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Poetry film festivals
New and ongoing festivals
- Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival
Vienna, Austria
Originally annual, now biannual, since 2009
- Australian Poetry Film Contest
Guyra, New South Wales (held in conjunction with Poets on the Mountain Festival)
New in 2024
- Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival
Wellington, New Zealand
Annual since 2023
- Cadence: Video Poetry Festival
Seattle, Washington
Annual since 2018
- Drumshanbo Written Word Poetry Film Competition
Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, Ireland
Annual since 2022
- Filmetry
Lansing, Michigan
Annual since 2019
- Fotogenia
Mexico City
Annual since 2018
- Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival
Mexico City
Annual since 2020
- International Video Poetry Festival
Athens, Greece
Annual since 2012
- La Poesia Che Si Vede
Ancona, Italy (in association with La Punta della Lingua festival)
Annual since 2006 (poetry film competition added more recently)
- Liberated Words poetry film screenings
Bristol, UK
Regularly since 2012
- Maldito Festival de Videopoesía
Albacete, Spain
Annual since 2017
- Midwest Video Poetry Fest
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Annual since 2020
- Nederlands Poëziefilm Festival
Amsterdam
Annual since 2022
- Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition
Cork, Ireland
Annual since 2010
- Oslo poesifilm – festival for digital og visuell poesi
Oslo, Norway
Annual since 2009
- REELpoetry/HoutonTX
Houston, Texas
Annual since 2019
- RESONANS: A Fringe of Nature and Culture
Copenhagen, Denmark
Annual since 2020
- VideoBardo International Festival of Videopoetry
Buenos Aires
Biannual since 1996 (skipped 2010)
- Weimar Poetry Film Award
Weimar, Germany
Annual under various names since 2016
- ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Facebook page)
Berlin or Münster
Since 2002, mostly biannual, sometimes annual
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