Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

In the Summers
2024 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 35m
Director: Alessandra Lacorazza

Siblings Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but every summer they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to spend time with their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente (René “Residente” Pérez Joglar). Over the course of four formative summers that span adolescence to early adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate their father as a person, his flaws and limitations inseparable from his passion and tenderness. Lovers come and go, the backyard goes to seed, but the idea of home remains knotty and elusive. This powerful and deeply personal directorial debut from Alessandra Lacorazza offers a nuanced study of young people questioning their place within their families, their communities, and their identities. Winner of the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, In the Summers shares both an emotional capsule of growing up within a fragmented family and a love letter to the resilience needed to survive.

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door (Feb/March/April/May)
February 3: Small Things Like These
March 3: All We Imagine as Light
April 7: Universal Language
May 5: In the Summers

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

Universal Language
2024 ‧ Comedy/Drama ‧ 1h 29m
Director: Matthew Rankin

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door (Feb/March/April/May)
February 3: Small Things Like These
March 3: All We Imagine as Light
April 7: Universal Language
May 5: In the Summers

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

All We Imagine as Light
2024 ‧ Drama/Narrative ‧ 2h 3m
Director: Payal Kapadia

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated by writer/director Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

Centering on two roommates who also work together in a city hospital — head nurse Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and recent hire Anu (Divya Prabha) — plus their coworker, cook Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), Kapadia’s film alights on moments of connection and heartache, hope and disappointment. Prabha, her husband from an arranged marriage living in faraway Germany, is courted by a doctor at her hospital; Anu carries on a romance with a Muslim man, which she must keep a secret from her strict Hindu family; Parvaty finds herself dealing with a sudden eviction from her apartment.

Kapadia captures the bustle of the metropolis and the open-air tranquility of a seaside village with equal radiance, articulated by her superb actresses and by the camera with a lyrical naturalism that occasionally drifts into dreamlike incandescence. All We Imagine as Light is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.
 

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door (Feb/March/April/May)
February 3: Small Things Like These
March 3: All We Imagine as Light
April 7: Universal Language
May 5: In the Summers

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

Small Things Like These
2024 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 38m
Director: Tim Mielants

Oscar® winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as a devoted father in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent — and uncovers truths of his own — forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.  These incidents are drawn from the real-life Magdalene Laundries, in which Catholic nuns around Ireland separated unmarried and pregnant women from their children, until the last one closed in 1996. 
 

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door (Feb/March/April/May)
February 3: Small Things Like These
March 3: All We Imagine as Light
April 7: Universal Language
May 5: In the Summers

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.

Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. When a wary outsider joins the group, the men decide to stage their first original comedy in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $13 each
Buy all 3: $35 at the Door (Oct/Nov/Dec)
Crossing | Oct 7 
Wicked Little Letters | Nov 18 
Sing Sing | Dec 9 

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.
 

Celebrated Inuk director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner), returns with this captivating and epic historical drama about an arranged marriage, set 4,000 years ago. Seamlessly blending the supernatural with verité realism, Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) is a bold romantic vision punctuated by strange deaths, village upheavals, and swarming suitors. 

With arresting imagery, his trademark humour, and a cast of mostly non-professional actors, Kunuk has again created a world that not only builds upon Inuit stories and legends to enthrall audiences but works to preserve these reimagined stories for generations to come. Born from oral traditions and committed to authenticity, Uiksaringitara is a unique feat of both cultural conservation and engrossing cinema.

Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Canada | 2025 | 100m | Inuktitut 
Best Canadian Feature, TIFF (2025)

Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Feb 2 | It Was Just An Accident
March 2 | No Other Choice
April 6 | The Secret Agent

Reel Time features some of the best films from the Toronto International Film Festival. Organized by Banff Centre, Reel Time has brought alternative cinema to the Bow Valley for over fifteen years.
 

Acclaimed Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho delivers a taut and deeply human drama in The Secret Agent, a sly, genre-bending political thriller starring Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a technology researcher on the lam in 1977 during Brazil’s notorious military dictatorship. Adapted with striking originality, the film transforms a story of espionage into a piercing exploration of identity, loyalty, and the blurred lines between truth and deception. 

Lauded by critics for its bold style and emotional intensity, Mendonça Filho’s work balances suspense with sharp social commentary. Audiences will be captivated by its gripping narrative while discovering a film that speaks urgently to our own fractured times.

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany | 2025 | 158m | Portuguese
Best Actor & Best Director, Cannes (2025)


Banff Centre gratefully acknowledges our partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters. For more information about Film Circuit and to view a full list of their sponsors and supporters, please visit www.tiff.net/filmcircuit.

Tickets: $14 each
Note: Due to the length of this film, the start time is 6:30 pm. 
(Other Reel Time Screenings begin at 7 p.m.)

February 2 | It Was Just An Accident
March 2 | No Other Choice
May 4 | Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)