Popularity ranking · Italy

The 100 most popular 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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How to read this list

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
51 New Horizons Film Festival 528 33.5 55.2% Film festival
52 Transilvania International Film Festival 509 — — Film festival
53 Brussels Short Film Festival 498 — — Film festival
54 Tampere Film Festival 494 — — Film festival
55 Los Angeles Film Festival 474 49.0 73.8% Film festival
56 Mill Valley Film Festival 472 42.6 62.5% Film festival
57 Festival Lumiere 466 41.9 49.5% Film festival
58 Sci-Fi-London 464 40.1 50.3% Film festival
59 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 451 — — Film festival
60 Moscow International Film Festival 440 — — Film festival
61 Glasgow Film Festival 433 34.1 62.3% Film festival
62 Indonesian Film Festival 433 47.4 68.0% Film festival
63 Fantastic Fest 395 34.8 35.1% Film festival
64 Filmfest Hamburg 363 34.3 100.0% Film festival
65 Vancouver International Film Festival 360 42.5 56.5% Film festival
66 Metro Manila Film Festival 347 50.9 73.3% Film festival
67 New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival 332 35.7 67.7% Film festival
68 ReelAbilities 328 28.4 83.2% Film festival
69 American Film Festival 310 45.6 60.9% Film festival
70 Jerusalem Film Festival 306 34.8 59.1% Film festival
71 Screamfest Horror Film Festival 303 38.6 46.2% Film festival
72 Marrakech International Film Festival 295 — — Film festival
73 Dallas International Film Festival 294 50.1 73.1% Film festival
74 Deauville American Film Festival 289 42.8 59.6% Film festival
75 Nashville Film Festival 289 51.4 75.6% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular film festivals 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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