CaribbeanTales International Film Festival

CaribbeanTales International Film Festival CaribbeanTales International Film Festival celebrates established & emerging Caribbean diaspora films

Submissions for the 2026 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival are now open on Film Freeway. We’re calling on storytellers from across the Caribbean and African diaspora to share bold, authentic, and powerful films that tell our stories 🌎✨.

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08/24/2026

Dr. Jean Augustine invites you to join her on September 12 for Honouring Our Legends Night at Harbourfront Centre to celebrate her 89th birthday! 🎉

The evening will also include the Jean Augustine Excellence Award and the Canadian Premiere of Queen of Soca () featuring Terri Lyons.

When this legend personally invites you, you show up! Tickets here: https://harbourfrontcentre.com/event/ctff-and-cff-presents-screen-share-honouring-our-legends-celebrating-the-89th-birthday-of-hon-dr-jean-augustine/

📅 Saturday, September 12 · Doors 6PM
📍 The Fleck, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto

08/23/2026

ScreenShare presents I'm Karen, directed by Célia Dejoux and screening on September 10.

Karen can't stand anything. Or anyone. The crowing rooster. The noise of the beach. Every minor irritation pushes her one step closer to the edge — and her holiday in Guadeloupe is about to push back.

Inspired by the "Karen" phenomenon, this sharp, darkly comic satire skewers everyday intolerance and the need for control, seen through the eyes of a woman at war with the world around her.

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998251331524?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 9–11:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/23/2026

ScreenShare presents Someone Loves You, directed by Amanda Mandii and Victoria Perry, and screening on September 10.

She was once celebrated — an artist, a matriarch, the centre of everything. Now her family watches her unravel, and the silence they've kept for generations finally has to break.

Winner of Best Short Film at the ESSENCE Film Festival, this moving drama follows an estranged Jamaican-American family in the Bronx as they confront the stigma surrounding mental illness — and rediscover each other in the process. Featuring the acting debut of Jamaican music icon Nadine Sutherland. 🇯🇲

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998251331524?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/22/2026

Screen Share presents On Air, directed by Shinade Misha Martin and Shea Best, screening on September 10.

When a disgraced man hijacks a live radio broadcast to expose the affair that shattered his life, callers from across the community are pulled into the drama, forced to weigh guilt, truth, and accountability in real time. What begins as a public reckoning spirals into something far more dangerous.

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998251331524?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/22/2026

ScreenShare presents ARRANCA, directed by Liliana M. Molina and screening on September 10.

Laura is balancing her own busy life while caring for her mother Carmen, who is in the early stages of dementia. Then Carmen misplaces her most treasured possession, an emerald ring, a gift from her late husband, and the search for it becomes something much bigger.

Through frustration, tenderness, and resilience, ARRANCA is a moving portrait of caregiving, memory, and the bonds that endure even as memories fade. From a Puerto Rican filmmaker with three decades in film and television, including work with Ava DuVernay, John Singleton, and Lee Daniels.

🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998251331524?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 9–11:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/22/2026

ScreenShare presents Dream Call, directed by Nhlakanipho Mashinini and screening on September 10.

Agyeman came to South Africa to become an architect. His brother Derrick came to build a life. Then a routine permit renewal turns into a xenophobic attack — and the brothers are forced onto diverging paths: one leaves to protect himself, one stays to chase a dream in a country that may never accept him.

From SAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Nhlakanipho Mashinini, Dream Call is a powerful story of migration, identity, and the emotional cost of belonging.

🎟️Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1995855990996?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/21/2026

ScreenShare presents Benchless (Sans banc fixe), directed by Galiam Bruno Henry and screening on September 10.

Rody, Doug, and Fred bicker over a park bench. The streets have erased their age and their past...until Fred finds a lost smartphone during a political protest.

They want to call someone, but who? Everyone has abandoned or forgotten them. So they browse the contact list of a stranger... and each decides to make a call.

🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1995855990996?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/20/2026

ScreenShare presents Unalive — directed by Kwanza Nicole Gooden.

Unalive is a deeply emotional story about family, depression, connection, and survival — themes rarely addressed openly in Caribbean communities, told with honesty and heart by Caribbean-American filmmaker Kwanza Nicole Gooden (The Black Beauty Effect, Netflix).

⚠️ This film deals with suic*de. If you or someone you love is struggling, help is available — call or text 9-8-8 in Canada.

🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998250882180?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 9 · 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/19/2026

Meet Deb Williams, the author whose children's book inspired the film "Church Hat" that is screening on September 9!

Based on Deb's beloved book, Church Hat follows Quentin, a curious young Jamaican boy whose fascination with his mother's treasured church hats sparks a dazzling world of imagination, and, when she finds him wearing them, a tender affirmation of love, acceptance, and the freedom to be exactly who you are. Brought to life through handcrafted stop-motion animation.

Come watch it on the big screen with the author herself!

🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1998250882180?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 9 · 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

08/19/2026

ScreenShare presents Purgatory — directed by Nikki Shaffeeullah.

Zena is a confident q***r woman with one complication: an anxiety-fuelled sensitivity to the uncanny. When she returns to her family's mosque with her partner for a community funeral, she hopes to pay her respects and slip out quietly.

Her meddling relative has other plans. And so do her fears, which are starting to manifest in ways she can't ignore....

Balancing humour, heart, and the supernatural, Purgatory is about belonging, acceptance, and the courage to show up as yourself. From award-winning Indo-Caribbean artist Nikki Shaffeeullah.

🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/1995609467638?aff=oddtdtcreator
📅 September 9 · 9–11:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto

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