Poetry film festivals

New and ongoing festivals

Inactive and historical festivals

  • Ciné Poème – Festival de courts métrages
    Location: Bezons, France
    2011-2020
  • Co-Kisser Poetry-Film Festival
    Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
    2011, 2012, 2013
  • CYCLOP International Videopoetry Festival
    Location: Kiev, Ukraine
    2011-2018 (?)
  • DOCTORCLIP Roma Poetry Film Festival
    Location: Rome, Italy
    2010-2015
  • Festival de la poésie de Montréal: Rendez-vous vidéo-poésie
    Location: Montreal, Quebec
    2014-2020
  • Filmpoem Festival
    Location: various, but mostly in the UK
    2013-2017
  • Juteback Poetry Film Festival
    Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
    Revived in 2017; 2012 and 2013 as The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival
  • Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival
    Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
    2014-2018
  • Poetry Film Festival/Cin(E)-Poetry Festival
    Location: San Francisco
    Annual from 1975 to 1998 — the world’s first annual poetry film festival
  • PoetryFilm
    Location: various, UK
    Multiple screening events most years, 2002-2020
  • Poetry in Film Festival
    Location: Melbourne, Australia
    2010, 2011, 2012
  • Sadho Poetry Film Fest
    Location: New Delhi (and touring other Indian cities)
    2007-2020
  • SINESTESIA
    Location: Barcelona
    2015-2020
  • TARP (Between) International Festival of Audiovisual and Experimental Poetry
    Location: various cities, Lithuania
    2006-2014
  • Trevigliopoesia Festival
    Location: Treviglio – Bergamo (near Milan, Italy)
    2008-2013
  • VISIBLE VERSE Videopoetry Festival
    Location: Vancouver, Canada
    1999-2017