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Sep 9 - 19, 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
  The big kahuna of Toronto film festivals, this year offering new work from (deep breath) Errol Morris, Mike Leigh, Alex De La Iglesia, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Darren Aronofsky, Frederick Wiseman, Werner Herzog, Jerzy Skolimowski, Kelly Reichardt, Kim Jee-woon, Sion Sono, Tsui Hark, Andrew Lau, Takashi Miike, Jia Zhangke, Hong Sang-soo, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jean-Luc Godard, John Sayles, Ken Loach, Julian Schnabel, Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, John Carpenter, Mark Romanek, Stephen Frears, Danny Boyle, Bent Hamer, Sylvain Chomet, Denis Villeneuve, Francois Ozon, Gregg Araki, Bruce LaBruce, Raul Ruiz, Vincent Gallo, Tom Tykwer, Bruce McDonald, Brad Anderson, Michael Winterbottom, and a heck of a lot more. For the ticketless, there's a series of free movies in the festival's new Lightbox HQ.
Sep 22 - 27, 2010 Commffest
  Bringing communities together through film.
Sep 23 - 26, 2010 Brazilian Film & TV Festival Of Toronto
  The heat of Brazilian cinema holds off the imminent autumn chill.
Sep 23, 2010 Toronto Scream Fest
  Short, sharp jabs of bloody horror.
Sep 30 - Oct 2, 2010 Canadian Sports Film Festival
  Giving the armchair quarterback a festival to call his own.
TBA -- Sep 2010? Kino Kultura
  Polish cinema. Part of the larger Roncesvalles Polish Festival.
TBA -- Sep 2010? Spinning Wheel Film Festival
  Stories illuminating the history and traditions of the Sikh people.
Oct 2 - 3, 2010 Nuit Blanche
  Toronto arists take us deep into the night.
Oct 2 - 8, 2010 Toronto Palestine Film Festival
  Presenting the narrative of a disposessed people.
Oct 13 - 17, 2010 Planet In Focus
  Taking stock of this hunk of rock we call home every autumn.
Oct 15 - 17, 2010 Moving Image Film Festival
  Genres clash on screen.
Oct 16 - 17, 2010 Macedonian Film Festival
  Celebrating Macedonian cinema of both yesteryear and today.
Oct 20 - 24, 2010 ImagineNative
  Aboriginal film and video.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Abilities Arts Festival Film Forums
  Cinema provides the impetus to discuss issues surrounding disability. Part of the larger Abilities Arts Festival.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Brazil Film Fest
  The season's second dose of Brazilian cinema holds off the imminent winter chill.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Cine Cuba Toronto
  Cuban cinema.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Ekran Toronto Polish Film Festial
  Polish cinema returns to Toronto.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Filmi
  South Asian cinema culture.
TBA -- Oct 2010? Indie Can
  Independent Canadian cinema.
TBA -- Oct 2010? MUCK Film Festival
  Movies of uncommon knowledge, confronting assumptions about the world we live in.
Nov 9 - 14, 2010 Reel Asian
  Toronto's annual collection of films from Asia and the Asian diaspora.
Nov 18 - 21, 2010 Alucine
  Presenting the work of Latino film and video makers, mostly docs and shorts, alongside other samples of independent world cinema.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Canadian Labour International Film Festival
  The world of work and those who do it. Free!
TBA -- Nov 2010? Diaspora Film Festival
  Shining the spotlight on the immigrant experience.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Eh! U - Meet The Europeans
  The member countries of the European Union showcase continental culture for the benefit of us in the colonies.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Kino Festival Of Russian Film And Art
  Covering fiction, documentary and even animation, Kino attempts to present a comprehensive portrait of Russian film culture.
TBA -- Nov 2010? New Serbian Film Festival
  The arrival of winter has been known to blow in this showcase of new Serbian cinema.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Reel Awareness - Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival
  Human rights issues on film.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Regent Park Film Festival
  Shining the spotlight of one of Toronto's most notorious neighbourhoods.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Rendezvous With Madness
  Illuminating mental illness and addiction with 10 days of screenings and panel discussions.
TBA -- Nov 2010? Toronto Hispano-American Film Festival
  Recent Hispanic cinema.
TBA -- Dec 2010? Japanese Movie Week
  The Consulate General Of Japan's annual movie week in Toronto.
TBA -- Dec 2010? Romanian Film Festival at Toronto
  Montreal's Romanian Fest makes the trip down the 401.
TBA -- Jan 2011? The 8 Fest
  Small-gauge filmmaking.
TBA -- Feb 2011? Reel Artists Film Festival
  Artists on film. Presented by the Canadian Art Foundation.
TBA -- Feb 2011? The Great Digital Film Festival
  Hollywood film classics screen digitally. Alas, there's precious few titles in the programme that haven't screened on film at the city's repertory cinemas.
TBA -- Feb 2011? Toronto Nepali Film Festival
  Highlighting the political and social developments of Nepal.
TBA -- Feb 2011? Toronto Romanian Film Festival
  Charting the flourishing course of Romanian cinema.
TBA -- Mar 2011? Canadian Music Week
  Toronto's other yearly music festival sports a film sidebar in addition to its performance lineup.
TBA -- Mar 2011? Cinéfranco
  Recent French-language cinema, with a predilection for middle-of-the-road comedies and dramas.
TBA -- Mar 2011? Cinéfranco: Youth Program
  Preceding each year's round-up of recent French-language cinema, Cinefranco reaches out to the city's youth with weekday school group screenings (also open to the general public).
TBA -- Mar 2011? Female Eye
  Femme-lensed pictures are given their due.
TBA -- Mar 2011? Japanese Short Film Festival
  Bite-sized chunks of Japanese cinema.
TBA -- Mar 2011? U Of T Film Fest
  Students past and present of the venerable downtown learning institution showcase their work.
TBA -- Mar 2011? World Of Comedy Film Festival
  Laugh the winter blues away.
TBA -- Apr 2011? 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 2011? Images Festival
  Ten days of artistic-minded image making that run the gamut from intriguing features to experimental shorts and gallery installations.
TBA -- Apr 2011? Reel World Film Festival
  Celebrating cultural diversity through film.
TBA -- Apr 2011? Sprockets
  Seven days of world cinema for children, comprised of both weekday school programmes and weekend screenings for the whole family.
TBA -- Apr 2011? Tibet Film Festival
  Sharing the culture of Tibet with Toronto through recent documentaries and features.
TBA -- Apr 2011? Toronto Jewish Film Festival
  A yearly celebration of worldwide Jewish culture on film.
TBA -- Apr 2011? Toronto Silent Film Festival
  Where the images do the talking.
TBA -- May 2011? 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 2011? Toronto Russian Film Festival
  Post-Soviet Russian cinema.
TBA -- Jun 2011? North By Northeast
  Toronto's annual weekend out at the live music clubs also includes this sidebar of music-related celluloid.
TBA -- Jun 2011? Rehab - Parkdale Film + Video Showcase
  The cinema of Parkdale.
TBA -- Jun 2011? Worldwide Short Film Festival
  Brevity crosses all borders in this yearly helping of cinema for the short of attention.
TBA -- Jul 2011? Human Rights Docfest
  Human rights issues on film.
TBA -- Jul 2011? Shinsedai
  The new generation of Japanese filmmakers.
TBA -- Jul 2011? Toronto Singapore Film Festival
  Singaporean goodies.
TBA -- Jul 2011? Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival
  Young filmmakers look for an audience.
TBA -- Aug 2011? Bicycle Film Festival
  The moving image on two wheels.
TBA -- Aug 2011? Caribbean Tales
  Stories from the islands.
TBA -- Aug 2011? Toronto After Dark
  Eight nights of new horror, fantasy and action cinema.
Out Of Town
Aug 26 - Sep 6, 2010 Montreal
 
Sep 1 - 11, 2010 Venice
 
Sep 24 - Oct 10, 2010 New York
 
Sep 30 - Oct 15, 2010 Vancouver
 
TBA -- Jan 2011? Sundance
 
TBA -- Feb 2011? Berlin
 
TBA -- Mar 2011? SXSW
 
TBA -- Apr 2011? Tribeca
 
TBA -- May 2011? Cannes
 
TBA -- Jul 2011? FanTasia
 
Missing In Action: Toronto
Last Seen: Jun 2009 Reel HeART Film Festival
  Exposing indedendent film, with much "heart" promised.
Last Seen: Jun 2009 Giggleshorts
  Levity meets brevity.
Last Seen: May 2009 Toronto International Deaf Film & Arts Festival
  Films made by deaf and hard of hearing creators.
Last Seen: May 2009 Over The Top
  A companion film festival to the annual all-ages music festival of new and rising acts. Highlights include the Gondry/Carax/Bong omnibus travelogue film Tokyo!, explosive home invasion thriller PVC-1 and Viking flick Severed Ways.
Last Seen: Apr 2009 Si Si Cine
  The one-time shining light of local Spanish-language film festivals has scaled back since the arrival of TILFF.
Last Seen: Mar 2009 Mpenzi Black Women's Festival
  Black women's issues on film.
Last Seen: Mar 2009 Canadian Film Fest
  Homegrown independent cinema is the focus of this annual festival.
Last Seen: Mar 2009 Queer 2 Fly
  Diversity through film.
Last Seen: Feb 2009 Australian Film Weekend
  The cinema of down under warms the frigid Canadian winter. This year's programme includes the Midnight Madness-approved Ozploitation doc Not Quite Hollywood.
Last Seen: Nov 2008 Voices Forward
  Illuminating life in the Middle East via Israeli and Palestinian culture.
Last Seen: Oct 2008 Toronto International Latin Film Festival
  Upstart usurper of the Latin film fest crown, showcasing recent cinema from South America and Europe.
Last Seen: Sep 2008 Student Shorts
  Occupation: student. Output: film. Length: short.
Last Seen: Sep 2008 Microcinefest
  A cornucopia of cinema and video for the TIFF'ed off.
Last Seen: Jun 2008 Toronto Portuguese Film Festival
  Portuguese culture on film.
Last Seen: May 2008 Contact: Films On Photography
  The yearly city-wide photography festival includes a sidebar collection of photo-docs.
Last Seen: Dec 2007 Fantasy Worldwide Film Festival
  Films dealing in fantasy, science fiction and mythology (but drawing the line at horror).
Last Seen: Nov 2007 Bengali Film Festival
  Bengali culture on film.
Last Seen: Oct 2007 DNA Film Festival
  Digital narrative arts.
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: 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 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 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
 
   

Compiled by Don Marks (contact)

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