Due to the risk of infection by the coronavirus, many film festivals have been cancelled or postponed, some are held online.

WÜRZBURG
47. Internationale(s) Filmwoche(nende) - Festival held online, duration extended from a weekend to a whole week
28.1. - 3.2.2021 (original dates 28.1. - 31.1.2021)

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DER SCHÖNSTE PLATZ AUF ERDEN by Elke Groen
FUCHS IM BAU by Arman T. Riahi


TRIESTE
32^nd Trieste Film Festival - Festival taking place online
21.1. - 28.1.2021

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BITTE WARTEN by Pavel Cuzuioc


LISBON
18° KINO - Mostra de Cinema de Expressão Alemã - Festival taking place in a hybrid version
21.1. - 27.1.2021

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GLÜCK GEHABT by Peter Payer
JETZT ODER MORGEN by Lisa Weber


BIARRITZ
3^rd FIPADOC - Festival International Documentaire - Festival postponed to a later date
original dates 18.1. - 24.1.2021

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BITTE WARTEN by Pavel Cuzuioc
GLORY TO THE QUEEN by Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze
WOOD by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger


SAARBRÜCKEN
42. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis - Festival held entirely online
17.1. - 24.1.2021

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DAVOS by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
FUCHS IM BAU by Arman T. Riahi


OSTEND
14^th Film Festival - Festival taking place as FFO Nights throughout the year
original dates 15.1. - 23.1.2021

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


CAIRO
13^th Panorama of the European Film - Festival postponed to a later date
original dates 13.1. - 22.1.2021

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel


KOLKATA
26^th International Film Festival - Festival postponed from November 2020 to January 2021 and held primarily online
8.1. - 15.1.2021 (original dates 5.11. - 12.11.2020)

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


KRAGUJEVAC
5^th Sumadija International Film Festival - Festival held online
18.12. - 20.12.2020

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JETZT ODER MORGEN by Lisa Weber


GUANGZHOU
18^th International Documentary Film Festival GZDOC
14.12. - 17.12.2020

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ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky


LES ARCS
12^e Film Festival - Festival taking place online and in theatres throughout France (Industry Village postponed to January 2021)
12.12. - 28.12.2020 (original dates 12.12. - 19.12.2020)

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WOOD by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger


JERUSALEM
37^th Film Festival - Festival postponed from July to December and held online
10.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 16.7. - 26.7.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


MEXICO CITY
13^th Mórbido Fest - Festival taking place in a hybrid version
10.12. - 13.12.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


NEW YORK, NY
49^th New Directors/New Films - Festival postponed from March/April to December and held virtually
9.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 25.3. - 5.4.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


PERTH
23^rd Revelation International Film Festival - Online Fest in July, physical festival postponed to December and held as a hybrid event
9.12. - 20.12.2020 (original dates 2.7. - 15.7.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


LÜNEN
KinoFilmFest Lünen - Festival postponed from November to December and finally cancelled
9.12. - 12.12.2020 (original dates 4.11. - 7.11.2020)

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WAREN EINMAL REVOLUZZER by Johanna Moder


SANYA
3^rd Hainan Island International Film Festival
5.12. - 12.12.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


HAVANA
42° Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano - Festival held in 2 parts: non-competitive program in December, competitions in March 2021
3.12. - 13.12.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


TEL AVIV
Solidarity Human Rights Film Festival - Festival held online
3.12. - 10.12.2020

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WEIYENA - EIN HEIMATFILM by Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt


TORONTO
9^th JAYU’s Human Rights Film Festival - Festival taking place virtually
3.12. - 10.12.2020

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DAS FIEBER by Katharina Weingartner


MONTREUIL
25^e Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire - Festival taking place online
3.12. - 6.12.2020

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SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter


WASHINGTON, DC
33^rd AFI European Union Film Showcase - Festival held online
2.12. - 20.12.2020

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TONSÜCHTIG - DIE WIENER SYMPHONIKER VON INNEN by Iva Svarcová, Malte Ludin


NUORO
5. IsReal - Festival di Cinema del Reale - Festival postponed from May to December and held online
2.12. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 6.5. - 10.5.2020)

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SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter


NANJING
2^nd Blue Planet Science Fiction Film Festival
1.12. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 15.11. - 22.11.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


POZNAN
38^th Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival - Festival taking place online
29.11. - 6.12.2020

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


PALERMO
42. efebo d’oro premio internazionale di cinema e narrativa - Festival held on streaming platform
29.11. - 5.12.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


ZAGREB
13^th Subversive Film Festival - Festival postponed from May to November/December and held as hybrid event
28.11. - 15.12.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper
SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter


PYRGOS & AMALIADA
23^rd Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People - Festival held online
28.11. - 5.12.2020

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


PARIS
15^e “L’Europe autour de l’Europe” - Festival de films européens - Festival postponed from March to November and held online
27.11. - 3.12.2020 (original dates 12.3. - 29.3.2020)

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DIE KINDER DER TOTEN by Kelly Copper, Pavol Liska
ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky

BUENOS AIRES, CORDOBA
11° “Al Este del Plata” Festival de Cine de Europa Central y Oriental - Festival taking place online
26.11. - 10.12.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


MONTEVIDEO
38^th International Film Festival of Uruguay
21.11. - 5.12.2020

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LILLIAN by Andreas Horvath


TURIN
38^th Torino Film Festival - Festival taking place entirely online
20.11. - 28.11.2020

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HOCHWALD by Evi Romen


GIJON
58° FICX - Festival Internacional de Cine - Festival taking place online
20.11. - 28.11.2020

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel


REGENSBURG
12. Transit - Filmfest Regensburg - Cinema_Utopia - Festival held online
19.11. - 22.11.2020

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JETZT ODER MORGEN by Lisa Weber
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


AMSTERDAM
33^rd International Documentary Film Festival - IDFA - Festival held as physical festival and online
18.11. - 6.12.2020 (original dates 18.11. - 29.11.2020)

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
BITTE WARTEN by Pavel Cuzuioc
EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


KASSEL
37. Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest - Festival taking place on streaming platform
17.11. - 22.11.2020

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ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky
WEIYENA - EIN HEIMATFILM by Weina Zhao, Judith Benedikt


SAN LUIS, AZ
8^th Film Festival - drive-in cinema
17.11. - 20.11.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper

JAKARTA
20^th “Europe on Screen” European Film Festival - Festival postponed from April to November and held online
16.11. - 30.11.2020 (original dates 9.4. - 19.4.2020)

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BEWEGUNGEN EINES NAHEN BERGS by Sebastian Brameshuber
LITTLE JOE by Jessica Hausner


BARCELONA
27° “L’Alternativa” Festival de Cinema Independent - Festival held entirely online
16.11. - 29.11.2020 (original dates 16.11. - 22.11.2020)

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


FLORENCE
61^st Festival dei Popoli - International Documentary Film Festival - Festival taking place as virtual festival (reduced version)
15.11. - 22.11.2020

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel (Retrospective postponed to 2021)


SHARJAH
3^rd Film Platform SFP - Festival taking place in cinemas and online
14.11. - 21.11.2020

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


NICARAGUA

Muestra de Cine Europeo - Nicaragua - held online
13.11. - 31.12.2020


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DER BODEN UNTER DEN FÜSSEN by Marie Kreutzer

TALLINN, TARTU, NARVA, KOHTLA-JÄRVE
24^th Black Nights Film Festival
13.11. - 29.11.2020

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DAVOS by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi
HOCHWALD by Evi Romen


JOHANNESBURG, CAPE TOWN, PRETORIA
7^th European Film Festival in South Africa - Festival held as virtual festival
12.11. - 22.11.2020

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NARZISS UND GOLDMUND by Stefan Ruzowitzky


BUDAPEST, PÉCS, SZEGED
17^th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival - Festival taking place in an extended form - online
10.11. - 22.11.2020 (original dates 10.11. - 15.11.2020)

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper
ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky
WOOD by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger


ZAGREB
5^th KinoKino - International Film Festival for Children - Festival held online
9.11. - 15.11.2020

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


CORK
65^th International Film Festival - Festival taking place entirely online
8.11. - 15.11.2020 (original dates 4.11. - 15.11.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


PORTLAND, ME
23^rd Maine Jewish Film Festival - Festival postponed from March/April to November and held as virtual festival
7.11. - 22.11.2020 (original dates 28.3.2020 - 5.4.2020)

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DER TRAFIKANT by Nikolaus Leytner


CAMBRIDGE
AMPLIFY! online film festival
6.11. - 22.11.2020

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ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky


GENEVA
26^th Geneva International Film Festival - Festival cancelled!
6.11. - 15.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


MINSK
27^th International Film Festival “Listapad” - Festival cancelled!
6.11. - 13.11.2020

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BITTE WARTEN by Pavel Cuzuioc
EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


MILAN
8^th Milano Design Film Festival - Festival held on streaming platform
6.11. - 8.11.2020

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BROT - DAS WUNDER, DAS WIR TÄGLICH ESSEN by Harald Friedl


THESSALONIKI
61^st International Film Festival - Festival taking place online
5.11. - 15.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


WROCLAW
20^th New Horizons International Film Festival - Festival postponed from July/August to November and held online
5.11. - 15.11.2020 (original dates 23.7. - 2.8.2020)

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


BRATISLAVA
21^st One World Slovakia - International Documentary Film Festival - Festival held online
5.11. - 11.11.2020

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ERDE by Nikolaus Geyrhalter


BELGRADE, NOVI SAD, NIS
16th Free Zone Film Festival - Festival held as hybrid edition
5.11. - 10.11.2020

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BUT BEAUTIFUL by Erwin Wagenhofer
EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper
GLORY TO THE QUEEN by Tatia Skhirtladze, Anna Khazaradze
WOOD by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger


VILNIUS, KAUNAS, KLAIPEDA, SIAULIAI
18^th Scanorama - European Film Forum - Festival started as a hybrid festival, had to move entirely online
4.11. - 22.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


STRASBOURG, MULHOUSE, BENFELD...
16^e Augenblick – festival du cinéma germanophone - Festival cancelled!
3.11. - 20.11.2020

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi
NOBADI by Karl Markovics


LEEDS
34^th International Film Festival - Festival held as hybrid edition
3.11. - 19.11.2020

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DEMOCRACY LTD by Robert Schabus


BOZCAADA
BIFED - International Festival of Ecological Documentary - Festival held online
2.11. - 8.11.2020

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DAS FIEBER by Katharina Weingartner


DUISBURG
44. duisburger filmwoche - Festival taking place online
2.11. - 8.11.2020

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AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS DER UNTERWELT by Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel
JETZT ODER MORGEN by Lisa Weber


MILAN
13° Piccolo Grande Cinema - Festival Internazionale delle Nuove Generazioni - Festival taking place entirely online
1.11. - 8.11.2020

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


JYVÄSKYLÄ
21^st Arktisen Upeeta Film Festival
1.11. - 7.11.2020

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SPACE DOGS by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter


TOKYO
33^rd International Film Festival
31.10. - 9.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


BELGRADE
9th GoetheFest - held online
29.10. - 4.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


TRIESTE
20^th Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
29.10. - 3.11.2020 - Festival taking place entirely online

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


BRUSSELS
14^th Filem’On International Film Festival for Young Audiences - Festival taking place as online festival
28.10. - 7.11.2020

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EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi


TURIN
20° TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest - Festival postponed (at short notice)
28.10. - 1.11.2020

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ROBOLOVE by Maria Arlamovsky


JIHLAVA
24^th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
27.10. - 8.11.2020 (original dates 27.10. - 1.11.2020) - Festival held entirely online

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EPICENTRO by Hubert Sauper


DENVER
43^rd Film Festival - Festival taking place on a virtual platform
22.10. - 8.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


SÃO PAULO
44^th International Film Festival - Festival taking place online
22.10. - 4.11.2020

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THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN by Sandra Wollner


PRAGUE, BRNO
15. Das Filmfest - Festival deutschsprachiger Filme - Festival postponed to the beginning of 2021!
20.10. - 6.11.2020

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BROT - DAS WUNDER, DAS WIR TÄGLICH ESSEN by Harald Friedl
DAVOS by Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
DER TAUCHER by Günter Schwaiger
EIN BISSCHEN BLEIBEN WIR NOCH by Arash T. Riahi
GLÜCK GEHABT by Peter Payer
WAREN EINMAL REVOLUZZER by Johanna Moder

VILNIUS
14^th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival “Inconvenient Films” - Festival held as virtual festival
7.10. - 18.11.2020 (original dates 6.10. - 8.11.2020)

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WOOD by Monica Lazurean Gorgan, Michaela Kirst, Ebba Sinzinger

WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND, DUNEDIN...
German Film Festival - Festival taking place in a hybrid version
22.9. - 6.12.2020

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NARZISS UND GOLDMUND by Stefan Ruzowitzky


LEIPZIG
16. globaLE - Globalisierungskritisches Filmfestival
31.7. - 7.11.2020

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BUT BEAUTIFUL by Erwin Wagenhofer
DAS FIEBER by Katharina Weingartner