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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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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Evil Does Not Exist
Evil Does Not Exist tells the story of an isolated community in Japan banding together to protect its way of life from invasion and commodification. It reflects on not only the power of such existential threats, but the fragility of our defense mechanisms. The film poses plenty of questions about how we interact with nature…
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With Love And A Major Organ
With Love and a Major Organ has sprinklings of magic realism combined with much humour and soul searching.It also has a big, gooey heart. That’s one of the many endearing and enriching things about it. The film paints an alternative world where hearts are objects, but they can still be broken. People suppress emotions and…
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Sing Sing
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men. Prison is a cold, cruel place full of violent men whose daily life revolves around trying not to antagonize the alpha dogs within the prison population or the guards…
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Atikamekw Suns
On June 26, 1977, a vehicle drove into a river outside the Atikamekw community of Manawan in northern Québec. Two Whites survive the accident, but five Atikamekw lose their lives. The police conclude it was an accident, but for the victims' families, many questions remain unanswered. Atikamekw Suns (Soleils Atikamekw) is freely inspired by the…
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Sweetland
Sweetland depicts something known as resettlement. From 1954 to 1975, some 300 isolated communities in Newfoundland were abandoned under government programs that paid people to move to larger population centers. The scarcely populated town of Sweetland is one such community in slow decline. Each islander can receive a generous resettlement package with the sole stipulation…
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