By José Alberto Hermosillo
The remarkable compositions of the Official Selection of 2024 are a group of marvelous jewels worthy of a private collection, fragments of a museum exhibit, or a publication with a global outreach. The selected graphics exceeded expectations, and we are pleased to present this fantastic work that integrates the best Film Festival Posters from around the globe and conceptualizes those designs with vast imagination, fantasy, and ingenuity.
Talented artists, graphic designers, editorial groups, and cinephiles presented unique projects that will attract viewers to participate in their cities’ cinematic festivities.
Composing posters is an art that combines the creators’ visual and textual artwork, evoking emotions and effectively providing the right amount of information. In graphic design, poster-making involves intertwining images, fonts, a limited palette of colors, mixed media, and even the absence of colors, which can move the spectator emotionally to a higher inspirational level.
We selected the pieces with a high level of complexity that triggered a massive emotional impact on the viewer. However, if we look closer, we will discover that simplicity is one of the most critical elements in every creation.
Let us take the time to study each piece and its meaning, mainly the ones that focus on the city’s culture, art, political turmoil, historical events, celebrations, anniversaries, and, more importantly, the human touch connecting the festival and its image to the world.
The meaning behind those images is shocking. The wide variety of emotions ranges from the triumphant entrance of a magnificent elephant in Venice to a very diverse group of spectators watching a flick inside a movie theater in New York City. AI generates an image of bookshelves with motives inside, representing each year of the festival’s history connected to a human body in South Korea.
The stories continue, from someone waving a handkerchief that looks like a calla lily in a moving vehicle in Athens to watching heartbeat waves in India. There is also the vivid and colorful image bringing together the South Asian community in Seattle, making an enormous contrast to the glamour of a Hollywood red carpet in HollyShorts.
The Cannes’ powerful still photo taken from Akira Kurosawa’s “Rhapsody in August” offers the image of four children and their grandmother sitting on a bench contemplating the valley where the atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima.
The poetic poster from Trieste, Italy, presents a beautiful and sordid image of two children playing in a peaceful lake in a convulsed Ukraine. The juxtaposition of humans and monarch butterflies in the Mexican/German festival evokes unlimited fantasy. The guerrilla filmmaking from an Argentine documentary festival has the most perfect and powerful vision of the message they want to give across.
Furthermore, it is amusing to be seen among a lively crowd, where an eclectic group of attendants are looking at the viewer in Palm Springs. Even a VHS tape can be attention-grabbing with a creative, nostalgic, and retro graphic design. Finally, the human brain from Colombia can be both bold and exquisitely repulsive.
As the viewer scrolls down the article, they will notice that the posters are ideally and strategically laid according to their level of complexity, beauty and mastery. Even the last ones are exquisitely designed.
Here, you have the work of an entire year selecting sixty-five pieces out of five hundred of The World’s Best Film Festival Posters 2024:
62ND NEW YORK
FILM FESTIVAL
NEW YOUR, NEW YORK
Designed by David Byrne
This complex & full of emotions poster is inspired
by “All things we do inside a
movie theater” besides watching the.
kissing, sleeping, eating, laughing, crying, feeling
terror, joy - we’re in a room with strangers-
all experiencing the same thing.”
14° ATHENS OPEN AIR
FILM FESTIVAL
ATHENS, GREECEDesigned by Vassilis Mexis,
presenting “An intense symbol of freedom &
travel in modern everyday life.”
49. POLISH
FILM FESTIVAL IN GDYNIA
GDYNIA, POLAND
Designed by Ola Jasionowska
The complex & published piece is a representation of
a storyboard with different genres, creating the impression of movement.
TAIPEI
GOLDEN HORSE
FILM FESTIVAL
TAIPEI, TAIWAN
Designed by Yu Jing-Pin from Mix Code Studio
blending image, color & movement harmoniously.
23 FCA
FESTIVAL DE CINE ALEMÁN
CDMX, MEXICO
Designed by Jenín Gardin,
The creative & aesthetic piece is inspired by the word “transformation.”
& in the endangered species of monarch butterflies.
ANIMA
THE BRUSSELS
ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL
FLAGEY, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Designed by Cyril Pedrosa,
presenting a stylish, stunning & futuristic animation.
28 BUCHEON
INTERNATIONAL
FANTASTIC
FILM FESTIVAL
BUCHEON, SOUTH KOREA
Designed by Park Si-young,
A colorful and meaningful creation is based on “Artificial intelligence” & twenty-seven years of
the festival’s history displayed on the bookshelves.
81 MOSTRA
INTERNAZIONALE
D'ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA
LA BIENNALE DI
VENEZIA 2024
VENICE, ITALY
Designed by Lorenzo Mattotti
An optimistic, festive, and entirely original piece with
an elephant in the La-goon with a six-year-old boy,
traveling the paths of fantasy, mystery, and magic
20th ANNUAL
OSCAR-QUALIFYING
HOLLY SHORTS
FILM FESTIVAL
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
Designed by Dalton Corr,
who exquisitely brings Hollywood glamour
with elegance in a short format.
65 THESSALONIKI
INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
THESSALONIKI, GREECE
Designed by Stella Kapezanou
This vivid & festive representation of
a dance-ode to the divine woman,
Mother Nature and the creation.
MIFFEST
MALAYSIA
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA
“Uncaged” departing from conventional boundaries.
NATURE & CULTURE
INTERNATIONAL
POETRY FILM
FESTIVAL
50 FESTIVAL DE HUELVA
CINE IBEROAMERICANO
HUELVA, SPAIN
Artists: Sergio Garcia & Lola Monreal
The lighthouse is a symbol of movement,
welcoming & guiding the sailors to both sides of
the Atlantic Sea, connecting
Spain with Latin America.
48th TELLURIDE
FILM FESTIVALTELLURIDE, COLORADO
Designed by Keaton Dillard,
who won the poster contest with a complex & colorful
piece with a notion of plane/altitude.
74. BERLINALE
BERLIN, GERMANY
Designed by Claudia Schramke,
capturing the true essence of the festival
with its iconic symbol, the bear.
QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS DIRECTORS’
FORTNIGHT
CANNES 2024
CANNES, FRANCE
Artwork by Takeshi Kitano,
who exhibits the poetry, humor & burlesque
of the legendary Japanese filmmaker.
13th LUXOR AFRICAN
FILM FESTIVAL
LUXOR, EGYPT
Designed by Mohamed Abla
A vibrant piece inspired by “All the Colors of Africa.”
4to. FESTIVAL DE CINE
Y VIDEO COMUNITARIO
MOMOXCO 2024
CDMX, MEXICO
Designed by Victor Manuel Elizande Ríos
A chromatic & ethnic work inspired by “graphic identity.”
LOFT
FILM FEST
TUCSON, ARIZONA
Designed by Matt McCoy
The poster captures the vibrant atmosphere
of the festival, incorporating bold imagery,
local hues & symbols harmoniously.
VII FESTIVAL
INTERNACIONAL
DE CINE DE
ALMAGRO
ALMAGRO, SPAIN
Illustrated by Tomás Hijo,
presenting a combination of mystic & artistic elements.
BOGOSHORTS
FESTIVAL DE CORTOS DE BOGOTÁ
22nd EDITION
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Artist/designer Juan Esteban Duke, MOTTIF Studio
A raw, bold, shocking, and exquisitely disgusting
image of a human brain is reaffirmed with
an existentialist quote:
“If you think about it, does it exist?”
SITGES 2021FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINEMA
FANTÁSTICO DE CATALUNYA
CATALUNYA, SPAIN
Image created by the agency CHINA - LLYC, presenting
an attractive gentleman disfigured by products & processes:
35 TRIESTE
FILM FESTIVAL
TRIESTE, ITALY
Autor, Ukrainian Photographer Oleksii Furman,
presenting a photograph of two children swimming
in a river near Chornobyl. The almost plastic
posture of the boy looking up
gives a science of lightness, playfulness, and hope.
ST. ALI
ITALIAN
FILM FESTIVALAUSTRALIA
Designed by Anne Nicholson, Demi Hopkins & Ana May,
“Live La Doce Vita.”
SHORT
CA’ FOSCARI
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
VENICE, ITALY
Autor Manuele Fiori
An unknown traveler arrives in Venice under
the moonlight, the bridges, the red bricks & the white steps
complement this masterpiece in oil.
VIII SKYLINE
BENIDORM
FILM FESTIVAL
BENIDORM, SPAIN
Created by Adrià Ferrer Marquès (aka El Marquès),
blending different scenarios, genres &
iconic cinematic moments to perfection.
23rd CONCORTO
FILM FESTIVAL
PONTENURE, PIACENZA, ITALY
Created by artist Elisa Saitzinger
The fantastic animal is a meaningful flying donkey
in a Romanesque style and Arabic symbolism.
AUROVILLE
FILM FESTIVAL 2024
TAMIL NADU, INDIA
This stunning design based on Sight by WPShower,
is by Brainfever Media Productions.
FESTIVAL DE CINE
EXPERIMENTAL DE
BOGOTÁ
BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Created by LED (Julian Medina).
“Experimentation, freedom & avant-garde.”
18th ANNUAL
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND
FILM FESTIVAL
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
TRANSMUTATION
CONTEMPORARY
FILM FESTIVAL
19th TASVEER
FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
ANNECY 2024
INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION
FILM FESTIVAL
ANNECY, FRANCE
Artist Regina Pessoa
The woman swimming in the lake & the carnations
are making reference to Portugal’s culture.
CLERMONT-FERRAND
INTERNATIONAL SHORT
FILM FESTIVAL 2024
CLERMONT-FERRAND, FRANCE
Designed by Stacey Rozich
The festive piece reflects many of the short stories to be told
and the joy of the people making them & watching.
25th ANNIVERSARY
WOODSTOCK
FILM FESTIVAL
BETHEL, NEW YORK
Designed by actor Matt Dillon with a sublime &
impressionist composition of a road, taking you
to Woodstock.
VII WALLAY!
BARCELONA AFRICAN
FILM FESTIVAL 2024BARCELONA, SPAIN
“The power of beliefs, the profundity of absences,
and the loss of the root knots.”
51st ATHENS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM + VIDEO FESTIVAL
ATHENS, GREECE
Designed by Mohammad Younus Nomani 58th KARLOVY VARY
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVALKARLOVY VARY, CZECHIA
Designed by Jonatan Kuna,
animator Zdeněk Trinkewitz & Aleš Najbrt,
with a minimalistic concept.
72. TRENTO FILM FESTIVAL
CULTURE E MONTAGNE
TRENTO, ITALY
Artist: Ludovica Basso (aka Clorophilla)
The moving piece presents a tribute to the mountains
as a mother figure,
for us to care and respect.
BOLINAS
FILM FESTIVAL
BOLINAS, MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
ALEXANDRIA
SHORT FILM
FESTIVAL
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT
GREEK
FILM FESTIVAL IN BERLIN
BERLIN, GERMANY
Created by visual designer Konstantinos Kamperis.
The watching eye is alert & the
red creatures dance playfully. This year’s festival
motto is “We choose the bloody big screen.”
19th ANNUAL SEEfest
SOUTH EAST EUROPEAN
FILM FESTIVALBEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA
Designed by Elyas Beria,
A cinematic & minimalistic presentation of the rendition of
the “camera obscure” with the palm trees of
Los Angeles and the fabrics representative
of the Southeastern
European countries as branches.
77o CANNES
FILM FESTIVAL
CANNES, FRANCE
Designed by Hartland Villa
(Lionel Avignon, Stefan de Vives)
Presenting a poetic & symbolic still from
Akira Kurosawa’s pacifist film “Rhapsody in August.”
PALM SPRINGS
INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVALPALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
Designed by Shag (Josh Agle),
representing refreshing a scenery
where the viewer can be seen by
a diverse group of sophisticated characters
during the Californian sunny winter.
CORONADO
ISLAND
FILM FESTIVAL
CORONADO, CALIFORNIA
The fun & fine artwork by Nic Ferrari is
celebration of a holiday on the island.
CERTAMEN INTERNACIONAL
DE CORTOS
CIUDAD DE SORIA
SORIA, SPAIN
Designed by María Antonia Stucji Fabbri
"Legacy & Lace."
III PAMPA DOC FEST
COLONIA SANTA TERESA,
PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA
An expressive & dominant image of a documentarian in
action ““breaking the fourth wall” perfectly.
THE 30th
PALM SPRINGS
INTERNATIONAL
SHORT FESTPALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
Designed by Shag (Josh Agle),
displaying a colorful perspective of shooting
on location in the Coachella Valley.
IBERO AMERICAN
FILM FESTIVALMIAMI, FLORIDA
A Flamenco dancer with the symbols of the city.
ACID
CANNES 2024
CANNES, FRANCE
Designer Feline Passei (aka Lemon Fee),
A window wide open on the horizon,
evoking cinema as collectively handmade,
jasmines represent all blooming
promises of films to come.
SCOTTISH
QUEER INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVALGLASGOW, UK
Artwork by Sasha Staicu & SOFSOF
BUÑUEL CALANDA
INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
CALANDA, SPAIN
Artist Juan Luis Buñuel
Portrait of a woman looking at the spectator.
40th CHICAGO LATINO
FILM FESTIVAL
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Designed by the digital artist & videographer James Klein
with a cubist homage to the Ibero-American
women filmmakers.
BLUE MOUNTAIN
FILM + MEDIA
FESTIVAL
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
Created
“See the World Through Blue” to showcase
World cinema to the local community. 17th EDITION
STRASBOURG EUROPEAN
FANTASTIC
FILM FESTIVAL
STRASBOURG, FRANCE
Designed by artist Mahon,
presenting a spectacular car chase.
CURTAS
FESTIVAL DO IMAXINARIO
VILAGARCIA DE ALOUSA, SPAIN
Author Flavio Greco Paglia
The splendid image represents the mythical figure of
Cthulhu - a winged creature with humanoid body -
octopus head and tentacles around the mouth.
It also makes an allusion to the 2001 locally-made
ASWAN
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN
FILM FESTIVAL
AMSTERDAM KEORDISH
FILM FEST
AMSTERDAN, NETHERLANDS
Mother Earth connected to her daughters.
4o FESTIVAL DE CINE
SANTIAGO WILD
SANTIAGO, CHILE
Author Juan Pablo Bascuñan, Ladera Sur.
14o FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE CINE UNAM
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México)
FIC UNAM
CDMX, MEXICO
Jean Leduc Riley working on
fictitious & real beasts as a companion of humans.
PEOPLE OF BRAZIL
FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL DE CINÉMA
DOUARNENEZ
DOUARNENEZ, FRANCE
Desiged by Bel Andrade Lima,
inspired by the participants of the Recife Carnival.
FESTIVAL DE CINE DE
TERROR
DE MOLINS DE REI
MOLIN DE REI, BARCELONA
Designed by Paco Ruiz,
presenting a powerful image of
a Spanish heroine with a chainsaw from the 1970s.
CINEMA LOVE
39 FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL
DE VALENCIA
VALENCIA, SPAIN
Designed by Laura Wächter
who recreates an American theater facade in every
character, the different genres of cinema.
MASON
FILM FESTIVAL
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
Desiged by Emili Rehr
An original & nostalgic image of the VHS Tapes
that takes us back to the late 1970s to the 1990s.
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