Non-Competitive
- Animafest Gdansk - International Animation Film Festival, Gdansk
- Belmont World Film: Family Film Festival, Cambridge, Belmont, and Arlington
- Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Copenhagen
- Discovery – Scotland's International Film Festival for Young Audiences, Dundee
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
- Espoo Ciné Junior Film Festival, Espoo
- Festival Internacional du Premier Film, Annonay
- Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- Filmfest Hamburg, Children's and Youth Film Festival "Michel", Hamburg
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films), Cottbus
- Galway Film Fleadh / Junior Film Fleadh, Galway
- Glasgow Youth Film Festival, Glasgow
- IFI Family Festival, Dublin
- International Film Festival Kinotrip – By the Youth, for the Youth, Ljubljana
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- KinderKinoFest Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf
- Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids, Locarno
- Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival, Johannesburg
- Riga International Film Festival, Riga
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- SehPferdchen - Kinderfilmfest Hannover, Hannover & Burgdorf & Wunstorf
- Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under 18), Torino
- Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- The Norwegian International Filmfestival / "Cinemagi", Haugesund
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- TIFF Junior – Tromsø Children's Film Festival, Tromsø
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- Universal Kids Film Festival, Tuzla / Istanbul
- Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb
- Zoomz – Festival für Kinder- und Jugendfilm, Luzern
- Zurich Film Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
Tauron Young Horizons International Film Festival
Warsaw, Wroclaw, Pozna?, and almost 20 other towns and cities, Poland
25/09/2026 - 04/10/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): September / October 2027
Competitive Original Children's Film Festival
Director/s: Tomkiel-Skowronska, Kamila and Sinicka, Agnieszka
Prizes: Main Competition Prize, Discoveries Competition Prize, Discoveries Competition Young Jury Prize, Documentary Competition Prize, Young Horizons Main Competition Award and ZAiKS Authors’ Association Award for best Polish Production, Audience Award, Award
Deadline for film entries: 25/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Animations, Features, Shorts, Documentaries
Festival's guests: Directors, Producers, Actors, Distributors
Festival's recognition: international
Media coverage: national
Special Events: Young Horizons Industry, international co-production forum and series of programmes and projects aimed at supporting and promoting film and series development for young audiences.
Notes/description: Young Horizons IFF is one of the most prominent and largest film events for young audiences in Poland, aimed at both the youngest viewers (ages three and up) as well as teenagers . The programme includes over a dozen different film sections with over 170 titles. There are three competitive sections: the Main Competition, the Film Discoveries Competition and the Documentary Competition. The main locations are Warsaw and Wroc?aw, while selected titles from the program are screened simultaneously in 18 other cities. The Festival also invites audiences to numerous accompanying events – discussions, meetings with filmmakers and creative workshops. The Festival programme is also accompanied by Young Horizons Industry co-production forum and MediaLab - an interactive space of new technologies, combining both entertainment and education. Shortly after the on-site edition, the majority of the programme is available during an online edition on the festival’s platform.
This festival is a member of 
Contact:
New Horizons Association
Ul. Zamenhofa 1
00-153 Warszawa
Poland
Phone: ++48 608 429 924
Fax: ++48 22-831 06 63
Internet: festiwal.mlodehoryzonty.pl/en/