Hof is among the most highly acclaimed German festivals with a long tradition. The most important element is the focus on German films, with numerous premieres being selectively scheduled for Hof. The festival program, but especially the laid-back atmosphere of the place, makes Hof a popular autumn destination for the German film and television industry.

The Holland Animation Film Festival is a biennial event that offers a unique selection of animated films for a diverse public. The intimate environment guarantees a great opportunity for the interested public, filmmakers, producers, distributors and special guests to meet. An important part of the festival is formed by the competition for short animated films, the competition for applied animation, and the competition for student films from the Netherlands and Belgium.

The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFFS) is a charitable, non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to the discovery and promotion of creativity in the art and culture of film.Through its year-round programmes, the mission of the Society is to strengthen global appreciation of Chinese film culture and to promote inspiring films from around the world, enriching the cultural life of Hong Kong.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary festival, conference and market. Each year, the Festival presents a selection of more than 150 cutting-edge documentaries from Canada and around the globe. Through its industry programs, Hot Docs also provides a full range of professional development, market and networking opportunities for documentary professionals. With its lively mix of public and professional events, Hot Docs is the ideal North American market and meeting place for the documentary industry. Last year, the festival attracted over 2000 delegates, including documentary filmmakers, buyers, programmers, distributors and commissioning editors from around the world.

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute strives to provide cultural opportunities, entertainment, and cinematic education to increasingly wider audiences through quality documentaries on a variety of topics and themes. It is also a goal of the HSDFI to provide a venue for new and established documentarians from across the nation and abroad| and to provide support for other community and cultural organizations through film programming and other educational outreach efforts.

The aim of the Huelva Iberoamerican Film Festival (Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva) is to promote and present films from the Iberoamerican region in order to contribute to the development of cinema in the region. The programme includes two competitve sections, for feature and short films; a documentary section, a section films aimed for children and youth, and others. The Colon de Oro Award for best feature film is endowed with Euro 60,000.

The Huesca International Film Festival, by means of its contests, aims to the dissemination of film culture. The main focus of the festival is the short film competition. Short films corresponding to Iberoamerican countries will go through to the Iberoamerican Contest and the award-winners quoted later on will then participate in the International Contest. The programme also includes the documentary film competiton.

The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (or her-aff as we like to call it) was founded in 2007 by Evelyn Tadros, Naziath Mantoo and a dedicated team of passionate her-aff-ers who had a vision to make human rights accessible, relevant and significant to the broader Australian community. In less than two years, HRAFF has grown into a nation wide Festival showing in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra.

Human Rights Film Festival (HRFF) is an annual film festival run by two prominent Croatian independent cultural organizations – Multimedia Institute and Culture Development Association „CDA“ (both organizations being publicly most visible for their respective venues: net.cultural club MaMa and club Mochvara).

In recognition of the power of film to educate and galvanize a broad constituency of concerned citizens, Human Rights Watch decided to create the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival has become a leading venue for distinguished fiction, documentary and animated films and videos with a distinctive human rights theme. Each year, the festival's programming committee screens more than 500 films and videos to create a program that represents a range of countries and issues.

The festival was founded in 1953 and from its foundation has been organised only in the regionals towns, never in the capital, which is unique in such centralised country as Hungary. The best independent films of the year are shown at this festival, selected by a pre-jury. The audience can meet the artist here, as well as the pre- and final jurors, since each program is followed by an open discussion of the film, allowing for an exchange of opinions and for criticism. Participation at all programs is free.

The purpose of the I Castelli Animati Festival is to reward and promote outstanding animated short films that are included in the festival programme. The competition is open to all animated short films with a maximum length of 40', using any kind of animation technique, as long as they follow the definition of animated products given by the Association International du Film d'Animation (ASIFA). Television series, advertisement shorts, animated logos and suchlike are excluded from the competition. Works that have already participated in other festivals can be accepted. Festival sections: International / Italian / Internet competition.

The first IIFF was held in 2005 and attracted more than 15 000 people. The festival is owned by the Icelandic cinemas and the main film distributors in Iceland. The festival programme includes a selection of international independent features, American independent features, international documentary films, and premieres.

DocuWeeks helped to qualify outstanding new feature and short documentaries for Academy Award consideration, by providing its participants with a seven-day commercial theatrical run in Los Angeles County and in the Borough of Manhattan. Starting this year the IDA Documentary Screening Series replaces DocuWeeks. The new screening series will bring some of the year’s best documentary films to IDA members as well as members of AMPAS and industry guilds with the goal of increasing voting participation in the documentary award categories. Each screening will include a Q&A with the filmmakers, which will be recorded and made available on documentary.org, on our YouTube channel, and through the filmmakers themselves.

With more than 100 films shown every year - most of them Austrian premieres - Identities has become Vienna's second largest international film event. The festival program offers an overview of queer productions on gay and lesbian subjects, and gender issues. The program is diverse mix of current feature films, documentaries and shorts complemented by a wide array of special sections about pressing current and historic issues and topics from a queer point of view but certainly with a general relevance to society.

IDFA is one of the leading documentary events in the world, offering filmmakers and producers an international platform for their new documentaries. Because so many of the most prominent TV buyers, festival programmers, distributors and sales agents are on hand in Amsterdam each year, the festival is a key launch pad for creative documentary films. Alongside the festival, two documentary markets take place during IDFA: Docs for Sale and the FORUM. Docs for Sale is the leading marketplace for creative documentaries, offering streaming video and network opportunities for buyers and sellers of quality documentaries. The FORUM is IDFA's international co-financing market for documentaries and Europe's largest gathering of commissioning editors, and independent documentary producers. The combination of the festival and the two markets brings together all the key players in the documentary industry, making IDFA the perfect networking opportunity and an event not to be missed.

The festival was founded in 2002 by the Irish Film Institute (IFI) and each year it presents a selection of international as well as Irish documentary films.

Over the course of two weeks, the festival offers documentary films and fiction from a number of Latin American countries. The programme also includes lectures, seminars and workshops in different venues in Malmö led by invited filmmakers and guests.

The festival takes place in Vevey every two years. It is dedicated to the promotion of young talents in the field of photography and cinema. The festival provides a meeting place for young filmmakers and presents student films, short films and first films. There are also retrospective programmes that focus on significant filmmakers and masterpieces.

Images of Black Women is an international film festival celebrating and promoting African Caribbean women on screen and behind the lens in order to increase the visibility of African Caribbean women in film; create and highlight opportunities to attract more Black women into film at all levels; showcase established, new and emerging film talent; unearth hidden cinematic treasures created by, or featuring, black women from across the globe.

The Imaginaria Film Festival accepts feature, short, animated and documentary films, music videos, videoart, student films, etc. Over 65 works are selected for the competition (in the 2005 edition, the festival received over 850 works from 30 countries). The duration should not exceed 90 minutes for features, 20 minutes for shorts and 60 minutes for documentary films. In order to be selected, entries should not have any distribution deal in Italy. Films that have been shown on any national / cable TV network will be excluded from selection.

The festival was founded in 1984 as the Weekend of Terror and over the years it has developed into a major event of its kind on the festival circuit. It screens films that fall under the category of fantasy, horror, anime, thriller, cult and science fiction. As a member of the EFFFF (European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation) it organized the 2004 Golden Méliès Gala, where the prize for the best feature and short European fantastic films of the year were awarded. The programme includes retrospectives and special screenings.

The festival sections include the following: 1 Competition of Indian feature films; 2 Out-of-competition section for films by directors from India and other countries related to India and the region of Southern Asia; 3 Retrospective programmes dedicated to old masters; 4 Short films; 5 Documentary films; 6 Tributes.

The imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival is an international festival that celebrates the latest works by Indigenous peoples on the forefront of innovation in film, video, radio, and new media. Each fall, the festival presents a selection of the most compelling and distinctive Indigenous works from around the globe. The festival's screenings, parties, panel discussions, and cultural events attract and connect filmmakers, media artists, programmers, buyers, and industry professionals. The works accepted reflect the diversity of the world's Indigenous nations and illustrate the vitality and excellence of our art and culture in contemporary media.

The festival is a showcase of film, video and new media projects that break new ground in the audiovisual field. Nearly all film forms and genres are included in the programme of the festival - short films and videos, experimental films, music videos, documentary montage, etc.