Misericordia

The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (STRANGER BY THE LAKE), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie, an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to … Read more

Mile End Kicks: VIFF 2025

Summer, 2011. Twenty-two-year-old music critic Grace (Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira) moves from Toronto to Montreal’s vibrant Mile End neighbourhood with the goal of writing a book about Alanis Morissette’s iconic album Jagged Little Pill. But when a loft party introduces her to the underground indie rock band Bone Patrol, Grace falls head over feet for both … Read more

Mile End Kicks

I LIKE MOVIES director Chandler Levack’s latest feature MILE END KICKS is a bright, romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira (HBO’s ‘Euphoria’) as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love. With Devon Bostick, Jay Baruchel, and Isaiah Lehtinen. “Not everyone will relate to being a critic navigating the … Read more

Middle Life (With Filmmaker Q&A)

MIDDLE LIFE follows Andie (Leah Fay Goldstein), a perfectionist wedding planner in her mid-thirties and new mother, who has meticulously crafted her life but still feels unfulfilled. Fresh off maternity leave, she saves Ryan (Peter Dreimanis, SINNERS), a blue-collar plumber, from a roadside accident. As their paths intertwine over the next year, her craving for … Read more

Mid90s

Two-time Oscar-nominated actor Jonah Hill‘s (SUPERBAD, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET) auspicious directorial debut MID90s (which he also wrote) is a smart, funny, sweet and insightful coming-of-age film set in 1990s Los Angeles, where 13-year-old Stevie escapes his turbulent home life by hanging out with a new group of friends he meets at a local … Read more

Mickey 17

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of PARASITE, Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, MICKEY17 The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. Adapted from the novel Mickey7 by … Read more

Mermaids (35th Anniversary Restoration)

New England…the early 1960s. A sexy and unpredictable single mother of two is a source of constant embarrassment to her confused 15-year-old daughter, who’s trying to deal with her own sexual awakening and not having an easy time of it. Based on a novel by Patty Dann. Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax (Winona Ryder) is tired of … Read more

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 / U glavnim ulogama: Viktor Savić, Enis Bešlagić, Vojin Ćetković, … Read more

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Based on the best-selling book by Jesse Andrews (who also wrote the screenplay) ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL is one of summer’s biggest sleepers. This sweet, funny, and completely charming coming-of-age films tells the story of seventeen-year-old Greg (Thomas Mann), who has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh … Read more

May December

Celebrated filmmaker Todd Haynes (CAROL, FAR FROM HEAVEN, VELVET GOLDMINE) takes a cue from the real-life tabloid scandal surrounding the disgraced disgraced schoolteacher Mary-Kay Letourneau in his latest film, MAY DECEMBER, which tells an altogether deeper and more complex story about female predatory behavior, its implications, and the public’s fascination by it. Twenty years after … Read more