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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
26 Melbourne International Film Festival 6.8k 32.6 76.9% Film festival
27 Rome Film Festival 5.5k 29.3 60.1% Film festival
28 Giffoni Film Festival 4.9k 32.5 26.2% Film festival
29 48 Hour Film Project 3.7k 28.5 0.0% Film festival
30 Fantasia Festival 3.4k 45.5 77.5% Film festival
31 San Sebastián International Film Festival 2.3k 47.5 57.0% Film festival
32 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2.1k 48.8 55.7% Film festival
33 Mardi Gras Film Festival 1.8k 38.8 0.0% Film festival
34 Vancouver International Film Festival 1.4k 49.6 63.1% Film festival
35 Austin Film Festival 1.3k 51.7 69.5% Film festival
36 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 1.2k 49.2 42.4% Film festival
37 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards 1.1k 45.0 71.1% Film festival
38 Tokyo International Film Festival 1.1k 44.0 50.8% Film festival
39 Kraków Film Festival 1k 41.8 56.9% Film festival
40 Deauville American Film Festival 967 45.6 59.6% Film festival
41 Metro Manila Film Festival 857 51.2 70.2% Film festival
42 Banff Mountain Film Festival 783 37.8 47.2% Film festival
43 London FrightFest Film Festival 754 41.4 51.7% Film festival
44 San Francisco International Film Festival 595 39.8 51.2% Film festival
45 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 535 50.1 65.8% Film festival
46 Filmfest Hamburg 481 34.0 100.0% Film festival
47 Overland Expo 464 38.9 35.8% Film festival
48 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 423 38.1 40.0% Film festival
49 New Orleans Film Festival 418 38.6 63.7% Film festival
50 Deauville Asian Film Festival 359 38.1 82.8% 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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