Festival's Type:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festivals
Film Festivals with section for Children’s / Young People’s Films
Country:
Original Children’s / Young People’s Film Festival
- "Zero Plus" International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Tyumen & Tobolsk Cities (Siberia)
- AniFest ROZAFA– International Film Festival for Children, for Teenagers and from Students, Shkoder
- Animateka International Animation Film Festival, Ljubljana * Maribor
- ANIMOK, Viborg International Animation Festival for Children and Youth, Viborg
- Athens International Children's Film Festival, Athens
- Belmont World Film: Family Film Festival, Cambridge, Belmont, and Arlington
- Bielefelder Kinder- und Jugendfilmfest, Bielefeld
- BIKY – Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival, Busan
- BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö
- Cactus International Children's & Youth Film Festival, Aosta
- Cartoon Movie, Bordeaux, France
- Castellinaria Festival del cinema giovane, Bellinzona
- Children Film Festival - Cine Junior, Val-de-Marne and Île-de-France
- Children Kinofest, 20 cities in Ukraine
- Children's Film Academy: Cinemira – Budapest International Children’s Film Festival, Budapest
- Children's Film Festival Seattle, Seattle
- China International Children's Film Festival, Guangzhou City
- Cine-Jeune – Festival International de Cinéma, Braine, Saint Quentin & Department of Aisne
- Cinedu – IFF For Children and Youth, Nove mesto nad Vahom and Bratislava
- Cinekid - International Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children and Young People, Amsterdam
- Doxs! - Documentaries for Children and Young People / Duisburger Filmwoche, Duisburg
- Dresdner Kinderfilmfest Kinolino, Dresden
- Dubrovnik Film Festival – European Childrens Film Festival, Dubrovnik
- Dytiatko - Int. Children's Media Festival, Kharkiv
- Festival du Cinema Jeune Public, Lausanne
- Festival Internacional de Cine Infantil de Valencia, Valencia
- Filem'On – Brussels Children's Film Festival, Brussels & Ghent
- Freeze Frame – International Film Festival for Kids of All Ages, Winnipeg MB R3B 1G7
- Galway Film Fleadh / Junior Film Fleadh, Galway
- GaztefilmFest, Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Giffoni Film Festival, Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
- Goldener Spatz, Deutsches Kinder-Medien-Festival at Erfurt & Gera, Erfurt & Gera
- IFI Family Festival, Dublin
- IndieJunior Allianz, Porto
- Int. Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam IDFA, Amsterdam
- International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Yerevan, Armenia
- International Film Festival for Children and Youth Ojo de Pescado, Valparaíso
- International Film Festival Kinotrip – By the Youth, for the Youth, Ljubljana
- International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!, Poznan
- JEF – Europees Jeugdfilmfestival Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Courtrai, Strombeek-bever
- Junges Filmfestival Köln Cinepaenz, Cologne
- JuniorFest - International Festival for Children and Youth, Plzen, Dobrany, Horsovsky Tyn, Prestice, Domazlice, Czech Republic
- Kidz Cinema, Mumbai and online
- KiKiFe Kinderkinofest Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwaebisch Gmuend
- KinderDocs – International Documentary Festival for Children and Young People, Athens and Thessaloniki
- KinderFilmFest Münster, Münster
- Kinderfilmtage im Ruhrgebiet; Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen
- KinderKinoFest Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf
- KINEKO International Film Festival, Tokyo
- Kinolub Int. Film Festival for Children and Youth, Rzeszow and other cities in Southern Poland
- Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (KICFF), Kristiansand
- La Matatena Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños, Ciudad de México
- Leeds Young Film Festival, Leeds
- Let's Dok Festival of Documentary Films for a Young Audience, Warsaw
- Lucas – Int. Festival for Young Film Lovers, Frankfurt/M.
- MICE - Mostra International Cinema Educatu Madrid, Madrid
- Mon Premier Festival, Paris
- Monstrale, Halle/Saale
- Montreal International Children's Film Festival (FIFEM), Montréal (Québec)
- My First Festival – El Meu Primer Festival, Barcelona and Madrid
- Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival, Johannesburg
- New York International Children's Film Festival, New York
- Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Pyrgos and Amaliada
- Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival, Oulu
- Piccolo Grande Cinema, Milano
- Plein la Bobine – Sancy Film Festival for Young People, Issoire & La Bourboule
- Prix Jeunesse International - Kinder- und Jugendfernsehfestival: Online this Year!, München
- Providence Children's Film Festival, Providence, Rhode Island - USA
- Salam – International Children and Youth Film Festival, Baku
- San Diego International Kids' Film Festival, San Diego
- Schlingel – International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Chemnitz
- SehPferdchen - Kinderfilmfest Hannover, Hannover & Burgdorf & Wunstorf
- Smile International Film Festival, New Delhi and other places in India
- Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under 18), Torino
- Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- Stuttgarter Kinderfilmtage, Stuttgart
- Taartrovers Film Festival, Groningen, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and others
- Taiwan International Children's Film Festival (TICFF), Taipei
- Taoba International Youth Film Festival, Tbilisi
- Tauron Young Horizons International Film Festival, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Pozna?, and almost 20 other towns and cities
- Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival (TAICFF), Tel Aviv
- TIFF Junior – Tromsø Children's Film Festival, Tromsø
- Uelzener Filmtage, Niedersächsisches Schüler- und Jugendfilmfestival, Uelzen
- Universal Kids Film Festival, Tuzla / Istanbul
- VAFI & RAFI – International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival, Varaždin and Rijeka
- Vienna International Children's Film Festival, Wien/Vienna
- Zlín Film Festival, International Festival for Children and Youth, Zlín
- Zoomz – Festival für Kinder- und Jugendfilm, Luzern
GaztefilmFest
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
20/11/2026 - 29/11/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual,
Competitive Original Children's Film Festival
Director/s: González, Helena / Conde, Ricardo del
Deadline for film entries: 27/02/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Programs: Shorts, Features, Animations, Films made by Young Filmmakers, Documentaries, Workshop for Young Filmmakers
Notes/description: The particularity of the festival´s program is to bring contemporary non-commercialy distributed films and short-films for children and youngsters.
The criteria for selecting those, will be the cinematographic quality, technic and stylistic eclecticism (animation, documentary, fiction) and subject diversity, highlighting the ones such as solidarity, empathy among nations and the different human rights´ related troubles, violence and migration that affect the whole world, including us.
This festival is a member of 
Contact:
GaztefilmFest – AUDIOVISUALES KALAKALAB SLL
Plazuela Aldabe #4
01012 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spain
Internet: www.gaztefilmfest.com