2026 Toronto Jewish Film Festival

The Toronto Jewish Film Festival is proud to announce its 34th Edition, taking place Thursday, June 4th – Sunday, June 14th, 2026.

This year's programme features 85 films from 22 countries, including documentary, narrative, and archival films, with 58 in-person screenings and 27 online presentations (screening Ontario-wide). Across the programme, films engage with questions of history, identity, and representation, from archival explorations of collective memory to contemporary stories shaped by political and social realities.

The festival opens June 4 at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema with the world premiere of Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie, directed by Steven Pressman. It closes June 14 with You Had To Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, revisiting the 1972 production that launched Eugene Levy, Martin Short, and Gilda Radner.

Among this year’s highlights are films recognized at major international festivals, including Tell Me Everything (Sundance), Where To? and Safe House (Berlinale), Holofiction (Venice), and Brother Verses Brother (SXSW), Dead Language (Tribeca), alongside a strong slate of premieres and emerging voices.