TIFF can be exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and frankly, a little chaotic… Sometimes all in the same day!
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TIFF can be exciting, overwhelming, exhausting and frankly, a little chaotic… Sometimes all in the same day!
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The Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) marks its 13th year with another full program of works from emerging Canadian Filmmakers.
FOFS focuses on works from filmmakers at a crucial stage in their emergence as artists and storytellers, as well as elevating work by women, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and other emerging creatives from traditionally marginalized communities.
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Hot Docs has announced the winning documentaries from this year’s official competition. The awards recognize utstanding achievements of Canadian and international filmmakers with films screening throughout this year’s Festival. A total of 12 awards, along with $67,000 in cash and prizes, was celebrated at the Hot Docs 2026 Awards Presentation.
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Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival returns this year with 115 documentaries representing 51 countries featuring World and North American premieres.
Like previous years, Hot Docs offers us a full menu when it comes to documentary films. As it has become my custom, I am sharing some of my personal picks for you to add to your Hot Docs lists.
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As Ukrainian filmmakers continue documenting life under Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Toronto Ukrainian Film Festival (TUFF) co-presented with St. Volodymyr Institute (SVI) will present a powerful lineup of award-winning films from Cannes, TIFF, and major international festivals.
This year’s program brings together formally daring documentaries, narrative features, and darkly comic works, offering Canadian audiences an urgent window into contemporary Ukrainian life.
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Canadian Film Fest (CFF), the indie-spirited festival dedicated to celebrating Canadian filmmakers, marks a milestone with their 20th anniversary edition. Celebrating two decades of bringing Canadian stories to Canadian audiences, CFF will present 16 features and 40 shorts from filmmakers across the country continuing its mission to showcase homegrown voices on the big screen.
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Canada’s Top Ten celebrates the year’s most outstanding Canadian feature films and shorts.
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The Breakthroughs Film Festival (BFF) is the only festival in Canada devoted exclusively to short films by emerging women and gender-diverse filmmakers.
BFF’s mission to program independent films by emerging artists whose voices, perspectives, and artistic approaches counter dominant mainstream narratives continues to drive this year’s lineup. This year’s festival theme addresses Resistance, which can be explored through varied stories.
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In There Are No Words, filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns inward to confront and explore silence, memory, and grief across continents in a poetic meditation on personal and communal loss and family legacy.
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Finch and Midland is an intersection in Scarborough. Like other intersections in the suburbs of Canada’s largest city, this intersection also has many a story to tell. In Finch & Midland, writer/director Timothy Yeung focuses on four stories from the wave of Hong Kong immigrants who came to Canada in the 1990s hoping for a new life.
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