Arrebato, screening May 19, 2022
Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, space, and sexuality are erased as José is once more sucked into Pedro’s vampiric orbit. Together, they attempt the ultimate hallucinogenic catharsis through a moebius strip of filming and being filmed.
Learn more about the film here.
In Person and Online
May 26 – June 05, 2022
December 01 to 10, 2021
Being BeBe by Emily Branham
Inside Out is excited to co-present with the Human Rights Film Festival+. They would like to invite you to their opening night and the Toronto premiere of Being BeBe on December 1st about BeBe Zahara Benet, the first winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the activism work she is doing in Cameroon. The film will have a simultaneous premiere online and at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema.
Presented by JAYU
Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Directed by: Jane Campion
Country: New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States
Runtime: 136 Minutes
Date and Time: December 1, 2021 at 7:30pm
Location: Hotel X Cinema
Inside Out is excited to screen our first in-person feature length film, the Netflix Original Movie, The Power of the Dog at Hotel X on Wednesday, December 1 at 7:30pm. This is your chance to see one of Netflix’s most anticipated movies of the year on the big screen!
The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, revelling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter – all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form – he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil’s cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
Adapted from Thomas Savage’s cult novel of the same name, Jane Campion proves once again that she is one of today’s greatest filmmakers with Oscar worthy performances in this revisionist western.
Content advisory: homophobic themes, sexually suggestive scenes.
Open captions available.
Official Selection: 2021 Venice Film Festival, 2021 Toronto International Film Festival
November 12 to November 28, 2021
Variações, Guardian Angel
A biopic about António Variações, a famous Portuguese pop rock singer from the 80s who died from AIDS-related complications in 1984.
Thursday, November 25, 2021 | 9:30pm
Join Inside Out for a special in-person advance screening of the first episode of the new Crave Original series 1 QUEEN 5 QUEERS, followed by a Q&A with Brooke Lynn Hytes!
An update to the MTV Canada hit 1 GIRL 5 GAYS, which ran from 2009 to 2014, the new series is hosted by CANADA’S DRAG RACE judge and the Queen of the North, Brooke Lynn Hytes, who leads open, honest, and no-holds-barred conversations about sex, relationships, pop culture, challenges facing the queer community, and more. Each half-hour episode of 1 QUEEN 5 QUEERS is focused on a single topic, and reflects the awareness and values of a new generation of viewers, and features a panel that represents a variety of sexualities and identities.
1 QUEEN 5 QUEERS premieres on Thursday, Dec. 9, with subsequent new episodes dropping Thursdays on Crave.
TIFF Bell Lightbox Covid-19 Protocols
Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance on Ticketmaster.
Open captions available.
The 25th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival takes place November 10 to November 19, 2021!
We’re excited to partner with Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival for the presentation of See You Then by Director Mari Walker.
In See You Then, a decade after abruptly breaking up with Naomi, Kris invites her to dinner to catch-up on their complicated lives, relationships, and Kris’ transition.
October 28 to November 07, 2021
North By Current by Angelo Madsen Minax
A powerful first-person feature doc about family, addiction, otherness and ultimately acceptance, it premiered in Berlin 2021 and will be debuting in Canada at Rendezvous
There will be a live Q&A with the Director as well (TBC)