Chandler Levack returns behind the camera with Mile End Kicks, a 2026 Canadian comedy-drama tuned to the restless rhythm of Montreal's indie music scene, with Barbie Ferreira leading a cast that includes Jay Baruchel and Devon Bostick.
What is Mile End Kicks about?
A young writer with big critical ambitions and a small bank of experience lands in Mile End, the Montreal neighbourhood where half the city's bands seem to rehearse, record, and fall apart. She has come to write a book about pop music and to make a name for herself, but the plan wobbles the moment she starts championing a scrappy local group. The professional distance a critic is supposed to keep begins to collapse: late nights at shows turn into friendships, friendships blur into romance, and soon her writing about the band is hopelessly tangled up with her feelings for the people inside it. What follows is a funny, bruising portrait of being twenty-four — overconfident on the page, unsure everywhere else — as she learns the difference between loving a scene and belonging to one.
About the cast
Barbie Ferreira, widely known for her breakout television work, carries the film with a mix of swagger and vulnerability. Jay Baruchel, a veteran of Canadian comedy and himself a Montreal fixture, brings lived-in charm to the ensemble, while Devon Bostick rounds out the central trio. The supporting cast is drawn heavily from Canada's comedy and music circuits, which gives the band scenes an authentic, slightly chaotic energy.
Context & significance
Writer-director Chandler Levack drew notice with her acclaimed debut I Like Movies, and Mile End Kicks continues her interest in obsessive young people who filter life through the culture they consume. The film is steeped in the real geography of Mile End, a neighbourhood long associated with Montreal's independent music boom, and it doubles as an affectionate time capsule of magazine-era music criticism — a world of album reviews, merch tables, and arguments about authenticity. It runs a brisk 105 minutes, and the neighbourhood itself is as present in the film as any of the band members.
Watching Mile End Kicks on Ktime
Mile End Kicks streams on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can enjoy it either way. This page is free to read; to press play you just need to log in with a K-Time account. The whole experience — menus, search, and player — is built for the Iranian diaspora with a full Farsi interface.