For the eighth year running, the Over The Top Fest is celebrating all things weird, wonderful, underground, and unbelievable. Bringing together some of the best alternative music, film, and theatre in the world, Over The Top is a smorgasbord of cultural curiosities. But fear not, tiny dancers. We’ve narrowed down SDTC’s picks for the best of the fest for you. Here are our must-sees.

MAY 21st

White Lightnin’
@ The Royal Cinema. 7 pm.
Written by Vice Magazine co-founders Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti and set in the Appalachian mountains, this is a movie about gas-huffing, mountain-dancing, and dark rampages. Holy awesome.

Timber Timbre
w/ Baby Dee and Ghost Bees @ 6 Nassau. 8 pm. $11.
Recently picked up from Toronto indie label Out of This Spark and signed to Arts and Crafts, Timber Timbre are destined for greatness.

Sebastien Grainger and The Mountains
w/ Dinosaur Bones, Friendly Foes & Bayonets @ Whippersnapper Gallery. 8 pm. $10.
Former Death From Above 1979 drummer/singer Grainger creates awesome, sweaty rock and roll.

Tokyo!
@ The Royal Cinema. 9:15 pm.
Three brilliant directors (Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Bong Joon Ho) create a haunting and mesmerizing ode to this beautiful city.

MAY 22nd

The Wooden Sky
w/ Evening Hymns & The Silver Tiles @ Music Gallery. 8 pm. $10.
Country-folk mix tapes for handsome dudes with beards and the girls who love them.

Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
@ The Royal Cinema. 8:50.
The crazy coolness and cinematic obscurity of this film, part epic journey, part video-poem, cannot be overemphasized.

MAY 23rd

Tiny Masters of Today
w/ Windom Earle & The Superstitions @ Whippersnapper Gallery. 7 pm. $12.
The kids are all right! Tiny Masters of Today are the coolest punk band on the south side of 15.

Green Go
w/ Guest Bedroom, Shellshag, Fiasco & Bayonets! @ Sneaky Dee’s. 9 pm. $10.
Good old-fashioned Canadian dance music from this Guelph, Ont. outfit.

ALL WEEK

The Book of Judith
@ CAMH Grounds, 1001 Queen St. W. Tues-Sat 8 pm, Sun 11 am.
Micheal Rubenfeld was asked to find a lover for quadriplegic advocate and pioneer Judith Snow. Instead, he made her a play. Not just any play, a MUSICAL play that will change minds and open hearts.