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 head over feet for both … Read more

Fucktoys: VIFF 2025

AP just found out that — according to multiple psychics — she’s cursed. Even worse, if she wants to lift it she’s gonna have to sacrifice a baby lamb and come up with a grand in cash. Trashtown, USA, offers plenty of chances to do some pretty messed up stuff for a few bucks, so … Read more

Rental Family: VIFF 2025

Need a respectable-looking mourner to fill out your funeral? Searching for a fake dad to impress the registration committee at your posh private school? Why not call Rental Family, a surrogate agency leasing stand-in actors for social settings. In this US-Japanese co-production from director HIKARI (who has several episodes of Beef in her filmography), Brendan … Read more

Deathstalker

The Kingdom of Abraxeon has fallen under siege by the Dreadites, a scourge of bloodthirsty demonic warriors said to herald the return of the sinister, ancient sorcerer Nekromemnon. The titular Deathstalker (martial artist and legendary stuntman Daniel Bernhardt) is a lone wolf who survives by scavenging the corpses strewn about the battlefields. After recovering a … Read more

Night Stage: VIFF 2025

Canadian Premiere Matias (Gabriel Faryas) is a queer Black actor performing in a prestigious theatre group in Porto Alegre, where he meets Rafael (Cirillo Luna) — white, wealthy, and a promising mayoral candidate. The two discover a mutual fetish for having sex in public, setting off a dangerous game of lovemaking in alleyways, parks, and … Read more

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

A missing patient. A demonic hamster. A cosmic hole in the bedroom ceiling. For Linda (Rose Byrne), life is a series of surreal catastrophes pointing to her failure as a working mother, and even her therapist (Conan O’Brien) is getting sick of her. Displaced in a purgatorial motel while her husband (Christian Slater) is away … Read more

Shin Godzilla: ORTHOchromatic (4K Restoration)

In SHIN GODZILLA:ORTHOchromatic, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s 2016 feature is reborn in stunning black and white, a thrilling origin story to one of cinema’s greatest creations. Propelled by astounding visual effects and rapid fire dialogue, SHIN GODZILLA is equal parts pulse-pounding action film and venomous political satire, worthy of the franchise’s towering history. Something has … Read more

Madharaasi

MADHARAASI is an upcoming Indian Tamil-language psychological action thriller film written and directed by A. R. Murugadoss. Thursday, September 4 Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:20 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time. Tickets HERE *Please note:  Shorter patrons (or those with young children) will have a better balcony viewing experience if … Read more

Night of the Juggler (2025 Restoration)

The grit and intensity of late-1970s New York City is depicted in stark detail in this relentlessly action-packed cult classic. Twenty-four hours of nerve-jangling tension and suspense begin when a twisted psychotic (Cliff Gorman, ‘Cops and Robbers,’ ‘All That Jazz’) kidnaps a teenaged girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer. … Read more

Su from So

SU FROM SO is a Kannada-language film directed by JP Thuminad and produced by Raj B Shetty‘s Lighter Buddha Films. The film is a social horror story that explores themes of superstition and fear within a village setting. “JP Thuminad delivers a refreshing and hilarious horror comedy… Helped by witty performances as it becomes a … Read more