Telefilm Canada on Wednesday announced $1.9 million in second-round funding for 25 Canadian film festivals under its Medium to Large-Scale Festivals Program.
This brings the total number of film festivals supported under the program in fiscal year 2024-2025 to 50.
The festivals program provides financial support “to long-established medium to large-scale Canadian film festivals that help promote Canadian films and talent and stimulate demand for our multiscreen content,” says a Telefilm press release.
The 25 film festivals receiving funding in the second round of the program this year are:
- 2025 Atlantic International Film Festival
- 2025 Calgary International Film Festival
- 2025 Calgary Underground Film Festival
- 2025 CaribbeanTales International Film Festival
- 2025 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival
- 2025 DOXA Documentary Film Festival
- 2025 Gimli International Film Festival
- 2025 Hot Docs Festival
- 2025 ICFF – IncluCity Festival
- 2025 Images Festival
- 2025 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
- 2025 Inside Out Film Festival
- 2025 Lunenburg Doc Fest
- 2025 Ottawa International Animation Festival
- 2025 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International
- 2025 Vancouver International Film Festival
- 2025 Vancouver Queer Film Festival
- 2025 Yorkton Film Festival
- Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke 2025
- Festival de cinéma de la Ville de Québec 2025
- Festival du film de l’Outaouais 2025
- Festival Fantasia 2025
- Festival international de cinéma et d’art Les Percéides 2025
- Festival international de cinéma Vues d’Afrique 2025
- Festival International du Film Black de Montréal 2025
