Join the Salt Spring Film Festival as they screen Blackfish, a documentary described by Variety as "a mesmerizing psychological thriller with a bruised and battered killer whale at its center." Do you remember Tilikum? The killer whale was a star attraction at British Columbia’s Oak Bay Sealand from 1983 to 1992 until he was shipped out […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival screens the compelling new film 20 Feet From Stardom directed by Morgan Neville. Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names. In 20 Feet from Stardom the award-winning director shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival presents the 2012 Danish film The Hunt, directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Following a tough divorce, 40 year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a small comment. A random lie. And […]
The Sapphires is set in the heady days of the late '60s when four young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission are discovered by an unlikely talent scout. Plucked from obscurity and branded as Australia's answer to The Supremes, The Sapphires grasp the chance of a lifetime when they're offered their first real gig […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival presents Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about an elderly couple in rural New Brunswick. Based on true events and laced with wry humor, the film tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison, who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more […]
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. At […]
Gabrielle, an exquisite film that looks at a young woman's search for love and independence in the face of a genetic condition, has been selected as Canada’s candidate in the Oscars' best foreign-language film category. It chronicles this musically gifted woman's life and her growing romantic relationship with a boy at a day centre as […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival screens the critically-acclaimed film The Lunchbox. A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Middle-class housewife Ila is trying to add some spice to her unfulfilling marriage, this […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival presents the film JUST EAT IT: A Food Waste Story. In this compelling documentary, filmmakers Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin dive into the issue of food waste from farm through retail then all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars […]
The Rocket is an award-winning film that takes place in Laos. It follows Ahlo, a ten-year old boy who is believed to bring bad luck and is blamed for a string of disasters. When his family loses their home and are forced to move, Ahlo meets the spirited orphan Kia (age nine) and her eccentric […]
Shot over the course of five years by first time filmmaker Alan Hicks, Keep On Keepin’ On depicts a 23 year-old, blind piano prodigy, Justin Kauflin, and jazz music legend and 89 year-old teacher Clark Terry. After a life spent working with and teaching the most totemic figures in jazz history, Terry continues to attract and […]
The film Still Life is a poignant tale of life, love and the afterlife. The film focuses on the unassuming John May (Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky) whose life has always revolved around his work of finding the next of kin of those who have died alone for the local council in South London. He believes that […]
© Sebastião SALGADO / Amazonas images For the last 40 years, the celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history: international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of […]
Based on Naomi Klein’s international bestseller, the film This Changes Everything asks: what if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world? Shot in nine countries the film presents powerful portraits of communities on the front lines. We visit a young indigenous leader in Alberta's Tar Sands country, […]
In 1971, an eclectic group of young pioneers – Canadian hippie journalists, photographers, musicians, scientists, and American draft dodgers – set sail from Vancouver to Amchitka, Alaska in an attempt to stop Richard Nixon's atomic bomb tests. This first protest, followed by whale and seal campaigns coupled with a canny use of media, captured the […]
Ciudad Delirio - A romantic comedy in the city where everybody dances. Javier, a Spanish physician, is in Cali, Colombia, for a medical conference. On a magical night he meets Angie, a dancer and owner of a salsa school, who dreams of being part of Delirio, the most famous salsa show in the world. When he […]
What would it be like to live alongside one of the shapers of human events, in their youth, before they transformed history? In Fractured Land we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become one of this generation’s great leaders, if he can discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, his community and […]
Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in […]