Christian Zyp interviews Ryan Prows (director/writer) and Tim Cairo (writer) about their film NIGHT PATROL. See the Canadian Premiere at the Metro Cinema on Saturday May 23rd at 6:30pm. Ryan & Tim as well as screenwriters Jake Gibson and Shaye Ogbonna will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

NIGHT PATROL is a 2025 American horror thriller film starring Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long, Freddie Gibbs, RJ Cyler, YG, Nicki Micheaux, Flying Lotus, Phil Brooks, and Dermot Mulroney. It's a cop corruption thriller that’s also a vampire movie focusing on four characters. Ethan Hawkins (Justin Long), the son of a legendary LAPD cop (Dermot Mulroney), who wants to join The Night Patrol, an unofficial, secretive, elite unit within the department that’s essentially a vampire street gang with badges and uniforms. Ethan’s partner, Xavier Carr (Jermaine Fowler), is a Black patrolman who used to be a member of the Crips gang and hopes to rise through the ranks of the police and become somebody who gives orders as well as takes them. Xavier’s brother, Wazi Carr (RJ Cyler), is a Crips-affiliated petty criminal who sleeps on a bare mattress at his mama’s house. He’s in shock over secretly witnessing an LAPD officer murdering someone close to him, and fears a Night Patrol member will kill him to prevent him from testifying about what he saw.

Stream NIGHT PATROL on Shudder. 

TIX & INFO: https://metrocinema.org/event/night-patrol/
WEBSITE: https://nightpatrolfilm.com/
INSTAGRAM: @tim_cairo
@ryanprows
@rljefilms
@shudder

Damian Lachacz interviews Brishkay Ahmed (director) about their documentary IN THE ROOM. It screens Wednesday May 13th, 2026 at the Art Gallery of Alberta at 7:00PM. Edmonton Supports Right to Learn Afghanistan presents Brishkay Ahmad's "In the Room" for this FREE screening.

Right to Learn Afghanistan (Edmonton Supporters) will be screening Brishkay Ahmed's 2025 documentary In The Room, a production of the National Film Board. Resistance stories from five Afghan women come together to showcase the defiance, sisterhood, and enduring fight for women's freedom in Afghanistan. We'll have a brief presentation following the film, and will invite guests to join us for a glass of wine and nibbles afterwards in the theatre foyer, along with some Afghan dambura music! Tickets are available at no charge. We'll be asking for donations at the event if you feel able to contribute to the amazing work of Right to Learn Afghanistan!

RESERVE YOUR FREE TICKET: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/in-the-room-film-screening-presented-by-right-to-learn-afghanistan-tickets-1985593230804

Christian Zyp interviews Vincent Brulotte (Production Coordinator & Programmer) about the Road to 40 - An EIFF Retrospective Series. This is a compilation of four films over the summer that will lead up to the Edmonton International Film Festival in September. There will be a screening every month. Follow Moving Radio for information for each screening.

The inaugural screening of "The Road to 40" is of Anne Wheeler's made-in-Alberta classic BYE BYE BLUES! Featuring incredible musical performances, and a standout turn from Canadian icon Rebecca Jenkins, this felt like the perfect way to open our series! See the screening at the Metro Cinema on Thursday, May 28 at 6:30pm. EIFF will be presenting an in-person  Q&A post-screening with director Anne Wheeler.

WEBSITE INFO: https://eiffroadto40.eventive.org/welcome?mc_cid=b68a2da820&mc_eid=825731df58
INSTAGRAM: @ edmfilmfest

Christian Zyp interviews Gabby Moukhaiber(Programming Lead) and Suzuanne Burwash (Assistant Programmer) about the FascinAsian Film Festival taking place in Edmonton from May 12-16, 2026. Screenings will take place at several locations (Metro Cinema, Alberta Art Gallery, Landmark City Center Cinemas) showcasing pan-asian filmmakers internationally as well as locally. 

FascinAsian Film Festival is a culturally specific film festival based in the Prairie region of Canada. The festival, which began in Winnipeg in 2021, expanded to Calgary in 2022, then launched in Edmonton in 2025, celebrates Asian contributions to the film and media landscape and aims to showcase the talents of Asian-Canadian and Asian-American artists in film. We also hope to give local filmmakers and film professionals another place to connect with each other and gather as a community.

WEBSITE: https://fascinasian.ca/edmonton-2026
INSTAGRAM: @fascinasianedmonton
FACEBOOK: FascinAsian Film Festival - Edmonton

Christian Zyp interviews Kyle Misaki (director/writer) & Jonathan Petro )producer) about their feature film BAD HAIRCUT. See it as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) Friday April 24th at 9:00PM at the Globe Cinema. Kyle Misaki & Jonathan Petro will be in attendance for s post -screening Q&A.

BAD HAIRCUT... Billy Crumpus has never been the confident type. A socially awkward college student with a goofy charm that never quite lands, he hits rock bottom after a humiliating encounter with a group of girls at a party. Seeing their friend spiraling, Billy’s ride-or-die duo, Sonny and Dee, decide it’s time for drastic measures. Their plan? Take him to the one place that’s never let them down: the chair of their favorite barber, the wildly eccentric and possibly deranged Mick. What starts as a simple haircut quickly spirals into a surreal nightmare. As Mick’s behavior grows increasingly unhinged, it becomes clear he may be hiding something far more sinister possibly connected to the recent disappearance of a local college girl.

CUFF INFO & TIX: https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/2026/bad-haircut/
INSTAGRAM: @badhaircutthemovie

Christian Zyp interviews Coty Savard (producer) & Connor McNally (subtitle editor) about Gil Cardinal's film FOSTER CHILD: ohpikihâkan awâsis. It will screen as part of Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival on Saturday April 18th at 7PM at Landmark City Centre Cinemas. There will be a post-screening Q&A panel after the film with elders Jerry & Jo-Ann Saddleback hosted by Connor McNally and Coty Savard.

FOSTER CHILD: ohpikihâkan awâsis... An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this autobiographical documentary, he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards. “Foster Child” is one of the great docs to come out of Canada and nobody, but Gil could have made it,” says writer and broadcaster Jesse Wente, the former Director of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office. “Gil made it possible for us to think about putting our own stories on the screen, and that was something new and important.”

Listen to Lucas Anders interview with Jody Wilson (director/writer) about the film THE BEARDED GIRL. It screens as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival on Monday April 20th at 6:30PM at the Globe Cinema. Jody WIlson and Jeff Gladstone (cast) will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.

THE BEARDED GIRL... On the brink of inheriting the position of "The Bearded Woman" – matriarchal leader to an outcast community of circus performers – a young woman defies her overbearing mother and runs away instead. Free from the expectations and responsibilities at home, she seeks romance and adventure with the normies in a tiny farm town. In order to fit in, she reinvents herself with stories of a fabricated past, until the truth of who she is can no longer be concealed.

CUFF INFO & TIX: https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/2026/bearded-girl/
INSTAGRAM: @thebeardedgirlmovie
@jodysays

Listen to Lucas Anders interview with Rino Mioc (director/writer/editor) about the film EARTH TO COLBY. It screens Saturday April 25th at 3:30 PM at the Globe Cinema as part of the Calgary Underground FIlm Festival. Rino Mioc and Stephanie Kvellestad as well as local cast & crew will be in attendance for a post screening Q&A.

EARTH TO COLBY... An aspiring vlogger discovers a notebook detailing hidden portals in her hometown, leading her on a journey to discover the city's supernatural history. After paranormal vlogger Colby vanishes, a documentary crew digs through her content and recovered footage to uncover the truth. What they find is her growing obsession with a strange coil-bound book and the escalating hauntings that followed. As Colby searches for a sign from her late father, friends and family reveal the chilling descent that led to her disappearance. 

CUFF INFO & TIX: https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/2026/earth-to-colby/
INSTAGRAM: @rino_mioc

Listen to Lucas Anders interview with Anthony Oberbeck (director/writer) about his film LITTLE DOORS screening as part of the Calgary Underground Film Festival. See it Saturday April 18th at 7:00  PM at the Globe Cinema in Calgary. Join Anthony Oberbeck, Megan Koester (cast),  Eric Cotten (producer) and Miceal O'Donnell (producer) for a post-screening Q&A. 

The feature directorial debut of Anthony Oberbeck (Dad & Stepdad, Reveries: The Mind Prison), LITTLE DOORS is a relentlessly deadpan comedy about loneliness, love, and the pain of human connection. In a strangely quiet, apocalyptic world, a lonely, reticent, and perpetually scowling woman is one day visited by an odd, but good-natured locksmith. They tumble awkwardly into their own strange, stilted version of a romance, and just as a real connection seems to be forming, the woman discovers a small wooden door on the side of her body. Oberbeck stars, with his wife Megan Koester, in a movie indebted stylistically to Aki Kaurismaki, Jim Jarmusch, and Yorgos Lanthimos, but moving very much with its own distinctly absurd logic and quietly thoughtful surrealism.

CUFF INFO & TIX: https://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/2026/little-doors/
INSATGRAM: @anthonyoberbeck

Lucas Anders interviews Nauzanin Knight (director) about her documentary THE FORBIDDEN UNIVERSITY. It is screening as part of Northwest Film Fest Saturday April 11th, 2026 st 2:30PM at Meto Cinema. Nauzanin Knight will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.

Amid the shadows of oppression in Iran, THE FORBIDDEN UNIVERSITY unveils a secret beacon of hope. Explore the clandestine world of the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education, an informal underground university created by the Bahá’ís of Iran in a country where, for them, education is a crime. With poignant interviews and stunning rotoscoped animation (crafted by the Academy Award-winning studio behind The Perfect Storm and Blade Runner), this made-in-Edmonton doc shines a light on the courageous souls who dare to defy tyranny for the sake of education.

NWFF WEBSITE INFO & TIX: www.northwestfest.ca/2026/the-forbidden-university
FILM WEBSITE: www.theforbiddenuniversityfilm.com/team
INSTAGRAM: @nauzaninnknight