Movies
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
OFF-VIFF 2024: King Baby (North American Premiere)
STUPID CO presents the first annual OFF-VIFF – a platform for the underground. Featuring the North American Premiere of KING BABY, the celebrated film by Kit & Arran. OFF-VIFF is OFF-CAPITALISM! (Sort of.) Also premiering is the festival favourite HI! YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING RECORDED, and the premiere of B.I.I.R.D.
Longlegs
Writer-director Oz Perkins‘ LONGLEGS has easily emerged as “the” horror movie of 2024; in addition to thrilling audiences thanks to the filmmaker’s commitment to the genre and bravura performances from Maika Monore and Nicolas Cage, the Vancouver-shot film has become the highest grossing independent film of the year.
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
Devara
An epic action saga set against coastal lands, which briefs about rip-roaring, emotionally charged incidents in the periodic timeline, also comprises the titular protagonist being the rescuer to deprived and fear to evildoers. N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Saif Ali Khan, Janhvi Kapoor, Prakash Raj, Srikanth, Shine Tom Chacko. Premiere
The Invisibles (Director in Attendance for Q&A)
In the engrossing dramatic parable THE INVISIBLES, Charlie has become so disengaged from his job and his marriage that he becomes invisible – at first metaphorically and then literally – to those around him. Charlie is finding this disturbing enough, but then he happens on an entire community of invisible people
The Shroom Boom (With Panel and Q&A)
It’s Mushroom Monday at the Rio! In collaboration with the Rio Theatre, Stephanie Dacre presents to you a premiere screening of two episodes from The Shroom Boom docuseries. The Shroom Boom series dives into fungi’s impact in British Columbia, showcasing the local people driving the growth. The evening