Festival
- Santa Barbara International Film Festival
- Seattle International Film Festival
- Slamdance Film Festival
- St. Louis International Film Festival
- Starz Denver International Film Festival
- Stony Brook Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- SXSW: South By Southwest Film Festival
- Telluride Film Festival
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Woodstock Film Festival
- World Arts Film Festival
The full list of Oscar-qualifying short film festivals can also be found here.
