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Top 53 Film festivals in India

This curated ranking covers the 53 largest film festivals in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Cannes Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and New York Film Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.2M people. Across all 53 entries the average audience size is 27k, and the largest, Cannes Film Festival, reaches around 1.1M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each film festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 53, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. 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 India, 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 India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Cannes Film Festival 1.1M 30.2 27.3% Film festival
2 International Film Festival Rotterdam 50k 30.2 35.1% Film festival
3 New York Film Festival 20k 29.4 20.9% Film festival
4 Sundance Film Festival 17k 29.1 29.6% Film festival
5 Berlin International Film Festival 17k 28.9 25.2% Film festival
6 Metro Manila Film Festival 16k 27.3 38.2% Film festival
7 Venice Film Festival 16k 27.8 25.1% Film festival
8 Chicago International Film Festival 13k 33.2 41.9% Film festival
9 Austin Film Festival 12k 35.3 23.4% Film festival
10 Fantastic Fest 12k 27.6 52.6% Film festival
11 Melbourne International Film Festival 12k 28.1 60.3% Film festival
12 Toronto International Film Festival 10k 30.6 28.7% Film festival
13 Tribeca Film Festival 9.4k 32.2 25.7% Film festival
14 Telluride Film Festival 7k 24.7 25.8% Film festival
15 Hong Kong International Film Festival 6.2k 33.2 11.5% Film festival
16 Busan International Film Festival 4.2k 29.5 46.8% Film festival
17 Venice Biennale 4.2k 27.4 31.7% Film festival
18 Mumbai Film Festival 3.7k 26.1 13.6% Film festival
19 BFI London Film Festival 2.1k 32.5 25.5% Film festival
20 Art Film Fest 1.4k 31.0 27.1% Film festival
21 Overland Expo 1.1k 25.6 25.2% Film festival
22 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 899 38.6 32.1% Film festival
23 Giffoni Film Festival 845 32.0 25.9% Film festival
24 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 815 35.3 16.6% Film festival
25 Edinburgh International Film Festival 797 29.0 33.8% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 53 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India 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 India?

Cannes Film Festival currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.1M people in India.

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