Screening Series of the Week
Elevation Pictures
The best film festivals happening in Toronto in October 2019
How many film festivals can one city fit into a month? Here is a guide to those jockeying for your attention Read more
Five must-see films at the 2019 Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Including a documentary about Fiddler On The Roof and a drama about the making of Casablanca Read more
Samuel Engelking
An inside look at the 2019 Images Festival
Artistic director Steffanie Ling walks us through Toronto's annual showcase of experimental film, new media and performance Read more
Samuel Engelking
What to see at the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival
College basketball star Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir is among the guests attending the 16th annual event, which takes place at TIFF Bell Lightbox Read more
Hot Docs celebrates Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's film work
The documentary cinema is screening two films directed by the late rapper as part of its music-focused screening series This Film Should Be Played Loud Read more
Courtesy of Water Docs
What to see at Water Docs Film Festival 2019
The eighth-annual event screens films that focus on water issues and their ripple effects Read more
Samuel Engelking
What to see at the 2019 Canadian Film Fest
The indie film event is opening with Shane Belcourt’s Red Rover starring Orphan Black’s Kristian Bruun Read more
What to see at the 2019 What The Film Festival
A Bread Factory, Patrick Wang's four-hour indie about a community theatre threatened by gentrification, opens the annual outsider film fest at the Royal Read more
Samuel Engelking
Toronto Black Film Festival spotlights emerging talent
The annual event opens with Ellen: The Ellen Pakkies Story and features special tribute and discussion with #MeToo Founder Tarana Burke Read more
George Gardiner
Dissecting the design in Elizabeth Taylor's camp classic Boom!
Critic Nathalie Atkinson's screening series about art direction, sets and costume design is going deep into the notorious 1968 drama Read more
Samuel Engelking
The upstart Pendance Film Festival is aiming big
The second annual event prides itself on curating new films that haven’t screened at other Toronto festivals – namely TIFF Read more
Columbia Pictures
Toronto really likes Penny Marshall's A League Of Their Own
Podcast We Really Like Her! is hosting a memorial screening of the late director's baseball comedy classic Read more
Grasshopper Film
Blake Williams's 3D film Protoype gets a rare screening at the Royal
The Toronto filmmaker's hypnotic experimental feature is playing locally for the first time since 2017 Read more
New movie series wants to make you feel like you've stayed up all night
This weekend at the Royal Cinema, get an adrenaline rush by watching After Hours, Before Sunrise and other films that all take place in one night Read more
The six films you need to see at TIFF's James Gray retrospective
The director's sci-fi epic Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, opens in May. But here, in order of must-see-ness, are a half dozen of his best films to watch before then. Read more
American Genre Film Archives
Holiday horror movie Dial Code Santa Claus returns to Toronto
Laser Blast Film Society is screening a newly remastered version of René Manzor’s 1989 film – essentially an R-rated Home Alone – at the Royal Read more
Samuel Engelking
What to watch at the 2018 Jayu Human Rights Film Festival
Seventh annual event to screen documentaries on transgender people in the U.S. military, three violent years in Baltimore and the aftermath of a hate crime Read more
Samuel Engelking
Seminal Toronto punk scene doc The Last Pogo turns 40
The expanded version of Colin Brunton's short doc about an infamous Horseshoe Tavern concert in 1978 celebrates a milestone at the Revue Cinema Read more
Samuel Engelking
Screening spotlight: Shorts That Are Not Pants morphs into a film fest
The short film series goes big with 50 films screening over two days, including Oscar hopeful Souls Of Totality starring Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen Read more
Samuel Engelking
Film festival of the week: Regent Park Film Festival
Toronto’s longest-running free community film fest tackles gentrification, community building and inequality Read more