The Windsor International Film Festival is expanding to Detroit.

For the first time in its 21-year history, the film fest is crossing international waters and will showcase two outdoor screenings in Campus Martius Park, organizers have announced.

On Oct. 23, programmers will show "The Barbarian Invasions," a Canadian production which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film in 2004. And Oct. 24 will see a screening of 2024's "Play it Loud! How Toronto Got Soul," a documentary covering Jamaican music's influence on Toronto's music community in the 1960s.

Both screenings are free, but audiences are required to register for tickets through the festival's website .

The screenings are part of an initiative between the festival and the Downtown Detroit Partnership, and in a sta

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