Reel on the River
Archived films from past seasons
The Sapphires
Plucked from obscurity in a remote Australian mission school in 1968, four talented young Aboriginal girls are formed into a dynamic singing group and sent to Vietnam to entertain the troops.
The Angels’ Share
A Glaswegian ne'er-do-well concocts a get-rich-quick scheme to make off with a case of extremely rare malt whisky, in this light-hearted comedy-drama from British master Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley). Britain's master realist Ken Loach has long been a...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson co-star in this adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's international best-selling novel, about a young Pakistani man (Riz Ahmed) whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him on a strange path back to the world he...
Kon-Tiki
Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards, Kon-Tiki is an epic retelling of Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean. Directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, the team behind the World War II epic Max Manus, the film...
Inescapable
Three years ago, director Ruba Nadda won over cinema-goers around the world with the touching romance Cairo Time, a Film Circuit People’s Choice Award winner in 2009. This year, she reteams with her Cairo Time star Alexander Siddig for the highly anticipated political...
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...