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This Living Salish Sea (Director in Attendance for Q&A!)

The Salish Sea is one of the flash points and metaphors for issues affecting the environmental diversity and ecological sustainability that will severely impact future generations, world wide. Sarama’s documentary THIS LIVING SALISH SEA look below the mirror of the surface, to explore some of the living treasures that inhabit

This Is Your Day – Vancouver Premiere

Join us at the Rio Sunday October 18th for this Vancouver Premiere of This Is Your Day Doors 6:30pm/ Movie at 7pm sharp Tickets are $12. Advance tickets available online through eventbrite here No groupons or passes accepted for this show. All Ages welcome in the balcony, 19+

This Is Spinal Tap: 41st Anniversary

Get ready to rock out (and maybe lick a love pump, or two) at the Rio Theatre with 41st Anniversary screenings of the iconic comedy satire THIS IS SPINAL TAP, which has been beautifully restored, remastered, and remixed in anticipation of the long-awaited sequel (THIS IS SPINAL TAP II: THE END

This is Home

FACTION INTRODUCES “THIS IS HOME” FEATURE LENGTH SKI FILM THIS IS HOME. A journey to find what makes us skiers. THIS IS HOME is the first full-length feature film from the Faction Collective.  From Europe to the US and back again, we follow our athletes as they return to their

This is Gwar

You know what’s even better than catching the new documentary THIS IS GWAR when it hits Shudder on July 21…? A chance to take it all in on the big Rio Theatre‘s big screen (with its even bigger sound!) on Sunday, July17 , that’s what! Filmmaker Scott Barber‘s

This Changes Everything

Reel Green™ presents THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING This powerful documentary, inspired by the bestselling non-fiction book “This Changes Everything” by Naomi Klein, was filmed over 211 days in nine countries across five continents over four years. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING is the first of Reel Green™’s Green Screenings for

This Changes Everything

Directed by Avi Lewis (AFI Festival award-winner ‘The Take’) and inspired by the New York Times-bestselling book by Naomi Klein (‘Shock Doctrine’), the feature documentary ‘This Changes Everything’ will be opening at the Rio Theatre on Saturday, October 10. The film brings Naomi Klein’s radical, inspiring thesis to life through

Thina Sobabili: The Two Of Us

Join us at the Rio Theatre December 1st 6:30pm for this special screening of Thina Sobabili: The Two Of Us       Tuesday, December 1 Doors 6:00pm | Movie 6:30pm Tickets $10 in advance / $12 at the door   Advance tickets available HERE *Must be

They Shall Not Grow Old (Remembrance Day)

From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson (THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy, THE HOBBIT Trilogy) comes the groundbreaking documentary THEY SHALL NOT GROWN OLD. Applying state-of-the-art restoration, colorization and 3D technologies to century-old footage—carefully chosen from hundreds of hours of original Great War film held in the archives of the

There’s Something About Mary

The Rio Theatre’s Friday Late Night Movie series continues on Friday, February 17 with the Farrelly Brothers’ 1998 comedy THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. Ted’s (Ben Stiller) dream prom date with Mary (Cameron Diaz) never happens due to an embarrassing injury at her home. Years later, Ted hires Pat

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.

1660 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

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