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The Cinema Studies Institute and the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies present a free screening of Romanian director, Radu Jude's 2023 film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End… Continue Reading Radu Jude’s DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD! screening

Monologue, memoir, a feast of word-fun, and a deep-hearted treat for bookworms –– or for anyone who's ever lost someone or something they loved. From storyteller Corin Raymond comes a… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival 2024: Bookmarks with Corin Raymond

Amidst a world of bedtime stories that capture our imagination, transport us to other worlds, and lure us into a deep and lasting slumber, emerges a wake-up story. This immersive… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival 2024: Within Our Lifetime: A Wake-Up Story with Mathura

Discover how my childhood in a Thorncliffe Park apartment sparked the instinct to gather people and curate experiences of shared magic. Part lecture, part adventure, join me on a colourful… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival 2024: Make More Magic: My Life in Wonder Activism

Ready to unleash your inner firestarter? Join us for a scintillating fireside chat with two dynamic visionaries: Ivory, a powerhouse performer with a flair for the extraordinary, and Sapphira, a… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival 2024: Blaze Your Trail: A Fireside Conversation with Ivory and Sapphira

Despite being part of a young generation of Palestinians whose families chose to stay and challenge the Israeli state after its creation in 1948, 17-year-old Tamer and his friends are… Continue Reading Provocation Ideas Festival 2024: Palestinian film screened in partnership with the Toronto Arab Film Festival

One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the… Continue Reading Mayworks Festival 2024: Battle Of Algiers screening

Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income… Continue Reading Mayworks Festival 2024: La Haine screening

Speakers David Sector Chris Dupuis Description A free screening of Winter Kept Us Warm on the 60th anniversary of the making of this grandparent of English Canadian queer cinema on the very campus where… Continue Reading CSI presents: Winter Kept Us Warm screening

Asian Heritage Month Series: Us Among the Mountains and Rivers In a world where the pace of life seems to perpetually accelerate, physically or sensually, what grounds us amidst the… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Kaili Blues

Asian Heritage Month Series: Us Among the Mountains and Rivers In a world where the pace of life seems to perpetually accelerate, physically or sensually, what grounds us amidst the… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: All About ING

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Official Selection, True/False Film Festival Official Selection, Docaviv Film Festival "A remarkably funny, bittersweet film about beautiful, flawed people." (Columbia Tribune) After Kit, a young filmmaker, is diagnosed with terminal… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Red Herring

Despite not being Jewish, Terry Neville protects, maintains and lives at Radlett Synagogue in Hertfordshire, England. Through the perspective of this fascinating, funny and charming caretaker, Shabbos Goy explores the beauty of… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Shabbos Goy

Tomorrow's Freedom reveals a man with a steadfast dream for the liberation of Palestine. This film screening is followed by a discussion. Made over the course of 5 years, the… Continue Reading Mayworks Festival 2024: Tomorrow’s Freedom screening

In this irreverent comedy set in 1989 during the final days of South African apartheid, teenage best friends Jeffrey and Brad find themselves in the middle of history unfolding —… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Just Now Jeffrey

In 1942, on a train to nowhere, a former drag queen remembers a night from her past in one of Paris' first queer bars. Remnants of customer gossip recall this… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Maurice’s Bar

Born in Romania in 1954, Amos Guttman would go on to become one of the most singular directors in Israeli cinema. Centred around the last interview Guttman gave before dying… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Taboo – Amos Guttman

Acclaimed filmmaker Michael Winterbottom sets this fact-based film in British Mandate Palestine, combining the elements of a political thriller with a love story. British police officers Thomas Wilkin and Geoffrey… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Shoshana

Liverpool, 1947. Two British soldiers are kidnapped and murdered in British Mandate Palestine. In the aftermath of the so-called ‘Sergeants Affair,’ a wave of antisemitic riots sweep across the UK.… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Soldier On Smithdown Road(short)

Prepare to meet the group of friends you wish you had. Full of heart, this Vancouver documentary follows a community of leftists who have maintained a 35-year tradition of gathering… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Anarchist Lunch

“After surviving the Siberian winters, Winnipeg was a breeze.” Meet the endearing Sol, Sally, Anne and Ruth of Winnipeg, who discovered newfound celebrity as the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Crossing The River

Set in Rio de Janeiro in 1917, this period drama follows a woman’s fight to give her son a better future. Arriving from Poland to be reunited with her husband… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Polish Woman

150 minutes | 2019 | Fiction | Mandarin, Hangzhou Dialect | English and Chinese Subtitles Toronto Premiere The 72nd Cannes Film Festival–Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) Selection The… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountain

Winner of 10 Ophir awards and Israel’s submission to the Oscars, Seven Blessings unfolds over a riotous week of “sheva brachot,” seven nights where two newlyweds are honoured with festive dinners. What… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Seven Blessings

Online & in-person  |  June 7, 2024 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM External Event Location: Town Hall (IN112), Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 and online via Zoom Oleksandra Matviichuk is a… Continue Reading What Ukraine’s Case Teaches Us About Morality, Law and Humanity

The Mourning Suit is the first feature film shot in Winnipeg, and the first film made with the newly formed Winnipeg Film Group. Allan Moyle (star of Montreal Main and future director of New… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Mourning Suit

A celebration of the beloved cult comedy series about a dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. At 15 years old, Sheldon Blecher (Jesse Camacho) has finally had his bar mitzvah, but… Continue Reading TJFF presents: Less Than Kind

Having given birth a week ago, Mila is preparing, with her partner Joaquim, for their son's circumcision. Although she had never previously questioned the practice, the arrival of her baby… Continue Reading TJFF presents: No Harm Done

"A stark, gripping courtroom drama.” (The Hollywood Reporter) "A mirror raised to our current times." (Cineuropa) Selected to open Critics' Week at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, this gripping courtroom… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Goldman Case

144 minutes | 2023 | Fiction | Mandarin | English Subtitles Toronto Premiere Director ZHANG Lü was born in Yanbian, China, in 1962. Before his film career began, he taught… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: The Shadowless Tower

Writer-director Nicolas Pariser channels the spirits of Hitchcock and Chabrol in this stylish romantic thriller. When an actor is poisoned and dies midway through a performance at the Comédie Française… Continue Reading TJFF presents: The Green Perfume

JIA Zhangke 154 minutes | 2000 | Fiction | Shanxi Dialect | English Subtitles Director JIA Zhangke was born in 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi Province of China. He graduated from… Continue Reading Mulan Film Festival presents: Platform

Join Spring Magazine and the Canadian Labour International Film Festival for this special Pride Month-screening of the award-winning 2014 film, Pride! Pride tells the inspiring true story of Lesbians &… Continue Reading Spring Magazine and CLIFF Present: 10th Anniversary Screening of Pride

Join us for a Rotman Documentary Insights presentation of "Crush: Message in a Bottle" followed by a panel with Q&A and wine tasting.