Shook is a charming coming of age story about a college grad hoping to become a writer. Ash faces challenges establishing himself and finds himself commuting to a hip coffee shop in downtown Toronto where he hangs out with other writers sipping lattes and banging away at their laptops. He’s also struggling to accept his…
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Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight – MONDAY Nov 17
Told from the rose-colored glasses of an inquisitive child’s perspective, this would never work without a very strong child actor to anchor it. The story is presented on the platter of childhood innocence, ignorance, and wonder with an astonishingly talented first-time child actor. As adults watching the film, it’s easy to pinpoint the racist dynamics that stress the…
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DJ Ahmet – Dec 3
This is a humorous, music-soaked, stylish debut with an extraordinary first-time cast. The beautiful landscape cinematography set in a remote North Macedonian village will immerse you in young D J Ahmet’s world. At the same time, it’s grounded in the realities of life in patriarchal societies where there’s little space for men to engage with their…
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Sentimental Value – Dec 10
Original title: Affeksjonsverd Winner of this year’s Palme D’Or award at Cannes, it smashed the record for the longest standing ovation at 15 minutes! Trier’s exquisite new film Sentimental Value is about familial love, at times harmonious, and at others tainted by resentment and anger. It’s a tangled family drama in which a celebrated filmmaker tries to…
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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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