Visit International Children’s Film Festivals this year!
Kidflix Global supports the active viewing and sharing of International Children’s Film Festivals. If you are traveling around the U.S., Canada, or abroad with your children, there are wonderful international film festivals for children. You can see great family and kids films, sometimes right in the country that birthed them. Below is a list of upcoming international children’s film festival events, courtesy of the European Children’s Film Association. Check the festival website first to see if a particular festival has already been cancelled, postponed, or is going online. Please note that the dates are presented in the order of day/month/year. For example, March 3, 2023 will be 3/3/2023.
The 2023 International Children’s Film Festivals
- 13/11/2023 – Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival, Oulu
- 12/11/2023 – Interfilm Short Film Festival: KuKi & Teen Screen – Short Films for Children and Young People, Berlin
- 11/11/2023 – Vienna International Children’s Film Festival, Wien/Vienna
- 08/11/2023 – Int. Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam IDFA, Amsterdam
- 02/11/2023 – Kineko International Children’s Film Festival Tokyo, Tokyo
- 25/10/2023 – Doxs! – Documentaries for Children and Young People / Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Moers
- 25/10/2023 – Filem’On – Brussels Children’s Film Festival, Brussels & Ghent
- 25/10/2023 – San Diego International Kids’ Film Festival, San Diego
- 23/10/2023 – Schlingel – International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Chemnitz
- 21/10/2023 – Molodist Film Festival: Postponed due to Russia’s War against Ukraine, Kyiv
- 05/10/2023 – Lucas – Int. Festival for Young Film Lovers, Frankfurt/M.
- 30/09/2023 – Dresdner Kinderfilmfest Kinolino, Dresden
- 28/09/2023 – Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik
- 05/09/2023 – Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden
- 02/09/2023 – TIFF Junior – Tromsø Children’s Film Festival, Tromsø
- 28/08/2023 – Odense International Film Festival, Odense
- 26/08/2023 – International Film Festival for Children and Youth Ojo de Pescado, Valparaíso
- 19/08/2023 – The Norwegian International Filmfestival / “Cinemagi”, Haugesund
- 11/08/2023 – Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- 08/08/2023 – La Matatena Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños, Ciudad de México
- 20/07/2023 – Giffoni Film Festival, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
- 17/07/2023 – Anibar Animation Festival, Peja
- 10/07/2023 – BIKY – Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival, Busan
- 30/06/2023 – Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- 22/06/2023 – Filmfest München – Kinderfilmfest, Munich
- 19/06/2023 – Fest – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho
- 16/06/2023 – Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- 07/06/2023 – Internationales Filmfest Emden Aurich Norderney, Emden Aurich Norderney
- 06/06/2023 – Int. Short Film Festival Hamburg; Children’s Film Festival “Mo & Friese”, Online, Hamburg
- 05/06/2023 – Animafest – World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
- 04/06/2023 – Goldener Spatz, Deutsches Kinder-Medien-Festival at Erfurt & Gera, Erfurt & Gera
- 01/06/2023 – Kinolub Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth, Krakow and other cities in Southern Poland
- 01/06/2023 – Zlín Film Festival, International Festival for Children and Youth, Zlín
- 25/05/2023 – International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), Section “Tricks for Kids” , Stuttgart
- 24/05/2023 – Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival for Kids and Youth / Kino w Trampkach, Warsaw
- 16/05/2023 – Festival International du Film de Cannes, Cannes
- 12/05/2023 – Cactus International Children’s & Youth Film Festival , Aosta
- 08/05/2023 – Corti a Ponte International Short Film festival – BY 3.20 section, Ponte San Nicolò (Padova)
- 03/05/2023 – International Documentary Film Festival Munich, DOK.education, München
- 27/04/2023 – IndieJunior, Lisboa
- 26/04/2023 – International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , Oberhausen
- 25/04/2023 – Kristiansand International Children’s Film Festival (KICFF), Kristiansand
- 18/04/2023 – Filmfest Dresden – International Festival for Animation and Short Films, Dresden
- 18/04/2023 – Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Cologne & Dortmund & online
- 17/04/2023 – Smile International Film Festival, New Delhi
- 28/03/2023 – Reel 2 Real – International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver, Canada
- 27/03/2023 – Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- 24/03/2023 – Festival de Cinéma d’Alès Itinerances, Alès
- 20/03/2023 – Cine-Jeune – Festival International de Cinéma, Braine, Saint Quentin & Department of Aisne
- 14/03/2023 – Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival (TICFF), Taipei
- 11/03/2023 – BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö
- 07/03/2023 – Cartoon Movie, Bordeaux, France
- 05/03/2023 – Freeze Frame – International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, Winnipeg MB R3B 1G7
- 03/03/2023 – New York International Children’s Film Festival, New York03/03/2023 – Your Cinema – International Competition Program for children and youth audience, as part of International Festival of Cinematograph Debuts “Spirit Of Fire”, Khanty-Mansiysk and other cities in the district of UGRA (Siberia)