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
  • Insanely Perfect (Slovakia) by Lukáš Vízner, Miriam Fulmeková

    The Weisses, a well-respected, high-ranking family, are having a luxurious dinner. When an unexpected phone call triggers the mother's sudden announcement of her departure, a web of mysterious relationships begins to unravel.
    Running time: 00:30:00

  • Knife, Chocolate (Iran) by Hooshmand Varaei

    The son of the family is antisocial, psychotic, skeptic and sexist who judges women by the smell of their cosmetics! He believes that the smell of a decent woman’s cosmetics is different from an indecent one! He even classifies bees.
    Running time: 00:15:00

  • Hands (Portugal) by Filipe Piteira

    Hands are the connection and the path between the body and soul. The mode of search and self-knowledge, which is intuitive and sensorial, with them, discovering and transcending themselves. It is the receptive and restless mind that transforms hands into instruments of grace.
    Running time: 00:07:00

  • Above Us (United States) by Freddie Paull

    Unified by a rare cosmic event, the eyes of New York City gaze up to the sky for a fleeting moment of calm - the last of its kind for another 55 years.
    Running time: 00:06:30

  • Omens (Belgium) by Maya Wuytack

    In a rough, deserted no man's land, seven bodies are washed ashore. The desolate landscape reveals glimpses of an unpredictable era. When they gain consciousness they find themselves between a visible and invisible world. The poetic journey unfolds between what seems to be a dream and their dream...

  • Quadratura (Italy) by Sara Bonaventura

    Inspired by dark ecology and the Mandel'štam's poem of the voice over, the 16mm film evokes the loop of systemic predator-prey models, starting from microscopic beings - didinium and paramecium - passing through plankton, jellyfish, insects, fish, crustaceans and human apex predators.
    Running tim...