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Some film festivals only screen films based on certain criteria, such as subject matter or genre or language or format. This type is for those kinds of criteria.
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| x Indie |
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Sundance Film Festival |
In the United States, an independent film, or indie film, is a film that is produced mostly outside of a major film studio. The term is also refers to art films which differ markedly from most mass marketed films. In addition to being produced by...
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| Raindance Film Festival | |||
| Telluride Film Festival | |||
| Ann Arbor Film Festival | |||
| Slamdance Film Festival | |||
| x Spanish Language |
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Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival |
Spanish or Castilian (español or castellano) is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the...
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| x Animation |
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Ottawa International Animation Festival |
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and...
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| Hiroshima International Animation Festival | |||
| Annecy International Animated Film Festival | |||
| Anima Mundi | |||
| KROK International Animated Films Festival | |||
| x Student |
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Ivy Film Festival |
The word student is etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb studēre, meaning "to direct one's zeal at"; hence a student could be described as "one who directs zeal at a subject". In its widest use,...
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| x Student Film | Fresh Film Festival | ||
| x South American cinema |
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Festival de Gramado |
Latin American cinema refers collectively to the film output and film industries of Latin America. Latin American film is both rich and diverse. But the main centers of production have been Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba.
Latin American cinema...
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| x Film noir |
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San Francisco Film Noir Festival |
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the...
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| x Documentary |
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Hot Docs |
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expressions that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originally referred to movies shot on film stock, it has subsequently expanded to...
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| Silverdocs | |||
| Stone Soup Film Festival | |||
| International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam | |||
| x LGBT |
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San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival |
LGBT (or GLBT) is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term “LGBT” is an adaptation of the initialism “LGB” which itself started replacing the phrase “gay community”...
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| Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival | |||
| Gay Film Nights | |||
| Houston gay and lesbian film festival | |||
| Lisbon Gay & Lesbian Film Festival | |||
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| x Horror |
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Terror Film Festival |
Horror fiction is a genre of fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle and horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human...
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| A Night of Horror International Film Festival | |||
| Screamfest Horror Film Festival | |||
| Toronto After Dark Film Festival | |||
| x Short film | SF Shorts |
Short film is a technical description originally coined in the Indian film industry and used in the North American film industry in the early period of cinema. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short subject. Either term is...
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| x Films from around the world | Green Mountain Film Festival | ||
| x Fantasy |
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Sitges Film Festival |
Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, the majority of fantasy works have been literature. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic...
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