Welcome to Waterford International Film Festival


The Waterford International Film Festival is Waterford’s premiere film festival that showcases the works of national & international filmmakers & artists.

After 2 years of the festival being solely online due to covid restrictions, we are delighted to be back presenting physical screenings
on top of our online programme. Over the past 2 years despite the many challenges we all faced,the festival has been as active as possible online.

 In that time we created a third category with our Photography competition for Best Cinematic Image.
The cover of this booklet was our 1st winner in 2021 and the image is by Caoimhe Murphy. 

In 2022 the festival was awarded the Remarkable Arts Festival Label  (2022-2023) from the European Festival Assocation. 
Also in 2022 the festival hit the top 100 Best Reviewed Festival’s list out of 10,000+ festivals registered with
the online submission platform FILMFREEWAY.COM 

This year hundreds of submissions arrived at our doors from 30+ countries around the world for our annual competitions in Film, Screenwriting & Photography.
It was a joy for us to review such a vast amount of impressive projects from many talented artists and getting to see so many stories
from different backgrounds and cultures. 

From this years submissions we official selected over 170 short films from Irish & International Filmmakers. With our Short Screenplay competition,
80 Semi-Finalists was selected and this list was narrowed down to 20 Finalists.
In the Photography competition 15 Finalists has been selected and the winner will be on the cover of our 2023 booklet. 

The films will be presented in the ODEON Cinema and Online. The Online programme will consist of over 170 Irish & International Short Films
from award winning & debut filmmakers and it will run between 21-27 November. 

34 films will screen in the ODEON cinema on the 26th & 27 of November and the winners will be announced for all competitions
on Sunday the 27th of November in the ODEON.

Our short programmes has a fabulous mix of different genres and stories both from home and abroad. 

We hope you enjoy this very diverse mix of storytelling from national & international talent.

 For more information on the festival check out our about page.


Aram Voves- Filmmaker

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No filmmaker should miss the Waterford Film Festival!

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John Worrall- Director

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My short, 'On the Iron Shelf' recently screened here. It was a great festival and an excellent showcase for high quality work from around the world, which I was thrilled to be a part of. Stephen also provided great communication and great networking opportunities with other filmmakers. In short, I'd highly recommend submitting to WIFF!

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Andrea Kelly- Screenwriter

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Great festival. Wonderful communication with the screenwriting nominees. Delighted to be part of it. Enjoyed the film programme too! Highly recommend

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Peter Salapatas

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It was amazing to be part of the festival. with our short film Level 71. The organisation was excellent and the festival was very communicative and supportive of the artists.

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