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Festivals

There are thousands of short film festivals out there. Talking Shorts is lucky to be supported by several of the most relevant ones. Read more about them below.

Happening now

Leuven International Short Film Festival

Leuven International Short Film Festival

29.11—07.12.2024

Founded in 1995 as an excuse to showcase the founders' own student shorts, the now EFA-, BAFTA- & Oscar-qualifying festival hasn’t lost its initial goal, always putting young, emerging film talent front and center. Taking place around...

2024 Reading List

Memory in Textures
Recalling Experiences Through Surfaces and Matter

Essay by Eneos Çarka

Keep Filming
Palestinian Short Films Towards Liberation

Essay by Öykü Sofuoğlu

Blurred Lines

The Oasis I Deserve by Inès Sieulle

Review by Yan Guan Rosanna Suter

2nd Person}

Confessions Of A City Dweller

2nd Person by Rita Barbosa

Review by Nino Kovačić

A Christmas From Hell

Zima by Tomek Popakul, Kasumi Ozeki

Review by Ebba Yttermyr

Flowing Femininity

The One Who Knows by Eglė Davidavičė

Review by Grete Kaio, Liene Helēna Nugumanova, Kamilė Zinkevičiūtė

Emptied Away

The Veiled City by Natalie Cubides-Brady

Review by Jason Todd

A Kind of Testament}

You Are Being Watched

A Kind of Testament by Stephen Vuillemin

Review by Michiel Philippaerts

Ardent Other}

Republic on Fire

Ardent Other by Alice Brygo

Review by Zachary Seager

Coming up

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

14—24.11.2024

As a leading international documentary institute, IDFA stands firm in enhancing and improving the international documentary climate. Creative documentary films provide insight into society, open eyes, and stimulate critical thinking. IDFA...

Past festivals

Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

05.11—10.11.2024

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur proves that the most exciting festivals often occur in small towns—probably because not much else happens there year-round. But the festival, near Zurich airport, is not just a local celebrity. Year...

Uppsala Short Film Festival

Uppsala Short Film Festival

21—27.10.2024

The first snow of the year. The cinema of Ingmar Bergman’s childhood. Long conversations about films in the festival bar. And rather expensive beer (as everywhere in Sweden), which probably only guests coming from Switzerland and Norway...

Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)

09—20.10.2024

It's a chilly yet sunny October afternoon, and you are sitting in one of Montréal’s go-to places with Émilie (Poirier) and Dan (Karolewicz), the short film team of Festival du nouveau cinéma, who invited you to their favourite place to...

Drama International Short Film Festival

Drama International Short Film Festival (DISFF) is Greece’s leading short film festival, and the annual meeting place for filmmakers and industry professionals. Based in Drama, Greece the festival runs a six-day schedule in September and...

FeKK - Ljubljana International Short Film Festival

FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival

19—24.08.2024

There’s a certain charm exhuming from film festivals helmed by small teams. You can almost smell the love for the art form from miles away; cinephilia is truly at the core of why these people are running from A to B on a daily basis to...

Concorto Film Festival

Concorto Film Festival

17—24.08.2024

There are countless Italian film festivals, and though this is not scientifically proven, a vast majority of them probably will have you sit in white monobloc chairs. Those who’ve enjoyed visiting one such festival will know exactly what...

DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival

02—10.08.2024

DokuFest is the largest film festival in Kosovo. Recognised as one of the top film and music event in South East Europe, DokuFest is an EFA-nominating festival for short films, as well as a BAFTA-qualifying festival for shorts. In August,...

Lago Film Fest

Lago Film Fest

19—27.07.2024

When a festival advertises itself as a unique and out-of-time experience that you can only understand once you have lived it in person, such a claim may be met with skepticism at first. But my visit to the small village of Revine Lago,...

Leiden Shorts

Leiden Shorts

Leiden Shorts was established in 2009 as a new-born platform for short films and has since grown into one of the most important short film events in the Netherlands. We envision Leiden Shorts as an alternative creative space for national...

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

04—09.06.2024

Hardly any festival has such a legendary reputation as Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (which, by the way, is one of the reasons why the author of these lines has dedicated himself to the short cinematic form). From the lovingly designed festival...

Vienna Shorts

Vienna Shorts

28.05—02.06.2024

Do you adore strolling down the streets of a historical, beautiful, and cozy city? And what about dancing until late for six days in a row (you know, technically speaking, it is called “networking”)? If you fancy all that: welcome to...

Filmfest Dresden

Filmfest Dresden

16—21.04.2024

Dresden. Cradle of chocolate manufacturing, center of German animation and home of Filmfest Dresden, first held in 1989 (only a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall). If you drive across the Elbe towards Neustadt today, it's hard...

Go Short — International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

03—07.04.2024

The Netherlands is a haven for international film festivals. In addition to Rotterdam and Amsterdam, Go Short in Nijmegen—a small town in the east of the country just five kilometers from the German border—has made a name for itself as...

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

20—24.03.2024

Surely the main reason to have the motto “Let Glasgow Flourish” embroidered in the city’s crest must be the existence of its own homonymous short film festival. As the King in the North of the short film festivals of Scotland, Glasgow...

Tampere Film Festival

Tampere Film Festival

06.03.24—10.03.24

Tampere Film Festival is an international short film festival that gathers filmmakers, students and film lovers annually in March and is one of the three largest short film festivals in Europe, alongside Clermont-Ferrand (France) and...

London Short Film Festival

London Short Film Festival

19—28.01.2024

Big cities can be quite overwhelming. For one, it might be difficult to keep up with your social and cultural calendar since too many exciting events take place every day. If that city happens to be London with its almost nine million...

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

02—10.02.2024

The lines are long. Once you enter the Maison de la Culture on the Boulevard François Mitterand, you can already feel the buzz of an eclectic mix of festival-goers, filmmakers, and industry guests. If you’re looking to put up your...

Vilnius Short Film Festival

17—23.01.2024

There’s hardly a festival I have better memories of, although the conditions seemed less than ideal: the middle of January, the icy wind whistling through the city’s pretty alleys, while everyone tried to organise their year after the...

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art

Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art

14—17.12.2023

Wiz-Art is an annual International Short Film Festival, taking place in Lviv, Ukraine. The festival, which was founded in 2008 by the art collective Wiz-Art, shows more than 150 brand new short films every year. Wiz-Art is a powerful...

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