Toronto Short Film Festival (T.O. SHORT)

Come and celebrate the return of movies on The Big Screen. Support your local filmmakers as well as The Art of The Short Film. We look forward to seeing you at the Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor Street West (@ Ossington). The three "block of Shorts" commence daily at 6:15 pm: 7:45 pm and 9:15 pm. Sunday matinee starts at 1 pm.

Since 2015, the Toronto Short Film Festival (aka "T.O. Short") has showcased hundreds of mini-movies to sold-out Toronto cinema audiences every March.

We have screened the works of local filmmakers as well as from across Canada, the United States and 'The Rest of the World'. We have hosted filmmakers from Vancouver to St. John's; Florida to Los Angeles; France to Australia.

The festival is a hub for local filmmakers to celebrate their premieres,
thank their cast and crew, and meet their fans. International filmmakers
travel to Toronto to represent their films to a genre-savvy Toronto
audience, and film fans of all kinds pack into sold-out screenings to enjoy the very best of short form.

Toronto Short screens more than 100 short films every festival - 117 this year - making it
the biggest short film festival in Toronto. (every film is selected from submissions via FilmFreeway.)

Toronto Short alumni have gone on to enjoy frequent screenings on the
wider festival circuit, garnered numerous awards for their work, and gone on to bigger projects with collaborators found at the festival.

SHOWTIMES:

Saturday March 18th

6:15 PM- 7:30 PM: Block #1

7:45 PM- 9 PM: Block #2

Twenty-Seven by Stanford Theodore Gough | Virtual G I R L by Connie Ellen, Glachan Cloneliness by Joel Marsh, Ben Crowell | Swimmer by Duane Crichton | Tabanca by Lauren Marsden | Freshly Brewed by Leah Renaud, Maria Nicole Lepore | Dandelion Green by Kathleen Burgess

9:15 PM-10:30 PM: Block #3 Experimental Shorts

Sunday March 19th

1:00 PM-2:15 PM: Block #4 Documentaries

2:30 PM-3:45 PM: Block #5

4:00 PM-5:15 PM : Block #6

6:15 PM-7:30 PM: Block #7

7:45 PM-9 PM: Block #8

Near and Far by Vasilis Glezakos | Intuition by Intuition by Sadé Awele, Bruna Arbex, Marginal Factory Production | Anthony & Ben Ruin the Universe - No Fee Too Small by Mark Syer | Flames by Matthew Manhire | Happy for You by Francis Luta | Persistence by Krista Barzso, Neil Schell | A Talk in the Park by Zach Marsh | Wild Music by Jaymz Bee

9:15 PM-10:30 PM: Block #9 Horror

Monday March 20th

6:15 PM-7:30 PM: Block #10

The Heart of Ravenscrag by Dale Hildebrand | Nothing to See Here by Marc Ignacio | Hot & Bothered by Jill Riley, Caitlin McConkey-Pirie | Buon Ferragosto by Claudia Miatello | Can I Help You? by CinePsych led by Nadeem Akhtar | Free (Asatoma Mantra Mix) by Rhea Mehta, Negin Sairafi | A Vegan Love Story by Daniela Di Salvo | The Second Hand by Tristan Hamburgh | A Man Walks Into a Bar by Adam Gaudreault

7:45 PM-9 PM: Block #11

9:15 PM-10:30 PM: Block #12 Documentaries Part Deux

Riverdale Park by George Tang, Zoe Zhou | Behind The Berms by Natalie Castellino, Matthew Higginson | The Farm-acist by Allison Fripps | Pop Shuv by Brandon Cole More Than Gold: The Story of The Yukon Soaps Company by Jesse Blight | Rising (Lil Berete) by Avery Harris Stedman | We Went Out by Ian Kamau | Doing It For Love: Vines Art Festival; Stories from Creative Communities in a Global Pandemic by Israel Seoane

Tuesday March 21st

6:15 PM-7:30 PM: Block #13

Life Is A Gift by Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad, Mu Knowles Fugly by Nicholas Ewart | The Time Is Right by Diane Carol Harder | We Are The Land by Morag Megan Northey, Max Winona Chu | Underpaint by Anna Hopkins | Little Bird by Tee Schneider | Tapeboy by King Dawit