Grand River Film Festival

Our 16th festival continues our tradition of bringing the best local, Canadian, and international features and shorts to Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge. For 2024, GRFF will screen 5 feature films and 24 shorts across the Tri-Cities. Check out the full schedule for details and to buy tickets.

This year we will screen our films at the Princess Twin in uptown Waterloo, the Kitchener Public Library Theatre in downtown Kitchener, the Gaslight District in Cambridge, and at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge. Find out more about our venues, including directions, and parking.

We will premiere the winners of the 4th annual Hospice of Waterloo Region YODO short film contest. We are also pleased once again to offer four different short film programs – Local, Canadian, International, and Documentary – with Free Admission, to increase accessibility of films our community can’t see anywhere else.

We are also greatly excited to partner with The Charlies, the Region’s longest running cinematic event, featuring an evening of exciting, creative, and amazing films created by students in the Region of Waterloo. We invite everyone to come out and witness the filmmakers of tomorrow.

Rebecca Snow will be in attendance for the screening of her film Boy in the Snow and will take part in a post-screening discussion and Q&A with the audience afterwards.

Born in London England, Rebecca started her career at the BBC working on historical dramas and arts documentaries. Since then she has worked in Los Angeles and Toronto with broadcast writing/directing credits that include NBC’s Emmy-nominated documentary series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, CBC’s ‘Nature of Thing’s, and History Channel’s ‘Hunting Nazi Treasure’, ‘Museum Secrets’ and ‘Real Vikings: Viking Women’ for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for directing. Her first feature-length documentary ‘Pandora’s Box: Lifting the Lid on Menstruation’ had its world premiere at Santa Barbara International Film  Festival in 2020 and won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Special Jury Award at Whistler Film Festival. ‘The Boy In The Woods’ is her first narrative feature, and is based on the memoir of a Holocaust survivor who appeared in her feature-length documentary ‘Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust’. The documentary made world news and was nominated for 6 Canadian Screen Awards.