September 13, 4 PM and 7 PM “In-Yun” is a Korean concept that suggests that our lives are forever connected with those whose lives we’ve touched and that we will weave in and out of each other’s lives repeatedly. Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) grow up together in Seoul When Nora’s family…
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Full Time (A Plein Temps)
Wednesday, September 20, 4 PM and 7 PM A film by French Canadian Eric Gravel director it portrays motherhood frazzle as a gripping thriller. Julie (Laure Calamy), is a divorced mum of two who’s feeling the grind: work, kids, mortgage debt, crappy ex. She works an exhausting job as head maid at a luxury Parisian…
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Eight Mountains
Wednesday September 27 at 4 PM and 7 PM Co-winner of the Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, The Eight Mountains portrays the ebb and flow of a decades-long friendship set in the Italian alps and offers a visually stunning landscape to Paolo Cognetti’s 2016 novel. The peaks, hills and vistas are akin to…
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Blue Jean
Wednesday, October 4 4 PM and 7 PM Blue Jean is a powerful examination of the importance of community in the fight for equality. It is England, 1988 -- Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, forcing Jean, a gym teacher to live a double life. The arrival…
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Concrete Valley
Wednesday, October 11 4 PM and 7 PM Rashid (Hussam Douhna), a doctor from Aleppo, Syria has been struggling to adjust to his life in Canada. He tries to hold on to his old identity by working as an unlicensed doctor for his neighbours while his wife Farah (Amani Ibrahim) becomes involved in their local…
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Jules
Wednesday, October 25 4 PM and 7 PM Jules follows Milton (Ben Kingsley) who lives a quiet, very routine life in a rural Pennsylvania town. One day everything changes when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things…
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Rose
Wednesday, November 1 4 PM and 7 PM The relationship of two sisters Inger and Ellen is challenged during a highly anticipated coach trip from Denmark to Paris. When Inger announces she is struggling with mental health issues to the group of travellers, the sisters are faced with pity from some and downright discrimination from…
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Something You Said Last Night
Wednesday, November 8 4 PM and 7 PM Something You Said Last Night – Selected by TIFF as one of Canada’s Top Ten features in 2023 and winner of the Shawn Mendes Change maker Award, Luis De Filippis’s debut feature has been widely acclaimed. A summer family vacation is the occasion for a twenty something…
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The Starling Girl
Wednesday, November 15 4 PM and 7 PM Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy — the church dance group — is tempered by worry that her love of dance is actually sinful. She's caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own…
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2023 Scholarship and Bursary Awards
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 2023, we continue our participation with…
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