Reel on the River
Archived films from past seasons
Boy
It’s 1984, and as Michael Jackson’s Thriller dominates the airwaves, eleven year-old MJ devotee Boy (newcomer James Rolleston) dreams of the day when his long-absent father will return to take him and his younger brother Rocky away from their Nan’s home in New...
Stories We Tell
A Special Presentation at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival®, Stories We Tell is the acclaimed feature documentary debut from award-winning Canadian actor and filmmaker Sarah Polley. In the few short years since Polley first revealed her remarkable talents...
Rebelle
A Special Presentation at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival® and Canada’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Rebelle is an extraordinary portrait of survival. Director Kim Nguyen spent ten years bringing this story to the...
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson reaches peak whimsy with this meticulously nostalgic love letter to youthful eccentricity, in which two twelve-year-old pen pals declare their love and run away together in 1965 New England. New England, 1965: A pair of twelve-year-old pen pals — one a...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
A Special Presentation at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival®, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is the highly-anticipated film from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lasse Hallström (The Shipping News, Chocolat). Adapted from Paul Torday’s bestselling novel of...
The Lady
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
The Hedgehog
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations...
A Separation
Asghar Farhadi's elegant melodrama marked a milestone when it became the first Iranian film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Winner of numerous honours and awards, Asghar Farhadi's elegant melodrama marked a key transition in Iranian cinema, as...
The Intouchables
One of the highest grossing non-English language films of all time, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s The Intouchables has become a worldwide sensation. Nominated for nine Césars (France’s equivalent to the Academy Awards) and winning the Best Actor prize for its...
Le Havre
Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of the honourable, but not too profitable, of a...