It’s April again, and that means the Crossroads Film Festival is here. The perilous task of choosing films is over, and now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy a wide variety of film shorts and features. Some films have been reviewed here, but there are many more showing at the festival.

Montreal writer Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game is on the short list for the IMPAC Dublin Award, one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes.

(15/02/08) - DÉRAPAGE is one of a kind event that takes place every year in Montreal. To apply, creat and submit a short (between 30 seconds and three minutes) non-narrative video with a soundtrack and be copyright free. Videos to be shown at the event will be selected on March 7 2008 (deadline).

Last summer, three Canadian filmmakers travelled to Burundi to help set up that small and often overlooked East African country’s first and only film school.