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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THE OUTRUN – Jan. 29
A young Scottish woman’s struggles with addiction bring her to the edge of the world, which was also her childhood backyard. Coming out of an intensive 90-day recovery program, she heads back to the Orkneys to ground her new sobriety in a taste of home: bracing air and walks along the rocky coast in a…
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IN THE SUMMERS – Feb. 5
Winner of the 2024 Grand Jury prize for Best Dramatic Feature at the Sundance Film Festival, this is a delicate portrait of emotionally fraught relationships between family members. It highlights how a parent's personal struggles can leave lasting impressions on children as they transition through the crucial phases of their developmental years Setting her film…
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