Run It Back

Celebrating the iconic and groundbreaking queer films that shaped our history and paved the way for today’s queer cinema.

Introducing Run It Back

As Toronto steps into a major year for sport and culture, we’re proud to present Run It Back: A League of Our Own: a 2SLGBTQ+ sports screening series spotlighting stories of teamwork, resilience, gender equity, and queer community on and off the field.

From iconic underdog tales to films that stretch (and joyfully bend) the definition of both sports and queer cinema, this series champions the stories too often left on the sidelines.

 

Upcoming screenings

April 15 | NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY:

Backspot

May 4: TBD

July 16: TBD

October 8: TBD

Next Screening: April 15

For this year’s CanFilmDay, in partnership with Reel Canada, we are having a special Run It Back screening of the festival favourite Backspot at the Imagine Cinemas Carlton. Shot and created in Toronto, executive produced by Elliot Page’s Page Boy Productions, directed by D.W. Waterson, and produced by and starring Devery Jacobs—we cannot get more Canadian than this! Stay after the screening for a Q&A with director D.W. Waterson. 


Past 2026 Screenings

Movie poster for A League of Their Own.

A League of Their Own (1992)

January (Run It Back) Screening

Movie poster for the Broken Hearts Club.

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)

January (Run It Back) Screening

Poster of Battle of the Sexes featuring Emma Stone playing Billie Jean King looking at Steve Carell, playing Bobby Riggs.

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

March (Run It Back) Screening

Film poster of Challengers with a woman's face wearing sunglasses. In the reflection of the glasses, two tennis players are on court.

Challengers (2024)

March (Run It Back) Screening


Past 2025 Retrospective Screenings

Carol (2015)

December Screening

Closet Monster (2015)

October Screening

Poster for the film "On Swift Horses" featuring close-up portraits of five main characters against a desert background. The title and actors' names are prominently displayed, with a small figure on horseback below.

On Swift Horses

March (Play It Forward) Screening

A vertical collage of six different cinematic scenes: a person in a harness, two people in a kitchen with a cat, a person on a city street, a neon "Continental" sign, a large house, and hands holding eggs.

Shorts: Homotown Heroes

March (Run It Back) Screening

Two young Black men stand facing each other against a white background; below them, the words "young soul rebels" appear, with a smaller image of two men smiling together at a radio studio.

Young Soul Rebels (1991)

February Screening