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Great International Film Festivals
A list from Lonely Planet Bluelist

Cannes (France)
The world's most prestigious film festival is an event arguably more famous than Cannes itself, and as chic as its Cote d'Azur backdrop. Held each May, it's limited to film industry workers, with very few public screenings. Amid a host of awards, plus a few 'out of competition' screenings, the top prize is the coveted Palme d'Or.

Berlin (Germany)
One of the world’s largest and most esteemed film festivals, the Berlinale screens around 350 movies across two weeks in February. Most films shown at the festival are premieres - either European or world - with more than 180,000 tickets sold, making it among the highest-attended film festivals in the world.

Toronto (Canada)
From its beginnings in 1976 as a simple highlights package from other film festivals, the Toronto International Film Festival has grown to become one of the most prestigious celluloid shows in North America. In 2006, over 300,000 people attended screenings of around 350 flicks.

Sundance (USA)
Behind its veneer of Mormons and jaw-dropping desert landscapes, Utah has managed to create the United States’ largest festival for independent film makers. Started as a way to lure more movie makers to Utah, it now showcases around 100 feature-length movies -cult classics such as Clerks, Reservoir Dogs and Napoleon Dynamite have premiered here.

Raindance (England)
Britain’s premier independent film festival is held across the last week of September and the first week of October. Specialising in films from first-time directors, it screens around 80 feature films and 150 short films and documentaries, with each production vying for the simply titled Film of the Festival award.

One Take Film Festival (Croatia)
Forget about the clapboard reminding you that you’re up to take 36 of scene 17, because to enter this festival your entire film needs to have been shot in a single take - editing is a dirty word at the One Take Film Festival. First held in 2003, the biannual festival is held in the Croatian capital Zagreb in November.

Portable Film Festival
Like films but hate travel and frocked-up starlets on red carpets? Then the Portable Film Festival is for you. This is a festival of short films downloadable to laptops, video iPods, Playstation Portables and the like, with films competing for two prizes: one judged by the submitting film makers and the major prize voted for by the online audience.

Trento Film Festival (Italy)
Parked below the Italian Dolomites, Trento is the city that spawned the burgeoning generation of mountain and outdoor film festivals (Banff, Kendal, Taos, Dundee etc). First held in 1952, the Trento Film Festival is a showcase of mountain, adventure and exploration films - both feature films and documentaries - in late April and early May.

The Shoot Out (Australia)
Entrants in the Shoot Out have a brief that is indeed very brief: make a film in less than 24 hours. To ensure this requirement is met, all films are actually made during the course of the festival in the New South Wales city of Newcastle. One week later, the films are screened at Newcastle Panthers.

Bring Your Own Film Festival (India)
Each February since 2004, Puri beach has provided the sandy seats for the curiously named Bring Your Own Film Festival, an egalitarian gathering to which anybody, from anywhere, can submit a flick. There’s no competition, no awards, no selection criteria, and the beach screenings go till late in the night - think Woodstock with an Orissan accent.