National Film Festivals
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description: Film festivals by nation and category. 74 listed, each linking to the festival's own official site.
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    item: Aesthetica Short Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: A BAFTA-qualifying short-film festival held across venues in the historic city of York, paired with an industry masterclass programme.
      founding date: 2011
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-11-04
      end date: 2026-11-08
      location: York, United Kingdom
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 2
    item: AFI Fest
      type: Organization
      description: The American Film Institute's festival in Hollywood, presenting international and awards-season premieres to Los Angeles audiences.
      founding date: 1987
      location: Los Angeles, California, United States
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 3
    item: Annecy International Animation Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: The world's foremost festival dedicated to animation, paired with the Mifa market for animation professionals.
      founding date: 1960
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-07-16
      end date: 2026-07-23
      location: Annecy, France
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 4
    item: Austin Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: A festival focused on the craft of screenwriting, pairing screenings with a well-known writers' conference.
      founding date: 1994
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2025-10-23
      end date: 2025-10-30
      location: Austin, Texas, United States
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 5
    item: Belfast Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: Northern Ireland's largest film festival, with a programme spanning Irish and international features, documentaries and archive events.
      founding date: 2000
      location: Belfast, United Kingdom
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 6
    item: Berlin International Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: Known as the Berlinale, one of the largest publicly attended festivals in the world, awarding the Golden Bear and pairing premieres with a large public audience.
      founding date: 1951
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2027-02-10
      end date: 2027-02-21
      location: Berlin, Germany
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 7
    item: BFI London Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: The United Kingdom's largest public film event, run by the British Film Institute across central London venues. Programmes features, documentaries, shorts and restored classics from around the world.
      founding date: 1957
      location: London, United Kingdom
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 8
    item: Busan International Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: The largest festival in Asia, a leading showcase for new Asian cinema with a substantial industry and project market.
      founding date: 1996
      location: Busan, South Korea
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 9
    item: Cairo International Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: The oldest accredited competitive feature festival in the Arab world and Africa, held annually in the Egyptian capital.
      founding date: 1976
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-11-11
      end date: 2026-11-20
      location: Cairo, Egypt
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 10
    item: Cannes Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: The most prominent festival on the international calendar, awarding the Palme d'Or. Largely invitation-led, with a parallel industry market (the Marche du Film).
      founding date: 1946
      location: Cannes, France
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 11
    item: Cartagena Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: The oldest film festival in Latin America, held in the Caribbean port city of Cartagena de Indias with a focus on Ibero-American film.
      founding date: 1960
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-04-14
      end date: 2026-04-19
      location: Cartagena, Colombia
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 12
    item: Chicago International Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: The oldest competitive film festival in North America, awarding the Gold Hugo for best feature.
      founding date: 1964
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-08-04
      end date: 2026-08-15
      location: Chicago, United States
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 13
    item: Cinéma du Réel
      type: Organization
      description: An international documentary festival based at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, focused on creative and observational non-fiction film.
      founding date: 1979
      location: Paris, France
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 14
    item: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: The most important short-film festival in the world, paired with a dedicated short-film market that draws programmers and buyers internationally.
      founding date: 1979
      location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 15
    item: Cork International Film Festival
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: Ireland's oldest film festival, presenting international features and a competitive short-film programme in the city of Cork.
      founding date: 1956
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-11-12
      end date: 2026-11-22
      location: Cork, Ireland
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 16
    item: CPH:DOX
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: Copenhagen's international documentary festival, one of the largest in the world, known for pairing feature documentaries with an industry and financing forum.
      founding date: 2003
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-03-11
      end date: 2026-03-22
      location: Copenhagen, Denmark
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 17
    item: DOC NYC
      type: Event
      type: Festival
      description: The largest documentary festival in the United States, held each November in Greenwich Village, New York.
      founding date: 2010
      event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
      start date: 2026-11-11
      end date: 2026-11-29
      location: New York City, United States
        type: Place
        address: PostalAddress
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    position: 18
    item: Dublin International Film Festival
      type: Organization
      description: Ireland's largest public film event, presenting Irish and international features, documentaries and retrospectives across Dublin cinemas.
      founding date: 2003
      location: Dublin, Ireland

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  address locality: Dublin
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item: Durban International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The largest film festival in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on African cinema and a market for filmmakers from the continent.
  founding date: 1979
  location: Durban, South Africa
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    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Durban
      address country: South Africa

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item: Edinburgh International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: One of the longest continuously running film festivals in the world, staged in the Scottish capital alongside the city's wider August festival season.
  founding date: 1947
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-08-13
  end date: 2026-08-19
  location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Edinburgh
      address country: United Kingdom

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position: 21
item: El Gouna Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A festival on Egypt's Red Sea coast that pairs Arab and international cinema with an industry platform for regional filmmakers.
  founding date: 2017
  location: El Gouna, Egypt
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    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: El Gouna
      address country: Egypt

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item: Encounters Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: A leading UK festival for short film and animation, and a qualifying event for the BAFTA and Academy Award short-film categories.
  founding date: 1995
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-09-23
  end date: 2026-09-27
  location: Bristol, United Kingdom
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    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Bristol
      address country: United Kingdom

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position: 23
item: Fantastic Fest
  type: Organization
  description: The largest genre film festival in the United States, focused on horror, fantasy, science-fiction and action cinema.
  founding date: 2005
  location: Austin, Texas, United States
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    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Austin, Texas
      address country: United States

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item: FESPACO
  type: Organization
  description: The largest African film festival, held every two years in Burkina Faso and long the most important gathering for cinema from across the continent.
  founding date: 1969
  location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Ouagadougou
      address country: Burkina Faso

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item: Galway Film Fleadh
  type: Organization
  description: A six-day festival in the west of Ireland known as a launchpad for new Irish film, paired with the Galway Film Fair industry market.
  founding date: 1989
  location: Galway, Ireland
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Galway
      address country: Ireland

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item: Glasgow Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: An audience-focused festival based at the Glasgow Film Theatre, known for its strand of special-event screenings staged in unusual locations around the city.
  founding date: 2005
  location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Glasgow
      address country: United Kingdom

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item: Golden Horse Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The festival attached to the Golden Horse Awards, among the most prestigious honours in Chinese-language cinema.
  founding date: 1962
  location: Taipei, Taiwan
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Taipei
      address country: Taiwan

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item: Göteborg Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The largest film festival in the Nordic countries, with a strong focus on new Scandinavian cinema alongside an international programme.
  founding date: 1979
  location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Gothenburg
      address country: Sweden

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item: Guadalajara International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The most important festival in Mexico and a key meeting point for Ibero-American cinema, combining screenings with a co-production market.
  founding date: 1986
  location: Guadalajara, Mexico
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Guadalajara
      address country: Mexico

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item: Hong Kong International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of Asia's oldest and most established festivals, a long-standing platform for Chinese-language and wider Asian cinema.
  founding date: 1977
  location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Hong Kong
      address country: Hong Kong

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position: 31
item: Hot Docs
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The largest documentary festival in North America, pairing a public programme with a market and pitch forum for non-fiction filmmakers.
  founding date: 1993
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-04-30
  end date: 2026-05-04
  location: Toronto, Canada
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Toronto
      address country: Canada

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position: 32
item: International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
  type: Organization
  description: The largest documentary festival in the world, known as IDFA, pairing a public programme with a major market and co-production forum for non-fiction film.
  founding date: 1988
  location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Amsterdam
      address country: Netherlands

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item: International Film Festival of India
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: One of the oldest and largest film festivals in Asia, a state-run event held annually in Goa with an international competition.
  founding date: 1952
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2025-11-20T00:00:00Z
  end date: 2025-11-30T23:59:59Z
  location: Goa, India
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Goa
      address country: India

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item: Jeonju International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A South Korean festival with a focus on independent, experimental and digital cinema, held each spring in the city of Jeonju.
  founding date: 2000
  location: Jeonju, South Korea
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Jeonju
      address country: South Korea

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item: Jerusalem Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The leading film festival in Israel, presenting international and Israeli cinema at the Jerusalem Cinematheque each summer.
  founding date: 1984
  location: Jerusalem, Israel
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Jerusalem
      address country: Israel

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item: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The leading festival in Central and Eastern Europe, an accredited competitive festival long known for championing films from the region.
  founding date: 1946
  location: Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Karlovy Vary
      address country: Czech Republic

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item: Kraków Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the oldest festivals in Europe dedicated to documentary, short and animated film, and a qualifying event for the Academy Awards.
  founding date: 1961
  location: Kraków, Poland
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Kraków
      address country: Poland

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position: 38
item: Leeds International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The largest film festival in England outside London, with strands spanning international cinema, genre film and a competitive short-film programme.
  founding date: 1987
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-11-15
  location: Leeds, United Kingdom
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Leeds
      address country: United Kingdom

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item: Locarno Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A festival known for adventurous programming and its open-air screenings in the Piazza Grande, awarding the Golden Leopard.
  founding date: 1946
  location: Locarno, Switzerland
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Locarno
      address country: Switzerland

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item: Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: India's leading film festival for world and independent cinema, organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image.
  founding date: 1997
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2023-10-27
  end date: 2023-11-05
  location: Mumbai, India
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Mumbai
      address country: India

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item: Mar del Plata International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The only accredited competitive feature festival in Latin America, held each spring in the Argentine coastal city of Mar del Plata.
  founding date: 1954
  location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Mar del Plata
      address country: Argentina

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item: Marrakech International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A high-profile international festival in Morocco, known for its tributes and for bringing world cinema to audiences in Marrakech.
  founding date: 2001
  location: Marrakech, Morocco
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Marrakech
      address country: Morocco

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position: 43
item: Melbourne International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the oldest film festivals in the southern hemisphere, with a broad international programme and a strong documentary strand.
  founding date: 1952
  location: Melbourne, Australia
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Melbourne
      address country: Australia

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item: Festival du nouveau cinéma
  type: Organization
  description: The oldest film festival in Canada, focused on independent, auteur and new-media cinema in Montreal.
  founding date: 1971
  location: Montreal, Canada
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Montreal
      address country: Canada

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item: Morelia International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: A leading showcase for new Mexican cinema, especially short film and documentary, held in the colonial city of Morelia.
  founding date: 2003
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-07-27
  end date: 2026-07-30
  location: Morelia, Mexico
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Morelia
      address country: Mexico

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position: 46
item: New York Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A highly selective, non-competitive festival run by Film at Lincoln Center, presenting a tightly curated main slate of international cinema.
  founding date: 1963
  location: New York City, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: New York City
      address country: United States

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position: 47
item: New Zealand International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: A touring festival that brings a curated international programme to cities and towns across New Zealand each winter.
  founding date: 1969
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-08-04
  location: Auckland, New Zealand
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Auckland
      address country: New Zealand

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item: Palm Springs International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A large audience festival known for its focus on international and foreign-language features and its high-profile awards gala.
  founding date: 1989
  location: Palm Springs, California, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Palm Springs, California
      address country: United States

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item: Raindance Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The United Kingdom's leading independent film festival, championing first-time and self-funded filmmakers alongside an established short film competition.
  founding date: 1992
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-06-16
  end date: 2026-06-25
  location: London, United Kingdom
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: London
      address country: United Kingdom

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position: 50
item: Red Sea International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A large, well-funded festival in the historic district of Jeddah, focused on cinema from the Arab world, Asia and Africa.
  founding date: 2021
  location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Jeddah
      address country: Saudi Arabia

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position: 51
item: International Film Festival Rotterdam
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: A festival focused on independent, experimental and first- and second-time filmmakers, with the Tiger Competition at its centre.
  founding date: 1972
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-06-11
  end date: 2026-07-09
  location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Rotterdam
      address country: Netherlands

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item: San Sebastián International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The leading festival in the Spanish-speaking world, awarding the Golden Shell and serving as an early stop in the autumn season.
  founding date: 1953
  location: San Sebastián, Spain
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: San Sebastián
      address country: Spain

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item: São Paulo International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the largest festivals in Latin America, known as the Mostra, presenting a broad international programme across São Paulo.
  founding date: 1977
  location: São Paulo, Brazil
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: São Paulo
      address country: Brazil

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position: 54
item: Sarajevo Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The leading festival in South-East Europe, founded during the siege of Sarajevo and now the main showcase for cinema from the region.
  founding date: 1995
  location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Sarajevo
      address country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

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position: 55
item: Shanghai International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The only accredited competitive feature festival in mainland China, awarding the Golden Goblet and drawing large public audiences.
  founding date: 1993
  location: Shanghai, China
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Shanghai
      address country: China

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position: 56
item: Sheffield DocFest
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: One of the leading documentary festivals in the world, combining screenings with a marketplace and an industry programme for non-fiction filmmakers.
  founding date: 1994
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2027-06-09
  end date: 2027-06-14
  location: Sheffield, United Kingdom
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Sheffield
      address country: United Kingdom

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position: 57
item: Seattle International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the largest and most heavily attended film festivals in the United States, screening several hundred films over more than three weeks.
  founding date: 1976
  location: Seattle, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Seattle
      address country: United States

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position: 58
item: Singapore International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The largest and longest-running film event in Singapore, with a focus on Southeast Asian and international independent cinema.
  founding date: 1987
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-11-01
  location: Singapore, Singapore
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Singapore
      address country: Singapore

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position: 59
item: Sitges Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The world's leading festival for fantasy and horror cinema, held in the Catalan coastal town of Sitges.
  founding date: 1968
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-10-08
  end date: 2026-10-18
  location: Sitges, Spain
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Sitges
      address country: Spain

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position: 60
item: Slamdance Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A festival by and for emerging filmmakers, founded as an alternative showcase for first features made on low budgets.
  founding date: 1995
  location: Los Angeles, California, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Los Angeles, California
      address country: United States

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position: 61
item: Sundance Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The largest independent film festival in the United States, run by the Sundance Institute and a long-standing launchpad for independent features and documentaries.
  founding date: 1978
  location: Park City, Utah, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Park City, Utah
      address country: United States

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position: 62
item: SXSW Film & TV Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The film and television strand of South by Southwest, known for genre premieres and a programme that sits alongside the music and technology conferences.
  founding date: 1994
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2027-03-15
  end date: 2027-03-21
  location: Austin, Texas, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Austin, Texas
      address country: United States

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position: 63
item: Sydney Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: One of the world's longest-running film festivals, presenting an official competition and a broad international programme across Sydney.
  founding date: 1954
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-08-07
  end date: 2026-08-09
  location: Sydney, Australia
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Sydney
      address country: Australia

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position: 64
item: Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The largest festival in Northern Europe and one of the few accredited competitive festivals in the Baltic region, known locally as PÖFF.
  founding date: 1997
  location: Tallinn, Estonia
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Tallinn
      address country: Estonia

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position: 65
item: Tampere Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the oldest and most respected short-film festivals in Europe, with an international competition held each March in Finland.
  founding date: 1970
  location: Tampere, Finland
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Tampere
      address country: Finland

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position: 66
item: Telluride Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: A small, highly curated festival that keeps its line-up secret until it opens, with a reputation for launching awards-season contenders.
  founding date: 1974
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-09-04
  end date: 2026-09-07
  location: Telluride, Colorado, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Telluride, Colorado
      address country: United States

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item: Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The most important film festival in Greece and the Balkans, presenting international and Greek features alongside a documentary festival in spring.
  founding date: 1960
  location: Thessaloniki, Greece
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Thessaloniki
      address country: Greece

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position: 68
item: Toronto International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the largest public festivals in the world, whose People's Choice Award is closely watched as an early awards-season signal.
  founding date: 1976
  location: Toronto, Canada
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Toronto
      address country: Canada

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position: 69
item: Tokyo International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: One of the largest festivals in Asia and accredited as a competitive festival, pairing international premieres with a focus on Japanese cinema.
  founding date: 1985
  location: Tokyo, Japan
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Tokyo
      address country: Japan

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position: 70
item: Transilvania International Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: The first international feature-film festival in Romania, known as TIFF, held each June in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca.
  founding date: 2002
  location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Cluj-Napoca
      address country: Romania

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position: 71
item: Tribeca Festival
  type: Organization
  description: Founded in Lower Manhattan after 11 September 2001, a festival pairing independent features and documentaries with talks and immersive work.
  founding date: 2002
  location: New York City, United States
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: New York City
      address country: United States

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position: 72
item: Venice Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: The oldest film festival in the world, part of the Venice Biennale, awarding the Golden Lion. A traditional launchpad for the autumn awards season.
  founding date: 1932
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-07-14
  end date: 2026-07-28
  location: Venice, Italy
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Venice
      address country: Italy

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position: 73
item: Vancouver International Film Festival
  type: Event
  type: Festival
  description: One of the largest festivals in North America by attendance, with a strong focus on Canadian film and East Asian cinema.
  founding date: 1982
  event attendance mode: https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode
  start date: 2026-10-01
  end date: 2026-10-11
  location: Vancouver, Canada
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Vancouver
      address country: Canada

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item: Zurich Film Festival
  type: Organization
  description: A relatively young but fast-growing festival that spotlights debut and second features alongside international awards-season premieres.
  founding date: 2005
  location: Zurich, Switzerland
    type: Place
    address: PostalAddress
      address locality: Zurich
      address country: Switzerland