Montreal Independent Film Festival

Welcome to the Montreal Independent Film Festival! Throughout the past few years, MIFF Canada has turned into one of the most popular international festivals dedicated to the cinematic language, independent filmmaking and indie artists.

The annual festival and the IMDb qualifying seasonal competition is an innovative event with live screenings, red carpet ceremony and networking events through Cinema du Parc and seasonal promotions and screenings through MIFF magazine/Channel to thousands of artists and media professionals.

Our annual festival has featured and screened many artists from Canada and all over in our sold-out events. The winners of the seasonal festival go through annual programming for cinema screening. Cannes award winners and Oscar nominees have also joined emerging independent artists to compete in various sections of the festival.

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.