Mile End Kicks directed by Chandler Levack
Premiering on September 4, 2025
FOLLOWING the breakout success of her debut feature I Like Movies (2022), Chandler Levack returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with her highly anticipated second film, Mile End Kicks. Loosely inspired by her own experiences as a young female music critic, this romantic comedy is set in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood at the height of the vibrant indie music scene in 2011. Though now primarily associated with tattooed hipsters, it was once a home for working-class Jewish immigrants, and music has always been a part of its creative identity, from klezmer to Grimes. Produced by the team behind Canadian indie darling BlackBerry, Mile End Kicks will embrace the messiness and fun of love triangles, dating musicians, and 20-something angst. Sophia Hershfield
