Since 2015, the Toronto Short Film Festival has showcased hundreds of short filmmakers to sold-out Toronto cinema audiences. We'll be back at the Paradise cinema in 2024 for another amazing festival.

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 over 100 short films every year, making it the biggest short festival in Toronto, and every film is selected from FilmFreeway submissions.

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 the festival.

Join us for Toronto Short's 10th year!

Awards are given in the following categories:
Best Drama Short
Best Comedy Short
Best Experimental Short
Best Documentary Short
Best LGBT Short
Best Horror Short
Best Sci-Fi Short
Best Short Short
Best Animated Short
Best Music Video

The Toronto Short Film Festival is open to short films from any country which are under 50 minutes in length.

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  • Loved being part of such a great festival and they had live screenings!!!

    June 2023
  • Very good festival. Good communication while getting the DCP made for my “big screen” premiere! Thanks for honouring my PANDALAND film with “Best Documentary!” I also liked that filmmakers got to introduce themselves to the live audience. The Paradise theatre is a wonderful new venue!

    June 2023
  • Maria Nicole Lepore

    Was a really great time to be featured at the Toronto Short Film Festival! Such a great atmosphere, thank you for choosing our film to premiere!

    May 2023
  • Very nice facilities, excellent host, glamorous venue, a delightful event! It was an honour for The Time Is Right to be a part of the 2023 event!

    April 2023
  • The folks organizing this event are warm, welcoming, and provide all the info you need to participate. I would and will submit to them again.

    April 2023