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2026

Film Festival

International

Oct

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Festival is October 2-5

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2025 Film Selections Announced – GET YOUR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT PASSES BEFORE SEPT 15th! See Schedule Below for Full Program

2025 selection announcement
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The 2025 Carmel International Film Festival (CIFFest) is looking for volunteers who are interested in being part of the 2025 festival by working with the Production Team to bring back the world’s oldest International Film Festival to Carmel.

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2024 FESTIVAL RECAP

 
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ACTORS CRAIG KILBORN
AND WILL ROBERTS

Old School actor Craig Kilborn and Will Roberts from Oppenheimer on the stage at CIFFest in 2024

GOLDEN BOUGH THEATRE

The historic Golden Bough Theatre at the 2024 Carmel International Film Festival October 5th & 6th, after its $10.8 million dollar renovation.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
BYRON MERRITT

DUNE 1 and DUNE 2 Executive Producer Byron Merritt at a Spring 2024 CIFFest event.

FORMER CBS LATE LATE SHOW
HOST, CRAIG KILBORN

Former CBS Late Late Show Host Craig Kilborn with Festival Co-Director Lawrence Roeck at CIFFest in 2024

2024 Winners

What People Said

I’m so honored the screenplay based on my book One Mad Apple received an Honorable Mention award. The whole film festival experience was a blast and well executed and coordinated. A special shoutout to Lawrence Roeck and Annette Andersen for reviving the Carmel Film Festival.

At the heart of the city of Carmel, the Festival took place in October with an impressive variety of films and divergent ages of the filmmakers. I feel honored that my film was selected. The festival offered lots of opportunities to meet and connect with people and filmmakers, as well as a friendly staff always ready to help!

This festival was better than expected! Friendly staff and a beautiful venue! A good mix of films. Looking forward to next year’s festival.

We were honored to receive the award for Best Documentary at the 2024 Carmel International Film Festival and travelled from out of state to attend. The festival was hosted in a charming venue with a friendly staff to match. Q&As were thoughtful and engaging and the Carmel team did a great job of selecting a diverse set of truly interesting films covering a range of topics. Would absolutely recommend submitting and attending!

This was such a great festival! All of the staff were so welcoming and the everything was well organized and super fun! I highly recommend submitting to this festival!

Our deepest thanks to the Carmel International Film Festival for selecting our award winning short documentary, Operation Overlord: OSS and the Battle for France.

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