Director Christian Petzold – whose Oscar-nominated film BARBARA was nominated for Best Foreign Picture in 2013 – returns with one of summer’s most critically-acclaimed dramas, PHOENIX, a spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception that unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany.

Tuesday, August 25
Doors 6:30 | Movie 7:00
Tuesday, September 1
Doors 9:00 | Movie 9:30

Advanced tickets $10 at www.riotheatretickets.ca / $12 at the door
*Groupons and passes OK. Please redeem at the door.
*Must be 19+ w/ID for entry and bar service.

PHOENIX (Christian Petzold, 2014 / 98 mins) Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn’t recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.

“Phoenix” takes its time and leaves us guessing until the final electrifying scene.” – The Washington Post

“Provocative, profoundly moving and the acting is virtuosic.” – Newsday