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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
26 BFI London Film Festival 2.3k 43.1 59.5% Film festival
27 Zurich Film Festival 2.3k 40.3 70.9% Film festival
28 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards 2k 51.1 68.9% Film festival
29 San Sebastián International Film Festival 2k 42.1 46.7% Film festival
30 New York Film Festival 1.9k 45.8 61.9% Film festival
31 Busan International Film Festival 1.7k 42.1 66.0% Film festival
32 Tokyo International Film Festival 1.4k 42.4 59.2% Film festival
33 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 1.2k 44.1 55.3% Film festival
34 Banff Mountain Film Festival 1.1k 35.1 55.2% Film festival
35 Overland Expo 1.1k 37.6 54.0% Film festival
36 Thessaloniki International Film Festival 1k 39.3 57.0% Film festival
37 Kendal Mountain Festival 958 38.3 36.4% Film festival
38 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 933 37.8 70.4% Film festival
39 Sheffield Doc/Fest 921 Film festival
40 Monte-Carlo Television Festival 916 36.1 65.0% Film festival
41 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 845 Film festival
42 Art Film Fest 803 33.5 46.7% Film festival
43 Stockholm International Film Festival 774 39.1 63.2% Film festival
44 Shanghai International Film Festival 737 Film festival
45 Cinelatino 690 30.4 45.6% Film festival
46 Warsaw International Film Festival 636 41.5 40.6% Film festival
47 Sydney Film Festival 632 34.1 47.2% Film festival
48 Festival de Gramado 609 43.4 53.1% Film festival
49 Chicago International Film Festival 591 48.7 72.1% Film festival
50 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 589 39.0 46.3% 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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