THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT · A LIKE® MAGAZINE DEPARTMENT
FILM FESTIVALS
The festivals that run the film business — where the year's films are discovered, financed, sold and crowned. LIKE® Film Festivals maps the circuit from Sundance in January to Amsterdam and Cairo in November: who runs each festival, where it plays, what it awards, and the market attached to it.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S FILM FESTIVALS
38 festivals in 22 countries — from Cannes, Venice and Berlin to Busan, Cairo and Mar del Plata — each with verified leadership, 2026 dates, principal venues, top awards, published scale and its industry market. Figures appear only where a festival publishes them; the gaps are named, never padded.
THE CIRCUIT
THE CIRCUIT YEAR · OCTOBER 2026
THE CIRCUIT YEAR: HOW THE WORLD'S FESTIVALS SEQUENCE THE FILM BUSINESS
Sundance and Rotterdam open the year, Berlin brings the first great market, Cannes is the commercial summit, and the Venice–Telluride–Toronto–New York launch each autumn feeds the awards season. How the calendar decides what the world watches.
More Film Festivals guides will join this department — beginning with the regional festivals of North America and the festivals of South Asia.