Durban International Film Festival

Durban International Film Festival
DIFF2012 Poster
Location	Durban, South Africa
Founded	1979
No. of films	2012 edition, 171 films were screened, feature films, documentaries, short films and surf films.
Website	http://www.durbanfilmfest.co.za

The Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is an annual film festival that takes place in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. It is one of the oldest (33rd edition in 2012, created in 1979, Fespaco created in 1969) and largest film festival in Southern Africa and presents over 200 screenings celebrating the best in South African, African and international cinema. Most of the screenings are either African or South African premieres. The festival also offers filmmaker workshops, industry seminars, discussion forums, and outreach activities that include screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent, and much more including Talent Campus Durban and a Durban FilmMart co-production market.

The festival offers many competition sections and some of the prizes have cash attached. Since 2006, Amnesty International via the Durban Amnesty group, has also sponsored a cash prize called the Amnesty International Durban Human Rights Award.

Since 2005 DIFF serves as the South African launch for the Wavescape Surf Film Festival.

Talent Campus Durban, in cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, was a new initiative in 2008. and ran its fifth edition in 2012.

Durban FilmMart, a co-production finance forum, launched in 2010. It is run in partnership with the City of Durban's Durban Film Office.

External links

Durban International Film Festival
Awards	Best Feature Film Best South African Feature Film Best Documentary Best South African Documentary Best Direction The DIFF Audience Award
By years	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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