Feb 5-15, 2027 • Hawrelak Park
Edmonton's longest running winter festival!
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Feb 5-15, 2027 • Hawrelak Park
Edmonton's longest running winter festival!
The International Festival of Winter Cinema recognizes and celebrates Canadian and international cinema with winter, alpine, and polar themes of any genre and style for all audiences. IFWC is the world’s greatest free outdoor winter film festival.
The world is full of opportunities to celebrate winter cinema. IFWC is proud to showcase outstanding films submitted by artists from around the world. Our filmmakers often have fascinating stories to tell, and we encourage you to learn more about the creators and the making of their films. Every year, we screen winter, mountain, polar, indigenous, and local films at our snow theatre in Partnership with Silver Skate Festival!
We aim to be the premier international juried and competitive film festival featuring unique perspectives and experiences presented through winter-themed cinema and audiovisual art.
IFWC provides an opportunity to see and experience a curated program of the best winter films from around the world. We screen outside on our giant Snow Screen!
After a day at Silver Skate, join us, heated by blankets, hot chocolate or coffee, and fires, to watch the best in recent and classic local, Canadian, and international winter shorts and feature films.
For full program listing and details, visit ifwc.ca
Our Mission: To provide for the education and enlightenment of Canadians about Canadian winter history, outdoor winter activities, and winter art forms and the promotion of the physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing of Canadians particularly during the winter months.
