Whose stories are left out of historical archives? It has been said that history is written by the winners. World Community’s first film of the fall series, Unarchived (84 min) explores those left out of history in BC. All are welcome to watch this film together in the Stan Hagen Theatre at North Island College, Courtenay on Wednesday, October 4 at 7 pm.
To celebrate Black History Month, we're screening several films online - available any time over the weekend of Feb. 26 - 28. CLICK HERE to PRE-ORDER TICKETS & watch trailers. This is a great opportunity to learn more about this history both in Canada and the US....
Thank you for attending the 30th Annual World Community Film Festival - Feb. 5 - 13th
** Click Here to Pre-Order Tickets (Individual $10, Household $16, Low Income & Students $6) (2020, 100 min.) This is the compelling story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the...
Bring some joy into your holiday season with World Community’s film series screening of River City Drumbeat (95 min), online from Dec. 26 – Dec 29th. The film is a reminder that there is kindness, compassion, and community in this world. This is a powerful story of...
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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...
Ticket on sale NOW at the Sid Williams Theatre. We have early bird ticket prices if purchased by Dec. 31st. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS. See all film schedules & descriptions on our website! ______________________________________ VOLUNTEER CALL-OUT FOR WORLD...
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...
