The main aim of IFIF - Idanha Film and Internet Festival - is to promote one of Portugal´s most beautiful natural and cultural areas, both nationally and internationally, through the means of independent cinema and new technologies. IFIF will be an annual event and a meeting place for representatives of independent film festivals, internet wizards and non-mainstream film directors and producers.

The festivals first edition (2009) will coincide with the VIII European Geoparks Conference, to be held in Idanha-a-Nova in September 2009, and will focus on a theme that is in line with the festival´s paradigm – the conservation of our world´s natural heritage and, more specifically, Geoparks in Europe and around the world.

The opening documentary will be the presentation film of Portugal´s national Geopark Naturtejo. All other Geoparks taking part in the VIII European Geoparks Conference will be invited to exhibit a film/documentary about their region´s Geopark or a subject related to it during special social events open to the general public.

Besides the section focused on the Geopark convention, IFIF´s parallel sections want to represent an alternative world seen through the eyes of national and international independent film festivals. See related website in the 2nd circular.