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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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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Spring 2025 Film Dates
SAVE THESE DATES 6:30 pm WEDNESDAY April 23 and 30, May 7 and 14. The Kelowna Film Society would like to let you know about our upcoming films for Spring 2025 . We will present four great films from the world of international cinema showing at Landmark Grand 10 theatres, on McCurdy Road. Please mark…
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The Taste of Things
Romance and French gastronomy. Juliette Binoche and her real-life husband Benoit Magimel. The actors and the food shine and simmer in this celebration of all the kinds of love present in a well-run kitchen. Set in a gauzy 1885, the thoughtful direction and skilled cinematography will make you wish you’d made that post-movie restaurant reservation.…
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The Monk and The Gun
Set in Bhutan in 2006, as the country transitioned politically and socially, a young monk is on a quest for his Lama that involves a priceless Civil War rifle. Enter an American also on the hunt for this relic, and so the meeting of the cultures begins to play out. More importantly, the beauty of…
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Seagrass
Written and directed by Vancouver actress and filmmaker Meredith Hama-Brown and set on the B.C. coast, the director’s reflections on her racial identity build into a powerful drama about marriage, childhood, parenting and family dynamics. The parents and children of an interracial marriage struggle with personal and social pressures, leading to a climax which changes…
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Perfect Day
What would a perfect day look like for you? Watching a sunset by the lake with friends and family? For Hirayama his perfect days involve cleaning toilets in Tokyo until they’re pristine. The film, nominated for an Academy Award in the Best International Feature category, sounds like a simple suggestion to live in the moment…
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