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Annecy, France
13-18 June
The annual animation festival successful France is ideally scheduled for combining sunny visits to the water and castles of this beauteous French upland municipality with movie screenings. By night, they amusement caller and classical movies successful the unfastened air. This year, the opening movie is Minions: The Rise of Gru and peculiar screenings see Disney and Pixar’s Lightyear and the Netflix animation rubric The Sea Beast.
Festival pass: from £63. Stay: Ibis Annecy Centre Vieille Ville, doubles from £175 oregon cheque the official website for camping options
Mediterranean movie festival, Split, Croatia
16-25 June 2022
Croatia’s second largest city has plentifulness of historical sights, museums and nightlife, and its stunning coastal mounting makes for a peculiarly scenic movie festival. During the day, screenings are astatine a cinema wrong the walls of the 1,700-year-old Diocletian’s palace, a cleanable basal for sightseeing. As the sanction suggests, they absorption connected Mediterranean films that mightiness beryllium hard to entree elsewhere. This is simply a festival that prides itself successful its positive, affable vibe and its parties, galore held astatine the open-air cinema connected Bačvice beach.
Festival pass: tba. Stay: the sustainable Hotel Slavija adjacent the waterfront, doubles from £145
Transylvania planetary movie festival, Romania
17-26 June
Nicknamed the “treasure city”, historical Cluj-Napoca has a originative buzz twelvemonth round, but truly comes to beingness erstwhile the film festival is successful town. Screenings instrumentality spot successful a scope of stunning venues, from castles to open-air museums to churches. On 21 June it’s screening the 1972 documentary Moonwalk One, with unrecorded philharmonic accompaniment from French set Invaders. It volition besides beryllium supporting Ukrainian film-makers with peculiar screenings of films, including Valentyn Vasyanovych’s almighty Reflection.
Festival pass: from £29. Stay: 1 of galore good-value options is the funky Lol et Lola hotel, doubles from £6
Munich movie festival/Filmfest München, German
23 June-2 July
Berlin whitethorn beryllium the best-known movie festival successful Germany, but for sunnier upwind caput to Munich successful June. First held successful 1983, it shows astir 200 films and attracts starry guests specified arsenic Melanie Griffith, Michael Caine, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes and Antonio Banderas. The Kinderfest strand welcomes young radical to peculiar screenings. As a city, Munich has much than capable to support you busy, from 80+ museums to the celebrated brew gardens – cleanable for discussing a day’s movie viewing.
Festival pass: details announced soon. Stay: Hotel Buddy, successful the municipality centre, doubles from £129
Karlovy Vary planetary movie festival, Czech Republic
1-9 July
This gorgeous municipality successful the Czech Republic plays big to 1 of the oldest festivals successful the world and is simply a favourite with movie fans. The festival walk gives discounts to selected tourer sites successful the Karlovy Vary portion until the extremity of 2022 – positive escaped transport via festival buses, and escaped motorcycle rental, truthful you tin research the surrounding area. It shows astir 200 diagnostic films from astir the satellite and supports caller talent. This year’s docket has yet to beryllium announced; past twelvemonth it premiered the fantabulous Boiling Point, starring Stephen Graham.
Festival pass: from £27. Stay: Grandhotel Pupp was the inspiration for Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel; from £130, oregon campy successful the “Tent Village” successful the Rolava recreational area
Locarno film festival, Switzerland
3-13 August
Situated betwixt the water and the mountains, the Swiss-Italian metropolis celebrates planetary cinema successful stunning locations each August. The open-air Piazza Grande tin spot 8,000 – it’s the biggest open-air screening venue successful Europe and tin beryllium a breathtaking experience. Locarno has a large estimation for prime arthouse films: this twelvemonth it volition honour the terrific indie manager Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) and has galore peculiar events for its 75th anniversary.
Festival pass: From £30 a day, support an oculus connected the website. Stay: Casa Elisabetta, doubles from £103, oregon look for B&Bs successful adjacent Ascona, Losone, Minusio, Tenero oregon Gordola
Venice movie festival, Italy
31 August-10 September
One of the astir accessible and elegant of the world’s large movie festivals, Venice is the 1 to book if you’re getting superior Cannes Fomo. The main screenings really instrumentality spot connected the tiny Lido island, wherever galore manufacture folks besides stay, but those based successful Venice and bask a beauteous vessel travel implicit to ticker top-quality films, astir disposable to the public. Last twelvemonth guests included Penelope Cruz, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst.
Festival pass: tba.
Stay: Hotel Villa Orio connected the Lido, doubles from £83, oregon Albergo Marin successful Venice, from £86
San Sebastián film festival, Spain
16-24 September
Held successful the Spanish metropolis of San Sebastián (Donostia), the international festival is known for its wide scope of movie screenings, stunning formation views and unthinkable nutrient scene. You mightiness besides spot the likes of Al Pacino and Tarantino propping up bars, and movie fans emotion to bent retired astatine the María Cristina hotel, wherever the stars stay. The accumulation “Imagine a Film Festival” volition observe the event’s 70th anniversary.
Tickets: 2022 prices tba, connected merchantability from 11 September; (in 2021 prices ranged from £1.50 for the kids’ screenings to £80 for the opening and closing galas). September. Stay: affordable options see Hotel Avenida, doubles from £100
Zurich movie festival, Switzerland
22 September-2 October
If Cannes and Venice are the grandmothers of the European festival scene, ZFF is the trendy teenager. It popped up successful 2005 and rapidly became established, with thousands of manufacture people visiting the Swiss metropolis to spot enactment from emerging film-makers. Zurich is attractice, blase and casual to explore, with tons of arty corners and funky bars. Check retired the Kunsthaus and the Rietberg museums, and don’t miss Chagall’s stained-glass windows successful the Fraumünster. Festival pass: from £30 for a time pass, for up to 4 screenings a day. Individual tickets go connected merchantability successful September. Stay: the stylish Hotel Marta successful the aged town, from £112
Evolution Mallorca planetary movie festival, Spain
26 October-1 November
One of the fastest-growing movie festivals successful Europe, showing a culturally divers premix of features, shorts and virtual world projects, EMIFF has been 1 of MovieMaker’s “TOP 50 Film Festivals Worth The Entry fee” 5 years successful a row. Everything’s centrally located truthful you tin easy research taste hotspots specified arsenic the cathedral. This year’s festival is acceptable to see a drive-in cinema showing modern classics, a “made successful Balearics” programme that spotlights section endowment from the islands, and unrecorded podcast recordings specified arsenic Girls connected Film. Day travel options see the seaside Port Soller, the sleepy upland municipality of Fornalutx and the Ses Rotes winery successful Esporles.
Festival pass: from £85, which includes each films isolated from closing night. Stay: Hotel Saratoga, successful the bosom of Palma, from £112
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