Join your neighbours at the park and enjoy eats and treats at 7pm, with the movie starting at sundown, ±9pm. Nestled between the Distillery and the Don, you get an unbeatable view of Toronto’s skyline. Bring a picnic blanket, folding chair, meditation cushion.... whatever you need to be comfortable hanging out with hundreds of neighbours on a big green lawn.
From the TOPS website: "Jafar Panahi returns to the TOPS screen (following our 2024 screening of Taxi) with the Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nominated It Was Just an Accident, a taught psychological thriller and a scathing rebuke of Iranian authoritarianism. After Vahid (played by Vahid Mobasseri), a car mechanic and former political prisoner, encounters a man he suspects to be his former torturer at his garage, he kidnaps him in his van and leaves him in the desert. Racked with doubts, Vahid travels in his van back and forth between the desert and the city, bringing a group of former fellow prisoners – including a bride, her groom, their photographer, among others – to the desert to help verify the man’s identity. Like all of his films since his 2010 ban by the Iranian government on filmmaking, It Was Just an Accident was filmed in secret without permits. Masterful in Panahi’s use of tone – would you believe that this film is often oddly quite funny? – It Was Just an Accident will stick with you long after you leave the park."
Screenings are open to anyone who would like to attend, with no barriers to entry. TOPS is always free to all, and charitable donations make this possible.
Each summer, the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show (TOPS) presents an a open-air festival program at four home parks across Toronto: Fort York, Christie Pits, Corktown Common, and Bell Manor Park. Corktown Common showings start on the first Thursday in July.
July 2: Opener: Back to the Future
July 9: Wildhood
July 16: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
July 23: It Was Just an Accident
July 30: Speed
