Movies
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Tragedy Girls
Finally… A killer body-horror comedy that passes the Bechdel test – HEATHERS meets MEAN GIRLS in an Instagram universe. It’s Vancouver-based (we’re claiming him, mmmkay?) writer-director Tyler MacIntrye‘s TRAGEDY GIRLS, it’s bloody good fun, it’s one of the breakout horror his of 2017, and it’s hitting the
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Top Knot Detective
In the early 1990’s, a little known Japanese Samurai/Detective Series was syndicated to public access TV in Australia and became a cult success. In Japan, it was titled “Ronin Suiri Tentai” (roughly translating to “Deductive Reasoning Ronin”), but soon came to be known in the West as TOP KNOT DETECTIVE.
The Rio Grind Film Festival: The Lodgers
Following its World Premiere at TIFF and its European Premiere as Sitges Film Festival‘s closing night film, The Rio Grind Film Festival is honoured to bring Brian O’Malley‘s (2015’s criminally under-seen LET US PREY) exquisite, sensual and chilling work of pure gothic horror, THE LODGERS, to a Vancouver audience on
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Short Film Block 2
Here’s this year’s amazing selection of Rio Grind Film Festivals Short Films! It was another fantastic round of entries but we narrowed it down. Keep an eye out for these titles, and congrats to everyone whose film is being screened. Sunday, November 19 – Short Block
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Short Film Block 1
Here’s this year’s amazing selection of Rio Grind Film Festivals Short Films! It was another fantastic round of entries but we narrowed it down. Keep an eye out for these titles, and congrats to everyone whose film is being screened. Saturday, November 18 Short Block 1 (In no particular
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Let the Corpses Tan
The Belgian directing team of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani‘s (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY’S TEARS) latest, LET THE CORPSES TAN, bring French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette‘s 1971 thriller ‘Laissez bronzer les Cadavres’ to life in a visually stunning, hyper-stylized neo-Western that finds itself basking in the dreamy yet
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Junk Head
Japanese animator Takahide Hori spent four years working on his 30 minute short film JUNK HEAD – and another four expanding it into its current feature-length iteration, an astounding stop-motion, post-apocalyptic sci-fi marvel that is an remarkable testament to its genuinely visionary creator. Following its World Premiere
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Hagazussa – A Heathen’s Curse
Director Lukas Feigelfeld‘s jaw-dropping feature debut HAGAZUSSA: A HEATHEN’S CURSE is an unlikely surprise; a gorgeously photographed, mostly silent grad school project that has quietly managed to make the rounds acrosss the world’s genre film fest circuit, with screenings at Fantastic Fest (Best Picture, “Next Wave” Feature), Sitges, London’s BFI,
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Dragnet Girl with Live Score by Coupler
Experience Japanese master filmmaker Yasujirô Ozu‘s thrilling 1933 silent gangster tale DRAGNET GIRL with an original score performed live by ambient/electric trio Coupler. Special thanks to our community partners, VIFF Live and the Vancouver Asian Film Festival for their support. Friday, November 22 Doors 7:00 pm | Show
The Rio Grind Film Festival: Deliver Us (‘Libera Nos’)
Italian director Federica Di Giacomo‘s thoughtful, occasionally darkly funny documentary takes a look at the comeback of exorcism practice in Italy (and beyond) as she focuses her lens specifically on a rural Sicilian priest and his flock, many of whom suffer from a growing sense of unease that is diagnosed