Movies
Follies (“Folichonneries”): VIFF 2025
After 16 years of marriage and two children, François and Julie have lost their spark in the bedroom. In an effort to reconnect, they decide to open up their relationship and rediscover their sexuality — but polyamory isn’t as easy as they hoped. Juggling family life while searching for matches
Flow (VOKRA Fundraiser)
To mark International Cat Rescue Day, the Rio Theatre presents a special screening of FLOW, in partnership with the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA). A visually striking, wordless animated film, FLOW follows a solitary cat navigating a world reshaped by rising waters. Told entirely through movement,
Florian’s Knights
From the impact of 9/11, to the front lines of the opioid crisis in Vancouver and Toronto, and across the bridge to the arson epidemic in Detroit, Florian’s Knights travel to the darkest pits of the human experience. The real traumas of firefighting are exposed in ways never-before-seen.
Flirting with Madness
Coming to The Rio May 24th and 25th, Flirting with Madness What starts out as a harmless prank blog takes a dark turn for 17-year-old Avery when her friends, Mandy and Kaley, create a fake profile for an international dating site and begin to communicate with a lonely, socially inept
Flee
FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a painful secret he has kept hidden for 20 years, one that threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his soon to be husband. Recounted mostly through animation to director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, he tells
Flash Gordon
“Pathetic earthlings… Who can save you now?” Remember that time your favourite band Queen laid down a killer soundtrack for one of the 80s most gloriously insane, over-the-top, inter-galactic superhero movies of ever (or maybe just the 80s)? Of course you do! Because that movie is FLASH GORDON, it’s
Five Deadly Venoms (40th Anniversary Remaster!)
The film that launched generations of kung fu acolytes, a popular film series and a few thousand rap songs, this iconic film will also have KILL BILL fans experiencing serious déjà vu. Known as one of the greatest kung-fu movies ever made, FIVE DEADLY VENOMS follows the adventure that ensues
First We Eat
Putting food security to the test in the far North of Canada – filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, living just 300 km from the Arctic Circle, removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house. For one year, she feeds her family of five, only food that can be hunted, fished, gathered,
First Reformed
From writer-director Paul Schrader (TAXI DRIVER, AMERICAN GIGOLO, AFFLICTION) comes a gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal, political, and planetary. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp
First Person Plural (Director in Attendance for Q&A!)
Special Preview Screening Followed by Q&A with director Eric Tretbar On Thanksgiving Day, two Minneapolis filmmakers—the son of a Somali imam and daughter of a white Baptist preacher—fall in love through their lenses and bring together their estranged families for Thanksgiving dinner. Created before our eyes by its film