Salt Spring Film Festival

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 […]

BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. One of the best female snowboarders in the world, Olympic athlete Spencer O’Brien was expected to win gold at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, but fans were surprised and disappointed when she placed […]

BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. The founder of a small Danish nursing home, May Bjerre Eiby has no interest in specific dementia diagnoses or pharmaceuticals, since neither improves her residents’ quality of life. She and her staff have […]

BUY TICKETS Tickets are $13 per film for 1-3 films | 10% discount for 4-7 films | 20% discount for 8+ films. Toronto playwright and filmmaker Jason Sherman searches for the tree that was planted in his name in Israel in 1975 as a Bar Mitzvah gift, a popular fundraiser for the Jewish National Fund. […]

BUY TICKETS Seen through the prism of Leonard Cohen’s internationally renowned hymn, this must-see documentary weaves together three strands: the songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testimonies from major recording artists for whom Hallelujah has become a personal touchstone. Inspired by Alan Light’s 2012 […]

In the best role of her career, Elizabeth Banks portrays Joy, a conservative housewife in 1968 Chicago, whose second pregnancy leads to a devastating diagnosis. Following an all-male hospital board's inexplicable decision to deny her a necessary procedure, Joy's desperate search for a solution leads her to a clandestine group of women know as The […]

The Blue Caftan BUY TICKETS HERE A middle-aged master tailor and his devoted wife find their relationship turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice in this richly erotic and deeply moving Moroccan film, which has won multiple awards around the world, including Audience Awards at the Vancouver & Athens International Film […]

The Grizzlie Truth | $13 Adult | $8 Youth BUY TICKETS HERE You don’t have to be a basketball fan to enjoy this wildly entertaining investigation into why the Vancouver Grizzlies left Canada over 20 years ago. To die-hard fans, the team’s abrupt move to Memphis in 2001 is much more than a sore spot […]

Following a sensational 1971 debut in Swan Lake, Karen Kain was promoted to Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of Canada, achieving international fame as one of the great classical dancers of her era. Named Best Canadian Documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival, SWAN SONG immerses viewers behind the scenes as Kain directs a […]

International premiere! Join handsome and adventurous Australian Matty Hannon on what begins as an incredible solo challenge, to surf the entire West Coast of the Americas, traveling 50,000 km by motorcycle from the top of Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. When Hannon’s audacious plans unexpectedly fall apart right here in BC, he […]

Don’t miss this very rare opportunity to see the greatest concert film of all time on the big screen, now with restored quality and sound! On the 45th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s 1978 masterpiece of music cinema, THE LAST WALTZ is being re-released across Canada to celebrate the life of the legendary Robbie Robertson, who […]

SS Film Festival presents "Physician, Heal Thyself," featuring Dr. Gabor Maté. One of the world’s most influential thinkers on trauma, addiction and mental health, Dr. Gabor Maté is widely admired as the author of such bestsellers as In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, The Myth of Normal and When the Body Says No. In this […]

SS Film Festival presents "20,000 Species of Bees," award winning film from Spain. What if your child is not the child you think you know? Over the course of an idyllic summer vacation in the beautiful Basque countryside, a sculptor grapples with her identity as an artist in this intimate and understated Spanish film, as […]

SS Film Festival presents "CALL ME DANCER," and award-winning film from India. In the bustling and competitive streets of Mumbai, a self-taught acrobatic dancer named Manish defies his working-class parents’ insistence that he follow a traditional path. “Dancing is a hobby for rich kids,” his cab-driver father tells him, counting on his only son’s future […]

Salt Spring Film Festival presents BEETHOVEN'S NINE: ODE TO HUMANITY a film by Larry Weinstein You don’t have to love classical music to fall in love with this uplifting and profoundly moving film about Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Inspired by the ideals of the Enlightenment, Beethoven’s timeless Ninth Symphony was the first in history to […]