Kitsilano Theatre Company Presents: Focus: Season 1

Kitsilano Theatre Company is run by the theatre program at Kitsilano Secondary School. In high school, wondering what people think and how they perceive you can take over your entire life. Trying to fit in, trying to reinvent yourself, trying to find your true passion or trying to find love can shift your entire focus … Read more

Sold: Filmmaker in Attendance

Join us at the Rio Theatre for the Vancouver Premiere of Oscar and Emmy-winning director Jeffrey D. Brown’s powerful film SOLD, adapted from the acclaimed novel by Patricia McCormick (which was itself inspired by true stories). Starring Gillian Anderson and David Arquette, SOLD is the story of Lakshmi, who journeys from a pastoral, rural village … Read more

League of Exotique Dancers

Join us at the Rio Theatre for one of 2016’s most highly anticipated documentaries, director Ramu Rau’s exploration of burlesque, THE LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS. Currently slated as the Opening Night Film at this year’s Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto, THE LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS will also be screening at Vancouver’s own DOXA … Read more

10 Cloverfield Lane

“Smart, solidly crafted, and palpably tense, 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE makes the most of its confined setting and outstanding cast — and suggests a new frontier for franchise filmmaking.” (Rotten Tomaotes) A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she’s locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who … Read more

Stand by for Tape Back-up

With his “performance documentary” STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP, British poet, filmmaker, and performance artist Ross Sutherland takes fragments of old films and TV shows and rebuilds them into an audiovisual meditation on memory, death and reruns. “I found a videotape in my loft. On it: one and a half films, one quiz show and … Read more

Prince: Sign ‘o’ the Times

Directed by Prince himself, concert film SIGN O’ THE TIMES, shot with an audience at the Rotterdam Music Hall in 1987, was released alongside his double album of the same name. Notable for its epectedly wildly innovative theatricality and extra high-energy performances, the 13-song set list sidesteps many of his “hit singles,” focusing instead on … Read more

Good Burger

“Welome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?” Listen up, 90s kids! One of your all-time faaaaaaaavourites (Top 5, right?) is finally getting the Friday Late Night Movie treatment at the Rio Theatre. Babyfaced Nickelodeon stars (ALL THAT) Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell star in GOOD BURGER, a cult-comedy … Read more

April and the Extraordinary World

Join us for family-friendly screenings of APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD (“Avril et le monde truqué”). From the producers of the Academy Award-nominated PERSEPOLIS and the mind of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi comes a riveting sci-fi adventure set in an alternate, steampunk world. In Paris, 1941, a family of scientists is on the brink … Read more

Ernest & Celestine

Join us for a family-friendly Mother’s Day screening of the very sweet and thoroughly charming modern French animated classic ERNEST & CELESTINE (“Ernest et Célestine”). Based on the classic Belgian book series by Gabrielle Vincent, ERNEST & CELESTINE won France’s Cesar Award for Best Animated Feature (2012), and was also nominated for an Oscar in … Read more

The Gentlemen Hecklers Present: The Room

“Oh, hai Mark!” Vancouver’s masters of movie-riffing, The Gentlemen Hecklers, are taking on their biggest challenge yet: Tommy Wiseau‘s epic, pop-culture masterpiece, THE ROOM. This legendary stinker is easily the Rio Theatre audiences’ all-time, hands-down forever favourite “so bad, it’s good” movie, our collective guiltiest cinematic pleasure, the bestest “best-worst” film of all time – … Read more