Movies
Film Rating: NR
All We Imagine As Light
The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (the first Indian film to be selected for competition in 30 years!) for her revelatory fiction feature debut. Centering on
Bruce LaBruce’s ‘The Visitor’
London, today. A refugee washes up naked in a suitcase on the bank of the Thames. The enigmatic, sexually fluid stranger introduces himself to a bourgeois, upper class family. He is invited to stay on as an employee. The Visitor soon seduces each member of the family in a series
MadS
Eighteen year old Romain has just graduated and makes a stop at his dealer’s place to try a new pill. As he heads off to a party, he sees an injured woman on the side of the road and decides to help her, but when she gets in his car,
Defile
Join us at the Rio Theatre for a celebratory screening of the new short film DEFILE, by Brian Sepanzyk. This is the latest project from Olive Room Pictures. Cast and Crew in attendance! A couple’s secluded getaway is suddenly interrupted by a strange family who exposes them to the
Missing From Fire Trail Road (Director in Attendance for Q&A)
A riveting documentary detailing the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. Her story exposes how hundreds of indigenous women continue to go missing in the USA, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on Indian reservations. Director Sabrina Van Tassel and Executive Producer Deborah Parker (activist, and
Izolacija (Canadian Premiere)
Jovan, a young biologist, gets a well-paying job in a forest, but when he checks the cameras he discovers a man and as time goes by the night calls, strange sounds and isolation plunge him into paranoia. Ova filmska priča koja ostavlja bez daha, vodi nas u zabačenu naučnu stanicu,
The Last Video Store (Directors in Attendance for Q&A!)
In this love letter to the era of the video store, Nyla brings in a collection of films to quite possibly the last video store on earth only to discover she has the legendary ‘cursed tape’. A film that holds the power to connect the real world to the dimension
An Unfinished Journey (With Post-Screening Panel & Q&A)
Forced to flee their country after the Taliban take-over in 2021, four Afghan women leaders struggle to keep the world’s attention on the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, while coming to terms with what it means to have their power usurped and two decades of progress dismantled. From their distant exile-countries
Megdan: Between Water and Fire (Canadian Premiere)
Joins us at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, October 19 for the Canadian Premiere of the Serbian film MEGDAN: BETWEEN WATER AND FIRE. Saturday, October 19 Doors 12:30 pm | Movie 1:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets HERE Stars
King Baby: OFF-VIFF 2025
Utopia Films, Stupid 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