Montreal Independent Film Festival

Montreal Independent Film Festival is an annual and a monthly IMDb qualifying festival dedicated to international and Canadian shorts and features of all genres.

All the award winning artists of the monthly editions are further nominated for our weekly annual festival which is scheduled for March, 2021. The event will be a mixture of online screenings, networking for filmmakers and award announcements from cinema. Our annual festival will be a Hybrid In-Theatre/Virtual Fest for 2021 due to the pandemic.

All the monthly award winners of each edition are further nominated to be selected and included in our lineup and be promoted and screened in our weekly annual event in various Canadian and international competitions.  

The monthly IMDb qualifying fest is an ongoing virtual festival and a competition but the official selections of each edition have the option to promote and screen their films through one of our partners with a screening platform in Canada. We also feature films, scripts, independent artists and filmmakers on various film magazines in order to promote and publicize arts, artists and cinema.

The monthly festival is a virtual event which has promoted and screened hundreds of international films in the past few editions and it has featured hundreds of artists in various recognizable film magazines. However, the promotion, screening and publicity are our additional features in our monthly edition and have nothing to do with the competition. Films can enter the monthly competition without these features in publicity, promotion and screening.

All the monthly award winners of the best feature and best short categories can request to be screened in each monthly edition while our annual event screens films for one week to the public.

Montreal Independent Film Festival truly cares about the language of cinema, independent filmmaking, filmmakers, arts and all the artists involved in each film project.

Our programmers and the members of our jury are professionals working in media from Canada and all over the world. We also select our juries of the month from our previous award winners to judge and vote for various categories of the festival. The award winners can apply to the artistic director of the festival to become a jury of a monthly edition in the category they were awarded.

We are an organization committed to selecting, awarding, promoting, featuring and screening international and Canadian films.