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Black film festival offers insights From Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary
Toronto Black Film Festival
Wed., Feb. 16 – Mon., Feb. 21
Virtual film festival
$9 – $15 for individual tickets, $99 for festival passes
torontoblackfilm.com
The Toronto Black Film Festival returns for its 10th edition with a week of virtual programming streaming right to your living room. With over 200 films from 30 participating countries, viewers can choose from narratives to documentaries to animated shorts. As the country’s largest celebration of Black History Month, film categories include Being Black in Canada, which show perspectives from creators in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, among others. All movies will stream for the duration of the festival, so viewers can build their own schedules.
Our top film picks include opening feature Alice, starring Keke Palmer and Common as a pair who fight to expose an oppressor running a plantation in 1973 and Home, a short documentary about what it means to be Black and Muslim in Toronto.
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