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  • ALT* Festival de Cine Documental LGBT+
  • Atlanta Film Festival
  • Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
  • Calgary Underground Film Festival
  • CINHOMO Muestra Internacional de Cine GLBT
  • DIVA Film Festival
  • Florida Film Festival
  • Geelong Pride Film Festival
  • Hot Docs
  • Internationales Frauenfilmfestival
  • Lovers Film Festival
  • Malmö Queer Filmfestival
  • Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
  • OGA (S)exhibition
  • Outshine Film Festival: Miami
  • Pink Apple
  • Qfest St. Louis
  • Queens World Film Festival
  • Queer East
  • Queergestreift Filmfestival
  • RiverRun International Film Festival
  • San Francisco International Film Festival
  • Sunny Bunny LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

Thursday, 11 April 2024 until Thursday, 25 April 2024

The 43rd Annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) returns April 11-25, 2024, to bring cinematic wonder to The Main Cinema and screens across the Twin Cities. As the longest running and largest film festival in the region, MSPIFF annually presents over 200 new international and independent films to a broad community of movie lovers.

MSPIFF champions artists from all backgrounds and stages of their careers and promotes the art of film as a medium for fostering cross-cultural understanding, education, entertainment, and exploration. Whether at screenings, Q&As, panel discussions, receptions, or parties, MSPIFF offers its 45,000+ attendees exciting opportunities to experience the wealth of international cinema and to engage with 150+ attending filmmakers and talent from around the world and our own community.

The Festival presents the following awards:

JURIED AWARDS:
Emerging Filmmaker
Documentary Feature
Fiction Short
Documentary Short

Films in competition are selected by the programming committee on an invite-only basis.

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS:
Fiction Feature
Documentary Feature
Fiction Short
Documentary Short

Audience Choice Awards are determined by audience balloting at the festival.