International festivals
Each year the Galway Film Fleadh welcomes international festival representatives from all over the world.
Past festivals included:
- Aspen Film Festival (USA)
- Athens International Film Festival (Greece)
- Berlin International Film Festival (Germany)
- Busan International Film Festival (South Korea)
- BFI London Film Festival (UK)
- Cannes Film Festival (France)
- Cinemania, Montreal (Canada)
- Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (France)
- Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK)
- Faroe Islands Film Festival (Faroe Islands)
- Filmfest Hamburg (Germany)
- Geneva International Film Festival (Switzerland)
- Gijon International Film Festival (Spain)
- Hot Docs Festival (Canada)
- International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera (Poland)
- Les Arcs Film Festival (France)
- Luxembourg City Film Festival (Luxembourg)
- Midnight Sun Film Festival, (Finland)
- Molodist International Film Festival, (Ukraine)
- Newport Beach Film Festival (USA)
- Noordelijk Film Festival, (The Netherlands)
- Palm Springs Festival, (USA)
- Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes Film Festival (France)
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, (Iceland)
- Rome Film Festival (Italy)
- Rotterdam International Film Festival (The Netherlands)
- Seattle Film Festival (USA)
- Sheffield Film Festival (UK)
- Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria)
- South by Southwest (SXSW) (USA)
- Sundance Film Festival (USA)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, (Estonia)
- Tbilisi Film Festival (Georgia)
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece)
- Timishort Film Festival (Romania)
- Torino Film Festival (Italy)
- Toronto International Film Festival, (Canada)
- Tribeca Film Festival (USA)
- Valladolid Film Festival (Spain)
The Galway Film Fair provides many auxiliary events exploring the diverse fields of the audio-visual industry. Through the Film Fair’s talks and panel discussions, we take the pulse of the wider film community on the issues that are at the heart of the industry’s progress.
2026 Talks included:
- International Co-Production in Practice
- Focus on the Composer
- Smart VFX
- Ten Years of the 50/50 Gender Equality Campaign: Where Are We Now?
- Meet the Programmers & Networking
- The Art of the Unknown: Supporting creative documentary film in a risk-averse industry
- Screen Futures – Creativity, sustainability and success in a changing screen industry





