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A film festival is a mostly annual festival showcasing films, usually of a recent date, sometimes with a focus on a specific genre (e.g. animation) or subject (e.g. gay and lesbian film festivals). The world's first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932; the other three major film festivals of the world ( Cannes, Berlin and Locarno ) date back to the 1940s and 1950s.
The festivals in Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary and (since 2002) Locarno are listed as so-called "A festivals". New films may be screened at only one of these festivals.
See also: List of film festivals
External links and references
- Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made, Kenneth Turan, University of California Press, hardback, BooksEnthsiast.com.
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