International Festivals for Young Filmmakers
Festivals Sorted by Date
- 12.12.2025 - Children Cinema Awards, Amsterdam (Place of Award Ceremony 2022)
- 21.06.2025 - Fest – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho
- 06.06.2025 - Werkstatt der Jungen Filmszene / Workshop for the Young Film Scene, Wiesbaden-Naurod
- 03.06.2025 - Int. Short Film Festival Hamburg; Children's Film Festival "Mo & Friese", Hamburg
- 05.05.2025 - Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (KICFF), Kristiansand
- 29.04.2025 - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , Oberhausen
- 23.04.2025 - Sehsüchte – International Student Filmfestival of Konrad Wolff Film and Television University, Potsdam
- 09.04.2025 - Independent Days Karlsruhe, New Date: Oct. 21st to 25th 2020, Karlsruhe
- 14.02.2025 - Providence Children's Film Festival, Providence, Rhode Island - USA
- 28.01.2025 - Smile International Film Festival, New Delhi and other places in India
- 27.01.2025 - IndieJunior Allianz, Porto
- 14.12.2024 - Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under 18), Torino
- 30.11.2024 - Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos and Amaliada
- 22.11.2024 - Uelzener Filmtage, Niedersächsisches Schüler- und Jugendfilmfestival, Uelzen
- 19.11.2024 - Youki – International Youth Film Festival, Wels
- 13.11.2024 - Filmkorte, Flensburg
- 12.11.2024 - Enimation Festival, Maribor
- 08.11.2024 - Kidz Cinema, Mumbai and online
- 28.10.2024 - Zoomz – Festival für Kinder- und Jugendfilm, Luzern
- 24.10.2024 - NUFF - Nordic Youth Film Festival, Tromsø
- 17.10.2024 - Dubrovnik Film Festival – European Childrens Film Festival, Dubrovnik
- 16.10.2024 - Children's Film Academy: Cinemira – Budapest International Children’s Film Festival, Budapest
- 15.10.2024 - Monstrale, Halle/Saale
- 13.10.2024 - MICE - Mostra International Cinema Educatu, Valencia
- 01.10.2024 - Cinemagic - International Film & Television Festival for Children and Young People, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 29.09.2024 - Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil de Valencia, Valencia
- 18.09.2024 - REC-Filmfestival Berlin, Berlin
- 10.09.2024 - Four River Film Festival, Karlovac
- 23.08.2024 - San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, San Diego
- 15.08.2024 - International Filmworkshop "One Take" , Leba
- 18.07.2024 - Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics, Rimini
- 15.07.2024 - Anibar Animation Festival, Peja
- 08.07.2024 - BIKY – Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival, Busan
- 01.06.2024 - Kinolub Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth, Rzeszow and other cities in Southern Poland
- 31.05.2024 - FUSE – Film Under Sever Experiment, Karlovac
- 20.05.2024 - Corti a Ponte International Short Film festival – BY 3.20 section, Ponte San Nicolò (Padova)
- 08.05.2024 - FiSHground Baltic Area at FiSH Filmfestival im StadtHafen, Rostock
- 18.04.2024 - International Youth Film Festival “Plasencia Encorto”, Plasencia
- 15.04.2024 - Fresh Film Festival, Limerick City
- 09.04.2024 - Timeline Filmfestival, Carate Brianza
- 08.04.2024 - Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- 07.04.2024 - Reel 2 Real – International Film Festival for Youth, Vancouver, Canada
- 30.03.2024 - Leeds Young Film Festival , Leeds
- 10.03.2024 - Freeze Frame – International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, Winnipeg MB R3B 1G7
- 22.11.2023 - up-and-coming Int. Film Festival Hannover, Hannover
- 12.11.2023 - AniFest ROZAFA– International Film Festival for Children, for Teenagers and from Students, Shkoder
- 19.10.2023 - International Film Festival Kinotrip – By the Youth, for the Youth, Ljubljana
IndieJunior Allianz
Porto, Portugal
27.01.2025 - 02.02.2025 (dd.mm.yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): January/February 2026
Competitive Original Children's Film Festival
Director/s: Carlos Ramos, Miguel Valverde, Nuno Sena; contact person: Irina Carvalho Raimundo
Deadline for film entries: 14.09.2024 (dd.mm.yyyy)
Programs: Features, Shorts, Animations, Documentaries, Films made by children/young people, Workshop for children/young people
Number of spectators (app.): 5.000
Festival's recognition: national
Media coverage: national
Notes/description: The IndieJunior Allianz has been founded in 2017 in Porto/Portugal.
The festival's programme offers more than 50 films from around the world, aimed at children and adolescents, segmented into programs for families, schools and the general public.
Animation, fiction and documentary films are part of a carefully planned program, taking into account each target audience: +3 years, +6 years, +9 years, +12 years and +15 years. Concerning schools, programmes are segmented for Preschool, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles.
The programming is comprised of an international competition with short and feature films, a focus on the work of two filmmakers seen in perspective, a section devoted to great film classics about childhood/adolescence and a section called “My First Film.”
This festival is a member of 
Contact:
IndieJunior Allianz, c/o Casa do Cinema
Rua da Rosa nº 277, 2º ‚ Sala 1.4
1200-385 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: ++ 351 96 697 28 70
Internet: http://www.indiejunior.com