Montreal-based rom-com Mile End Kicks set to make debut at TIFF

Alex Nino Gheciu · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 26, 2025 12:13 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

A rom-com astir a emotion triangle acceptable successful Montreal's euphony country is among the films making their satellite premieres astatine the 50th variation of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Mile End Kicks, from Toronto manager Chandler Levack, stars Barbie Ferreira arsenic a young euphony professional who moves to Montreal successful 2011 to constitute a publication astir Alanis Morissette's album Jagged Little Pill.

Her plans instrumentality a crook erstwhile she falls for 2 members of the aforesaid fledgling indie stone set and decides to go their publicist.

The movie portrays the euphony country successful Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood, which gave emergence to acts including Arcade Fire, Grimes and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

It's 1 of 5 peculiar presentations announced by TIFF, including Steven Soderbergh's The Christophers, astir siblings who prosecute a forger to decorativeness their precocious father's art.

TIFF runs from Sept. 4 to 14 and volition unfastened with John Candy: I Like Me, a documentary connected the precocious Canadian comic.

The sensation of the lineup revealed Thursday besides includes Alejandro Amenabar's The Captive, which tells the communicative of Don Quixote writer Miguel de Cervantes.

Meanwhile, Hedda, by The Marvels manager Nia DaCosta, is simply a reimagining of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler, astir the girl of a wide who is trapped successful a loveless marriage.

Another premiere astatine TIFF is Good News, a play by South Korean manager Sung-hyun Byun astir a covert ngo to onshore a hijacked airplane.

TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey said successful a connection that this archetypal question of satellite premieres reflects the "innovation, heart and planetary perspective" that person defined the festival for the past 5 decades.