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BENEFIT: Canadian international art quarterly C Magazine will host their annual benefit tonight at the Birch Libralato Gallery, in support of C The Visual Arts Foundation, a sister organization dedicated to promoting Canadian art on an international level. The event, a live art auction entitled "Spring Fling," will feature works from more than fifty of Canada's top contemporary artists, including artist Corwyn Lund's above-pictured piece, (Bouquet for) Baghdad, April 20th, 2006. Birch Libralato Gallery (129 Tecumseth Street), 5:30 p.m. (live auction starts at 7:30 p.m.), $50 at the door/$40 in advance.

WORDS: Tonight’s This Is Not a Reading Series event celebrates the launch of Six Months in Sudan: A Young Doctor in a War-Torn Village by emergency medicine practitioner and University of Toronto professor James Maskalyk. Dr. Maskalyk will talk about his memoir and his first tour of duty in Sudan for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders with journalist and broadcaster Avril Benoit, also at MSF/DWB. The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West), 5 p.m., $5 or P.W.Y.C., all proceeds go to MSF/DWB.

FILM: The Toronto Jewish Film Festival will kick off its seventeenth year this evening at the Bloor Cinema, with a screening of María Victoria Menis's 2008 Argentinian romance film La cámara oscura. Check out the festival's official website for further information on the wide range of interesting films being shown and how to buy tickets. Due to the large expected number of patrons, tickets for tonight's event will only be sold at the Bloor Cinema box office, so make sure you get there early to avoid the walk of shame. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West), 8:30 p.m., $20.

Yes, we're being very obvious by leading with Iron Man this week, considering that it's everywhere anyway as this year's first big "summer" blockbuster. However, and we have a feeling we might have mentioned this before, we're sold on any film that recognizes that a trademark way to make your hero look as awesome as possible is to have him walk towards the camera with his back to an explosion—like they don't even care!

This week, the biggest news in movies is that Warner Bros. has decided to stop all advance promotional screenings of its films in Canada, in attempt to stem the flow of pirated movies from Canada. Yo ho ho! Unfortunately, they’ve likely decided that Canada is a hotbed of disgusting movie pirates on some pretty wonky data. Though apparently there’s no law against recording movies in a theatre onto a camcorder in Canada, which is kind of crazy.

Look out! Here comes David Lynch, man!

So, we’ve been busy enough with Hot Docs to almost forget that they, you know, are releasing films which aren’t documentaries this week (madness!) Indeed, craziness of craziness, they’re even holding other festivals this week! So we’d feel terrible if we forgot to mention the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, opening tomorrow night with a showing of Jesus is Magic, Sarah Silverman’s concert film which, to our memory, did rather well as a Midnight Madness showing at TIFF 2005. An unusual choice for the fest, however! All thoughts of her ethnicity aside, do we (that’s Torontoist) actually like Sarah Silverman? We can’t tell. She was in Mr. Show, okay, so she gets a million points for that. But her solo shtick (“I’m sexy and say horrible things!”) is a bit… I mean, yawn, right? I guess if you found The Aristocrats funny this might float your boat.