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

Fame

“You’ve got big dreams… You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. In sweat.” We’re kicking off September with an endearing back-to-school classic that that captures the dreams, anxieties, ambitions, victories and “hot lunch jams” of those perilous

Soul’s Road (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)

Shot in Alberta and starring Canadian country star Dallas Smith, filmmaker Joel Stewart‘s SOUL‘S ROAD is a riveting tale of self-discovery and redemption, promising audiences great music and heartwarming performances. After ruining his solo career and taking an extended break from music, the infamous Ronan Garrett returns to

Boys Go to Jupiter

From writer-director Julian Glandner (creator of the cult video game “Art Sqool”) comes BOYS GO TO JUPITER, a dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age musical about a gig worker who encounters a creature from another world. It’s the day after Christmas in suburban Florida and Billy 5000 and

Soul’s Road (Filmmakers in Attendance)

It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley

IT’S NEVER OVER: JEFF BUCKLEY, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (DELIVER US FROM EVIL, JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE, WEST OF MEMPHIS), covers the life of the rising young star with an otherworldly voice and boundary-pushing artistry, who left the ’90s music world reeling when he died suddenly, at

blur: Live at Wembley Stadium

“Yes, it really really really could happen.”  blur: LIVE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM is a cinematic concert film immortalizing the Britpop icons’ biggest shows to date. Recorded over three historic, incredible nights in 2023 for 150,000 fans in a transcendent, once-in-a-generation performance that delivered a sweep of ecstatic 5* reviews.

Cabaret

Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli, never better) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher –whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But Sally’s small, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be

Tommy (50th Anniversary Restoration)

“See me, Feel me, Touch me, Heal me…” In 1975, filmmaker Ken Russell and iconic Brit rockers The Who brought the band’s classic 1969 concept album TOMMY to life with the release of the eponymous psychedelic musical fantasy drama, which, in addition to the band, boasted an outstanding, star-studded ensemble

Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary (With Director Q&A)

In their first ever feature documentary nearly sixty years after they met as teenagers before the British Invasion music scene, The Zombies tell their story of navigating the tumultuous music industry over the decades and making one of the most influential albums of all time,