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
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door 

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
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door 
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)

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.
 

Man-soo (Lee Byung Hun) had it all: a loving wife, two talented children, two happy dogs. Then, after 25 years of dedicated work for Solar Paper, Man-soo is suddenly given the axe. Soon he is falling behind on his mortgage payments and his wife Mi-ri (Son Yejin) insists they put the house up for sale. Man-soo is desperate to scoop a coveted position with Moon Paper, but he knows there are other job seekers who match his pedigree. So he hatches a plan: invent a phony paper company, reach out to each of his rivals, lure them into a meeting… and, one by one, dispatch the competition. 

Brilliantly scripted by Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, and Toronto’s own Don McKellar, No Other Choice is a chilling satire on workplace politics and ruthless status-seeking. In Park Chan-wook’s world, given the right set of circumstances, anyone can be driven to murder. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it.

Directed by Park Chan-wook
South Korea | 2025 | 139m | Korean



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 2 | It Was Just An Accident
April 6 | The Secret Agent
May 4 | Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)

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 by critics for its spare elegance, emotional force, and moral clarity, It Was Just an Accident is both urgent and universal. Audiences will be drawn into its subtle tension and left reflecting long after the credits roll.

Vahid, an unassuming mechanic, has a chance encounter with Eghbal, a man he strongly suspects to be his former sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, Vahid gathers several former prisoners, all abused by that same captor, to try and confirm Eghbal's identity. As the bickering group drives around Tehran with the captive, they must confront how far to take matters into their own hands with their presumed tormentor. From master filmmaker Jafar Panahi comes a searing moral thriller that engages with complex ideas about the uncertainty of the truth and the choice between revenge and mercy, as Panahi turns his personal dissonance into a profound and galvanizing work of art.

Director: Jafar Panahi
Iran, France, Luxembourg | 2025 | 105m | Persian
Palme D'Or, 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
Buy all 4: $46 at the Door 

March 2 | No Other Choice
April 6 | The Secret Agent
May 4 | Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband)

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.

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father—and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

Directed by Joachim Trier
Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, United Kingdom | 2025 | 132m | Norwegian, English Comedy/Drama
Cannes Grand Prix 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