Movies
Rio Grind Film Festival 2019: Shorts!
The Rio Grind Film Festival’s annual Short Film Block, featuring shorts from Vancouver (and beyond). Sunday, November 24 Doors 3:00 pm | Start 3:30 pm Advance tickets $13 HERE | $13 at the door Please arrive on time! There will be three “blocks” with two short breaks
Rio Grind Film Festival 2019
The Rio Theatre’s own genre film festival is back November 21 – 24. We are currently accepting submissions
Rio Grind Film Festival 2018
Stay tuned! Details coming soon.
Rio Grind Film Festival
The Rio Grind Film Festival runs this November 16th – 19th 2017. Featuring the hottest new, International, Horror, Sci Fi, Action, Fantasy, Cult and Grind house features and short films that are traditionally overlooked by the regular festival circuit. These are some of the most eagerly anticipated and
Rio Grind 2021: Ditched (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A)
The Rio Theatre‘s Rio Grind Film Festival continues on Saturday, November 27 with writer-director Christopher Donaldson‘s survivor-horror film DITCHED. Shot in Alberta, this love letter to gory, B-movie horror has been making its way across the Canadian festival circuit, with screenings at the Edmonton International Film Festival and Toronto After
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
The cult classic Hong Kong martial arts slaughter-thon – a frequently requested title – finally splatters across the Rio’s screen as a Friday Late Night Movie on December 7. This offbeat cult-classic stars Bin Shimada as the eponymous Riki, a new prisoner at a high-tech penal institution of the future
Ride Your Wave
From visionary director Masaaki Yuasa (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, Devilman Crybaby) comes a deeply emotional new film that applies his trademark visual ingenuity to a tale of romance, grief and self-discovery. The film follows the story of Hinako, a surf-loving college student who has just moved to
Revenge
Jen (fearlessly embodied by Matilda Lutz, RINGS) is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his sleazy friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly–and viciously–intensifies, culminating in a shocking act that leaves Jen left for
Residue (Filmmakers in Attendance!)
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives…and their eternal souls. Filmmakers in attendance for pre-show meet and greet and Q&A following the screening! Sunday, July 9 Doors 3:00 pm | Movie
Residue
The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.