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Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Founded | 2004 |
Language | English |
Website | www |
The Canadian Film Festival, formerly known as the Canadian Filmmakers Festival, is an annual film festival in Toronto, Ontario. [1] Showcasing a program of Canadian independent films, [2] it is held in March of each year and usually runs for five days.
The festival was launched in 2004, and ran annually until 2008 at the Royal Cinema. [3] Although not staged between 2009 and 2011, it was relaunched in 2012 and has run annually since. [4] The festival has been staged at the Scotiabank Theatre since 2017. [5]
The festival was formed in association with the Toronto International Film Festival Group, but operates independently of TIFF. It serves commonly, but not exclusively, as the Toronto premiere venue for films which premiered elsewhere on the Canadian or international film festival circuits in the previous year but have not yet screened in Toronto, although it also serves as the premiere venue for some films.
The 2020 festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada; instead, the organizers partnered with the pay TV service Super Channel to provide television and streaming broadcasts of the films that had been slated to screen at the festival. [6] With the pandemic continuing into 2021, festival organizers again partnered with Super Channel to present the 2021 edition of the festival under the same model. [7]
Year | Film | Director | Ref |
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2004 | Expiration | Gavin Heffernan | [ citation needed ] |
2005 | The Overlookers | Christopher Warre Smets | [8] |
2006 | The End of Silence | Anita Doron | [9] |
2007 | The Zero Sum | Raphael Assaf | [ citation needed ] |
2008 | The Last Hit Man | Christopher Warre Smets | [8] |
2012 | A Little Bit Zombie | Casey Walker | [10] |
2013 | The Storm Within (Rouge sang) | Martin Doepner | [11] |
2014 | Patch Town | Craig Goodwill | [12] |
2015 | Ben's at Home | Mars Horodyski | [13] |
2016 | How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town | Jeremy Lalonde | [14] |
2017 | Great Great Great | Adam Garnet Jones | [15] |
2018 | The Drawer Boy | Arturo Pérez Torres | [16] |
2019 | The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova | Zack Bernbaum | [17] |
2020 | Shoot to Marry | Steve Markle | [18] |
2021 | Sugar Daddy | Wendy Morgan | [19] |
2022 | Carmen | Valerie Buhagiar | [20] |
2023 | Babysitter | Monia Chokri | [21] |
2024 | With Love and a Major Organ | Kim Albright | [22] |
Several films had been planned for the festival lineup, but were not able to be screened due to the shift from physical to broadcast screening. However, the films were still screened for the jury, and remained eligible for the festival awards.