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Upcoming Toronto Festivals
Sep 4 - 13, 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
  The big kahuna of Toronto film festivals.
Sep 26 - 27, 2008 Student Shorts
  Occupation: student. Output: film. Length: short.
TBA -- Sep 2008? Commffest
  Bringing communities together through film.
Oct 1 - 5, 2008 Indie Can
  Independent Canadian cinema.
Oct 4 - 5, 2008 Nuit Blanche
  Arists take us deep into the night.
Oct 15 - 19, 2008 ImagineNative
  Aboriginal film and video.
Oct 17 - 24, 2008 Toronto After Dark
  Seven wild nights of new horror and fantasy cinema, ranging from the big budget Russian fantasy epic Wolfhound to nutbar Korean animation Aachi & Ssipak to bad-boy auteur Shinya Tsukamoto's latest Nightmare Detective.
Oct 18 - 19, 2008 Macedonian Film Festival
  Celebrating Macedonian cinematic history.
Oct 22 - 26, 2008 Planet In Focus
  Taking stock of this hunk of rock we call home every autumn.
TBA -- Oct 2008? DNA Film Festival
  Digital narrative arts.
TBA -- Oct 2008? Japanese Movie Week
  The Consulate General Of Japan's annual movie week in Toronto.
TBA -- Oct 2008? Kino Festival Of Russian Film And Art
  Covering fiction, documentary and even animation, Kino attempts to present a comprehensive portrait of Russian film culture.
Oct 31 - Nov 8, 2008 Toronto International Latin Film Festival
  Upstart usurper of the Latin film fest crown, showcasing recent cinema from South America and Europe.
Nov 6 - 15, 2008 Rendezvous With Madness
  Illuminating mental illness and addiction with 10 days of screenings and panel discussions.
Nov 12 - 16, 2008 Reel Asian
  Toronto's annual collection of films from Asia and the Asian diaspora.
Nov 16 - 30, 2008 Eh! U - Meet The Europeans
  The member countries of the European Union showcase continental culture for the benefit of us in the colonies.
Nov 20 - 29, 2008 Alucine
  Presenting the work of Latino film and video makers, mostly docs and shorts, alongside other samples of independent world cinema.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Bengali Film Festival
  Bengali culture on film.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Brazilian Film Festival
  Brazilian cinema holds off the imminent winter chill.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Diaspora Film Festival
  Shining the spotlight on the immigrant experience.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Japanese Short Film Festival
  Bite-sized chunks of Japanese cinema.
TBA -- Nov 2008? New Serbian Film Festival
  The arrival of winter has been known to blow in this showcase of new Serbian cinema.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Projections 2: An International Disability Film Festival
  Cinema provides the impetus to discuss issues surrounding disability. Part of the larger Abilities Arts Festival.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Reel Awareness - Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival
  Human rights issues on film.
TBA -- Nov 2008? Spinning Wheel Film Festival
  Stories illuminating the history and traditions of the Sikh people.
TBA -- Dec 2008? Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival
  Films dealing in fantasy, science fiction and mythology (but drawing the line at horror).
TBA -- Feb 2009? Australian Film Weekend
  The cinema of down under warms the frigid Canadian winter.
TBA -- Feb 2009? Reel Artists Film Festival
  Artists on film. Presented by the Canadian Art Foundation.
TBA -- Feb 2009? The 8 Fest
  Small-gauge filmmaking.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Canadian Filmmaker's Festival
  New homegrown fare.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Canadian Music Week
  Toronto's other yearly music festival adds a film sidebar to its performance lineup.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Cinéfranco
  Recent French-language cinema, with a predilection for comedies and dramas.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Female Eye
  Femme-lensed pictures are given their due.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Mpenzi Black Women's Festival
  Black women's issues on film.
TBA -- Mar 2009? Queer 2 Fly
  Diversity through film.
TBA -- Mar 2009? U Of T Film Fest
  Students past and present of the venerable downtown learning institution showcase their work.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Hot Docs
  Ten days of reality-based cinema. The cream of the Sundance/SXSW/Tribeca slate, plus many World and North American premieres.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Images Festival
  Ten days of artistic-minded image making ranging from intriguing features to experimental shorts and gallery installations.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Mayworks
  This annual celebration of labour, art and politics usually includes a couple of thematically appropriate film screenings.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Over The Top
  The all-ages music festival of rising acts adds a companion film festival.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Reel World Film Festival
  Celebrating cultural diversity through film.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Sprockets
  Ten days of world cinema for children, including weekday school programmes and weekend screenings for the whole family.
TBA -- Apr 2009? Toronto Singapore Film Festival
  A full day of Singaporean goodies.
TBA -- May 2009? Canadian Sports Film Festival
  Giving the armchair quarterback a festival to call his own.
TBA -- May 2009? Contact: Films On Photography
  The yearly city-wide photography festival includes a sidebar collection of photo-docs.
TBA -- May 2009? Inside Out Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
  Eleven days of the queer experience, mixing films that tackle the subject head on with works that have a more tangential relationship to gay culture.
TBA -- May 2009? Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival
  Recent Hispanic cinema.
TBA -- May 2009? Toronto Jewish Film Festival
  A yearly celebration of worldwide Jewish culture on film.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Bicycle Film Festival
  The moving image on two wheels.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Italian Film Festival
  Summer in Italy, but in Toronto.
TBA -- Jun 2009? North By Northeast
  Toronto's annual weekend out at the live music clubs also includes this sidebar of music-related celluloid.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Reel HeART Film Festival
  Exposing indedendent film, with much "heart" promised.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Rehab - Parkdale Film + Video
  The cinema of Parkdale.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Toronto Portuguese Film Festival
  Portuguese culture on film.
TBA -- Jun 2009? Worldwide Short Film Festival
  Brevity crosses all borders in this yearly helping of cinema for the short of attention.
TBA -- Jul 2009? Caribbean Tales
  Stories from the islands.
TBA -- Jul 2009? Giggleshorts
  Levity meets brevity.
TBA -- Aug 2009? Filmi
  South Asian cinema culture.
Out Of Town
Aug 21 - Sep 1, 2008 Montreal
 
Aug 27 - Sep 6, 2008 Venice
 
Sep 25 - Oct 10, 2008 Vancouver
 
Sep 26 - Oct 12, 2008 New York
 
Jan 15 - 25, 2009 Sundance
 
Feb 5 - 15, 2009 Berlin
 
Mar 13 - 21, 2009 SXSW
 
May 13 - 24, 2009 Cannes
 
TBA -- Apr 2009? Tribeca
 
TBA -- Jul 2009? FanTasia
 
Missing In Action: Toronto
Last Seen: Mar 2007 World Of Comedy Film Festival
  Laugh the winter blues away.
Last Seen: May 2007 Voices Forward
  Illuminating life in the Middle East via Israeli and Palestinian culture.
Last Seen: Jun 2007 Balkan Film Festival
  The countries of south-eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Turkey) represent themselves cinematically.
Last Seen: May 2007 Hong Kong Film Festival
  Ten years after the handover of the Hong Kong territory to mainland China, U of T's Asian Institute shares a decade of film industry highlights with Toronto audiences.
Last Seen: Mar 2007 Si Si Cine
  The stalwart Spanish-language film festival returns with a mini Spring edition in hopes of making us salivate for a longer entry in the fall.
Last Seen: Feb 2007 Prisoner's Justice Film Festival
  Prison activism through cinema.
Last Seen: Nov 2006 Toronto Arab Film Festival
 
Last Seen: Nov 2006 ResFest
  Digitally yours. Music videos, shorts and more.
Last Seen: Nov 2006 Regent Park Film Festival
  Shining the spotlight of one of Toronto's most notorious neighbourhoods.
Last Seen: Nov 2006 Moving Pictures
  Moving bodies meet the moving image, dance meets film.
Last Seen: Sep 2006 RebelFest
  Feeding off TIFF's considerable profile.
Last Seen: Sep 2006 First Take
 
Last Seen: Aug 2006 Young Cuts
  Young filmmakers step into the spotlight.
Last Seen: Jun 2006 Splice This!
  Toronto's annual celebration of small-gauge filmmking.
Last Seen: Jun 2006 Female Eye
  Femme-lensed pictures are given their due.
Last Seen: Oct 2005 Tibet Film Festival
  Sharing the culture of Tibet with Toronto through documentaries and recent feature films.
Last Seen: Jun 2005 Festival Of Italian Cinema
  Upstart competitor in the Italian festival space.
Last Seen: May 2005 Classic Movie Festival
  Classics both remebered and forgotten, B-movies and seminal works of noted directors.
Last Seen: Apr 2005 Jack Layton Film Festival
  The leader of Canada's NDP political party lends his name to this iconoclastic collection of films promoting "social democracy, the human condition, peace, love & understanding and maybe even a laugh or two".
Last Seen: Jun 2004 Sex And Death
 
Last Seen: Apr 2004 Get Reel
 
Last Seen: Feb 2003 Polish Film Festival
 
Last Seen: Jan 2003 Iced In Black
 
Last Seen: Sep 2002 Planet Indie
 
Last Seen: Sep 2002 Counting Past 2
 
Last Seen: Aug 2002 Teen Movie Festival
 
Last Seen: Jul 2002 BritPics
 
Last Seen: Oct 2001 Digital Image Festival
 
   

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