Stepping from the pages of Fredrik Backman's international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove has given up on life. Enter a boisterous young family next door who accidentally flattens Ove's mailbox while moving in and earning his special brand […]
What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in an economy previously dominated by profits and big business. The film features Michael Ableman of Sole […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ_guQTGNw Maudie, based on the true story of Nova Scotia artist Maud Lewis, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maud (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maud, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her […]
The legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt remains one of the great jazzmen to emerge from Europe in the 20th century, recording hundreds of memorable tracks during his lifetime, playing with the likes of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins. In occupied Paris (1943), Django is at the pinnacle of his career. The king of ethereal […]
Salt Spring Film Festival Presents: Shut Up and Say Something A big man with a big heart and a very big message. Shane Koyczan is a much celebrated Canadian spoken-word poet. He has touched audiences far and wide with the generous intensity of his live performances, viral animated videos, TED Talks, a libretto for the […]
A very square and straight young Clive Davis sees Janis Joplin perform at the flower-strewn, marijuana-soaked 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. He is wearing a V neck tennis sweater over white pants. Kind of like showing up at a 1970s Beaver Point Hall dance in a suit! Although he is feeling out of place, he describes […]
BUY TICKETS The Radicals (2018, Canada, 75 min.) follows young snowboarders and surfers in their quest for pristine and extreme landscapes while balancing their sports with their passions for activism. They traverse across the mountains, rivers and oceans of the West Coast of British Columbia, nurturing their relationships with First Nations communities and joining them […]
BUY TICKETS Haida Gwaii, 1800’s. At a seasonal fishing camp two families endure conflict between the nobleman Adiits’ii and his best friend Kwa. After Adiits’ii causes the accidental death of Kwa’s son, he flees into the rainforest, descending into madness and transforming into Gaagiixid “the Wildman.” When the families return in the spring, they discover […]
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 after entering Gerald Stanley’s Saskatchewan farm with his friends. The emotionally charged trial and subsequent acquittal of Stanley provoked national outrage, captured international attention and […]
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 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 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 […]