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Toronto Serbian Film Festival | @ Innis Town Hall | |
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Toronto's annual showcase of Serbian cinema.
Highlights This Week: Mar 29: First Class: Full Speed (2024, Serbia, D: Vladimir Mica Popovic) Mar 29: A House Among The Stars (2024, Serbia, D: Slobodan Ivetic) |
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Canadian Film Fest | @ Cineplex Scotiabank | |
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Homegrown cinema.
Highlights This Week: Mar 28: Crocodile Eyes (2024, Canada, D: Ingrid Veninger) Mar 28: To the Moon (2024, Canada, D: Kevin Hartford) Mar 28: Vampire Zombies... from Space! (2024, Canada, D: Michael Stasko) Mar 29: Skeet (2024, Canada, D: Nik Sexton) Mar 29: Waiting for the Storms (2025, Canada, D: François Delisle) Mar 29: The Players (2025, Canada, D: Sarah Galea-Davis) Mar 29: Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story (2025, Canada, D: Kate Kroll) |
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Toronto Queer Film Festival | ||
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Representing the under-represented.
Venues:
Tranzac Club,
online.
Highlights This Week: Mar 28: Playland (2023, USA, D: Georden West) Mar 29: Barrunto (2024, Puerto Rico/UK, D: Emilia Beatriz) Mar 29: Malqueridas (2023, Germany/Chile, D: Tana Gilbert) Mar 30: Astro (2022, France, D: Nicky Lisa Lapierre) |
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Toronto Irish Film Festival | @ Lightbox | |
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Cinema from the emerald isle.
Highlights This Week: Mar 28: Fidil Ghorm (2024, Ireland, D: Anne McCabe) Mar 29: Housewife of the Year (2024, Ireland, D: Ciaran Cassidy) Mar 29: Mrs. Robinson (2024, Ireland, D: Aoife Kelleher) Mar 30: Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat (2024, Ireland, D: Tanya Doyle) Mar 30: That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023, Ireland/UK, D: Pat Collins) Mar 30: The Spin (2024, UK, D: Michael Head) |
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Terriblefest | @ Eyesore Cinema | |
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Brace yourselves for the onslaught of off-kilter cinema in this final installment of Adam Riot Thorn's event.
Highlights This Week: Mar 29: Attack of the Wallet Monster (D: Olivia Young) Mar 29: Spirit Riser (2024, USA, D: Dylan Greenberg) Mar 29: VideoHoser Dirty Show Mar 30: Rabdits (D: Jacob Fertig) Mar 30: Girls Just Wanna Have Kill (2024, Japan, D: Sean Kurosawa) Mar 30: Air Fryer Slaughter (2024, USA, D: Matthew Mark Hunter) |
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Toronto Indie Horror Fest | @ Eyesore Cinema | |
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New blood from Canada and around the world.
Highlights This Week: Apr 1: A Game in the Woods (2024, USA, D: Mike McCutchen) Apr 1: Play Dead (2025, Argentina, D: Carlos Goitia) Apr 2: The Containment (2024, Mexico, D: Jack Zagha Kababie & Yossy Zagha) Apr 2: Old Wounds (2024, USA, D: Steven Hugh Nelson) Apr 3: What Happened to Suzy (2024, USA, D: James Ersted) Apr 3: Nightfall: A Paranormal Investigation (2024, Australia, D: Myles McEwen & Ripley Stevens) Apr 4: Skinwalker Cave (2024, USA, D: Steven H. Tallas) Apr 4: Women in Horror Short Film Showcase Apr 4: Custom (2024, UK, D: Tiago Teixeira) |
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ICFF Youth | @ Cineplex Yorkdale | |
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The city's yearly round-up of Italian-language cinema reaches out to the city's youth with weekday school presentations.
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Toronto International Spring of Horror & Fantasy Film Festival | @ The Revue | |
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Horror and fantasy spring eternal.
Highlights This Week: Apr 4: Catch a Killer (2024, USA, D: Teddy Grennan) Apr 5: Short Film Showcase Apr 5: Leatherbound (2024, Canada, D: Michael J. Doyle) Apr 5: Lost Angels (2024, Denmark, D: Peder Pedersen) Apr 6: Hollywood on a Shoestring (2025, USA, D: Matt Devlen) Apr 6: The Damnation (2024, Canada, D: Seb Godin & Christopher Darton) |
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| Repertory, Series, One-Offs and Short Runs | |||
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Inland Empire
Lost Highway David Lynch tribute night! 1) An actress' new role begins to merge with her own persona. 4K restoration! 2) Bill Pullman escapes a murder rap and begins a new life when he changes appearance during his stint in jail. 4K restoration! |
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Blue Velvet
"I can't figure out if you're a detective or a pervert." Kyle McLachlan's curiosity leads him into the nightmarish side of small town America. 35mm! |
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All the President's Men
Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman break the Watergate scandal as Woodward and Bernstein. Intro by Professor Mike Meneghetti. |
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Diane Warren: Relentless
Diane Warren applies a relentless work ethic to the craft of writing songs. Part of the weekend's Redwood Doc Days event. |
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Eat Pray Love
Newly divorced Julia Roberts travels the world in search of herself. Hosted by Scaachi Koul. |
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Body Parts
A maimed psychologist receives a transplanted arm from an executed serial killer. On laserdisc! Plus: a laserdisc pre-show! |
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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Musicians protest the UN following the murder of African leader Patrice Lumumba. Part of the weekend's Redwood Doc Days event. |
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Con men Steve Martin and Michael Caine settle their rivalry with a contest. 35mm! |
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Staying Alive
Former disco dancer John Travolta lands a Broadway gig. Plus: a pre-show performance from Boylesque TO! |
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Lady Bird
A high school senior chafes against the restrictions of family and church while looking forward to the promises of adulthood. |
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Princess Mononoke
A warrior girl raised by wolf-gods fights human infringement on her forest home. In IMAX! Subbed! At select Cineplex locations. |
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Metropolis
A detective searches for the renegade scientist who has created a robot resembling a young girl. Based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka. |
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Boogie Nights
Workers in the 1970s pornography industry experience the highs and lows of their disreputable profession. |
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Reservoir Dogs
"You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize." Colour-coded, bantering thieves hole up in a warehouse after a job goes awry. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Carrying the embodiment of evil becomes a heavy burden for formerly frolicking hobbits. Extended edition! |
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Falls Around Her
An indigenous musician finds it tough to keep the world at bay even when she returns to the reserve for a much-needed break. Presented by ImagineNATIVE. Director in attendance! |
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Private school girls go missing on a field trip. 4K restoration! |
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It's All Gonna Break
Friends form a band that becomes one of Canada's biggest indie sensations of the 2000s, Broken Social Scene. Part of the weekend's Redwood Doc Days event. |
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Lauren Oliver and Mono No Aware
A live 16mm film performance by Mono No Aware member Lauren Oliver is backed by a selection of films from the organization introduced by founder Steve Cossman. |
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Blue Rodeo: Lost Together
Country-tinged Canadian rock crew Blue Rodeo spend 40 years making beautiful music together. Part of the weekend's Redwood Doc Days event. |
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Alice
Literary creation Alice enters a surreal, stop-motion Wonderland. |
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Wicked
University pals Glinda and Elphaba reach a turning point in their friendship while studying in Oz. An adaptation of the popular musical. A sing-along/open stage event! |
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The Room
The infamy. |
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Migration
Ducks go on vacation. At most Cineplex locations. |
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Tangled
A charming rogue becomes the catalyst for imprisoned Rapunzel to see the world and discover her true identity. A sing-along event! |
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Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Actress' Marion Davies' talent makes her a star but a lengthy relationship with William Randolph Hearst ultimately has a negative impact on her career. U of T Media Commons' Christina Stewart will be on hand to discuss Davies and Cosmopolitan, the studio that employed her. |
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The Good Fairy
Becky Sharp 1) A well-meaning but naive orphan's tales pit a lecher against the ostensible rival for his affections. 2) A woman from a family of entertainers climbs the social ladder. |
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Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Sudden online notoriety gives a lonely, adorable shell the possibility of finding lost family. Respirator masks mandatory. Free, but donations to keep the series afloat are appreciated. |
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Central Station
A retired schoolteacher helps a young boy, reeling from the sudden loss of his mother, find his family. 35mm! |
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The Ghosts in our Machine
Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur's documents animal harm at the behest of human industry. A virtual Q&A wth director Liz Marshall follows the screening. |
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Bad Shabbos
Death complicates a Shabbat dinner meeting between parents of a couple from different faiths. Plus: a virtual Q&A with writer/director Daniel Robbins. At Cineplex's Varsity location. |
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Asphalt
A femme fatale at home in the Berlin criminal underground falls for the policeman who apprehends her. Live musical accompaniment by William O'Meara! |
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The Blair Witch Project
Film students get lost in the woods when they go researching a supernatural legend. |
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Heat
Al Pacino's driven detective targets Robert DeNiro's ultra-professional crook. 35mm! |
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Heavenly Creatures
Intense BFFs resort to extreme measures when they're threatened with separation. |
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Soul Heist
Friends hatch a scheme to steal back their souls. Toronto premiere. |
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Funny Ha Ha
Life after college is a blur of alcohol, bad jobs and awkward relationships. DM on Instagram for the address. |
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Will & Harper
Will Ferrell undertakes a road trip with a close friend as their relationship enters a new phase. In room 222E. Screening to mark the International Transgender Day of Visibility. |
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Splice
An experimental creature forges a family bond with its creators. Selected and presented by Magali Simard! Free but registration is required. |
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Werckmeister Harmonies
The arrival of a circus drives a small town to madness. |
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Dracula 2000
Thieves find a crypt rather than loot inside the vault they've broken into. |
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Cremaster 3
Sculptor Matthew Barney makes his way to the top of New York's Chrysler Building by way of a Guggenheim obstacle course. 35mm! Intro and post-screening discussion led by Cameron Bailey. |
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Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got
Big band-era bandleader Artie Shaw finds success on his own terms. Director in attendance! |
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The Elephant Man
Sideshow attraction John Merrick becomes a Victorian-era celebrity. |
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Turbo Kid
A young wasteland scavenger tries to save his new best friend from the clutches of an evil warlord. |
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April Fool's Day
College students are stalked by an unseen killer during an April Fool's Day getaway. |
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Viva Verdi!
Retired opera singers mentor the students who live among them in the Casa Verdi retirement community. A Q&A with director Yvonne Russo follows the film. |
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Soda
An Israeli partisan's feelings for the new woman in town are complicated by rumours of past complicity during the Holocaust. |
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Village of the Damned
A mass wave of pregnancies in a small town produces a brood of hive-mind children. 16mm. |
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Mildred Pierce
"Alligators have the right idea. They eat their young." Self-made woman Joan Crawford is seen as an embarrassment by her stuck-up, self-obsessed daughter. |
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The Spoils
Collectors, curators, lawyers and victims of WWII clash over the ownership of looted art. A Q&A with director Jamie Kastner follows the screening. |
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Sugar and Stars
A young man who grew up in foster and group homes sets his sights on becoming a master pastry chef. |
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Lulu Faustine
An homage to The Invention of Morel by way of Louise Brooks. In room 222E. Filmmaker Stephen Broomer in attendance! |
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The Biggest Little Farm
A Los Angeles couple head back to the land. The Stop's adwoa toku will discuss urban agriculture before the screening. |
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Fire
Forbidden desire smoulders between two Indian women in loveless marriages. Deepa Mehta in attendance! |
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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Poet Nikki Giovanni witnesses and responds to American history as it happens. An in-person Q&A with filmmakers follows the screening. |
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Robo Vampire
A dead narcotics agent returns to life (and duty) as an android. |
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The Royal Tenenbaums
A family of neurotics occupy a big house in New York City. RIP Gene Hackman. |
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Star Trek
Abrams reboots the Star Trek franchise. 35mm! |
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A Knight's War
A knight fights witches and demons to save the chosen one's soul. Toronto theatrical premiere! Cast and crew in attendance. |
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Waterworld
Gilled Kevin Costner comes to the aid of those being chased by pirates across a waterlogged post-apocalyptic planet. |
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American Psycho
Harron turns Bret Easton Ellis' infamous tome into a sharpened axe satirizing '80s excess. |
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Batman Forever
Val Kilmer's Batman battles Two-Face and The Riddler while taking on a young apprentice. |
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Babe
A pig takes up sheep herding to escape the knife. |
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Valley Uprising
Yosemite's climbing community forms and grows while butting heads with the National Park Service. |
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The Last Unicorn
A unicorn undertakes a quest to discover what has become of the rest of her kind. |
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Leila and the Wolves
A woman visits Palestine at different points in history to push back on the erasure of the women who resist occupation. New digital restoration. |
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Red Velvet Happiness Diary: My Dear, ReVe1uv
K-Pop outfit Red Velvet celebrate and look back on 10 years of music. |
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Earth
A young girl bears witness to a love triangle between a Hundu woman and her two Muslim suitors during Partition. Deepa Mehta in attendance! |
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The Spoils
Collectors, curators, lawyers and victims of WWII clash over the ownership of looted art. Apr 5: w/ Q&A. |
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The Elephant Man
Sideshow attraction John Merrick becomes a Victorian-era celebrity. 4K restoration! |
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The Stimming Pool
Neurodivergent filmmakers attempt to convey their experience of a world that is an ill fit for their sensibilities. Pre-film intro and discussion by Spectrum Productions, who will show their short Backjump. A relaxed screening with low house lights, open captions and reduced volume. |
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Blackmail
Foreign Correspondent Alfred Hitchcock x 2! 1) A woman is extorted by a witness to the murder she committed in self-defence. 2) An American journalist in Europe stumbles into an assassination plot as war looms. |
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Lady Killer
Charming military man Jean Gabin leaves the army behind to pursue a woman who rejected him romantically. 4K restoration! |
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Camille Claudel
Sculptor Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) passion to makes art drives her to madness. |
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Heaven on Earth
A young woman from India contends with a new way of life and oppression from her husband's family when she comes to Canada for an arranged marriage. Deepa Mehta in attendance! |
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The Bridges of Madison County
A country woman has a brief, intense affair with a traveling photographer while her family is away. |
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Plan
A scheme to pay off gambling debts by way of kidnapping falls apart when the perpetrators mistakenly nab a very dangerous man. Guest-programmed by Frizz. |
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April Story
A girl finds it hard to fit in when she leaves the country to attend university. Presented by the Japan Foundation. A virtual Q&A with director Shunji Iwai follows the screening. |
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Sign 'o' the Times
Prince puts on one hell of a show. |
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Princess Mononoke
A warrior girl raised by wolf-gods fights human infringement on her forest home. Subtitled. 4K restoration! |
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