Cardiff Independent Film Festival

Cardiff Independent Film Festival will be held over May 5th to May 7th 2017 at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. This will be our fourth festival, following highly successful events beginning in 2014. We're a fun, friendly and open festival run by film-lovers that celebrates the best in independent cinema and adheres to the highest ethical standards. We're non-profit, which means ALL of the submission fees go into the running of the festival. And we are truly independent - we don't take public or corporate money so the films we pick are our favourites. We also attract big-name guests: CIFF2015 saw talks by Stephen Frears and Paul Andrew Williams and the great John Boorman present the Welsh premiere of his final feature Queen and Country. CIFF 2016 saw giants from the world of animation Peter Lord, Ben Bocquelet and Joanna Quinn delighting audiences young and old. We may be small but we punch above our weight. We will be screening five feature films, ten short films and a selection of animations and student shorts in competition and there will be out-of-competition screenings for other films of significant merit.