German Films: Selected International Film Festivals

achtung berlin - new berlin film award from 20 April 2022 till 27 April 2022
AFI Docs Film Festival, Silver Spring from 21 June 2021 till 27 June 2021
AFI Fest, Los Angeles from 10 November 2021 till 14 November 2021
AFM - American Film Market !!! transformed in online-edition !!!
Annecy International Animation Film Festival from 13 June 2022 till 18 June 2022
Around the World in 14 Films from 02 December 2021 till 11 December 2021
Aspen Shortsfest from 05 April 2022 till 10 April 2022
Baden-Baden Festival of TV Films from 20 November 2021 till 26 November 2021
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage from 23 January 2023 till 12 February 2023
Banff World Media Festival !!! CANCELLED FOR 2020 !!!
Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) from 16 February 2023 till 26 February 2023
BFI London Film Festival Hybrid
Biberach Film Festival from 01 November 2022 till 06 November 2022
Braunschweig Film Festival from 07 November 2022 till 13 November 2022
Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) from 17 March 2021 till 28 March 2021
Bundesfestival junger Film from 02 June 2022 till 05 June 2022
Busan International Film Festival from 06 October 2021 till 15 October 2021
Cairo International Film Festival from 20 November 2019 till 29 November 2019
Cambridge Film Festival from 20 October 2022 till 27 October 2022
Cannes Film Festival from 06 July 2021 till 17 July 2021
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival from 13 November 2020 till 22 November 2020
Chicago International Film Festival from 12 October 2022 till 23 October 2022
CineLatino from 06 April 2022 till 13 April 2022
Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival, Paris from 13 March 2020 till 22 March 2020
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival from 27 January 2023 till 04 February 2023
Cleveland International Film Festival from 30 March 2022 till 9 April 2022 (in-person), from 10 April 2022 till 17 April 2022 (online)
Cork Film Festival from 10 November 2022 till 20 November 2022
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen from 18 March 2020 till 05 April 2020
Creteil Women's International Film Festival !!! CANCELLED FOR 2020 !!!
Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival from 09 July 2022 till 16 July 2022
DocAviv – Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival !!! POSTPONED TO 3-12 SEPTEMBER !!!
Doclisboa International Film Festival, Lisbon from 17 October 2020 till 27 October 2020
DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film from 17 October 2022 till 23 October 2022
DOK.fest - Munich International Documentary Film Festival from 04 May 2022 till 15 May 2022
dokumentART films & future - European Film Festival from 22 November 2021 till 27 November 2021
Duisburg Documentary Film Festival from 07 November 2022 till 13 November 2022
Durban International Film Festival postponed & transformed (online), new dates: 10–20 September 2020
Edimotion - Festival für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst from 14 October 2022 till 17 October 2022
Edinburgh International Film Festival Hybrid
Emden/Norderney International Film Festival from 08 June 2022 till 15 June 2022
Encounters Film Festival Bristol from 27 September 2022 till 02 October 2022
EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Toruń from 14 November 2020 till 21 November 2020
European Film Festival Palic !!! postponed to August 2020 !!!
exground filmfest from 11 November 2022 till 20 November 2022
Fantasy Film Festival, Berlin/Hamburg/Cologne/Frankfurt/Nuremberg/Munich/Stuttgart from 07 September 2022 till 28 September 2022
Festival dei Popoli, Firenze from 15 November 2020 till 22 November 2020
Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen from 24 August 2022 till 11 August 2022
Festival Premiers Plans / The European First Films Festival, Angers from 22 January 2021 till 31 January 2021
Film Festival Cologne from 20 October 2022 till 27 October 2022
FILMART - Hong Kong International Film & TV Market from 27 August 2020 till 29 August 2020
Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival from 05 April 2022 till 10 April 2022
Filmfest München - Munich International Film Festival from 23 June 2022 till 02 July 2022
FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema from 08 November 2022 till 13 November 2022
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Prize from 16 January 2022 till 23 January 2022
Filmfestival Turkey/Germany from 11 March 2022 till 20 March 2022
FILMKUNSTFEST Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 30 August - 4 September 2022 (postponed from 3-8 May)
Filmschoolfest Munich from 13 November 2022 till 19 November 2022
FILMZ - Festival des deutschen Kinos Mainz from 03 November 2022 till 13 November 2022
FIPADOC International Documentary Festival from 18 January 2021 till 24 January 2021
Five Lakes Film Festival - International Festival of Central-European Films from 24 August 2022 till 04 September 2022
Freiburg Film Forum - Festival of Transcultural Cinema from 06 May 2021 till 16 June 2021
French Film Festival Tübingen/Stuttgart from 02 November 2022 till 09 November 2022
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham !!! CANCELLED FOR 2020 !!!
Geneva International Film Festival from 01 November 2019 till 10 November 2019
Gent Film Fest from 12 October 2021 till 23 December 2021
Giffoni Film Festival !!! postponed & partly transformed (online) !!!
Gijon International Film Festival Online
goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden from 19 April 2022 till 25 April 2022
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival from 01 November 2020 till 08 November 2020
Golden Sparrow - German Children's Film and Media Festival (Cinema, TV, Online), Gera/Erfurt from 29 May 2022 till 04 June 2022
Göteborg Film Festival from 28 January 2022 till 06 February 2022
Grenzland Filmtage Selb from 21 April 2022 till 24 April 2022
Guadalajara International Film Festival !!! POSTPONED !!!
Guanajuato International Film Festival from 22 July 2022 till 31 July 2022
Haifa International Film Festival from 03 October 2020 till 12 October 2020
Hamburg International Film Festival from 29 September 2022 till 08 October 2022
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival from 18 October 2022 till 23 October 2022
Hamburg International Short Film Festival from 31 May 2022 till 06 June 2022
Hamptons International Film Festival from 07 October 2021 till 13 October 2021
Hanover up-and-coming Film Festival - International Competition for Young Film Video & Multimedia Artists from 22 November 2021 till 28 November 2021
Haugesund - The Norwegian International Film Festival from 21 August 2020 till 27 August 2020
Havana International Festival of New Latin American Cinema from 06 December 2018 till 16 December 2018
Heartland International Film Festival from 07 October 2021 till 17 October 2021
Hiroshima Animation Season from 17 August 2022 till 21 August 2022
Hof International Film Festival from 25 October 2022 till 30 October 2022
Hong Kong International Film Festival Hybrid
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto from 28 April 2022 till 08 May 2022
Huesca Film Festival from 10 June 2022 till 18 June 2022
IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam from 18 November 2020 till 29 November 2020
IFFMH - International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg from 17 November 2022 till 27 November 2022
Independent Days - International Film Festival Karlsruhe from 19 April 2023 till 23 April 2023
IndieLisboa - International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon from 25 August 2020 till 05 September 2020
interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festival from 15 November 2022 till 20 November 2022
International Film Festival & Awards Macao from 03 December 2020 till 08 December 2020
International Film Festival of Asian Pacific Countries “Pacific Meridian”, Vladivostok from 12 September 2020 till 18 September 2020
International Film Festival of India, Goa from 20 November 2019 till 28 November 2019
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen from 30 April 2022 till 09 May 2022
International Women* Film Festival Dortmund + Cologne from 29 March 2022 till 03 April 2022
Istanbul International Film Festival from 08 April 2022 till 19 March 2022
It’s All True – International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo from 26 March 2020 till 05 April 2020
Jerusalem International Film Festival !!! CANCELLED The plan to postpone the festival to the end of August has been canceled following a surge of COVID-19 cases in Israel. The festival might hold a winter edition, if the health situation permitted !!!
Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg from 14 June 2022 till 19 June 2022
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival from 27 October 2020 till 01 November 2020
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival from 20 August 2021 till 28 August 2021
Kassel Documentary and Video Film Festival from 15 November 2022 till 20 November 2022
Kerala International Film Festival from 10 December 2021 till 17 December 2021
KFFK - Short Film Festival Cologne from 15 November 2022 till 20 November 2022
Kolkata International Film Festival from 07 January 2022 till 14 January 2022
Krakow Film Festival from 31 May 2020 till 07 June 2020
Kyiv International Film Festival - Molodist from 28 May 2022 till 05 June 2022
La Rochelle International Film Festival from 28 June 2019 till 07 July 2019
Landshut Short Film Festival from 27 April 2022 till 08 May 2022
LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International from 10 May 2022 till 15 May 2022
Locarno Film Festival from 04 August 2021 till 14 August 2021
LUCAS - Frankfurt International Festival for Young Filmlovers from 06 October 2022 till 13 October 2022
Lünen Film Festival from 23 November 2022 till 27 November 2022
Mar del Plata International Film Festival from 18 November 2021 till 28 November 2021
Marrakech International Film Festival from 30 November 2018 till 08 December 2018
Marseille International Film Festival from 19 June 2021 till 25 June 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival from 04 August 2022 till 21 August 2022
Miami International Film Festival from 03 March 2022 till 13 March 2022
Mill Valley Film Festival from 07 October 2021 till 17 October 2021
Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw from 08 May 2020 till 17 May 2020
Minsk International Film Festival Listapad from 02 November 2018 till 09 November 2018
MIP-TV, Cannes !!! CANCELLED FOR 2020 !!!
MIPCOM, Cannes from 12 October 2020 till 15 October 2020
Monte Carlo Television Festival from 19 June 2020 till 23 June 2020
Montreal Festival of New Cinema from 07 October 2020 till 18 October 2020
Montreal World Film Festival no festival edition since 2018
Moscow International Film Festival from 22 April 2021 till 29 April 2021
Münster Film Festival from 16 September 2021 till 26 September 2021
NATPE - National Association of Television Program Executives (TV Fair), Las Vegas from 30 June 2020 till 03 July 2020
NaturVision Filmfestival from 21 July 2022 till 24 July 2022
Neiße Film Festival from 17 May 2022 till 22 May 2022
New York Film Festival (film @ Lincoln Center) (Hybrid event)
New York New Directors/New Films from 28 April 2021 till 08 May 2021
Nordic Film Days Lübeck from 02 November 2022 till 06 November 2022
Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival from 29 September 2021 till 06 October 2021
Nyon International Documentary Film Festival - Visions du Reel - Online
Odesa International Film Festival from 14 August 2021 till 21 August 2021
Oldenburg International Film Festival from 14 September 2022 till 18 September 2022
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt from 11 August 2022 till 15 August 2022
Osnabrück European Media Art Festival from 20 April 2022 till 24 April 2022
Osnabrück Independent Film Festival from 16 October 2022 till 20 October 2022
Palm Springs International Film Festival CANCELLED - Based on the current rise of COVID cases, the Palm Springs International Film Society has announced that the Film Festival will not take place.
Palm Springs International ShortFest from 21 June 2022 till 27 June 2022
Philadelphia Film Festival from 02 October 2021 till 31 October 2021
Porto International Film Festival (Fantasporto) from 25 February 2020 till 08 March 2020
Prix Europa from 10 October 2021 till 15 October 2021
Queerscope - Independent German Queer Film Festivals throughout the year
Raindance Film Festival London from 27 October 2021 till 06 November 2021
Regensburg International Short Film Week from 18 March 2022 till 27 March 2022
Reykjavik International Film Festival from 30 September 2021 till 10 October 2021
RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival from 14 November 2019 till 24 November 2019
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival from 01 November 2018 till 11 November 2018
Rome Film Fest from 14 October 2021 till 24 October 2021
Rotterdam International Film Festival from 02 June 2021 till 06 June 2021
San Francisco International Film Festival Hybrid
San Sebastian International Film Festival from 15 September 2021 till 25 September 2021
Santa Barbara International Film Festival from 02 March 2022 till 22 March 2022
Sao Paulo International Film Festival from 21 October 2021 till 03 November 2021
Sarajevo Film Festival from 13 August 2021 till 20 August 2021
Schlingel - International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience from 08 October 2022 till 15 October 2022
Seattle International Film Festival (Virtual) Hybrid
sehsüchte - International Student Film Festival from 20 April 2022 till 24 April 2022
Séries Mania !!! CANCELLED FOR 2020 !!!
Sevilla International Film Festival from 06 November 2020 till 14 November 2020
Shanghai International Film Festival from 11 June 2021 till 20 June 2021
Shanghai Television Festival from 10 June 2019 till 14 June 2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest from 23 June 2022 till 28 June 2022
Shorts at Moonlight Frankfurt-Rhine-Main-Region July/August 2021
Silbersalz Science & Media Festival from 15 September 2021 till 19 September 2021
Sitges International Film Festival from 04 October 2018 till 14 October 2018
Slamdance International Film Festival, Park City Virtual
Sofia International Film Festival from 10 March 2022 till 31 March 2022
SoundTrack_Cologne from 08 June 2022 till 11 June 2022
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, Austin Hybrid
Stockholm International Film Festival from 10 November 2021 till 21 November 2021
Stuttgart Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media January 2023 (dates to be confirmed)
Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film from 03 May 2022 till 08 May 2022
Sundance Film Festival, Park City Virtual
SWR Doku Festival - German Documentary Award from 21 June 2022 till 24 June 2022
Sydney International Film Festival postponed: 18 – 29 August 2021, postponed 3 – 14 November 2021
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival from 08 November 2019 till 24 November 2019
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival from 12 November 2021 till 28 November 2021
Tampere Film Festival from 09 March 2022 till 13 March 2022
Telluride Film Festival from 02 September 2021 till 06 September 2021
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online)
Thessaloniki International Film Festival from 04 November 2021 till 13 November 2021
Tokyo International Film Festival from 30 October 2021 till 08 November 2021
Torino Film Festival from 26 November 2021 till 04 December 2021
Toronto International Film Festival from 08 September 2022 till 18 September 2022
Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca from 17 June 2022 till 26 June 2022
Transit Filmfest !!! 2020 edition: festival screenings and discussion from 19-22 November, retrospective screenings from 7 October - 18 November, complemented with online screenings and discussions !!!
Tribeca Film Festival, New York Hybrid
Uppsala International Short Film Festival from 25 October 2021 till 31 October 2021
Valladolid International Film Festival from 29 October 2019 till 26 October 2019
Vancouver International Film Festival from 01 October 2021 till 11 October 2021
Venice International Film Festival from 01 September 2021 till 11 September 2021
Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival from 22 October 2020 till 04 November 2020
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival from 03 March 2021 till 14 March 2021
Warsaw International Film Festival from 08 October 2021 till 17 October 2021
Winterthur International Short Film Festival from 08 November 2022 till 13 November 2022
XPOSED International Queer Film Festival from 26 May 2022 till 29 May 2022
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival every two years
ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival from 03 November 2022 till 06 November 2022
ZINEBI - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival from 11 November 2022 till 18 November 2022
ZLIN - International Film Festival for Children and Youth from 04 September 2020 till 10 September 2020
Zurich Film Festival from 23 September 2021 till 03 October 2021