The 2025 Windsor International Film Festival runs Oct. 23 to Nov. 2.

"The Barbarian Invasions" and “Play It Loud! How Toronto Got Soul” will be shown free at Campus Martius Park on Oct. 23 and 24.

The 2025 Windsor International Film Festival is getting ready to make a little cross-border history with the Motor City.

The annual event, which runs from Oct. 23 to Nov. 2, will be expanding its reach by holding official festival screenings in Detroit for the first time ever.

Two free outdoor screenings are scheduled to take place at the downtown Campus Martius Park in cooperation with the Downtown Detroit Partnership.

On Oct. 23, there will be a showing of “The Barbarian Invasions,” a comedy-drama about a womanizing professor facing his own mortality. A sequel to the acclaimed 1986 film “

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