About the Film Festival
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 2027 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 13th year!
Awards & Prizes
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
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Categories and fees
Short Film
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Short Film
Short Documentary
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Short Documentary
LGBT Short
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LGBT Short
Experimental Short
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Experimental Short
Horror Short
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Horror Short
Sci-Fi Short
Video length ：0 - 50
Sci-Fi Short
Animated Short
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Animated Short
Short Short
Video length ：40 - 40
Short Short
Music Video
Video length ：0 - 50
Music Video
Dates & Deadlines
Live Event
