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Top 100 Film festivals in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest film festivals in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 185 film festivals tracked in Italy, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Giffoni Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 487k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 11k, and the largest, Giffoni Film Festival, reaches around 296k people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each film festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

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

Country share

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

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Giffoni Film Festival 296k 44.2 59.2% Film festival
2 Cannes Film Festival 105k 40.2 56.3% Film festival
3 Venice Film Festival 86k 39.9 57.9% Film festival
4 International Film Festival Rotterdam 64k 49.8 65.1% Film festival
5 Berlin International Film Festival 57k 41.1 54.7% Film festival
6 Sundance Film Festival 50k 39.7 53.7% Film festival
7 Torino Film Festival 47k 42.5 67.0% Film festival
8 Sitges Film Festival 44k 41.4 50.7% Film festival
9 Venice Biennale 39k 42.0 57.8% Film festival
10 Toronto International Film Festival 31k 40.5 54.5% Film festival
11 Tribeca Film Festival 30k 41.4 53.3% Film festival
12 Telluride Film Festival 30k 47.3 67.9% Film festival
13 Raindance Film Festival 28k 51.5 76.2% Film festival
14 Palm Springs International Film Festival 26k 50.6 75.6% Film festival
15 Fantasia Festival 25k 46.0 39.2% Film festival
16 Taormina Film Fest 23k 49.8 77.9% Film festival
17 Metro Manila Film Festival 12k 50.9 73.3% Film festival
18 Rome Film Festival 11k 40.7 57.0% Film festival
19 Kraków Film Festival 11k 38.2 55.1% Film festival
20 Edinburgh International Film Festival 9.4k 40.7 65.2% Film festival
21 Camden International Film Festival 7k 43.7 64.7% Film festival
22 48 Hour Film Project 5.3k 36.1 54.7% Film festival
23 Sarajevo Film Festival 4.5k 35.2 74.2% Film festival
24 Austin Film Festival 3.4k 26.2 31.9% Film festival
25 Directors' Fortnight 2.7k 39.7 52.3% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy 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 Italy?

Giffoni Film Festival currently leads with an estimated audience of 296k people in Italy.

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