The mission of the CaribbeanTales International Film Festival is to celebrate the talents of both established and emerging filmmakers of Caribbean and African heritage.
CTFF fosters intercultural understanding and citizen participation by amplifying under-represented voices and showcasing the rich cultural diversity of the global diaspora.
For the 21st edition of the festival, CTFF and the Caribbean Film Festival (CFF) have joined forces for a landmark collaboration, presenting a special joint edition in Toronto titled Screen Share: Caribbean Stories, Collective Power.
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Collective Stories.
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Toronto | September 8-13
In-Person and Online
From September 8–13, 2026, Screen Share will create a dynamic space for connection, creativity and industry exchange, linking Caribbean talent with global opportunities and audiences. From September 18 – October 20, a selection of films will be available for our virtual edition of Screen Share.
Festival News & Highlights
ScreenShare presents Swim Sistas (swimsistasfilm), directed by Catherine Joy White (@catherinejoywhite) and screening on September 9 at 9 PM. 🌊
Narrated by Academy Award nominee Naomie Harris as Mami Wata, Swim Sistas follows four women — from Great Britain`s first Black female Olympian to a 54-year-old first-time swimmer — in a lyrical celebration of joy, sisterhood, and resilience across generations.
🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 9 · 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
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ScreenShare presents I`m Leaving (Me voy), directed by Vance McLean and screening on September 10.
The diagnosis is liver cirrhosis. The time left is short. And for one resident of a humble Puerto Rican neighbourhood, getting his affairs in order means facing everything he spent a lifetime running from.
A poignant drama about mortality, reconciliation, and what a man owes the people he leaves behind — winner of Best Short Film and Best Drama Director at the iDEAL International Film Festival, with an entirely Puerto Rican cast and crew.
🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
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ScreenShare presents "Paid In Blue", directed by Jared Seemungal and screening on September 9 at 9 PM.
Carnival night in Trinidad: The Blue Devils demand their customary tribute, and the arrogant Keston throws cheap coins at their feet. By dawn, he`ll understand the cost of disrespecting traditions older than memory...
This supernatural horror rooted in Trinidad`s Blue Devil folklore proves some debts can`t be paid in coins.
🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 9, from 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #caribbeanfilm #trinidadandtobago #torontoevents #filmfestival
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Screen Share presents Play the Devil — directed by Keegan Taylor, screening on September 10.
This intimate documentary follows master masquerader Steffano "Steffy" Marcano as he prepares to embody one of Carnival`s most iconic and feared traditional characters, revealing the artistry and ancestral power behind traditional mas.
More than spectacle, the Blue Devil emerges as a living expression of memory, resistance, and cultural identity rooted deep in Trinidad`s Carnival traditions.
🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #torontoevents #todotoronto #caribbeancanadian #torontofilmfestival
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ScreenShare presents Call of The Jab — directed by Fletch Power, screening on September 10.
Haunted by a childhood encounter with Grenada’s legendary Jab Jab, a man returns to the island with his father to retrace the stories of his grandmother and uncover the deeper ancestral truths behind carnival, memory, and the sea.
🎟️ GET YOUR TICKETS! Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #torontoevents #todotoronto #caribbeancanadian #torontofilmfestival
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ScreenShare presents A Feathered Memory (Uma Memória Emplumada) — directed by Ida Does. 🪶
Indigenous artist Daiara Tukano steps into the Mauritshuis, a museum built on colonial wealth, and paints a monumental mural that refuses to let history stay buried. Moving between Brazil and The Hague, this poetic documentary links Dutch colonial history to the living memory of Amazonian Indigenous cultures, and follows the fight to return the sacred Tupinambá feather mantle.
🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 9, from 9–11:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #caribbeancinema #documentary #indigenousart #torontoevents
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ScreenShare presents Beg Yuh A Call, directed by Mikey T Campbell.
Anyone who`s ever lived far from home knows the weight of that ringtone. Beg Yuh A Call captures it in eight unforgettable minutes, from Jamaican-American filmmaker Mikey T Campbell, whose work is reshaping how Jamaica is portrayed in global media.
🎟️ Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale now 🔗 link in bio.
📅 September 10 · 6–8:30PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #torontoevents #todotoronto #torontofilmfestival #caribbeancanadian
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ScreenShare presents "The Forbidden University" — screening on September 9 at 6 PM. 🎬
The Forbidden University reveals the hidden world of the Bahá`í Institute for Higher Education in Iran, following students and teachers who face surveillance, arrest, and persecution every day in pursuit of one thing: the right to learn. Through intimate interviews and striking rotoscopy animation, the film is a testament to what people will risk when knowledge is treated as a crime.
Directed by Nauzanin Knight — Canadian filmmaker of Iranian and Caribbean descent, WIDC alum, Banff/Netflix Diversity of Voices participant, and founder of BE Collective — this is a story about resistance, resilience, and the transformative power of education.
Festival passes and single-day tickets on sale now 🔗 link in bio. 🎟️
📅 September 9 · 6–8:30 PM
📍 837 Dundas St West, Toronto
#caribbeantales #documentary #torontoevents #torontofilmfestival #canadianfilmmaker
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