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Top 72 Film festivals in France

This curated ranking covers the 72 largest film festivals in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Venice Biennale, Cannes Film Festival and Palm Springs International Film Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 546k people. Across all 72 entries the average audience size is 17k, and the largest, Venice Biennale, reaches around 336k people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each film festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 72, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in France. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in France, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in France. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Venice Biennale 336k 41.0 60.4% Film festival
2 Cannes Film Festival 129k 42.8 55.0% Film festival
3 Palm Springs International Film Festival 81k 46.8 53.3% Film festival
4 Venice Film Festival 60k 41.0 55.8% Film festival
5 Festival Lumiere 53k 41.4 55.4% Film festival
6 Berlin International Film Festival 41k 43.3 54.6% Film festival
7 Busan International Film Festival 39k 42.6 43.2% Film festival
8 Sundance Film Festival 38k 41.3 54.6% Film festival
9 BFI London Film Festival 38k 39.3 50.1% Film festival
10 Raindance Film Festival 35k 52.7 40.5% Film festival
11 Cinelatino 34k 40.7 43.3% Film festival
12 Toronto International Film Festival 29k 42.9 55.4% Film festival
13 Directors' Fortnight 28k 48.9 54.6% Film festival
14 Sitges Film Festival 23k 43.7 47.5% Film festival
15 International Film Festival Rotterdam 21k 37.9 45.0% Film festival
16 New York Film Festival 20k 38.7 52.0% Film festival
17 Monte-Carlo Television Festival 18k 38.6 65.2% Film festival
18 Edinburgh International Film Festival 17k 43.5 55.8% Film festival
19 Tribeca Film Festival 17k 41.4 55.4% Film festival
20 Telluride Film Festival 16k 38.4 52.7% Film festival
21 Chicago International Film Festival 12k 37.8 52.9% Film festival
22 Camden International Film Festival 11k 47.7 55.6% Film festival
23 Three Continents Festival 10k 48.7 30.6% Film festival
24 Fantastic Fest 9.9k 47.4 63.9% Film festival
25 Warsaw International Film Festival 7.8k 36.5 66.3% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 72 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across France and ranks each film festival by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest film festival in France?

Venice Biennale currently leads with an estimated audience of 336k people in France.

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