Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film

Split Film Festival / International Festival of New Film is devoted to experimental, innovative and author-driven cinema and audiovisual art. Branko Karabatić founded it in Split, Croatia, in 1996 as an independent initiative, and it is held at the close of the summer season, in September. The festival looks for new, radical and personal work of any genre and length, from traditional film to video art, new media and practices based on artificial intelligence, and many of the films it shows are Croatian premieres.

Competition and curated sections are treated as open frameworks: every submitted film is considered for the main competition and for the other programmes. International juries award the Grand Prix for Feature Film, the Grand Prix for Short Film and the Grand Prix for New Media in the gallery programme, along with the “Ivan Martinac” Award and a Special Festival Award. Screenings, exhibitions, retrospectives and workshops run in several venues in the city centre, with Kino Karaman as the main cinema. The dates of the 31st edition are 11–18 September 2026.