TorontoPlex Cinema Listings -- Screenings

International Film Festival of South Asia

New blood from Canada and around the world.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 9, 6:30pm:	And Her Body Was Never Found (2026, USA, D: Polaris Banks)
Oct 9, 9:15pm:	Women In Horror Short Film Showcase
Oct 10, 3:30pm:	Muse (2026, USA, D: Brandon Eiland)
Oct 10, 5:45pm:	The Daughters of the Domino (2025, USA, D: Jesse McAnally)
Oct 10, 8:30pm:	Dead by Dawn (2025, Poland, D: Dawid Torrone)

Until
Oct 13

Ageless Film Festival

Cinema reflects on living long. Venues: Lightbox, Hot Docs Cinema.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 10, 1:00pm:	Dear Lara (2026, USA, D: Lara St. John)
Oct 13, 6:30pm:	Foreign Language (2024, Germany/Belgium/France, D: Claire Burger)

Until
Oct 18

@ Cineplex Courtney Park

From South Asia to just West of Toronto.

Highlights This Week:

Oct 10, 2:00pm:	Tum Rahe Na Tum (2026, India, D: Prem Modi)
Oct 10, 4:00pm:	Anupama (1966, India, D: Hrishikesh Mukherjee)
Oct 11, 2:00pm:	The Difficult Bride (2026, Bangladesh/France/Norway/Portugal/Germany, D: Rubaiyat Hossain)
Oct 11, 5:00pm:	Strong Son (2026, Canada, D: Ian Bawa)
Oct 12, 2:00pm:	Shape of Momo (2025, India/South Korea, D: Tribeny Rai)
Oct 14, 6:30pm:	An Ode To Black Ants (2026, India, D: Biju Kurup)
Oct 15, 6:30pm:	B-Town (2026, India, D: Sukh Sanghera)
Oct 16, 6:30pm:	Midnight Dreamers (2026, Canada, D: Khizer Khani)
Oct 17, 7:00pm:	Mahima (2026, Canada, D: Naveen Kumar S)
Oct 18, 2:00pm:	The River (1951, France/India, D: Jean Renoir)

Oct 9 - 11

Brazil Film Festival

Toronto Queer Film Festival

A dose of hot Brazilian cinema holds off the imminent winter chill.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 9, 11:00am:	Malês (2024, Brazil, D: Antônio Pitanga)
Oct 9, 2:00pm:	Zico: The Samurai of Quintino (2026, Brazil, D: João Wainer)
Oct 9, 4:45pm:	The Noise of the Night (2023, Brazil, D: Eva Pereira)
Oct 9, 7:30pm:	Gugu’s World (2026, Brazil, D: Allan Deberton)
Oct 10, 11:15am:	If I Were You 3 (2026, Brazil, D: Anita Barbosa)
Oct 10, 1:50pm:	The Fox Sisters (2026, Brazil, D: Wagner de Assis)
Oct 10, 5:00pm:	Night Stage (2025, Brazil, D: Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher)
Oct 10, 8:00pm:	Five Kinds of Fear (2025, Brazil, D: Bruno Bini)
Oct 11, 11:00am:	The Crime Genius (2026, Brazil, D: Lipe Binder)
Oct 11, 1:40pm:	Antarctica (2026, Brazil, D: Bruno Safadi)
Oct 11, 4:25pm:	Streets of Glória (2024, Brazil, D: Felipe Sholl)
Oct 11, 7:10pm:	The King of the Internet (2026, Brazil, D: Fabrício Bittar)

Oct 14 - 18

@ Tranzac

Representing the under-represented.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 14, 5:30pm:	The Indigenous Moving Image: Iqqaumajut – They Remember
Oct 14, 8:00pm:	Queer/Sex/Work
Oct 15, 5:00pm:	The Indigenous Moving Image: Breaking the Lens
Oct 15, 7:30pm:	Lucid (2025, Canada, D: Deanna Milligan & Ramsey Fendall)
Oct 16, 2:00pm:	Vital Transgressions
Oct 16, 5:30pm:	The Indigenous Moving Image: Thresholds
Oct 16, 8:00pm:	Over The Garden Wall
Oct 17, 4:00pm:	Playplace
Oct 17, 7:00pm:	Camp (2025, Canada, D: Avalon Fast)
Oct 17, 10:00pm:	Porn is So Boring
Oct 18, 4:00pm:	There's No Place Like Home

Oct 14 - 18

Toronto After Dark Film Festival

New horror, fantasy and action cinema. Venues: Cineplex Scotiabank, Cinecycle.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 14, 7:00pm:	Whalefall (2026, USA, D: Brian Duffield)
Oct 14, 9:45pm:	Hallowarrior (2026, USA, D: Ben Sottak)
Oct 15, 6:45pm:	5 More Minutes (2026, Spain, D: Javier Ruiz Caldera)
Oct 15, 9:30pm:	Species (2026, France, D: Marion Le Corroller)
Oct 15, 11:59pm:	Matapanki (2025, Chile, D: Diego ‘Mapache’ Fuentes)
Oct 16, 6:30pm:	I Love Paris (2026, France/USA, D: Nicky Murphy)
Oct 16, 9:45pm:	Red Snow (2026, Finland/Estonia/Sweden, D: Ilja Rautsi)
Oct 16, 11:59pm:	My Love For You Is Deep But the Devil Loves Me Deeper (2026, USA, D: Casey Donahue)
Oct 17, 3:30pm:	Canada After Dark Short Film Showcase
Oct 17, 6:45pm:	Turn It Up! (2026, Canada, D: Sam Scott)
Oct 17, 9:45pm:	Sleep No More (2026, Indonesia/Japan/Singapore/Germany/France, D: Edwin)
Oct 17, 11:59pm:	No Longer Humans (2025, Canada, D: Luca D’Andrea)
Oct 18, 1:00pm:	International After Dark Short Film Showcase
Oct 18, 4:15pm:	The Fox (2026, Australia, D: Dario Russo)
Oct 18, 7:00pm:	Drag (2026, USA, D: Raviv Ullman & Greg Yagolnitzer)
Oct 18, 9:30pm:	Frogman Returns (2025, USA, D: Anthony Cousins)

Oct 16 - 18

Toronto Chinese Canadian Film Festival

@ Chinese Canadian Cultural Centre

Contemporary Chinese cinema and culture.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 16, 7:30pm:	Mad Mad World (2026, Malaysia, D: Clifton Ko Chi-Sum)
Oct 17, 11:30am:	Paws Land (2024, Hong Kong, D: Amen Au Cheuk-Man)
Oct 17, 3:30pm:	Sunshine of My Life (2022, Hong Kong, D: Judy Chu)
Oct 17, 7:30pm:	From 100 Grams (2026, Hong Kong, Benny Lau)
Oct 18, 11:30am:	Let the World See Ningxia (2026, China, D: Clifton Ko Chi-Sum)
Oct 18, 3:30pm:	Shenzhou 13 (2025, China, D: Zhu Yiran)
Oct 18, 7:30pm:	All Our Father's Relations (2016, Canada, D: Alejandro Yoshizawa)

Oct 17 - 25

Toronto Latin American Film Festival

Hispanic cinema.

Schedule This Week:

Oct 17, 3:00pm:	1982 (2025, Peru, D: García JC)
Oct 17, 5:00pm:	Gardens of the Woods (2026, Mexico, D: Alex Barragan & Diego Barragán)
Oct 17, 8:00pm:	Mountains of Fire (2025, Guatemala, D: Jayro Bustamante)
Oct 18, 3:00pm:	Safari (2024, Dominican Republic, D: Juan Antonio Bisono)
Oct 18, 5:00pm:	(Un)Control (2026, Brazil, D: Rosane Svartman)
Oct 18, 7:00pm:	Cuba Is Theirs (2025, Cuba, D: Carlos Cardona Cadavid)

Repertory, Series, One-Offs and Short Runs

Oct 9

Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025, Canada, D: Matt Johnson)
Aspiring Toronto musicians' plans to land a gig at the Rivoli turn to time travel. Outdoors! Part of Runway Reels.

@ YZD

5:30pm

Oct 9
Oct 11

The Stranger and the Fog (1974, Iran, D: Bahram Beyzai) Through the Fog: Films by Bahram Beyzaie
A boat containing a single amnesiac passenger drifts into a ocean village. 4K restoration!

6:30pm
6:30pm

Oct 9
Oct 18

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution (2025, Canada, D: Nick Davis)
The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell becomes an incubator for the country's comic talent.

6:45pm
7:00pm

Oct 9

Cramps! A Period Piece (2025, USA, D: Brooke H. Cellars) Drag Me To The Movies
A woman's menstrual cramps take on new life when she leaves her family to strike out on her own. Plus: a pre-show drag performance by host Weird Alice and post-screening discussion with director Brooke H. Cellars.

7:00pm

Oct 9

The House with Laughing Windows (1976, Italy, D: Pupi Avati) Free Friday Films
An art restorer comes into danger when he discovers the secret behind the unsettling fresco he has been hired to repair. Free!

7:00pm

Oct 9
Oct 12

The Wailing (2016, South Korea, D: Na Hong-jin)
An investigation into rural murders takes a turn for the supernatural.

9:15pm
9:15pm

Oct 9

Hausu (1977, Japan, D: Nobuhiko Obayashi) Nightmares on Bloor Street
Seven schoolgirls fall victim to an evil house in Obayashi's hallucinatory, psychedelic, bugfuck horror singularity.

9:15pm

Oct 9
Oct 11

The Silence of the Lambs (1991, USA, D: Jonathan Demme) 35 on 35
Brilliant, incarcerated psychopath Hannibal Lecter may hold the key to FBI agent Jodie Foster's mission to capture a serial killer. 35mm!

9:30pm
12:00pm

Oct 9
- Oct 15

Avengers: Endgame (2019, USA, D: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo)
Superheroes band together to reverse supervillain Thanos' mad plan. Screening in its new Encore version.

@ Elgin Mills

Oct 9
- Oct 15

Avengers: Endgame (2019, USA, D: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo)
Superheroes band together to reverse supervillain Thanos' mad plan. Screening in its new Encore version.

Oct 9
- Oct 15

Scream (1996, USA, D: Wes Craven)
"Do you like scary movies?" A killer targets teens who are very aware of horror movie tropes.

@ The Carlton

Oct 9
- Oct 15

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, USA, D: Henry Selick)
The King of Halloween tries to bring Christmas magic to his own realm.

@ The Carlton

Oct 9
- Oct 14

Scream (1996, USA, D: Wes Craven)
"Do you like scary movies?" A killer targets teens who are very aware of horror movie tropes.

@ Elgin Mills

Oct 9
- Oct 14

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, USA, D: Henry Selick)
The King of Halloween tries to bring Christmas magic to his own realm.

@ Elgin Mills

Oct 9
- Oct 15

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Mexico/Spain/USA, D: Guillermo del Toro)
A young girl discovers a fantastic other-world while living under the fascist Franco regime.

Oct 10
Oct 12

ParaNorman (2012, USA, D: Sam Fell & Chris Butler)
A young boy with the ability to speak to the dead attempts to rid his town of a deadly curse.

1:00pm
1:20pm

Oct 10

Dear Lara (2026, USA, D: Lara St. John)
Violinist Lara St. John and fellow victims speak out about abuse in musical institutions. Plus: a Q&A with director and subject Lara St. John.

1:00pm

Oct 10

Alice’s Restaurant (1969, USA, D: Arthur Penn)
Arlo Guthrie re-enacts his talking blues song as members of the 1960s counterculture try on different ways of living. Happy Thanksgiving!

3:00pm

Oct 10

The Maltese Falcon (1941, USA, D: John Huston)
Bogie. Astor. Lorre. Greenstreet. The stuff dreams are made of. 35mm!

4:00pm

Oct 10
Oct 18

Union Town (2026, USA, D: Barbara Kopple)
NYC delivery industry workers fight for worker's rights.

4:15pm
1:00pm

Oct 10
Oct 11

Flow (2024, Latvia/Belgium/France, D: Gints Zilbalodis)
A cat, a capybara, a lemur and a dog are thrown together as the world suffers a catastrophic flood.

@ Kingsway

5:15pm
5:15pm

Oct 10

Shrek 2 (2004, USA, D: Andrew Adamson & Kelly Asbury)
Princess Fiona takes her beloved ogre Shrek back home to meet her parents. Outdoors! Part of Runway Reels.

@ YZD

5:30pm

Oct 10

Prisoners (2013, USA, D: Denis Villeneuve)
Parents of missing children go too far trying to find the culprit. Happy Thanksgiving!

6:00pm

Oct 10
Oct 11

The Shining (1980, UK/USA, D: Stanley Kubrick)
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." A young boy comes under threat from both a haunted hotel and his own family.

6:15pm
9:15pm

Oct 10

My Brother’s Wedding (1983, USA, D: Charles Burnett)
A Black man working at his parents' small business attempts to figure out what he wants from life as he prepares to be Best Man at his upwardly mobile brother's wedding. 4K restoration!

6:30pm

Oct 10

Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger (2026, UK/USA, D: Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace)
Brit rock band Oasis look back on their career as they embark upon their 2025 reunion tour.

7:00pm

Oct 10
Oct 12

Blood Rage (1987, USA, D: John Grissmer)
A twin institutionalized, possibly falsely, for murder escapes as his family gathers for Thanksgiving dinner. Happy Thanksgiving!

9:30pm
7:00pm

Oct 10
Oct 13
Oct 15

Akira (1988, Japan, D: Katsuhiro Otomo)
Psychic powers threaten to annihilate Tokyo ... again. 4K restoration!

9:30pm
9:30pm
9:20pm

Oct 10

Queen: Budapest (1986, Hungary/Canada/USA, D: János Zsombolyai)
Queen rock 80,000 fans in Budapest on what would be Freddie Mercury's final tour. Some screenings in IMAX!

Oct 10
- Oct 12

Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026, Canada/USA, D: Cal Brunker) Family Favourites
Service-minded pups try to save an island of dinosaurs from a volcano unleashed by reckless mining. At most Cineplex locations.

Oct 11

Broken English (2025, UK, D: Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth)
The life of Marianne Faithful is presented as a collision of memory and mythology.

1:00pm

Oct 11

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987, USA, D: John Hughes)
Hell is travelling with other people. Happy Thanksgiving!

3:00pm

Oct 11

Bashu, the Little Stranger (1989, Iran, D: Bahram Beyzai) Through the Fog: Films by Bahram Beyzaie
A war orphan and a solitary mother of two form a deep bond. 4K restoration!

3:30pm

Oct 11

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007, UK/USA, D: Tim Burton)
A wrongfully incarcerated barber returns to take bloody musical revenge on those who destroyed his life. A sing-along event!

6:15pm

Oct 11

Nostalgia for the Light (2010, France/Germany/Chile/Spain, D: Patricio Guzmán)
Astronomers search the heavens for answers to big questions as family members of missing persons from the Pinochet regime sift the desert sand for resolution.

7:00pm

Oct 11

The Final Girls (2015, USA, D: Todd Strauss-Schulson) Waffles and a Movie
A young woman is transported inside a slasher film starring her dead mother. A waffle is included with admission.

8:00pm

Oct 11

SB19 Wakas at Simula (2026, Philippines, D: Oh Yoon-dong)
Filipino pop phenomenons SB19 play to 100,000 diehard fans.

Oct 12

The Big Chill (1983, USA, D: Lawrence Kasdan)
Old college friends take stock of their middle-aged lives when they gather following a funeral for one of their own. Happy Thanksgiving!

4:00pm

Oct 12

The Witches of Eastwick (1987, USA, D: George Miller) Effing Witches
The supernatural visitation of Jack Nicholson awakens the inner power of a trio of creative women living in a repressive town.

6:30pm

Oct 13

Red Rooms (2023, Canada, D: Pascal Plante) See The North
A young woman follows her obsession with a serial killer on trial into the courtroom and onto the dark web.

6:00pm

Oct 13

Big Girls Don’t Cry (2026, New Zealand, D: Paloma Schneideman) Queer Cinema Club
A teen wrestles with desire and identity over a New Zealand summer.

6:00pm

Oct 13

Surviving Biafra (2026, UK, D: Meji Alabi & Leke Alabi-Isama)
Survivors of the Biafran War speak. Presented by the Nigerian Students’ Associations at U of T and TMU.

@ William Doo Auditorium

6:00pm

Oct 13

In Conversation With... Iain Reid and Ellie Foumbi
Author Iain Reid and filmmaker Ellie Foumbi discuss their collaboration on novel A New Kind of Clean, launching here.

6:30pm

Oct 13

Foreign Language (2024, Germany/Belgium/France, D: Claire Burger) Goethe Films: Next of Kin
A shy teen invents a life story for herself when she meets her politically active pen pal.

6:30pm

Oct 13

Love & Basketball (2000, USA, D: Gina Prince-Bythewood)
Neighbours and aspiring ball players conduct a love-hate relationship throughout childhood and into adulthood.

6:30pm

Oct 13

Reel Fear: The Evolution of Found Footage Horror
Horror author/podcaster Alex West traces the evolution of found footage horror from videotapes to smartphones.

7:00pm

Oct 13

If I Go Will They Miss Me (2026, USA, D: Walter Thompson-Hernández)
A twelve-year-old boy tries to reconnect with his father, who has been recently released from jail.

7:00pm

Oct 13

Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance (2025, Canada, D: Noam Gonick)
The origins of Canada's 2SLGBTQI+ movement are chronicled. Free with registration! A discussion follows the screening.

@ Soulpepper Theatre

7:00pm

Oct 13

The Brown Bunny (2003, USA/Japan, D: Vincent Gallo)
A motorcycle racer driving to his next event remembers the love of his life. Presented by Orthodox.

8:00pm

Oct 13

The Innocents (1961, UK, D: Jack Clayton) Paradise Book Club
A young governess is driven around the bend by unruly children and ghostly goings-on.

8:45pm

Oct 13

Paranormal Activity (2007, USA, D: Oren Peli)
New homeowners try to find explanations for strange events that happen at night. 35mm! A companion screening to Alex West's lecture on found footage horror.

9:30pm

Oct 14

Eyimofe (This Is My Desire) (2020, Nigeria, D: Chuko Esiri & Arie Esiri)
Two residents of Lagos dream of emigrating to Europe. Presented by local.global.

6:00pm

Oct 14

Inu-Oh (2021, Japan, D: Masaaki Yuasa) Animate
A blind musician and an outcast noble rock 14th century Japan.

6:30pm

Oct 14

Night of the Living Dead (1968, USA, D: George A. Romero) The Black Nerds
The dead rise in the zombie film that changed zombie films. 4K restoration!

6:45pm

Oct 14

The Stranger and the Fog (1974, Iran, D: Bahram Beyzai)
A boat containing a single amnesiac passenger drifts into a ocean village. Presented by the Cinema Rex podcast.

7:00pm

Oct 14

Bubba Ho-tep (2002, USA, D: Don Coscarelli)
Elvis (Bruce Campbell) and a Black JFK (Ossie Davis) fight The Mummy. A Midnight Madness favourite from the director of Phantasm.

7:00pm

Oct 14
Oct 17

Always Lalisa (2026, USA, D: Sue Kim)
Pop star Lisa reinvents herself during a year away from Blackpink.

7:00pm
7:00pm

Oct 14

Blue Sunshine (1977, USA, D: Jeff Lieberman) Psych Out Cinema
A series of murders is linked to the ingestion of LSD a decade prior. 4K restoration!

9:30pm

Oct 15

Talking About the Weather (2022, Germany, D: Annika Pinske) Goethe Films: Next of Kin
A doctoral student notices the gulf that has developed between herself and her family.

6:30pm

Oct 15

Burnt Offerings (1976, USA, D: Dan Curtis) Designing The Movies
Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Bette Davis take up residence in a creepy country house.

6:30pm

Oct 15

Carrie (1976, USA, D: Brian De Palma)
Telekinesis + bullying = worst prom ever. 4K!

7:30pm

Oct 15

What Haunts Us
A Black Horror short film night.

@ Nia Centre For the Arts

7:30pm

Oct 15

Cleo From Nine Till Forever
Shorts 'n' stand-up! DM on Instagram for the address.

@ Market Video

8:00pm

Oct 15

Manhunter (1986, USA, D: Michael Mann)
Damaged FBI agent William Petersen is called back into service to stop a serial killer threat. New 4K Final Cut!

9:30pm

Oct 15

The Devils (1971, UK, D: Ken Russell)
Hysterical, libidinous nuns accuse priest Oliver Reed of witchcraft. 4K restoration!

@ Cineplex Varsity

Oct 16

Barbie (2023, USA, D: Greta Gerwig)
A beloved children's toy's newly dark thoughts send her on a quest to the real world. Outdoors! Part of Runway Reels.

@ YZD

5:30pm

Oct 16

Pressure (1975, UK, D: Horace Ové) Pressure: Growing Up After the Windrush
A British-born Black man walks the line between seeking acceptance from a racist society and honouring his Caribbean heritage. 4K restoration! Intro by filmmaker Frances-Anne Solomon.

6:30pm

Oct 16

Rawhead Rex (1986, Ireland/UK, D: George Pavlou) Do You Like Pain?
A demon rampages across Ireland after it is released by a farmer. 4K restoration!

7:00pm

Oct 16

The Sandbox (2026, Canada, D: Kenya-Jade Pinto)
Technology polices migrants and refugees trying to cross national borders. Plus: a post-screening Q&A with the director.

7:00pm

Oct 16

To Sleep with Anger (1990, USA, D: Charles Burnett) Free Friday Films
An old friend's reappearance sows chaos in his host's home. Free!

7:00pm

Oct 16
Oct 17

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014, USA, D: Dean DeBlois)
The peace between Vikings and dragons is threatened by the discovery of a secret cave. Score performed live by a symphony orchestra!

@ Meridian Hall

7:30pm
2:00pm

Oct 16

12 Films by Alexandre Galmard
An even dozen films by Alexandre Galmard, who will be jetting from France to attend. Presented by Quantity Cinema.

@ United Unlimited

8:00pm

Oct 16

Retribution (1987, USA, D: Guy Magar) Neon Dreams
An artist comes to believe the spirit of a violent gangster is using his body to commit murder.

9:30pm

Oct 16

Possession (1981, France/Germany, D: Andrzej Żuławski)
A messy, histrionic break-up finds flesh in unnerving body horror. With Sam Neill & Isabelle Adjani.

9:30pm

Oct 17

The Evil Dead (1981, USA, D: Sam Raimi)
Evil Dead II (1987, USA, D: Sam Raimi)
Army of Darkness (1992, USA, D: Sam Raimi)
35mm trilogy triple-bill!
1) It all began here. Demons prey upon a group of young men and women gathered at a remote cabin.
2) Bruce Campbell and acquaintances battle possessive demonic forces at a secluded cabin.
3) Bruce Campbell's Ash takes on the Medieval Dead. Groovy.

1:00pm
3:30pm
6:45pm

Oct 17

James McNeill Whistler (2026, UK, D: David Bickerstaff)
A deep dive into the work of Whistler on the occasion of the Tate Britain's new exhibit.

1:30pm

Oct 17
Oct 18

Kwaidan (1964, Japan, D: Masaki Kobayashi)
An anthology of four ghostly Japanese tales.

2:00pm
7:00pm

Oct 17
Oct 18

Trouble Every Day (2001, France, D: Claire Denis)
A virus transforms Beatrice Dalle into a sexually voracious cannibal. 35mm!

3:30pm
7:00pm

Oct 17

Four Quartets (2022, UK, D: Sophie Fiennes)
Ralph Fiennes performs T. S. Eliot's poem about memory, human experience and spirituality. Plus: a virtual Q&A with film/theatre critic Alex Heeney and director Sophie Fiennes.

4:00pm

Oct 17

Tomorrow Somewhere by the Sea (2023, Germany, D: Patrick Büchting)
High school grads looking for direction take a road trip to Portugal.

@ Goethe Institut

4:00pm

Oct 17

A Minecraft Movie (2025, USA/Sweden, D: Jared Hess)
Misfits must work together when they are transported to a cubic world that is powered by imagination. Outdoors! Part of Runway Reels.

@ YZD

5:30pm

Oct 17

Lovers Rock (2020, UK, D: Steve McQueen) Pressure: Growing Up After the Windrush
A new romance blooms amidst the charged atmosphere of a Jamaican immigrant house party in early 1980s London.

6:30pm

Oct 17
Oct 18

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993, USA, D: Henry Selick)
The King of Halloween tries to bring Christmas magic to his own realm. With the score performed live by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

@ Roy Thomson Hall

7:30pm
2:00pm, 7:30pm

Oct 17

Dan Savage's HUMP! Festival - Fall Edition
Sex columnist Dan Savage's touring festival of short, diverse, inclusive, hot and human smut returns.

8:00pm

Oct 17

Videodrome (1983, Canada, D: David Cronenberg)
"Long live the new flesh!" UHF station programmer James Woods looks for something sexy and violent to liven up the broadcast day.

9:00pm

Oct 17

I Love Maria (1988, Hong Kong, D: David Chung) Black Belt Cinema
Police reprogram a criminal gang's robot. With Tony Leung, Tsui Hark and Sally Yeh!

9:30pm

Oct 18

Simply Johanne (2024, Canada, D: Nadine Valcin)
A Montreal orphan becomes one of North America's first Black models. Documentary. Plus: a post-screening Q&A with director Nadine Valcin and other guests.

1:30pm

Oct 18

The Passion of Remembrance (1986, UK, D: Isaac Julien & Maureen Blackwood) Pressure: Growing Up After the Windrush
A consideration of Black identity in a time of unrest. Also on the bill: short Ten Bob in Winter (1963).

3:30pm

Oct 18

Ghostwatch (1992, UK, D: Lesley Manning) Apparatus Theory
A BBC investigation turns up supernatural shenanigans in a ghostly hoax that once fooled a healthy portion of the British viewing public. Free/PWYC.

4:00pm

Oct 18

The Theft (2026, Canada, D: Aisha Jamal)
Ancient Afghani artifacts are found in Western museums. Plus: a post-screening Q&A with director Aisha Jamal.

4:00pm

Oct 18

Fatherland (2026, Poland/Germany/Italy/France, D: Paweł Pawlikowski) Toronto Jewish Film Foundation
German writer Thomas Mann travels across his war-torn country, from the American to Soviet-controlled zones.

@ Cineplex Varsity

4:30pm

Oct 18

Salome Learns to Dance (2026, Canada, D: Jason Trucco)
An actor grapples with their character's erotic qualities in what Atom Egoyan describes as "a stunning hall of mirrors about identity, sex and art." Plus: a post-screening Q&A with Jason Trucco and Miranda Calderon moderated by Atom Egoyan.

6:30pm

Oct 18

Rope (1948, USA, D: Alfred Hitchcock)
A pair of murderers hide the body of their victim in the midst of a dinner party.

7:00pm

Oct 18

Horror Express (1972, Spain/UK/USA, D: Eugenio Martín) Butt's Backdoor to the World
Christopher Lee and the missing link travel back to civilization by train.

7:00pm

Oct 18

HauntedWeen (1991, USA, D: Doug Robertson) The Rewind Zone
A fraternity's haunted house attraction turns deadly when a killer takes up residence. Hosted by Rue Morgue's Yasmina Ketita.

9:15pm

Oct 18

Nightbreed (1990, USA, D: Clive Barker) Do You Like Pain?
A man is framed for murder when he discovers a secret mutant society. Director's cut!