Canadian Film Fest (CFF), the indie-spirited festival dedicated to celebrating Canadian filmmakers, today announced its lineup for the 2025 edition of the festival. Celebrating its 19th year, CFF continues to champion and support our country’s creatives and homegrown talent, bringing Canadian stories to Canadian audiences.
Simon TaufiQue is a British Indian, Emmy-nominated and multiple award-winning composer and producer, known for the HBO/Max award-winner, Land of Gold, the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Interpreters, The Weight of Gold (HBO), and Berlinale-winner, She’s Lost Control, and recent Sundance award-winning selection, Ricky.
T. (Todd) Griffin, is a Sundance festival mainstay with 16 consecutive years at Sundance, returns with two projects: MIDDLETOWN, a documentary with a nostalgic score reflecting the early 1990s, and FOLKTALES, a haunting, atmospheric soundtrack for a Norwegian coming-of-age film.
Over the past three decades, KUUMBA has become one the most highly anticipated events to celebrate the creativity and artistic expression of Toronto’s Black diaspora through the multidisciplinary fields of music, theatre, dance, spoken word and more.
Alex visits his newly single mother for a weekend at her beach house. But when he is confronted with her new independence, Alex is forced to face his own controlling nature.
TIFF has announced Canada’s Top Ten, the country’s top 10 feature films and top 10 shorts of 2024, honouring the best in Canadian cinema.
Many of these films have premiered at last year’s TIFF or other festivals. All films are recommended, however, I have curated a list of films that I hope you make it out to.
Bringing you Part 2 In The City series as part of my birthday-celebration of life week.
Sharing some theatre shows that I hope you can make it out to, in the next few weeks. We may not make it to all of these events, but we can certainly try!
Returning to The Theatre Centre after two-years of sold-out runs, Shakespeare BASH’d is set to tackle one of the Bard’s most challenging and controversial plays: The Merchant of Venice.
Returning with my In The City series with a personally curated list of events as part of my birthday-celebration of life week. I am starting with Part 1 as there are many events I want to share with you.
Here, I give you a personally curated list of includes film screenings around Toronto, as well as, films you can screen from the comfort of home.
As always, hope you find some new favourites.
Written and directed by Evelyn Lorena, Gabriela follows a young undocumented Guatemalan woman who dreams of joining a country club swim team in the American South. Despite her single-minded determination, she is soon confronted by her overprotective mother’s fears, the limitations imposed by her economic and legal status, and her own self-judgment.
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