Independent Days | Internationale Filmfestspiele Karlsruhe

Independent Days Karlsruhe e. V.

Dr. Oliver Langewitz
Alter Schlachthof 17c
76131 Karlsruhe

+49.(0)721.9338005

info@independentdays.de

www.independentdays.de

Events

15.04.2026 - 19.04.2026

Festival Date

Independent Days Filmfest

Festivals

11mm Internatioal Football Film Festival
20minmax – International Short Film Festival
25 FPS – International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb (HR)
2Annas, Riga (LV)
99FIRE-FILMS-AWARD
abgedreht! Hamburgs junger Film
Abu Dhabi Film Festival (UAE)
accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival
achtung berlin new berlin film award
Aesthetica Short Film Competition
AFI Docs Documentary Film Festival
AFI FEST Los Angeles International Film Festival (USA)
Alcalá de Henares Film Festival “Alcine” (ES)
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick (UK/Scotland)
Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha (Qatar)
Alternative Film/Video, Beograd (Serbia)
aluCine Media Arts Festival, Toronto (CAN)
Amandusfestivalen, Lillehammer (N)
anim’est International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest (ROM)
Anima – Brussels Animation and Cartoon Festival (B)
Animafest Zagreb (HR)
Animasyros – The International Animation Festival + Agora
Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Ljubljana
Animatricks, Helsinki (FIN)
Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA)
Anonimul International Independent Festival, Sfantu (ROM)
ARCIPELAGO International Festival of Short Films and New Images
ART FILM FEST KOŠICE
ARTFILM International Film Festival, Trencin (SK)
$100 Film Festival, Calgary (CAN)
Aspen Shortsfest (USA)
Athens ANIMFEST
Athens Digital Arts Festival (GR)
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
AV Festival, Newcastle-Gateshead (UK)
b-side multi media Festival, Portland (UK)
b-side multi media Festival, Weymouth (UK)
B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes
Balkanima – European Animated Film Festival
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage
Beijing International Film Festival (CN)
Berlin Revolution Film Festival
Berwick-upon-Tweed Film & Media Arts Festival (UK)
Biberacher Filmfestspiele
Bielefelder Bilderbeben
BIF&ST Bari International Film Festival (I)
Birds Eye View Film Festival, London (UK)
Black Box at Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)
Blende Eins – Kurzfilmfest Wilhelmshaven
blicke filmfestival des ruhrgebiets
Bogotá Short Film Festival (COL)
Braunschweig International Filmfestival
Brazilian International Game Festival BIG, São Paulo (BR)
British Shorts Filmfestival
Brno Sixteen (CZ)
Brooklyn International Film Festival (USA)
Brooklyn Short Film Festival
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival BIFF, Brussels (B)
Brussels Short Film Festival
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Buddhist Film Festival, Singapore
BUFF – International Children and Youth Film Festival
Bundesfestival junger Film
Bunter Hund – Internationales Kurzfilmfestival München
Busan International Short Film Festival (South Korea)
Busho Vision-Budapest Short Fiction Film Festival (H)
Buster – International Children’s Filmfestival Copenhagen (DK)
Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival, Toronto (CAN)
Cabriolet Film Festival, Beirut (Lebanon)
Camerimage, Torun (PL)
Carrousel International du Film, Rimouski (CAN)
Castellinaria Festival Internazionale del Cinema Giovane, Bellinzona (CH)
cellu l’art Shortfilm Festival Jena
Certamen de cortos Ciudad de Soria-Castilla y León (ES)
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival (USA)
Chicago International Film Festival (USA)
Chicago Underground Film Festival (USA)
China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival, Changzhou (CN)
China International New Media Short Film Festival (CSFF)
Cinanima Espinho (P)
Cinefiesta, Caguas (Puerto Rico)
Cinefondation, Cannes (F)
CinéGlobe International Film Festival at CERN, Geneva (CH)
Cinekid – The Media Festival for the Youth Amsterdam
Cinema Arts Festival Houston (USA)
Cinéma du Réel, Paris (F)
Cinema Isola (SLO)
Cinemagic International Film Festival for Young People, Dublin (Northern Ireland)
Cinemalaya – Philippine Independent Film Festival, Manila (Philippines)
Cinemambiente – Environmental Film Festival, Torino (I)
CINEMARE Internationales Meeresfilmfestival Kiel
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose (USA)
Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF)
Concours de Courts, Toulouse (F)
Coney Island Short Film Festival, NY (USA)
Cork Film Festival (Ireland)
Corsos en femenino, Barcelona (ES)
Courtisane Video, Kortfilm en Nieuwe Media, Ghent (B)
Croatian One Minute Festival, Pozega (HR)
Croq’Anime – Le Rendez-vous du Film d’Animation de Paris (F)
crossing europe filmfestival, Linz (A)
Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington (USA)
Currents – Santa Fe International New Media Festival (USA)
Curta 8 – Brazil Super-8 Film Festival, Curitiba (BR)
Curta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Curtas Vila do Conde (P)
Dance on Camera Festival, New York (USA)
DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington (USA)
DepicT 90 Second Film Competition, Bristol (UK)
der neue HEIMAT film
Deutsches Kinder Medien Festival Goldener Spatz
Doclisboa, Lisboa (P)
DOCUMENTA MADRID (ES)
DOK Leipzig – Internationales Leipziger Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
DOK.fest München – Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München
dokKa – Dokumentarfestival
Donostia Zinemaldia Festival de San Sebastian – International Film Festival
doxs! Kino
dresdner schmalfilmtage
Dubai International Film Festival (UAE)
Dublin International Short Film and Music Film Festival (Ireland)
Duisburger Filmwoche
Durban International Film Festival (ZA)
durchgedreht 24 Braunschweiger Selbstfilmfest
E&U European Short Film Festival
Edimotion Festival für Filmschnitt und Montagekunst
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Edinburgh Short Film Festival
Edmonton International Film Festival
Encounters Film Fesitval, Bristol (UK)
Entrevues, Belfort (F)
Essener Video Rodeo – Kurzfilme aus dem Ruhrgebiet
EstDocs Short Film Competition, Toronto (CAN)
Euganea Film Festival, Padua (I)
Göttinger Kurzfilmfestival
European Film Festival dokumentART – films & future
European Independent Film Festival/ECU Film Festival, Paris (F)
European Media Art Festival EMAF
exground filmfest
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque (USA)
Fajr International Film Festival
Fantasporto – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto
Fantoche – Internationales Festival für Animationsfilm, Baden (CH)
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Schull (Ireland)
FEMINA – Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
FERFILM FESTIVAL
FEST – Festival Novos Cineastas | Novo Cinema
Festival Animator – International Animated Film Festival Poznan (PL)
Festival Brasileiro de Cinema Universitário, Rio de Janeiro & Niterói (BR)
Festival Chileno Internacional del Cortometraje, Santiago (CL)
Festival Courts d’un soir
Festival courts devant, Paris (F)
Festival de Cannes (F)
Festival de Cine Africano – FCAT
Festival de Cine Cinema Jove, Valencia (ES)
Festival de Cine de Huesca (ES)
Festival de Cinema de Avanca (P)
Festival de court-métrage, Bruxelles (B)
Festival de curta-metragem de Brasília “Curta Brasíla” (BR)
Festival de Luxor pour le Film African, Luxor City (EGY)
Festival des Cinemas Differents de Paris (F)
Festival des Films du Monde, Montréal (CAN)
Festival des Nouveaux Cinémas, Paris (F)
Festival des Très Courts, Paris (F)
Festival du Film Court de Brest (F)
Festival du film court Fenêtres Sur Courts, Dijon (F)
Festival du Film Court Lille (F)
Festival du Film Court, Pantin (F)
Festival du Film de Vendôme (F)
Festival du nouveau Cinéma, Montréal (CAN)
Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille (F)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena (ES)
Festival Internacional de Cine de Viña del Mar (Chile)
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes “Almería en corto” (ES)
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Cusco (Peru)
Festival Internacional de Curtametraxes – Curtocircuito, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
Festival Internacional de Curtas de Belo Horizonte (BR)
Festival Internacional de Curtas de Rio – Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (BR)
Festival Internacional de curtas-metragens de São Paulo (BR)
Festival Internacional del Cine de Gijón (ES)
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Habana (Cuba)
Festival international Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier (F)
Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Tétouan (Maroc)
Festival International du court-métrage, Clermont-Ferrand (F)
Festival International du film d’Amiens (F)
Festival International du film d’animation, Annecy (F)
Festival International du Film d’Animation, Genéve (CH)
Festival International du Film d’Aubagne (F)
Festival International du Film et de la Télévision Cinéma Tous Ècrans, Genf (CH)
Festival international du film independant de Bordeaux (F)
Festival international du film Nancy-Lorraine (F)
Festival International du Film sur l’Art Montréal (CAN)
Festival Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Margarita (VE)
Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes “Pizza, Birra y Cortos”, Santa Fe (ARG)
Festival of Animation Berlin
Festival of Underground Short Film and Video Antimatter, Victoria (CAN)
Festival Silhouette, Paris (F)
Festival slovenskega filma, PortoroÏ (Slovenia)
Festival Tours Courts Aix-en-Provence
Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence (F)
Festival ZINEBI, Bilbao (ES)
FID International Documentary Film Festival, Marseille (F)
Figari Film Fest
FIKE, Évora (P)
Film Fest Gent
FILMFEST DRESDEN – International Short Film Festival
Filmfest Düsseldorf
Filmfest Eberswalde – die Provinziale
FILMFEST MÜNCHEN & FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH
Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein
Filmfestival Alpinale, Nenzing (A)
FilmFestival Cottbus
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
Filmfestival Münster
Filmfestival SPITZiale
Filmfestival Türkei Deutschland
Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Filmmaker Festival Internazionale di Cinema, Milano (I)
Filmschau Baden-Württemberg
FILMZ – FESTIVAL DES DEUTSCHEN KINOS
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca (USA)
FiSH – Filmfestival Rostock
Flensburger Kurzfilmtage
Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival
FORESIGHT Film Festival
Formentera Film – International Festival of short films, documentaries and video art
Foyle Film Festival (Northern Ireland)
Französische Filmtage Tübingen | Stuttgart
Freaked Out Films Festival, Lublin (PL)
Fünf Seen Film Festival
Future Film Festival
Gässli FilmFestival
GEZiCi – Festival on wheels
Giffoni Film Festival, Salerno (I)
Glasgow Film Festival
Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, NL
goEast – Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films
Golden Tree International Documentary Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival
Grand off, Warszawa (PL)
Green Screen – Internationales Naturfilmfestival Eckernförde
Grenzland-Filmtage Selb
Grossmann Fantastic Film and Wine Festival, Ljutomer (SLO)
Guanajuato International Film Festival
Gulf Film Festival, Dubai (UAE)
GZ DOC International Documentary Film Festival, Guangzhou (China)
Hagener Kurzfilmfestival „Eat My Shorts“
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
Hammer Kurzfilmnächte
Hamptons Film Fest, New York (USA)
Harzmovienale
HBO Short Film Award American Black Film Festival, Los Angeles (USA)
Helsinki Short Film Festival (Kettupäivät), Helsinki (FIN)
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht (NL)
Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards (ifva)
Hong Kong Intenational Film Festival (CN)
Hors Pistes Kyoto (J)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (USA)
Husumer Filmtage
I Corti sul lettino – Cinema e Psicoanalisi, Naples (I)
IM KASTEN Kurzfilmfestival
Images Festival Toronto (CAN)
Imagine Science Film Festival, New York (USA)
imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival, Toronto (CAN)
Impakt Festival, Utrecht (NL)
IN THE PALACE – International Short Film Festival
IN THE PALACE – Students Edition
Independent Days | Internationale Filmfestspiele Karlsruhe
Independent Film Week, IFP New York (USA)
IndieCork (Ireland)
IndieCork Ò Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition (Ireland)
IndieJúnior Allianz – International Children’s and Youth Film Festival of Porto (P)
IndieLisboa (P)
Int. Documentary and Short Festival of Kerala (India)
Int. Documentary Film Festival “Hot Docs”, Toronto (CAN)
int. low & no budget Kurzfilmfestival „film-sharing“
Int. Short Film Festival “Capalbio Cinema” (I)
Int. Stockholm Filmfestival (S)
interfilm Berlin – internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin
International Animation Festival – HIROSHIMA
International Animation Festival ExpoToons, Buenos Aires (ARG)
International Children’s Film Festival Bangladesh, Dhaka
International Comic Video Festival, Pavia (I)
International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren (Kosova)
International Documentary Film Festival “Flahertiana”, Perm (RU)
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
International Documentary Filmfestival CPH:Dox, Copenhagen (DK)
International Female Film Festival, Malmö (S)
International Festival “Sarajevo Winter” (B&H)
International Festival of Animated Films AniFilm, Liberec (CZ)
International Festival of Animated Films, Visual Effects and Video-Games, Las Palmas (ES)
International Festival of Experimental Film and Video Art Windsor (CAN)
International Festival of Lifestyle, Szolnok (HR)
International Festival of Oceanian Documentary Films FIFO, Papeete (Tahiti)
International Film and Music Festival Mediawave, Györ (H)
International Film Festival “Molodist”, Kiev (Ukraine)
International Filmfestival Busan (Korea)
International KinoKabaret Berlin (D)
International KısaKes Short Film Festival
International Rotterdam Film Festival (NL)
International Short Film Festival “Vilnius Film Shorts” (LT)
International Short Film Festival Detmold
International Short Film Festival Flickerfest, Sydney (AUS)
International Short Film Festival in Drama (GR)
International Short Film Festival Zubroffka, Bialystok (PL)
International Short Film Festival, Limassol (Cyprus)
International Sydney Filmfestival (AUS)
International Young Audience Film Festival, Poznan (PL)
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin – Berlinale
Internationale Hofer Filmtage
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (CH)
Internationale Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche
International Cycling Film Festival
Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney
Internationales Filmfest Oldenburg
Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg
Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund | Köln
Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart
Internationales Trickfilmfestival Wiesbaden
Invideo – Mostra Internazionale di video d’arte e cinema oltre (I)
Ischia Film Festival
Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts (Egypt)
Istanbul International Short Film Festival (Turkey)
It’s All True International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo (BR)
Izmir Short Film Festival (Turkey)
Jaipur International Film Festival (India)
Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife (BR)
Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo (Japan)
JEDEN SVET – ONE WORLD Human Rights Documentary Film, Prag (CZ)
Jeonju International Film Festival (Korea)
Jerusalem Film Festival (IL)
JETZT ODER NIE Filmtage Friedrichshafen
Jihlava Int Documentary Film Festival East Silver (CZ)
Jung & Abgedreht
K3: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Villach (A)
KALIBER35 Munich International Short Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (CZ)
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
Kaunas International Film Festival (LT)
KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln
KIKK international digital festival, Namur (B)
Kinemastik Short Film Festival, St Julians (Malta)
Kino der Kunst, München (D)
Kinofest Lünen
KLAPPE AUF! Kurzfilmfestival
Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele
kontrast – Das Bayreuther Filmfest
Krakowski Festiwal Filmowy, Krakow (PL)
KROK International Animated Film Festival, MV “St. Petersburg” (Ukraine)
KUKI Young Short Film Festival Berlin
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg
Kurzfilmfest „KUNSTGRIFFROLLE“
KURZFILMTAG
Kurzfilmtage Thalmässing
Kurzfilmwanderung Leipzig
Kurzsuechtig – Das Mitteldeutsche Kurzfilmfestival
Kyiv International Short Film Festival
Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukraine)
Kyoto International Student Film&Video Festival (Japan)
L’Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona (ES)
L’Alternativa Professionals Call for Projects, Barcelona (ES)
LA CABINA – International Medium Length Film Festival
La Femme Film Festival, Los Angeles (USA)
La Guarimba International Film Festival (I)
La.Meko Filmfestival Landau
LagoFilmFest (I)
Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival, Toronto (CAN)
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Lausanne Underground & Music Festival LUFF (CH)
Le MIAFF – Animaze Montreal International Animation Film Festival (CAN)
Lenola Filmfestival “Inventa un Film” (I)
Leuven International Short Film Festival (B)
LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International
litfilms – Literatur Film Festival Münster
Locarno Film Festival
Loikka Dance Film Festival, Helsinki (FIN)
London Film Festival (UK)
London International Animation Festival (UK)
London Short Film Festival (UK)
Loop Fair, Barcelona (ES)
LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers
Lucca Film Festival (I)
Luksuz Film Festival, Krsko (SLO)
Macon Film Festival
MAGMA. Exposición Internacional de Cortometrajes, Acireale (I)
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival
Manhattan Short Global Film Festival, New York (USA)
Martovski Festival – Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival (Serbia)
Mecal – Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival
Media Forum – Moscow International Film Festival (RU)
Melbourne International Film Festival (AUS)
Message to Man, St. Petersburg (Rus)
Milano Film Festival (I)
Mill Valley Film Festival (USA)
Minimalen Kortfilmfestival Trondheim (N)

Events

15.04.2026 - 19.04.2026

Independent Days Filmfest

Festivals