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- The Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) is a not-for-profit, publicly attended Italian film festival, programming both films from Italy, and Canadian films about Italian-Canadian culture. Founded in 2012 in Toronto, ICFF has grown from a 4-day, single-venue festival of 18 films, to a 10-day, 9-city festival of over 130 feature films, documentaries and short films. The ICFF has a monthly program with screenings and events held in its main cities, a Youth Festival program and its main June Festival initiative. Every year ICFF takes place during the month of June in celebration of Ontario’s Italian Heritage Month with screenings in the cities of Toronto, Vaughan, Vancouver, Hamilton, Markham, Niagara, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. The ICFF festival screenings in Toronto are held at the TIFF Bell LightBox. The ICFF also runs special events and international programs throughout the year, which aim to involve different niche audiences. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, in 2020 the 9th edition of the ICFF took place online. In both 2020 and 2021, in light of the pandemic the ICFF and corporate sponsor Lavazza also organized the special Lavazza Drive-In Film Festival, a screening series of films presented at a drive-in theatre at Ontario Place; the Lavazza Festival included some Italian films in its program, but programmed a diversity of films representing a broad cross-section of Canadian and international multicultural films rather than being exclusively Italian-themed. (en)
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- The Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) is a not-for-profit, publicly attended Italian film festival, programming both films from Italy, and Canadian films about Italian-Canadian culture. Founded in 2012 in Toronto, ICFF has grown from a 4-day, single-venue festival of 18 films, to a 10-day, 9-city festival of over 130 feature films, documentaries and short films. The ICFF has a monthly program with screenings and events held in its main cities, a Youth Festival program and its main June Festival initiative. (en)
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