TSFF 2012

UPDATES
A big thank you to everyone involved for your support this year, and for making this our best festival yet!

Dates for 2013
We're already hard at work on next year's festival and it looks like we're scheduled for April 4th to 9th, 2013 - mark your calendars.

2012 Posters Available
We still have a few of the official 2012 posters available for sale. Get yours today.
24 by 36 inches colour glossy (see image on right)
$35 plus shipping ($10)

Toronto SILENT FILM Festival 2012- Where Images And Music Do The Talking

"No matter the heights to which the sound film might grow, the silent film would remain its living and sustaining root," George Pearson, pioneering British film director.

Every year, the Toronto Silent Film Festival screens some of the world's finest silent films. And every year we pair them with music, improvised and played live by accomplished artists. Timeless images meet modern melodies, creating a bond between performers onscreen, performers in-person, and you. These are once-in-a-lifetime events, never to be duplicated.

This is Live Cinema.

Join us for more of it this spring, as we treat you to the sights and sounds of cinema's original classics, plus some modern works of silent genius too. You can help us celebrate the renaissance that silent film has enjoyed these last three years.

Not sure what we mean? Just watch the opening sequences of the hit films Wall-E and Up-both image-driven silent pieces. Witness the critical and commercial success of The Artist, along with Scorsese's Hugo, an homage to Méliès. And consider the mainstream media attention garnered by original landmark silent films like Metropolis and Napoleon-restored, re-scored and presented as the marquee-worthy masterpieces they still are.

Whenever people gather in darkened theatres to watch movies, something magical happens. But only silent film brings the past and the present-the cinematic and theatrical-together on one night. Be part of the Toronto Silent Film Festival and discover that sense of wonder again.

"…silent films can weave a certain enchantment that isn't available with the greater realism of sound." Roger Ebert, film critic

"The purest form of moviemaking…really, it's about the images. You don't need dialogue. People think it's intellectual, but it's exactly the opposite. I mean, it's very sensual…" Michel Hazanavicius, director of The Artist

"We have to keep reminding ourselves what cinema is - it is not a story with pictures. It is something in which the information is described and pushed forward by the image." John Hurt, actor

Thanks to our festival sponsor for 2012

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