The Salt Spring Film Festival is proud to present the film "Sing Your Song," a journey through the life, work and conscience of world-famous singer and activist, Harry Belafonte. Belafonte has played a role in nearly every political and social movement since his days as a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and confidant of […]
When an elementary school teacher commits suicide, her class and the entire community is shaken to the core. No one wants to talk about it save her replacement, Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant seeking political asylum. With great sensitivity and humor, Monsieur Lazhar follows a humble man who is ready to overcome his own loss […]
Habana Eva is the first offering in the Salt Spring Film Festival's "Best of the Fests" international film series and is the perfect film for the end of November. As the days get shorter and the sky darkens, islanders dream of escape to a hot sunny tropical island. For a few hours at ArtSpring on […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival Society screens Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley’s documentary Stories We Tell. In this stunning new film, Polley opens a throbbing vein of her own family history. Crafted over a period of five years in near-complete secrecy, the film falls under the banner of autobiography because it features Polley on camera talking about her own life with […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival Society screens Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley’s documentary Stories We Tell. In this stunning new film, Polley opens a throbbing vein of her own family history. Crafted over a period of five years in near-complete secrecy, the film falls under the banner of autobiography because it features Polley on camera talking about her own life with […]
All the colour, magic and delight that is loved about South American literature, stories and art is embraced in this award-winning Latin American film. Escribeme Postales A Copacabana (Write Me – Postcards to Copacabana) connects the tangible world with the spiritual world, reality with fantasy, hope with disappointment, and desire with flight. Shot near Lake […]
Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest 70’s rock icon who never was. He was discovered in a Detroit bar in the late 60’s by two celebrated producers who are struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. They recorded an album that they believed would secure his reputation […]
The Salt Spring Film Festival presents the award-winning film Any Day Now. Inspired by a true story from the late 1970s, this powerful and heartbreaking film has been winning Audience Awards at festivals across North America. Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt play a couple who take in a teenager with Down syndrome when he's abandoned […]