BUY TICKETS The film focuses on what might be the largest art forgery scam in Canada, related to renowned Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau.” – CITYNEWS “Award-winning director Jamie Kastner presents There Are No Fakes, a journey into the largest art fraud scam in Canadian history. Musician Kevin Hearn of the Barenaked Ladies buys a painting, […]
BUY TICKETS The last in a long line of Macedonian beekeepers, Hatidze Muratova ekes out a living harvesting wild honey deep in the Balkan mountains and walking four hours to the nearest city. Her bucolic existence is disrupted by the arrival of a nomadic cattle-herding family, with their roaring engines and rambunctious children. Despite Hatidze’s […]
BUY TICKETS With director Tasha Hubbard in attendance, co-presented by the Stqeeye’ Learning Society (Xwaaqw’um Village). In August 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie was shot and killed […]
BUY TICKETS If you don’t already love The Band, you will after seeing this rollicking retrospective – inspired by the bestselling 2016 memoir "Testimony" – which blends archival footage with Robbie Robertson’s engaging and humorous recollections, interspersed with lively interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Peter Gabriel and Ronnie Hawkins. As an […]
BUY TICKETS DOSED comes to Salt Spring for one show only! DOSED is an internationally award winning documentary co-produced by former long-time Salt Spring resident and GISS graduate Nicholas Meyers. SYNOPSIS: After many years of prescription medications failed her a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid […]
BUY TICKETS Jaw-dropping in its hyper-masculine physicality, traditional Georgian dance takes centre stage in this passionate coming-of-age tale set amidst the rigidly conservative and staunchly nationalistic confines of modern Georgian society. Having trained for years for a coveted position in the National Georgian Ensemble, Merab’s orderly world is turned upside-down with the arrival of the […]
BUY TICKETS With 16 Junos and over 10 million albums sold – and having been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame – Gordon Lightfoot is widely considered Canada's greatest singer-songwriter. Following Lightfoot's evolution from Christian choirboy to troubled troubadour, this definitive biography features disarmingly honest musings from […]
BUY TICKETS Dr. May Cohen is a brilliant Canadian physician and women’s rights trailblazer. For over 60 years, she has advocated powerfully in Canada and internationally for women’s reproductive rights, women’s health and women physicians’ advancement — and, ultimately, for us all. May is widely recognized for her many contributions to women’s health, sexuality, abortion […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. When two teenage Filipina-American sisters co-formed a Sacramento garage band back in the 60s, little did they know they would become the legendary rock group Fanny, the first all-women band to sign a […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Totalitarian regimes along the Caspian Sea, such as Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, are known for abusing the human rights of their own citizens. These oil-rich autocrats wield "caviar diplomacy" – a specific brand […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Nowadays people call it Restorative Justice, but back in the 1980s when the Tagish Tlingit people in the Yukon resuscitated their ancient practice of sitting in a circle, they just called it Peacemaking. […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Shortly after the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act became law in the US, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Indigenous parentage, becoming a […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Innovative artist László Moholy-Nagy taught at the revolutionary Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany, in the 1920s, where – alongside such esteemed luminaries as Paul Klee, Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Gunta Stolzl, Wassily Kandinsky […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Deftly weaving together gorgeous still photos, animation and entertaining film footage, award-winning photojournalist and former tree planter Rita Leistner explores the physical and emotional aspects of a motley community of West Coast tree […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. When California decriminalized marijuana in 2016, six courageous women emerged from the shadows of the illicit cannabis underground to enter the newly legal market. But with excessive government regulations favoring deep-pocketed corporations, those […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Described as “the Iditarod, on a boat, with a chance of drowning, being run down by a freighter, or eaten by a grizzly bear,” the annual Race to Alaska is a daunting 750-mile […]
BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Held in secret for nearly 60 years, a box of letters ignites a five-year exploration into a part of LGBT history that has never before been told. Written in the 1950s by a […]