POV: Your next trip around the world costs less than a plane ticket. André’s Staff Picks are packed with unforgettable stories from across the globe, from beloved classics to bold experimental cinema. If you’re looking to discover something unexpected, this is where to start.

Before it became history, it was a fight to be heard. The Ninth Floor revisits the 1969 Sir George Williams occupation through the voices of those who lived it. Stream it tonight on HighballTV.com

POV: You finish an incredible film… and immediately want to know how it was made. Go behind the scenes with Mother of All Shows director @melissadags.bsky.social in an exclusive interview you’ll only find on HighballTV.

Climate change is the challenge. Reinvention is the opportunity. This acclaimed documentary from Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis explores bold solutions for a changing world. Stream it now on HighballTV.com #filmsky

You know what @melissadags.bsky.social watches. Now see what she creates. Stream Melissa’s musical traumedy Mother of All Shows and her whodunnit-comedy Paige Darcy: Reluctant Detective on HighballTV. And stay tuned to find out what she’ll be creating next! 🧙‍♀️

Gene Kelly. Nora Ephron. Martin Scorsese. Unlikely bedfellows, perhaps, but together they capture the spirit of @melissadags.bsky.social’s Staff Picks: films that are funny, thrilling, romantic, and unapologetically cinematic. #filkmsky

What comes after life? 🏆 FIPRESCI Prize Winner at TIFF, Kati Kati follows a young Kenyan woman navigating the afterlife with no memory of her past.

What are you looking for? A streaming service that puts films first. Discover award-winning cinema, exclusive HighballTV Originals, and hidden gems, all at a price that won’t hurt your wallet. 🎬

Somewhere along the way, streaming became less about watching great films and more about navigating pricing tiers, bundles, and ads. HighballTV.com never got that memo. One subscription. No ads. Just great films, for film lovers. That’s all. Thanks for the mention #NerdWallet

If @mattcampagna.bsky.social’s Staff Picks are your kind of cinema, it’s time to enter the 6verse. Start with Six Reasons Why. Follow it with Six Days to Die. Then get ready for the next chapter: Six Guns for Hire, coming soon. Your 6verse marathon starts now on HighballTV.com #filmsky

The best genre films do more than entertain. They transport us into unfamiliar worlds, challenge what we think we know, and find something deeply human along the way. Explore @mattcampagna.bsky.social’s Staff Picks, a collection of crime thrillers, westerns, and stories that stay with you.

Ever wondered what happens in a sound spotting session? Follow @melissadags.bsky.social + @mattcampagna.bsky.social for the day as they work with Nck Name to make our upcoming film The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana sound just right 👌 #filmsky #bts

Tell us what you love. We’ll show you where to go next. 🎬 Go Deep 📍 Spaces & Places 🏳️‍🌈 2SLGBTQIA+ Stories 🇨🇦 Made in Canada Try them out now with our 14-day 🆓 trial on HighballTV.com

Happy pride month 🌈 📺 Mother Father Sister Brother Frank

As Pride Month draws to a close, celebrate a story of music, identity, and the courage to live authentically. My Prairie Home follows acclaimed singer-songwriter #raespoon in an award-winning documentary that premiered at Sundance and won the Milan International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Any given day here at HighballTV, we’re either making movies, talking about movies, or sharing and promoting movies. That’s what happens when you have an independently run film streaming service. Every step we take is made with intention and care. We’re HighballTV. We do it because we 💜 movies.

CFNY became a cultural institution by championing the #music other stations ignored. So when new management pushed the station toward a more mainstream sound, the reaction was swift. Listeners protested. DJ’s rebelled. And #CFNY found itself in one of the most debated chapters in its history.

The records you know. The stories you don’t. Because music doesn’t just soundtrack history. Sometimes it makes it. Documented: Music is HighballTV’s curated collection of music documentaries, uncovering the stories behind the artists, scenes, and sounds that changed culture.

The story of CFNY isn’t just about the music It’s about the voices that brought it to life David Marsden. Alan Cross. Liz Janik. Ivar Hamilton. Scot Turner, and more. 🎙️ Watch CFNY: The Spirit of Radio Extended Mix for exclusive interviews and bonus clips. Rent, buy, or stream, only on HighballTV

You can measure CFNY’s impact in platinum records and sold-out arenas. But ask the fans and they’ll tell you something different. They’ll tell you about lining up at CFNY roadshows and realizing the voices on the other end of the airwaves belonged to a community that stretched far beyond them.

Before she fronted #Metric, #EmilyHaines was part of a Toronto music scene that was quietly changing the sound of indie rock. In this extended interview from CFNY: The Spirit of Radio, Haines reflects on the station, the city, and the artists who shaped her creative world. #musicdoc #cfny #filmsky

In the late ’70s, most radio stations were busy recycling the familiar. CFNY was busy playing the future. Long before they were household names, listeners were discovering bands like The Cure, New Order, and Depeche Mode on a station that refused to play it safe. The rest is music history.

You heard the radio edit Now here’s the extended mix Featuring additional interviews and moments not included in the broadcast version, CFNY: The Spirit of Radio – Extended Mix takes you deeper into the station that introduced generations of listeners to the music nobody else was playing #filmsky

The films we carry with us are rarely the loudest. They’re the ones with the characters we can’t forget with real performances that change the way we see the world. Curated by @nataliesemotiuk.bsky.social, Nat’s Picks is a collection of award-winning dramas, documentaries, and hidden gems.

Before Judy. Before Barbra. Before Gaga. The original A Star Is Born (1937) tells the timeless story of a young woman chasing stardom and the fading star who helps her get there. Starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, this Hollywood classic still shines nearly 90 years later.

You came for one movie. 3 hours later you found: A music documentary. A cult classic. A film festival favourite. A film you’ll spend the next week recommending to strangers. Result: Zero regrets. 🍿 HighballTV.com

Music lover? Horror fan? Documentary junkie? Cinema explorer? We’ve got a collection for that. 🎵 Documented: Music 🩸 Classic Horror 🌎 Activism In Action 🎬 Outside the Lines No endless scrolling. Just great film. Try HighballTV free for 14 days. #filmsky

CFNY came home. Thank you to everyone who joined us in Brampton for the final screening of CFNY: The Spirit of Radio. From longtime listeners to first-time viewers, it was a special night celebrating the station that helped shape Canadian music and culture.

Streaming platforms spend millions trying to predict what you’ll watch next. We asked our programmers instead. The Staff Picks collection is a selection of films we love, argue about, recommend constantly, and revisit whenever we need to remember why we fell in love with cinema in the first place.

🎧 CFNY: The Spirit of Radio is now available on DVD and Blu-ray, including the extended cut of the documentary that tells the story of the station that helped shape a generation of music fans. For collectors. For music lovers. For anyone who still misses late-night radio.

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It all started in Brampton. Before CFNY became one of the most influential alternative radio stations in N. America, it was a small station with big ideas broadcasting from Peel Region. On 6/6, The Spirit of Radio Documentary Tour comes home for its final screening at the Cyril Clark Theatre.

“Convincing proof that Mia Hansen-Løve is one of the best filmmakers on the planet.” — @indiewire.com Featuring a masterful performance from Isabelle Huppert, Things to Come is a quietly devastating and deeply human portrait of reinvention, freedom, and finding your footing when everything changes.

Too new to be called classics. Too good not to be. Explore our Modern Classics collection and discover the films shaping the future of cinema. Now streaming on HighballTV.com

Physical media? Dead, apparently. Anyway, here’s our collectibles shelf 👾

One of many gems hidden in the extras section of In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey. 🎸 On HighballTV, the experience doesn’t stop at the film. Dive into the kind of extras you used to find on special edition DVDs, including this beautiful #JohnFahey performance by #TerryRobb

“It's also fascinating to see how Ma has incorporated fantastical elements of Xiaoli's troupe's performance into an otherwise realistic film about working class artists.” — Globe and Mail To Live to Sing is a moving portrait of a Sichuan Opera troupe fighting to survive.

Happy Birthday to the man who keeps the reels rolling, the servers humming, and somehow still finds time to talk movies at all hours of the day. 🎬 Here’s to another year of big swings, cult gems, and building a home for films that deserve to be seen. Happy Birthday, @mattcampagna.bsky.social 🥳

Can’t make it to Cannes? We brought a little piece of the Croisette home. 🎬 From Palme d’Or winners to festival discoveries worth obsessing over, our Cannes Collection is packed with acclaimed films from festivals past. A little Cannes at home. Minus the jet lag. 🇫🇷✨ HighballTV.com

Team HighballTV This or That: Director’s edition 🎬 Agnès Varda or Chantal Akerman? PTA or Ruben Östlund? Some choices reveal more than a Letterboxd profile ever could. 👀 #filmsky

From packed market meetings to late-night screenings and conversations on the Croisette, HighballTV is at the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival À bientôt sur la Croisette!

“An important story… the battle for equal rights is far from finished.” - Rocks Blogs Set in rural England, 175 follows a couple fighting for the right to say “I do” before time runs out as Parliament debates same-sex marriage and everything hangs in the balance.

Deep Cut Film Culture: This or That with Team HighballTV 🎬 * Nothing happens or everything happens? * Festival laurels or no-badge discovery? Choose your fighter.

“It took me by surprise too” is an all-time defense. 📺 Mother Father Sister Brother Frank

HIGHBALLTV HOT TAKE: The Paramount + WB Merger 🎬 If the future of Hollywood comes down to: Paramount + Warner Bros. or Netflix swallowing another legacy studio… we may already be in the bad timeline. What’s your take? 👀 Catch the full discussion on our HighballTV YouTube

Every family dinner has tension. This one escalates into homicide. 🔪🥧🪓 Mother Father Sister Brother Frank Watch now on HighballTV in Canada 🇨🇦 www.highballtv.com/featured/vid...

Your cinephile taste says more about you than your dating profile probably does. 4K restoration or scrappy festival DCP? Sold-out buzz screening or half-empty hidden gem? Film you felt or film you understood? Welcome to Team HighballTV: This or That 🎬 #filmsky

If you’re the kind of person who still thinks movies can change you a little, HighballTV is for you. Festival films, cult favourites, hidden gems, and stories that stay with you long after the credits roll. Watch on Roku, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, or your browser.

They’re not statistics. Not Just Numbers follows women fighting violence in their communities and demanding to be seen, not counted. Now streaming on HighballTV.com

These films don’t rush past people. They stay. Long enough for something real to land. Watch something that connects on a deeper level. HighballTV.com