Movies
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Music For Mushrooms (Featuring Filmmaker & Musician East Forest)
MUSIC FOR MUSHROOMS is a narrative documentary highlighting the personal journey of shamanistic musician and filmmaker East Forest (Krishna-Trevor Oswalt) – a collaborator of the late Ram Dass – whose bold experiments pair music with guided psychedelic experiences to create spaces of healing for a fractured world. The film captures East Forest as he
The Vancouver Badass Film Festival: The Stickman’s Hollow
Badass 10 is coming live to the Rio – The Tenth Annual International Vancouver Badass Film Festival and Script Competition goes live at East Vancouver’s historic Rio Theatre for a pre-Halloween live experience you can’t download and the indie film community event of the horror season! It’s the genre film
Stormy
Go behind the curtain with Stormy Daniels as she shares her story. The film follows her reinventing herself while grappling with events from 5 years earlier that made her an unlikely American icon. “It’s a successful attempt to strip away the political issues and present its subject as a flesh-and-blood
Will & Harper
Three years ago, Will Ferrell was filming a movie when he received a most surprising email: his dear friend of nearly 30 years was coming out to him as a trans woman. That friend was Harper Steele, a writer he met on his first day
The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man: OFF-VIFF 2025
Utopia Films, Stoopid Co and the Rio Theatre presents the second annual OFF-VIFF – a platform for the underground. Featuring the North American Premiere of JAMES, the royal return of KING BABY, the Vancouver Premiere of STRANGE JOURNEY: THE STORY OF ROCKY HORROR, and a screening of the soon-to-be Canadian cult-classic, THE
La Piscine
Jean-Paul (the late, great Alain Delon in one of his most memorable performances) and Marianne (Romy Schneider) indulge in their passion for each other while borrowing a friend’s luxurious villa in the south of France. When the friend (Maurice Ronet) and his daughter (Jane Birkin) arrive unexpectedly, rivalries and insecurities
Chinese Film Week: The Last Frenzy
Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Tuesday, September 17 “The Last Frenzy” （末路狂花钱） Doors 1:00 | Movie 1:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Chinese Film Week: Nice View
Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Tuesday, September 17 “NICE VIEW”(奇迹笨小孩） Doors 10:00 am | Movie 10:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
Chinese Film Week: One And Only
Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Monday, September 16 “One and Only” （热烈） Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on
Chinese Film Week: Johnny Keep Walking
Join us at the Rio Theatre September 13, and 15-17 for Chinese Film Week, presented by the Canadian Culture & Creative Industries Society. Monday, September 16 “Johnny Keep Walking”(年会不能停） Doors 10:00 am | Movie 10:30 am*Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets