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Melbourne Int’l Film Festival
Tweet Where: Melbourne, Australia When: July 31-August 17 What: “Established in 1952, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is one of the oldest film festivals in the world and the most...
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Muvi Lisboa
Tweet Where: Lisbon, Portugal When: September 3-7 What: A brand-new music film fest in Portugal’s capital, brought to you by people who got “tired of seeing the film production around music insert[ed]...
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Jecheon Int’l Music & Film Festival
Tweet Where: Jecheon, South Korea When: August 14-19 What: 10th edition of Korea’s only music film festival and the biggest music-themed film fest in Asia. Jecheon annually shows several dozen music...
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Sensoria
Tweet Where: Sheffield, England When: September 27-October 4 What: Taking inspiration from its host city’s technical and musical heritage (it’s named for a Cabaret Voltaire track), Sensoria combines...
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Dokufest
Tweet Where: Prizren, Kosovo When: August 16-24 What: Kosovo’s biggest film event spotlights nonfiction and short films, screening some 200 of them in cinemas and pop-up venues over nine days and...
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Portobello Film Festival
Tweet Where: London When: August 28-September 14 What: Super-indie festival hailed by The Independent as outdoing Cannes as “the place for cinematic schmooze,” celebrating 19 years with a broad array...
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Doc’n Roll
Tweet Where: London When: September 25-28 What: London’s first film festival devoted to music documentaries promises a dozen-odd new and vintage docs at the Hackney Picturehouse in East London. The...
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Alta Fidelidad
Tweet Where: Bogota, Colombia When: August 19-24 What: Colombia’s first festival dedicated to music film marks its second year with an incredibly broad lineup featuring 60-plus music documentaries...
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Beefeater In-Edit
Tweet Where: Barcelona, Spain When: October 23-November 2 What: That’s Barcelona, Spain for now, but the Catalan capital takes a break from separatist referendum politics for its annual massive...
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Milwaukee Film Festival
Tweet Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin When: September 25-October 9 What: The sixth iteration of this growing film fest in the City of Cheeseheads brings back dedicated music documentary category Sound...
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BFI London Film Festival
Tweet Where: London, England When: October 8-19 What: The British Film Institute’s big event does the music film thing in a dedicated section called Sonic that typically mixes narrative and nonfiction...
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CBGB Music & Film Festival
Tweet Where: New York When: October 8-12 What: You know what CBGB is (or was), and adding “festival” to the name of the world’s most famous punk club should make the whole thing pretty...
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POP Montreal
Tweet Where: Montreal, Canada When: September 17-21 What: Annual nonprofit festival of indie music, art, and film from around the world, concentrated in Montreal’s Mile End district. The cinema...
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Raindance Film Festival
Tweet Where: London, England When: September 24-October 5 What: The cheekily named “indie-est film festival this side of the Atlantic” (per the Guardian) is an outgrowth of Raindance, a London-based...
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Vancouver Int’l Film Festival
Tweet Where: Vancouver, British Columbia When: September 25-October 10 What: 32st edition of one of North America’s biggest film festivals (some 340 films last year) and a major doc stop, with an Arts...
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Tucson Film & Music Festival
Tweet Where: Tucson, Arizona When: October 9-12 What: Now in its 10th year, TFMF “celebrates the great independent film and music in the Southwest,” with the visual side focusing largely on...
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Reel Music
Tweet Strictly Sacred: A Film About Girl Trouble Where: Portland, Oregon When: October 10 – 22 What: Exhaustive annual festival, one of the first worldwide to spotlight music documentary, put on by...
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Indie Memphis Film Festival
Tweet Where: Memphis, Tennessee When: October 30 – November 2 What: The title pretty much tells you what you need to know, but here’s the website description for a little added background: One of the...
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New Orleans Film Festival
Tweet Where: New Orleans, Louisiana When: October 16-23 What: What would a film festival in New Orleans be without music films? Something unbefitting New Orleans, says us. While it doesn’t feature a...
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Leeds Int’l Film Festival
Tweet Where: Leeds, UK When: November 5-20 What: England’s biggest movie event outside London, with more than 200 new and classic films spread across feature, documentary, horror/fantasy, anime,...
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