An ongoing series of classics, favourites, rarities, and recent restorations.

The Boosie Fade crew brings the party to the Lightbox with this ongoing series of cult classics that have made a huge impact on hip hop and R&B culture.

Bringing the best of Canadian and international short films to Toronto all year round.

Formerly Canadian Open Vault, this series offers free screenings of Canadian classics every season.

The independent Toronto production company MDFF (Medium Density Fibreboard Films) and Cinema Scope Magazine partner to bring the world’s best, most challenging, and most provocative new international cinema to TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Bringing experimental film and video art, hybrid documentaries, essay films and other personal expressions to a curious and engaged audience.

With the masterpieces La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game, Renoir established himself as one of the greatest directors in history – thankfully he was just as prolific, as evidenced by this film lover’s treasure trove.

TIFF Cinematheque presents its first-ever retrospective on the work of British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, whose affecting portraits of alienation and discontent among the bourgeoisie have culminated in her latest acclaimed feature, The Souvenir.

Fresh 4K restorations of films from the godfather of physical comedy, or, as Roger Ebert called him, “the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.”

Following their canonical first collaboration on The Blue Angel, this legendary pair brought lavish European style to Hollywood in landmark films Morocco and Shanghai Express.

Revisit the essential work that forever changed both the big and small screens, charting the director’s ascension from cult favourite to cultural icon.

Meditations on memory and imagined pasts fill the work of this “Left Bank” legend, immortalized for the devastating footage he captured of Nazi concentration camps in Night and Fog.

Explore the most celebrated period of the French master’s career, from his influential first feature to his apocalyptic “fin de cinéma.”

We shine a spotlight on one of the most underappreciated directors in French cinema, whose varied work includes crime classic Touchez pas au grisbi and the romantic masterpiece Casque d'or.

See why Orson Welles called this New Wave star “the greatest actress in the world,” in this lineup of her collaborations with such masters as Truffaut, Buñuel, Demy, and more.

An invaluable overview of a vital and growing cinema that remains lamentably underscreened in North America.