Toronto Film Week

Toronto Film Week

The Toronto Film Week is an annual week-long event showcasing independent films with an edge. The event was created by independent filmmakers, for independent filmmakers, with the sole purpose to showcase and screen new and upcoming talent.

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Toronto Film Week
  • Ottilie Moore’s Protégé Charlotte Salomon (United States) by Dana Plays

    Charlotte Salomon embarked on the creation of widely eccentric artistic endeavor to save her own life after learning she was the sole survivor of her maternal line all of whom committed suicide. That endeavor was Life? or Theater? – an epic autobiographical work of art created by German-Jewish a...

  • Home (Belgium) by Hanne Schillemans, Ralph Timmermans

    Home is a short film about the fragility of life and the virtue of solitude. A faceless figure attempting not to resist the endless waves of pointlessness. Home explores the tension between presence and absence within the strange choreography of existing. The protagonist’s nudity, devoid of eroti...

  • Kissing Ralph (United States) by Daniel Lewinstein

    Kissing Ralph explores the anxiety of intimacy, from the point-of-view of an alien struggling to participate in human rituals of love, sex, and family life.
    Running time: 00:40:00

  • Dragonfly (Shanghai) by Edward Liu

    Great-grandson Zhou Zihang has only two memories of his great-grandmother - her funeral and a contact. Unable to remember season and weather, he only remembers the persimmons that were handed to him and the unexplained crying
    Running time: 00:19:26

  • Release (Hungary) by Zoltan Gergely Szabo

    A young man is in prison instead of his brother because he took the punishment on his behalf. A mysterious visitor arrives to persuade him to make a new confession. However, the tempter fails to achieve his goal.
    Running time: 00:10:09