filmfestival list for film lovers

1. Sundance Film Festival
It is the most respected film festival when it comes to documentary. It is a must attend film festival for those who want to learn about documentary filmmaking and meet the best documentary filmmakers in the world. It is Mecca for documentary filmmakers as it provides great publicity and a great potential to sell their film.

2. Toronto International Film Festival
Though it is not dedicated to documentary films and has various categories but it is a great place to watch some best documentary films. Filmmakers flock to Toronto to get a good coverage and for critical acclaim which comes here quite naturally.

3.IDFA
It is a highly respected film festival for docs as most of the critics and filmmakers are present for socializing. Press is present in a big way and the environment is just great. It may not match when it comes to quality of films with Sundance or Toronto but it makes up in facilities and attention one gets.

4. SXSW Film Festival
Here one gets to see the documentary films of great variety and the access to the filmmakers and other industry persons is rather easy and the environment is also quite pleasant. Not much tension in the air. So one can relax and enjoy the movies and also get time for other activities.

5 AFI Silverdocs
It is rather a late entrant to the elite club but is now surely one of the best film festival in terms of arrangements and organization. It certainly has AFI Silver as an ace up its sleeve theatre where films are screened. It has lot of other act ivies going on which add to its charm

1. Cannes film festival
2. Venice film festival
3. Toronto International film festival
4. Berlin International film festival
5. Shanghai International film festival
6. Moscow International film festival
7. San Sebastian International film festival
8. Montreal World film festival
9. Cairo International film festival
10. Tokyo International film festival