This Week in Film rounds up noteworthy new releases in theatres, as well as key DVD / Blu-Ray releases, festivals, and other cinema-related events happening in Toronto.

The Toronto Reel Asian International Festival opens its 15th edition next Tuesday, November 8th with the Canadian premiere of Lover's Discourse, four overlapping love stories set in Hong Kong. On through to November 13th in Toronto, and then for another week in Richmond Hill, the festival has booked a solid run of screenings, panels, installations, events, and appearances from Canadian and international artists.

The great thing about this year's lineup is the diversity of the screenings and the strength of the in-between films that didn't get "gala" or "centerpiece" billing. It's my third year covering Reel Asian and this has been the best batch of films so far. If you can, check out these five gems from the Far East.

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) handed out trophies to its movie megastars on Saturday night, right here in Toronto. They're like a touring version of the Indian Oscars, but for the South Asian diaspora and Bollywood fans all over the world. And, they are a huge show.

Watch a lot of foreign films and you'll notice that Romania's been pumping out a healthy crop of festival hits in recent years. Catch the latest at the 4th edition of the Toronto Romanian Film Festival, hitting the Bloor Cinema and Innis Theatre this weekend (Friday, May 20th to Sunday, May 22nd). Romania's "New Wave" filmmakers will have new works showcased, along with high profile films from emerging directors.

While it might be wee bit of a struggle to watch a set of slow-moving, minimalistic, ordinary life tales in a block together (like I did this past weekend), here are five films running at this year's festival - and worthy of your eye time.

Hot Docs is North America's largest documentary film festival and it's coming up on April 28th with a terrific lineup of close to 200 films. For 2011, Hot Docs has decided to expand and will be showing movies in new neighbourhoods, with venues like The Revue (Roncesvalles) and the Fox Theatre (The Beaches) in the mix. This year, programmers have booked us a profile of Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig's career, a spotlight on Italian works, and a set called B-Sides of overlooked and underappreciated docs.

Got your picks sorted out yet? A bunch of us here got an early peek at some of the docs screening in this year's festival, and we'll be rounding up our best bets in the coming weeks. Here's a look at some of the docs we've seen so far.

They're calling the series Fashion, Fascists and F**king: The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci and it's running at the TIFF Lightbox from January 6th to 23rd. This is good movie-watching news for two reasons. One, it's a complete retrospective of the Italian filmmaker's sexy and politically charged oeuvre and it's in Toronto direct from a run at the MoMA in New York last month. Two, awards season is upon us and the Cineplexes will keep re-screening the same old batch of Oscar contenders until everyone finally breaks down and sees The King's Speech.