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.

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Go Short — International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen

02—06.04.2025

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...

2025 Reading List

Digital Witnesses

Man Number 4 by Miranda Pennell

Review by Patrick Gamble

Blurred Lines

The Oasis I Deserve by Inès Sieulle

Review by Yan Guan Rosanna Suter

Affectionate Counter-Narratives
Elahe Esmaili on A Move

Interview with Elahe Esmaili by Savina Petkova

Bathroom Blues

looking she said I forget by Naomi Pacifique

Review by Savina Petkova

We Are Your Friends
Inès Sieulle on The Oasis I Deserve

Interview with Inès Sieulle by Jason Anderson

Beyond Black and White

Her Name is Ida by Oscar Bøe

Review by Klara Jovanov

Filmfest Dresden

Filmfest Dresden

08—13.04.2025

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...

2025 Reading List

Inside My Head

Genealogy of Violence by Mohamed Bourouissa

Review by Rafael Fonseca

Past the Guilt
Pavel Mozhar on Unwanted Kinship

Interview with Pavel Mozhar by Marcelina Leigh

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Lyrical Monsters
Yann Gonzalez on Hideous

Interview with Yann Gonzalez by Anas Sareen

Skirts Without Scots

Juck [Thrust] by Olivia Kasterbring, Julia Gumpert, Ulrika Bandeira

Review by Susanne Meisenberg

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Psilocybin Dreams

Shrooms by Jorge Jácome

Review by Zachary Seager

All Welcome?

Sorry I am late (but I brought a choir) by Håkon Anton Olavsen

Review by Khushi Jain

The Leash of Love

Sit. Play. Stay. by Cecilie Flyger Hansen

Review by Ilo Tuule Rajand

Coming up

Vienna Shorts

Vienna Shorts

27.05—01.06.2025

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...

Leiden Shorts

Leiden Shorts

30.05—03.06.2025

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

03—08.06.2025

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...

Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival

12—20.07.2025

Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival is one of Portugal’s most prestigious film festivals, reaching its 33rd edition in 2025. Assuming that the main objective is the promotion and diffusion of cinematographic and...

Lago Film Fest

Lago Film Fest

18—26.07.2025

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,...

DokuFest – International Documentary and Short Film Festival

01—09.08.2025

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,...

Concorto Film Festival

Concorto Film Festival

16—23.08.2025

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...

FeKK - Ljubljana International Short Film Festival

FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival

18—23.08.2025

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...

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF)

22—28.09.2025

Co-founded by Golden Bear-winning director Adina Pintilie in 2010, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (BIEFF) is an annual event dedicated to experimental films and visual arts. BIEFF aims to promote highly innovative films...

Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)

08—19.10.2025

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...

Uppsala Short Film Festival

Uppsala Short Film Festival

20—26.10.2025

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...

Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

04.11—09.11.2025

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...

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)

12—23.11.2025

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...

Leuven International Short Film Festival

Leuven International Short Film Festival

28.11—06.12.2025

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...

Past festivals

Tampere Film Festival

Tampere Film Festival

05—09.03.2025

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...

Festival REGARD — Saguenay International Short Film Festival

19—23.03.2025

There’s something incredibly satisfying to witnessing a perfectly formed line of around a hundred people in front of the town’s biggest theater that starts to grunt out of disappointment after they’ve been told the screening — a...

Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival

19—23.03.2025

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...

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

31.01—08.02.2025

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...

Minimalen Short Film Festival

21—26.01.2025

Minimalen Short Film Festival is an annual, independent short film event that features new productions from all over the world, as well as focus programmes and retrospectives. Based in the attractive old town of Trondheim, Norway, Minimalen...

London Short Film Festival

London Short Film Festival

17—26.01.2025

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...

Vilnius Short Film Festival

15—21.01.2025

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...

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...

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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