Festival's Type:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festivals
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
Awards allocatedCountry:
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
- Anibar Animation Festival, Peja
- Anima – Brussels International Animation Film Festival, Brussels
- Animafest - World Festival of Animated Film, Zagreb
- Biennale of Animation Bratislava (BAB), Bratislava
- Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Copenhagen
- Cannes Cinema: Ecrans Juniors, Cannes
- Cartoon Club – International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics, Rimini
- Chania Film Festival Edu, Chania, Crete
- Children and Youth Film Festival Just Film, Tallinn
- Cinanima – International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Espinho
- Cinemagic - International Film & Television Festival for Children and Young People, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Corti a Ponte International Short Film festival – BY 3.20 section, Ponte San Nicolò (Padova)
- Docpoint / Dokkino, 21 cities all over Finland
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
- Espoo Ciné Junior Film Festival, Espoo
- Fantoche International Animation Film Festival, Baden
- Fest – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho
- Festival Augenblick, Strasbourg
- Festival de Cinéma d'Alès Itinerances, Alès
- Festival Internacional du Premier Film, Annonay
- Festival international de Cinéma du grain à démoudre, Gonfreville l'Orcher (Normandie)
- Festival International du Film de Cannes, Cannes
- Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- Filmfest Dresden - International Festival for Animation and Short Films, Dresden
- Filmfest Hamburg, Children's and Youth Film Festival "Michel", Hamburg
- Filmfest München - CineKindl, Munich
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films), Cottbus
- Filmkorte, Flensburg
- FIPADOC International Documentary Festival, Biarritz
- Free Zone Film Festival, Beograd, Nis, Novii Sad, Kragujevac
- Gijón Int. Film Festival, Gijón, Asturias
- IndieJunior, Lisboa
- Int. Short Film Festival Hamburg; Children's Film Festival "Mo & Friese", Hamburg
- Interfilm Short Film Festival: KuKi & Teen Screen - Short Films for Children and Young People, Berlin
- International Documentary Film Festival Munich, DOK.education, München
- International Festival of Animated Films (ITFS), Section "Tricks for Kids", Stuttgart
- International Filmfestival Berlin, Generation, Berlin
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
- Internationales Filmfest Emden Aurich Norderney, Emden Aurich Norderney
- Internationales Filmwochenende Würzburg, Würzburg
- Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Cologne & Dortmund & online
- Kinofest Lünen, Lünen
- Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids, Locarno
- London International Film Festival, London
- Luxembourg City Film Festival, Luxembourg
- Milano Film Fest, Milano
- Molodist Film Festival, Kyiv
- New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw
- Nordic Filmdays Luebeck/ Section Films for Children & Young People, Luebeck
- Odense International Film Festival, Odense
- Pula Film Festival, Children's and Youth Film Programms, Pula
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik
- Riga International Film Festival, Riga
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- Sevilla International Film Festival, Sevilla
- The Norwegian International Filmfestival / "Cinemagi", Haugesund
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- Unabhängiges FilmFest / Independent FilmFest, Osnabrück
- Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala
- Your Cinema - International Competition Program for children and youth audience, as part of International Festival of Cinematographic Debuts "Spirit Of Fire", Khanty-Mansiysk and other cities in the district of UGRA (Siberia)
- Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb
- Zurich Film Festival, Zürich, Switzerland
Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids
Locarno, Switzerland
06/08/2025 - 16/08/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): August 2026
Non-Competitive Children's Film Section
Deadline for film entries: 10/04/2025 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Features, Shorts, Animations, Documentaries
Festival's guests: Directors, Producers, Actors, Distributors, Others
Festival's recognition: international
Media coverage: international
Notes/description: The Locarno Kids Screenings section proposes works aimed at children, adolescents and families, with particular attention to films that stimulate reflection on oneself and on the world, and restorations aimed at rediscovering the history of cinema.
Contact:
Via Franchino Rusca 1
6600 Locarno
Switzerland
Phone: ++41 917562121
Internet: www.locarnofestival.ch