The Montgomery International Film Festival (MIFF) is an event held in Montgomery County, Maryland, that aims to engage, educate, and empower individuals and the community to express diverse viewpoints through film. The festival's theme, "Return to Art Noumenon," emphasizes the awareness of achievement in the art house film industry globally. MIFF fosters a community of filmmakers and brings together distributors, filmmakers, media, and fans to achieve global awareness of art films. The festival recruits one hundred student judges from around the world to evaluate and score submitted films, with an annual awards ceremony to honor winning films.