Today marks the start of our 32nd International Film Festival.

Please note that our opening film LOVING VINCENT is totally sold out. Our friends at STORYHOUSE have laid on another screening and this is also sold out! But our other films in the festival still do have tickets available.  All tickets can be bought from storyhouse.com. Enter the code CHESTERFS when booking to get your ticket for just £5!

Chester International Film Festival
2018 marks our 5th International Animation Festival. We have been absolutely delighted by both the number and the quality of the entries. Animation Finalists will exclusively be shown alongside the main features. Good luck to all our entrants. Our audiences will vote throughout the festival and at our last film THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT  on 7th March the two highest rated animations will go head to head.

Chester International Film Festival in Numbers:
Number of films submitted: 1093
Number of countries: 83
Number of hours of film: 87
Number of judges: 5
Top 5 countries submitting: USA, Iran, UK, France, Czech Republic.
Distribution of entries (darker=more entries):