Residents of a small French village in Brittany are about to prove just how open-minded and big-hearted they really are, by welcoming a family of Ukrainian refugees into their little Breton slice of heaven. But instead, a family of refugee Syrians arrive. Fearful of the “other” the townsfolk are at first relieved that they wear…
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A Nice Indian Boy – Sep 24
If you’re looking for a funny, feel-good film that’ll make you think, A Nice Indian Boy is exactly that. In this vibrant and charming film, love isn’t the only winner: cultural understanding and the freedom to choose your own path triumph as well. The film is a tender love story between two men—and the generations learning to accept…
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The Marching Band (En Fanfare) – Oct 1
Nominated for seven César awards, the lead actor, Thibaut, is a celebrated conductor who collapses at the podium one day and finds out that he has leukaemia. He needs a bone-marrow transplant. But it turns out that his sister isn’t a match. Then comes a life-changing revelation: he was adopted. So, Thibaut must find his…
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life – Oct 8
This is an intelligent, well-directed and well-acted movie that, at its heart, just wants to have a bit of fun. Agathe, an aspiring novelist working in a Paris bookshop, wins a place at a Jane Austen writing retreat in England, run by the late author’s descendants.Agathe’s eventual dilemma between 2 men is classic Austen –…
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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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