Toronto International Women Film Festival

Welcome to the annual and IMDb qualifying seasonal competition of the Toronto Women Film Festival! It is important to recognize talented female voices and artists from all over the world.

Throughout the past few years, the festival has screened hundreds of films directed by women in Carlton Cinema, Innis Town Hall of the University of Toronto and various art centers. The festival celebrates and recognizes films made by talented female filmmakers from all over the world.

For each seasonal edition, the festival team nominates and selects films and female artists for various sections of the seasonal competition. All nominees receive promotion and are highlighted in our annual online catalogue through the Toronto Film Magazine, while the finalists are presented at our live screening events in Toronto through Innis Town Hall and various centers and cinemas. Each season, the top entries in various categories are showcased on multiple platforms and social media to thousands of film industry professionals and artists.

The festival focuses on female driven stories, independent female directors, producers, writers, actresses, cinematographers, editors, and all female artists contributing to the language of cinema as women in film. The festival aims to discover, promote, screen and award female filmmakers and stories dealing with women in societies around the world.

Toronto Women Festival has become one of the most popular festivals dedicated to female talents in the film industry in the past few years. The members of our jury and programmers have been selected from award winning artists working in media from Canada, United States, Austria, Germany, Japan, Iran, India, Sweden, United Kingdom and all over the world. Award winning artists of Toronto Women Film Festival can also apply to become a member of the jury for a new edition of the competition.