The San Jose International Short Film Festival screens more than 150 short films over four days every October at Cinemark’s CineArts Theatre at Santana Row in San Jose, California. Ticket sales for the 2026 festival have closed. Thank you to everyone who joined us! Passes for next year’s festival will go on sale here, so check back soon.
Questions about passes, dates or the venue? See our festival FAQ or our First-Timer’s Guide to passes, parking, food and hotels.
The VIP Pass is your ticket to ALL screenings throughout the festival and includes the Opening Night Screening & Afterparty, Access to the VIP Lounge, 1 Festival T-Shirt, Awards Screening & Event and a commemorative pass and lanyard.
$175.00 Valid for every screening block.
BEST VALUE
With nearly 30 individual blocks of films, you can purchase a General Admission Ticket for the films YOU want to see, if you love sci-fi grab a ticket for The World Beyond, if foreign films are your thing then join us for one of the three World Cinema blocks, if you are intrigued by suspenseful / dramatic shorts then watch I’ve got A Bad Feeling About This, plus we have two comedy blocks this year Make ‘Em Laugh and Make ‘Em Laugh: After Dark
$10 – $15 per Ticket.
We get it, you are incredibly busy and now that you are going out again you may only have one day free to attend the festival, or perhaps your friend is coming on Saturday and you want to make a day of it. These Day Passes offer you all six blocks of films on any given day (just select which pass you need) .
Valid for ALL films, during one day of the festival.
$30 – $50 for a Day Pass
Answers to common questions about festival tickets and passes.
The VIP Pass gets you into every screening block of the festival. It also includes the Opening Night Screening & Afterparty, access to the VIP Lounge, a festival T-shirt, the Awards Screening & Event, and a commemorative pass and lanyard. For the 2026 festival, the VIP Pass was $175.
Yes. With nearly 30 blocks of films, you can buy a General Admission ticket for only the programs you want to see. Sci-fi fans can pick The World Beyond, and there are World Cinema blocks for international films. Comedy fans can choose Make ’Em Laugh or Make ’Em Laugh: After Dark. For the 2026 festival, General Admission tickets were $10–$15 each.
A Day Pass gets you into all of the film blocks on one day of the festival, so it’s a good fit if you only have one day free or want to make a day of it with friends. For the 2026 festival, Day Passes were $30–$50.
Ticket sales for the 2026 festival have closed. Passes for next year’s festival will go on sale on this page.
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