Since the 1980s the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival annually presents about 230 short and feature length national and international documentary films as well as experimental and artistic works. Furthermore three intermedia sections complement the festivals unique profile: The exhibition Monitoring transfers film from the cinema to the context of an exhibition in presenting contemporary media installations in addition to the film screenings. Audiovisual live performances are presented in the DokfestLounge. The interdisciplinary conference interfiction offers lectures, presentations and workshop seminars. The festivals involvement in European networks and its funding by the MEDIA Programme underlines the European dimension of the event. This year, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival takes place from November 13 to 18, 2012.

The annual and competitive Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) is organised by Himal Association. By screening some of the most recent and exciting films about mountain people, sports, environment, cultures and societies from various corners of the world KIMFF seeks to celebrate the complexity and diversity of mountain life.

Kaunas International Film Festival presents worldwide-acclaimed films that reflect both modern tendencies in global film art and social issues relevant in the global context. The Festival invites all cineastes and film lovers to see the most interesting and noteworthy films created over the past few years and to discussions, lectures and meetings with film makers.

The festival is the most important animation event in the region.

Every year the Kendal Mountain Film Festival hosts an event that celebrates mountain and adventure filmmaking. The programme includes a showcase of classic features, screenings for fans of adventure sports (mountain bikers, climbers, kayakers and ski/boarders, etc.), a film competition that features approx. 250 films, and lectures, special events and debates.

Film shwocase Kino na Hranici intends to presene Czech and Slovak culture, especially the cienmatography, but also music.

Festival of African, Asian, Latin American and Eastern European cinema with friends. Isola cinema was conceived as a festival in the deepest sense of this word, a lively gathering of creators and visitors of the film art. There will be many interesting places in Izola: Open Air Cinema, Cinema camping site, Night beach with video projections on the beach, Merry Camera (video workshop).

The main goal of the festival is to show the audience a modern European film, the most interesting film directors with a special attention to young film creators.

The showcase is organized by cultural centre Stanica, the Spots project and cinema Biograf.

KINOTEATR.DOC project unites young generation of Russian filmmakers and presents cinema that truly expresses today’s life, opens new heroes and new topics. In our opinion, “new naturalism”, as critics sometimes call direction chosen by us, should return sight its objectivity and emotions their sincerity. KINOTEATR.DOC is one of the largest independent documentary and feature film festivals in Russia and the only one in Moscow. It is held annually in February. Festival includes three programs: Competition, International and Special. Program directors of KINOTEATR.DOC Film Festival are Alena Solntseva, film critic, and Boris Khlebnikov, director.

The Foundation for the Development of Jewish Culture in Poland established the international Festival: KOLNOA - Israeli Film Festival in 2009. The festival presents the best and the latest film production of Israeli cinema. Not all Israeli productions have typical Jewish content, therefore the festival would like to present to Warsaw audiences films cannot be presented at other Jewish film festivals; the festival will also screen acclaimed Israeli co-productions that are taking many awards and honors at major international festivals.

The Norwegian Short Film Festival was founded in 1978 and presents the latest Norwegian short films and documentary films. International short films are invited to compete for Grand Prix SF Norge (€2500) and European short films for Prix UIP Grimstad (€2000), nominee for the European Film Academy Short Film. The festival is an important arena for debuting young filmmakers in Norway, and considered one of the most important screening venues for independent short and documentary film among established filmmakers. In addition to the competition screenings, the festival program includes retrospectives, international documentaries, current experimental films and video productions, as well as various seminars and workshops for industry professionals.

The Krakow Film Market is organized by the Krakow Film Foundation along with the Krakow Film Festival. Its main goal is to promote documentary and short film, and to encourage contacts among film professionals. Documentary, short narrative and animated films can participate in the Market. The Krakow Film Festival is the one of the oldest European events dedicated to documentary and short films. The festival presents films from all over the world in three competitive sections as well as in numerous screenings: retrospectives, national presentation, student etudes.

The Festival aims to stand internationally as a filmmaker's festival - celebrating cinema as a place where filmmakers from the region and the world can exchange experience, and as centre of debate and a catalyst for new films.

From its humble beginnings as a children's film section at interfilm's International Short Film Festival Berlin in 2000, KUKI's growing success led to its eventual emancipation in 2008 when KUKI celebrated its first edition as a festival in its own right. Known for its exceptional programming the International Short Film Festival for Children and Youth Berlin is dedicated to presenting fabulous and unusual films that young people would otherwise rarely get a chance to see. The KUKI Festival comprises 3 competition programmes for children and 1 competition programme for youth, the tremendously popular and lively kindergarten screening for 4-6 year olds (with presenters and live-music), short documentaries, foreign language programmes (for ages 14+) in English, Spanish, and French as well as an Environmental Programme that highlights a different focus each year. After every screening the audience is encouraged to participate in open discussions and question and answer sessions with filmmakers.

L'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival looks for personal, original, experimental and narrative films reflecting the world we live in today. Every year the official section of the festival offers more than 60 international films. Selected films compete in four sections: Short, Feature, Animation and Documentary. Parallel Sections of the festival include retrospectives, tributes to forgotten filmmakers, thematic programmes, work from international film schools, etc. Parallel Activities offer workshops and round tables, and act as a meeting place where ideas can be exchanged, providing a space for filmmakers, spectators, critics and historians to share ideas and take part in debates on various film-related subjects.

Festival competition is open to all works of any length and genre: the local competition, reserved to those authors living or studying in the Abruzzo region, is addressed only to short films (max 20 min.). The main competition is open to all Italian and foreign works, short films, medium-length films and feature films.The festival presents short and feature films, Italian and international films; large space is given to documentaries and animation.

Established in 1972, the festival focuses exclusively on full-length fiction; retrospectives and special screenings are also part of the program.

The Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival introduces audience to 'fringe' films from the so-called 'marginal' cinema-producing areas such as Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe, perhaps because the Canary Archipelago itself is a 'fringe' region, though advantageously so. Geographically on the outer margin of Europe, and closer to Africa, though culturally and politically close to the heart of modern Europe, the Canary Islands have always had tight historical and emotional bonds with Latin America also and, over the last few decades, has built up a sizeable resident Asian population. The festival programme offers a number of sections devoted to short and experimental films, specific cinematic regions or specific filmmakers.

The festival presents a range of full-length and short films from South America.

The Latin American Film Festival aims to show recent films that give a kaleidoscopic view of the richness and diversity of the Latin American film. From magic-realism to the new Latin American and Mexican cinema to the Chilean film art. The festival accepts submissions by Latin American filmmakers and also filmmakers from other countries whose production has a Latin American (or related) theme. Feature films, short films and documentaries are welcome for the pre-selection.

The Giornate del Cinema Muto - Pordenone Silent Film Festival offers a wide array of classics, rediscoveries, restored films, tributes to old masters and retrospective programmes. Screenings are all accompanied by live piano, ensemble or orchestral music. The Collegium - centred on 12 young invited students - provides a unique and innovative experiment in film study. Master classes and exhibitions are also organized.

The Leeds International Film Festival features six major programme sections for which over 350 films from around the world are selected every year. The Official Selection highlights some of the best new films of the year, most of them screening as exclusive previews, and presents the Golden Owl Competition, which promotes talented international filmmakers that haven't received attention before in the UK. Other sections: Fanomenon - horror, sci-fi, fantasy, anime and action films; Cinema Versa - documentary filmmaking and the exploration of unconventional cinema; UK Film Week - UK (debut) features; Devotional Cinema - a selection of avant-garde and meditative films; Shoot - a selection of short films.

Established in 2006, the Lemesos International Documentary Film Festival is organized every August by the non-profit organization Brave New Culture and it is a festival dedicated in presenting contemporary creative documentaries in Cyprus. In addition, through the organization of workshops and lectures, it offers the possibility to local professional directors and producers to get acquainted with the latest trends and tendencies in the documentary genre and to get informed about the prospects of fund raising and promoting their own projects in the broader European spectrum.