Film Series

Aboriginal History Month Film: Birth of a Family Location:  K’omoks Band Hall, 3320 Comox Rd., Courtenay Three Indigenous sisters and a brother, adopted as infants into separate families, meet together for the first time in this moving  documentary. Removed from their...

Monday, June 5th - 7pm - Stan Hagen Theatre NIC. Filmmaker Jan den Berg in attendance. In Cambodia, more and more fertile land is being taken over by large-scale farming industries while small-scale farmers are fighting to keep ownership of their land in order to...

Music Film Back by Popular Demand! The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (96 min.), from the creators of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, is being re-screened by World Community at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 16 at the Stan Hagen...

Celebrate National Canadian Film Day ! This is the story of a people whose identity as Arab Jews challenges the very notion of enemy. Informed by director Kathy Wazana's family history, the film investigates the exodus that virtually emptied Morocco of its Jewish...

The votes are in from the recent World Community Film Festival and the audience pick for a “Best of Fest” re-screening is “The Brainwashing of My Dad” (90 min.) to be held on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 7 pm in the Stan Hagen Theatre at North Island College, Courtenay. As US...

Friday February 3rd, 730pm at the Sid Williams Theatre KONELĪNE is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who move across it. Some hunt on the land. Some mine it. They all love it. Set deep in the traditional territory...

World Community has teamed up with the Wilderness Committee to screen the new film,Toad People (76 min.) on Monday Jan. 9 at 7 pm at the Stan Hagen Theatre, North Island College. The film features people in communities across BC who are taking action to save the...

How do we relate to people who are homeless? Can we make meaningful connections with people who seem to be quite different from us? These are some of the themes explored in the film Us and Them being co-presented by World Community and the Immigrant Welcome Centre on...

Sonic Sea is a 60-minute documentary about the devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. The film begins with a mystery: the unexplained stranding and mass mortality of several species of whales in the Bahamas in March...

Music, history and politics are laced in Sam Pollard's rousing new documentary, Two Trains Runnin'  You had to be very brave or very foolish to venture into Mississippi in the summer of 1964. The civil rights movement was coming to a boil. But three East Coast music...

NIC Theatre, Courtenay Breaking News: Drummer of Spirit of the West, Vince Ditrich, will be at the screening and be available for questions  -  The story of iconic Canadian band Spirit of the West, and lead singer John Mann’s battle with early onset Alzheimer’s. The...