Each year Kelowna Film Society invites applications for scholarships or bursaries from students in full time, post-secondary Film Studies programs and also from local film makers. Funds are generated, throughout the year, from any excess of expenditure over entrance fees collected, at weekly film screenings, throughout the year. For 2025 we continue our participation with…
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No Films In Summer
Our Wednesday night films will resume in September. There are no films in the summer.
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Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, June 25 6:00 PM The Annual General Meeting of the Kelowna Film Society will be held Wednesday, June 25 at 6:00 PM at the common room, 850 Saucier Avenue, Kelowna, BC.Your membership is included in your ticket purchase, so if you purchased a ticket on line for any of our screenings in the Fall…
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SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON – Apr. 9
Superboys of Malegaon is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of Malegaon. The residents of the town look to Bollywood cinema for a much needed escape from daily drudgery. Nasir is inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon.…
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Shepherds (Bergers) – Apr. 16
Mathyas, a young advertising executive, quits his job on a whim and leaves Montreal. He lands in the South of France, where he envisions a quiet, more meaningful life as a shepherd. His idyllic aspirations are abruptly confronted by the harsh realities of the pastoral world, forcing him to question his romantic vision of the…
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No Other Land – April 23
Winner of the 2025 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, No Other Land is a Palestinian/Israeli co-production. It focuses on Palestinian villages in the West Bank whose occupants were ordered to leave. A long, bitter process continued for many years of bulldozers being sent in with soldiers who were grimly unmoved by residents’ desperate protests.…
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There’s Still Tomorrow – April 30
The smash hit of the year in Italy, this film won 6 Italian Academy Awards. It’s a tragicomic melodrama about an abused wife in post World War II Rome and shot in luminous black-and-white. In Italy, universal suffrage for women became law in April 1945, and the 1946 election saw millions of women vote for…
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Blue Sky Jo – May 7
(La Petite et le Vieux) Steeped in nostalgia, the film is visually lovely, thanks to an impeccable historical reconstruction of working-class Quebec in the 1980s. The neighbourhood is called Limoilou- a blue-collar neighbourhood with a very diverse population and picturesque charm. A coming of age story, young Jo dreams of saving her unhappy father from…
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Santosh – May 14
Shortlisted for best international feature, U.K.’s Oscar entry deconstructs the criminal justice system and the relentless patriarchy that exists in India. A young Hindu woman, Santosh, inherits her late husband’s profession as a police constable, due to a bizarre legal loophole that offers widows deceased husbands’ jobs. Overnight, Santosh finds herself thrust into the local…
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QUEENS (REINAS) – Jan. 22
Set in Peru in 1992 with soaring inflation, protests on the streets, regular power cuts, a strict night time curfew and a growing exodus of those who had the means to leave. It was a time of social unrest and economic collapse. The mother, Elena, has been offered work in the U.S. and hopes to…
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