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Vancouver: No Fixed Address (Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A and panel discussion!)

There is no topic that unites all of Vancouver quite like that of housing. At every dinner party, social gathering, or chance meeting in the street, everyone has an opinion, and they want to share it. Acclaimed director Charles Wilkinson gets to the heart of the matter with his latest

Capilano University’s Motion Picture Arts: Fourth Year Gala Short Film Showcase

Motion Picture Arts Fourth Year Gala   The fourth year graduates of Capilano University’s Motion Picture Arts Degree Program celebrate completing their four years’ of study by showing off some amazing short films that were completed as a part of their development projects. Help them to celebrate! This fun-filled evening will

The Bad Batch

Filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour‘s sophomore effort takes a sharp detour from her breakthrough, self-described “Iranian Vampire Spaghetti Western,” A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT, with a highly-stylized love story with undertones of social commentary – set in a cannibal commune in a future dystopia, somewhere in the desert wasteland of

Hard Boiled

Legendary Hong Kong director John Woo‘s kinetic extravaganza HARD BOILED thrilled critics and audiences around the world with its over-the-top, highly stylized action sequences and choreographed gunplay when it was released in 1992, and it is no less stunning almost 30 years later. Superstar Chow Yun-fat stars as Officer “Tequila”

Italian Race (‘Veloce come il vento’)

Written and directed by Matteo Rovere and inspired by the true story of story of rally racing driver Carlo Capone, ITALIAN RACE (‘Veloce come il vento’) tells the story of the De Martino family, who have been putting together racing cars for generations. Promising 17 year-old daughter Giulia, an aspiring

At War with Love (‘In guerra per amore’)

Italian writer and television personality Pierfrancesco Diliberto (better known to his fans as Pif, whose previous effort includes THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMER) directs and stars in AT WAR FOR LOVE, a dramatic comedy set at the end of the Second World War. Pif plays Arturo, a waiter who wants

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Iconic director Vittorio De Sica‘s (THE BICYCLE THIEVES) beloved, Oscar-winning YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW (“Ieri, oggi, domani”) is an anthology that’s equal parts wit, charm, sweet hilarity; a trilogy of romantic comedies set in different parts of Italy, featuring Italy’s greatest on-screen couple, the incomprehensibly luminous Sophia Loren and Marcello

Santa Sangre

Fifteen years after EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN unlocked moviegoers’ collective third-eye, legendary provocateur Alejandro Jodorowsky made his late-’80s comeback with the SANTA SANGRE, a film whose staggering odyssey of ecstasy, anguish, belief, blasphemy, beauty and madness enraptures both Jodo newbies and dedicated fans alike. Fully restored to an

Brotherhood: A Life with St. Francis (‘Il sogno di Francesco’)

Italy, 1209, surrounded by convinced and devoted friends, Francis of Assisi seeks purity and innocence among the poor. The Church and Pope Innocent III don’t trust him and become very suspicious. The intrusion of the high authority will create divisions within the order. Francis is summoned by the Church to

Singles

“I just happened to be nowhere near your neighborhood.” In the wake of Chris Cornell‘s untimely passing, everyone here at the Rio Theatre has been left reminiscing about the fabled, plaid flannel- coated soundtrack to the “Dream of the 90s,” and talking about what we (now) consider to be one

About The Rio

Voted the #1 Independent Theatre in Vancouver, the Rio Theatre is a multimedia venue featuring arthouse, mainstream and cult-classic cinemas as well as live entertainment. Built in 1938, the Rio has been fully restored with a state of the art digital projector, surround sound, a huge stage and 420 luxurious seats.

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