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Photo credits

Festival and city photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Thank you to every photographer below. The film artwork elsewhere on the site is our own.

Platinum Tower 3 - Beirut - Nabil Gholam Achitects.jpg

Richardsaad75 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for afac

Vopx Lux Austin Film Festival 2018.jpg

Mikerussell · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for aff

Adelaide skyline, December 2022 b.jpg

File:Adelaide skyline, December 2022.jpg: Ardash Muradian from Australia derivative work: Georgfotoart · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for aff-adelaide

2 2011-09-29 WarnerBldg Facade SP-Pano1.jpg

American Film Institute · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for afi-fest

Bordeaux place de la bourse with tram.JPG

Phillip Maiwald (Nikopol) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for alca

Ecrangeant.jpg

DeborahForsans · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for annecy

Brisbane CBD seen from Kangaroo Point, 2024, 01 (2).jpg

Chris Olszewski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for apsa

Bai Ling 2007.jpg

Toglenn · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for berlinale

Clare Stewart introduces Manchester by the Sea (29903901240).jpg

Bex Walton from London, England · CC BY 2.0 · used for bfi-lff

Asian Film Academy1.JPG

Injeongwon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for biff

16th Bengaluru International Film Festival (2025) 05.jpg

Gpkp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for biffes

Skyline of Beijing CBD with B-5906 approaching (20211016171955) (1).jpg

N509FZ · CC BY 4.0 · used for bjiff

Patchwork-Cannes-2.jpg

Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for cannes

View of Empire State Building from Rockefeller Center New York City dllu (cropped).jpg

Dllu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for catapult

View of Empire State Building from Rockefeller Center New York City dllu (cropped).jpg

Dllu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for chicken-egg

Château-Renault (Indre-et-Loire).jpg

sybarite48 · CC BY 2.0 · used for ciclic

Cairo From Tower (cropped).jpg

Wael El Sisi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for ciff-cairo

Chicago River ferry b.jpg

File:Chicago River ferry.jpg: John Picken derivative work: Georgfotoart · CC BY 2.0 · used for ciff-chicago

La Tour Eiffel vue de la Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris août 2014 (2).jpg

Yann Caradec from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for cinema-du-reel

Cityscape of Manila, 2025 (01).jpg

Bahnfrend · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for cinemalaya

20130113 - PSG-Montpellier 086 - Laure Boulleau.jpg

20130113_-_PSG-Montpellier_086.jpg: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin derivative work: ~Pyb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for clermont-ferrand

La Tour Eiffel vue de la Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris août 2014 (2).jpg

Yann Caradec from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for cnc

2018 - Christiansborg from the Marble Bridge.jpg

Moahim · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for cph-dox

Durban from the Balcony (Dennis Sylvester Hurd) 1.jpg

Dennis Sylvester Hurd · CC BY 2.0 · used for dfm

Audience at Dharamshala International Film Festival.jpg

Dpendurty · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for diff

Downtown Hatirjheel.jpg

Meer Sadi · CC BY 4.0 · used for diff-dhaka

Durban from the Balcony (Dennis Sylvester Hurd) 1.jpg

Dennis Sylvester Hurd · CC BY 2.0 · used for diff-durban

London Skyline (125508655).jpeg

Ilya Grigorik · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for doc-society

Anil B. Magar.jpg

ElbortBCyberSec · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for docedge

Culturgest Entrada 01.jpg

GualdimG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for doclisboa

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R1122-031, Dean Reed bei Dokumentar- und Kurzfilmwoche.jpg

Friedrich Gahlbeck · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · used for dok-leipzig

중화전의 낮.jpg

Eunmi Park · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for eidf

David-Hare-Edinburgh-Film-Festival-exterior-2018.jpg

Peter Burnett · CC0 · used for eiff

El Gouna , Egypt.jpg

Ahmed Eissa 424 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for el-gouna

Camps bay (53460319478) (cropped).jpg

Der Berzerker from Washington, DC, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for encounters

Panaji City.JPG

Макс Вальтер · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for esg

Strasbourg Cathedral.jpg

Jonathan Martz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for eurimages

Montreal, Quebec skyline.jpg

Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0 · used for fantasia

FDCP Intramuros.jpg

FDCPH · CC BY 4.0 · used for fdcp

Alimata Salembéré in FESPACO 2019.png

Denise Nebie · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for fespaco

Bukit Bintang junction in 2024 2.jpg

Renek78 · CC0 · used for fff

Statue India Catalina FICCI.JPG

SassiHH · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for ficci

Notre-Dame de la Garde aerial view 2020.jpeg

Earth777 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for fidmarseille

Panorama Fribourg 107.JPG

Norbert Aepli, Switzerland (User:Noebu) · CC BY 2.5 · used for fiff

FFG2025 02.jpg

DirkVE · CC0 · used for film-fest-gent

Luxembourg City Night Wikimedia Commons.jpg

Benh LIEU SONG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for film-fund-luxembourg

La Tour Eiffel vue de la Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris août 2014 (2).jpg

Yann Caradec from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for fondation-gan

Draken, Cinema-04 fragment.jpg

Ronny W · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for goteborg

Rani ki vav 02.jpg

Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for gujarat-film-policy

Forecourt, Rashtrapati Bhavan - 1.jpg

Ronakshah1990 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for habitat

第四十二屆香港國際電影節開幕典禮.jpg

HKIFFMarketing · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for hkiff

Toronto Skyline from Snake Island, September 11 2026 (01).jpg

Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for hot-docs

Imagen de los canales concéntricos en Ámsterdam.png

Andrés Barrios · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for idfa

Mumbai Bandra-Worli Sea Link.jpg

Rutiknatekar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for idpa

Iffk2011 DSCN4599.jpg

Fotokannan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for idsffk

BeachFun.jpg

Sam 8393 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for iffi

Iffk2011 DSCN4599.jpg

Fotokannan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for iffk

Hollywood sign (8485145044).jpg

Gnaphron · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for iffla

Melbourne skyline sor.jpg

Melbpal · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for iffm

A view of Rotterdam, taken from the roof of the Maassilo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.jpg

Rob Oo · CC BY 2.0 · used for iffr

Neues Schloss Schlossplatzspringbrunnen Schlossplatz Stuttgart 2015 01.jpg

Julian Herzog (Website) · CC BY 4.0 · used for iffs

Lisboa - Portugal (52597836992).jpg

Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for indielisboa

Museumsinsel Berlin Juli 2021 1 (cropped) b.jpg

File:Museumsinsel Berlin Juli 2021 1 (cropped).jpg: Kasa Fue derivative work: Georgfotoart · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for interfilm

Historical peninsula and modern skyline of Istanbul.jpg

Hunanuk · CC0 · used for istanbul-ff

Jogja - Tugu Monument (2025) - img 06.jpg

Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 · used for jaff

Otwin at Jagran Film Festival.jpeg

Georg Karl · Public domain · used for jagran

Mumbai Bandra-Worli Sea Link.jpg

Rutiknatekar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for kashish

Kolkata maidan.jpg

NalGup20 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for kiff

Kathmandu-Durbar Square-06-Mahavishnu-Kuh-Vishnu-Pratapamalla-Jagannath-2007-gje.jpg

Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for kimff

Krakow Rynek Glowny panorama 2.jpg

Andrzej Otrębski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for krakow-ff

Sree KSFDC.jpg

Vimaljoseph93 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for ksfdc

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2024.jpg

Helena Melezínková · CC BY-SA 4.0 · used for kviff

La Tour Eiffel vue de la Tour Saint-Jacques, Paris août 2014 (2).jpg

Yann Caradec from Paris, France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · used for la-fabrique

Lahore Fort view from Baradari.jpg

Rohaan Bhatti · CC BY-SA 3.0 · used for licff

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