Montreal Independent Film Festival

Welcome to the Montreal Independent Film Festival! The IMDb qualifying seasonal competition and annual festival is an innovative event with live screenings and networking events through Cinema du Parc and seasonal promotions and screenings through MIFF magazine and channel. Our annual festival is every March at the cinema. The winners of the seasonal festival go through our annual programming.

Every season, MIFF promotes the winning film projects and various artists working on independent arthouse films to thousands of artists and film industry professionals. The winners of the season have the option to screen their projects through MIFF. Cannes award winners and Oscar nominees have also joined emerging independent artists to compete in various sections of the festival.

Montreal Independent Film Festival (MIFF) has turned into one of the most popular international festivals dedicated to the cinematic language, independent filmmaking and indie artists. With thousands of entries every year, the programming committee selects film and script projects and nominates artists for various sections of the competition which also includes awards and honorable mentions of the seasonal festival in acting, directing, cinematography, screenwriting, editing, music video, experimental cinema, animation, student film, etc.  

Through MIFF magazine and channel, we offer daily, hourly and weekly screenings and promotions of independent features, shorts and screenwriters at no cost to all the official selections and nominees of the fest. Our intention is to provide the best to all independent films and indie artists working on a variety of genres. MIFF Canada has created many opportunities for independent film projects and artists to be noticed, awarded, screened and recognized in the film industry.

The festival also continues to select jury members who are assigned to various sections of the festival in each edition. The festival invites filmmakers, critics, actors, writers, composers, cinematographers and many agents and distributors from all over the world.

We are an organization committed to selecting, awarding, promoting, featuring and screening international and Canadian projects of all genres.