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Single Event Tickets → Perfect if you want to catch just one night of films, panels, or special events. Choose the night that excites you most and join us! Festival Pass → The best value if you don’t want to miss a thing. Enjoy access to all in-person screenings and events, plus watch online throughout our 20th Anniversary Festival. Online Festival…

📸Photographer: @brian.medina.to – https://brianmedina.ca/ What an incredible start to our 20th Anniversary celebrations! Last night, we opened #CTFF2025 with the powerful premiere of Bankie Banx: King of the Dune at Harbourfront Centre. 🎬✨ From the buzzing reception to the powerful film, an insightful Q&A with director Nara Garber + Bankie Banx, and an moving live…

Originally posted by Alt-Africa (link to post) Frances-Anne Solomon is an acclaimed British-Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer, and founder of the CaribbeanTales Media Group. With a career spanning over four decades across the BBC, Canada’s cultural institutions, and the Caribbean, Solomon has dedicated her life to amplifying underrepresented voices, particularly those of the African and Caribbean…

BY FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON I am forever grateful to all the incredible humans who helped bring HERO to life… As a female filmmaker, I was keenly aware that Ulric’s story was a tale of inspiring men — like George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, and Patrice Lumumba. Ulric lived a swashbuckling life, fighting battles, leading delegations, and meeting…

BY FRANCES-ANNE SOLOMON Origin Story Writing a blog post about the making of “HERO”, feels like opening a family album—each chapter full of memories, familiar faces, and moments of serendipity. The journey of bringing Ulric Cross’ incredible story to the screen was a labor of love, collaboration, and self-discovery for all of us. The Inspiration…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 5th, 2025 Toronto, ON — The CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF), North America’s premier showcase of Caribbean and diaspora cinema, officially launches the full program for its 20th anniversary edition. Taking place in Toronto from Wednesday, September 3rd to Saturday, September 13th, 2025, and streaming worldwide until October 3rd, the festival…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 28, 2025 Toronto, ON — The CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF), North America’s premier event showcasing Caribbean and diaspora cinema, proudly announces its 20th anniversary edition, taking place Wednesday September 3rd to Saturday September 13th, 2025 in Toronto and online worldwide from September 3rd to October 3rd, 2025. Under the theme “Resilience…

Caribbean and Global South Leaders Demand Immediate Investment in Regional Film Ecosystems Bridgetown, Barbados – June 18, 2025 — Two filmmakers, Ife Alaba (Canada), and Kerel Pinder (Bahamas), walked away from the Cross Continental Forum (CCF) 2025 with grant funding to kickstart co-productions, thanks to support from the Inter-American Development Bank—marking a tangible outcome of…

Monday, May 19th, 2025 For Immediate Release Decolonising Co-Production: CaribbeanTales Brings the Diaspora Home Thirty-one producers representing four continents will meet in Barbados for this transformative event. The Caribbean is calling her children home. In just 3 weeks, the Cross Continental Forum (CCF) 2025, hosted by CaribbeanTales Media Group (CTMG), in partnership with the Department…

Beginnings “What My Mother Told Me” started as a short story I wrote at 16, about the breakup of my parents’ marriage. I shared it with my father, and he cried. The story’s roots are tangled and personal. They began when I first met my mother, and she told me a story I’d never heard…