Past Film Festivals
Enjoy browsing films from past festivals. Films are now offline, but you can see descriptions and some trailers.
33rd World Community Film Festival – Feb 2nd & 3rd, 2024.
A Hybrid Festival (in-person or virtual).
World Community Virtual Film Festival took place Feb. 15 – 18, 2024
Friday, February 2 – 730pm – Sid Williams Theatre
Tiny
Filmmakers: Ritchie Hemphill and Ryan Haché
7:30 PM – 15 min
Tiny is a stop-motion animation highlighting the life of ‘Nakwaxda’xw Elder Colleen Hemphill and her experiences growing up on a float house near Alert Bay. Colleen is featured telling stories about her relationships with family, the community and nature.
Saturday, Feb. 3 – Sid Williams Theatre (SID)
Deep Rising
Director: Matthieu Rytz Narration: Jason Momoa
10:00 AM – 85 min
This exquisite environmental documentary is also a gripping tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue. It exposes the destructive machinations of a secretive organization, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), empowered to greenlight massive extraction of metals from the deep seafloor.
Not Quite That
Filmmaker: Ali Grant
11:45 AM – 47 min
Might a genetic mutation be the very thing that allows this nice Jewish butch lesbian to be fully seen at last? Meet Sarah, 57. Lesbian? For sure. Jewish? Yes and no. Mother? In all but one sense. Trans? No, just often mistaken as such. Breast cancer survivor? Well, that’s the plan, the survival bit, but without the cancer or the breasts. Not Quite That is an intimate and insightful exploration of how we are seen, how we see ourselves, and why it matters.
Family Films
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
A collection of films suited for the whole family.
The Judge
Director: Erika Cohn
1:10 PM – 81 min
When she was a young lawyer, Kholoud Al-Faqih walked into the office of Palestine’s Chief Justice and announced she wanted to join the bench. He laughed at her. A few years later, Kholoud became the first woman judge to be appointed to the Middle East’s Shari’a (Islamic law) courts.
Dancing in A-Yard
Filmmaker: Manuela Dalle
2:45 PM – 72 min
In prisons ruled by toxic masculinity, dancing is an absolute taboo. But at Lancaster’s A-Yard, near Los Angeles, 10 young men are breaking this taboo by inviting French choreographer Dimitri to create a contemporary dance class, signaling a huge step towards their rehabilitation and hope for release back into society and ultimately creating a new prison culture.
Breaking the News
Filmmakers: Heather Courtney, Princess Hairston, Chelsea Hernandez
4:10 PM – 99 min
Go behind the scenes at The 19th*, a digital news start-up led by a scrappy group of fearless women and LGBTQ+ journalists to buck status quo reporting by asking “who is omitted from the story and how can they be included?”
Saturday, Feb. 3 – Florence Filberg Rotary Room (FFR)
Long Distance Swimmer
Director: Charly Wai Feldman
10:00 AM – 90 min
Syrian refugee Sara Mardini, along with her sister Yusra, pulled the sinking boat that carried them and another 18 refugees to safety in Greece. She now copes with the consequences of her ongoing activism. After volunteering as a lifeguard with Emergency Response Center International, Sara was arrested by Greek authorities on a variety of counts, including people trafficking.
Not Your Model Minority
Filmmaker: Jon Osaki
11:50 AM – 31 min
Not Your Model Minority explores the myth and the intersections with past and present anti-Asian violence. The film reveals the ways the model minority myth has been used to create a wedge between communities of colour, while also examining opportunities to address systemic racism.
Manufacturing the Threat
Filmmaker: Amy Miller
1:05 PM – 84 min
Manufacturing the Threat examines the issue of agent provocateurs and entrapment in Canada’s national security apparatus. This is an action-packed and emotional film which looks at a deeply disturbing episode in recent Canadian history, when an impoverished couple was coerced by undercover law enforcement agents into carrying
out a terrorist bombing in Victoria, BC.
Tsunami: 11th Relative
Filmmaker: Pieter Romer
2:50 PM – 27 min
Learn about the rich history of tsunami resilience on the Pacific west coast, and how combining traditional Indigenous knowledge with ocean science can better prepare communities for the next “big one”.
Hebron Relocation
Filmmaker: Holly Andersen
3:30 PM – 15 min
In Hebron Relocation, Holly Andersen explores what makes a place a home as she learns more about her community’s connection to generations of displaced northern Labrador Inuit.
Saturday, February 3 – 8pm – Sid Williams Theatre
Gay Chorus: Deep South – 7:30pm SID 100 min.
Gay Chorus: Deep South Opening Night 7:30 SID 100 min. 2019 The Film Collaborative Director: David Charles Rodrigues In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Southern US states and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay...
Eating Up Easter – 10:00 am UNS 76 min.
Eating Up Easter Saturday Films 10:00 am UNS 76 min. 2019 Kartemquin Films & Plastic Oceans Int’l Director: Sergio M. Rapu The iconic statues and sensationalized "mysteries" of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have drawn the interest of the world for...
The Superfood Chain – 10:00 am LNS 70 min.
The Superfood Chain Saturday Films 10:00 am LNS 70 min. 2019 Fathom Film Group Director: Ann Shin The Superfood Chain explores the story behind the rise of superfoods like quinoa, teff, coconuts, and wild salmon, revealing the ripple effect the superfood...
Up, Down, and Sideways – 10:00am FFR 83 min.
Up, Down, and Sideways Saturday Films 10:00 am FFR 83 min. 2017 Collective Eye Filmmaker: Anushka Meenakshi & Iswar Srikumar Phek is a village in the Indian state of Nagaland near the border with Myanmar, with around 5,000 inhabitants, nearly all...
Yalis Rising: Celebrating the T’lisalagi’lakw School – 11:30 am UNS 29 min.
Yalis Rising: Celebrating the T'lisalagi'lakw School Saturday Films 11:30 am UNS 29 min. 2020 Produced by 'Namgis First Nation Filmmaker: Ed Carswell carswellfilm.ca Filmmaker attendingConceived and built by the 'Namgis First Nation, the...
Five Acres – 11:30 am LNS 30 min.
Five Acres Saturday Films 11:30 am LNS 30 min. 2019 Manly Media Filmmakers: Paul Manly & Laurie Mac Millan Filmmaker attendingThe Five Acre Farm in the Harewood area of Nanaimo has a long history of producing local food. It's one of the last intact farms in...
Hayashi Studio – 11:35 am FFR 25 min.
Hayashi Studio Saturday Films 11:35 am FFR 25 min. 2019 hayashistudio.com Filmmaker: Hayley Gray Filmmaker will be in attendance.Hayashi Studio follows the diverse lives that came to Cumberland BC in the 1900s and Senjiro Hayashi, the Japanese photographer who...
Tree of Life and Its People – 12:10 pm UNS 25 min.
Tree of Life and Its People Saturday Films 12:10 pm UNS 25 min. 2019 Spartan Media Group Filmmaker: Ria and Lee Milliken Renowned First Nations carver and multimedia artist Rande Cook says “This story is about our land and all that comes from it... as...
Way of the Hunter – 12:15 pm LNS 17 min.
Way of the Hunter Saturday Films 12:15 pm LNS 17 min. 2019 NFB Filmmaker: Robert Moberg Deep in the Great Bear Rainforest, against the backdrop of British Columbia’s breathtaking wilderness, a former hunter comes to terms with his past and looks with hope...
Beauty – 12:15pm FFR 23 min.
Beauty Saturday Films 12:15 pm FFR 23 min. 2017 NFB Filmmaker: Christina Willings Beauty explores the lives of five gender-creative kids, each uniquely engaged in shaping their own sense of what it means to be fully human. Whether it’s dealing with...
Family Films – 1:00pm Lower Sid
Family Films 1:00pm – 2:30pm Lower SID (Fountain Area) Leon in Wintertime 27 min. By Pierre-Luc Granjon & Pascal Le Notre In this puppet animation we meet Léon, an 8-year-old adopted bear suffering from an identity crisis. The distraught cub runs away from home...
Nae Pasaran! – 1:00 pm SID 96 min.
Nae Parsaran! Saturday Films 1:00 pm SID 96 min. 2018 Filmmaker: Felipe Bustos Sierra https://naepasaran.comNae Pasaran! reveals the incredible impact made by Scottish factory workers 40 years ago against the repressive dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 1974,...
PUSH – 1:00 pm UNS 92 min.
PUSH Saturday Films 1:00 pm UNS 92 min. 2019 Blue Ice Docs Filmmaker: Fredrik Gertten Housing prices are skyrocketing in cities around the world. Incomes are not. PUSH sheds light on a new kind of faceless landlord, our increasingly unlivable cities and an...
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up – 1:00 pm LNS 99 min.
nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up Saturday Films 1:00 pm LNS 99 min. 2019 NFB Filmmaker: Tasha Hubbard On August 9, 2016, a young Cree man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the back of his head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property...
The Whale and the Raven – 1:00 pm FFR 100 min.
The Whale and the Raven Saturday Films 1:00 pm FFR 100 min. 2019 NFB Director: Mirjam Leuze Drawn to the rich food sources and quiet waters in the Kitimat fjord system, humpback whales, pods of orca, fin whales, and porpoises eat, play, and raise their young....
Emergency Brake – 3:00pm FFR
Emergency Brake Saturday Films 3:00pm FFR 4 min. 2019 Filmmaker(s): Macy How and the PRDFS class of 2019 Don’t miss this award-winning animation done by students at the Powell River Digital Film School. Using a speech by Greta Thunberg as the audio, this film...
The Guardians – 3:00 pm SID 60 min.
The Guardians Saturday films 3:00 pm SID 60 min. 2018 Filmmakers: Ben Crosbie & Tessa Moran A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between humans and nature, The Guardians elegantly interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly...
Wilder Than Wild: Fires, Forests & the Future – 3:00 pm UNS 57 min.
Wilder Than Wild: Fires, Forests & the Future Saturday Films 3:00 UNS 57 min. 2018 Filmmaker: Stephen Most & Kevin White www.wilderthanwildfilm.orgWilder Than Wild recounts recent California megafires, revealing how fuel build-up and climate change have...
Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen Lands, Strong Hearts – 3:00 pm LNS 66 min.
Doctrine of Discovery: Stolen Lands, Strong Hearts Saturday Films 3:00 pm LNS 66 min. 2019 Anglican Church of Canada Filmmaker: Lisa Barry The Doctrine of Discovery, proclaimed over 500 years ago, continues to profoundly impact Indigenous and Settler people...
Fashion’s Dirty Secrets – 3:05pm FFR 47 min.
Fashion's Dirty Secrets Saturday Films 3:05 pm FFR 47 min. 2019 BBC Filmmaker: Lucy Siegle ‘Fast fashion’ has taken the clothing industry by storm. Retailers churn out affordable versions of the latest fashions from the runway to the store shelf, and we’re...
2040 – 4:10 pm UNS 92 min.
2040 Saturday Films 4:10 UNS 92 min. 2019 LevelFILM Filmmaker: Damon Gameau Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on a journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions to the climate crisis...
Assholes: A Theory – 4:15 pm FFR 81 min.
Assholes: A Theory Saturday Films 4:15 pm FFR 81 min. 2019 NFB Filmmaker: John Walker Some grapple with the challenge of treating other human beings decently. Others are just… assholes, claims Professor Aaron James in his New York Times bestselling book,...
Finding Solitude – 8:00 pm SID 22 min
Finding Solitude Closing Night 8:00 pm SID 22 min. 2019 www.findingsolitudefilm.com Filmmakers: Jaiden George & Tristan Hinder-Hohlweg Filmmakers attending. Finding Solitude is about saving the alpine, glaciers and forests on Vancouver Island....
From Seed to Seed – 8:00 pm SID 87 min.
From Seed to Seed Closing Night 8:00 SID 87 min. 2017 Bullfrog Films Filmmaker: Katharina Stieffenhofer In Southern Manitoba,Terry and Monique are pouring their hearts into a small, ecological farm. In love with the land, their methods are derived from...
Gay Chorus: Deep South – 7:30pm SID 100 min.
Gay Chorus: Deep South Opening Night 7:30 SID 100 min. 2019 The Film Collaborative Director: David Charles Rodrigues In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Southern US states and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay...
Eating Up Easter – 10:00 am UNS 76 min.
Eating Up Easter Saturday Films 10:00 am UNS 76 min. 2019 Kartemquin Films & Plastic Oceans Int’l Director: Sergio M. Rapu The iconic statues and sensationalized "mysteries" of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have drawn the interest of the world for...
Gay Chorus: Deep South – 7:30pm SID 100 min.
Gay Chorus: Deep South Opening Night 7:30 SID 100 min. 2019 The Film Collaborative Director: David Charles Rodrigues In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws in Southern US states and the divisive 2016 election, the San Francisco Gay...
Threads – 8:00 pm SID 32 min.
Threads Closing Night 8:00 pm SID 32 min. Collective Eye Films, 2017 Director: Kathy Stevulak Torn from her family, her paintings, and her beloved Calcutta after the partition of India, artist Surayia Rahman finds a new life in Bangladesh teaching impoverished mothers...
Soufra – 8:40 pm SID 72 min.
Soufra Closing Night 8:40 pm SID 72 min. Hydro Studios, 2018 Director: Thomas MorganExecutive Producer: Susan Sarandon Soufra follows the inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur Mariam Shaar, a refugee who has spent her entire life in the 69 year-old Burl...
The Reluctant Radical – 10:00 am UNS 77 min.
The Reluctant Radical Saturday 10:00 am UNS 77 min. 2018 Director: Lindsey Grayzel www.thereluctantradicalmovie.com If a crime is committed in order to prevent a greater crime, is it forgivable? Is it, in fact, necessary? The documentary, The Reluctant Radical,...
Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story – 10:00 am LNS 75 min.
Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story Saturday 10:00 am LNS 75 min. Cargo Film and Releasing, 2018 Director: Ashley BellCinematography: Van Royko Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life-threatening. There is no need to abuse an elephant to...
1948: Creation and Catastrophe – 10:00 am FFR 85 min.
1948: Creation and Catastrophe Saturday 10:00 am FFR 85 min. Collective Eye Distribution, 2018 Director: Andy Trimlett & Ahlam Muhtaseb Through riveting and moving personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis, 1948: Creation & Catastrophe reveals...
Fertile Ground: Brewing Change in Northwest India – 11:30 am UNS 5 min.
Fertile Ground: Brewing Change in Northwest India Saturday 11:30 am UNS 5 min. www.fertile-ground.org, 2018 Filmmakers: Tom & Amy Skelton Since 2003, Fertile Ground East/West Sustainability Network has provided educational and technical support to farmers and...
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS – 11:30 am LNS 67 min.
Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS Saturday 11:30 am LNS 67 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Filmmaker: Harriet Hirshorn This is the story of the inspiring women at the forefront of the global AIDS movement. Combining archival footage and interviews with...
Kus-Kus-Sum: Unpave Paradise – 11:35 am FFR 7 min.
Kus-Kus-Sum: Unpave ParadiseSaturday 11:35 FFR 7 min. www.projectwatershed.ca, 2018 Filmmaker: Jessica SpeckThe community of the Comox Valley is banding together to tackle a large and ambitious restoration project - unpaving paradise at Kus-Kus-Sum. The project aims...
Cooperativa: La Lucha Sigue – 11:40 am UNS 40 min.
Cooperativa: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues) Saturday 11:40 am UNS 40 min. carswellfilm.ca, 2018 Filmmaker: Ed Carswell Produced by World Community, Cafe Etico & Carswellfilm.ca Journey to organic coffee farms in the jungle highlands of Nicaragua...
Interspecies Relationships – Shorts – 11:45 am FFR 45 min.
Interspecies Relationships – Shorts Program - FFRPacific Herring: Small Fish, Big Problem 11:45 am - 10 min. Lotus Eater Filmsconservancyhornbyisland.org Pacific Herring need our help if we are to save the salmon, killer whales and other marine species in the Salish...
Haiti Betrayed – 12:55 pm FFR 90 min.
Haiti BetrayedSaturday 12:55 pm FFR 90 min. 2018 Director: Elaine BriereHaiti Betrayed is a point-of-view documentary revealing how Canada, in contravention of international law, allied with the US and France to overturn the democratically elected government in Haiti...
Defiant Lives – 1:00 pm UNS 85 min.
Defiant Lives Saturday 1:00 pm UNS 85 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Filmmaker: Sarah BartonDefiant Lives is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the worldwide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the extraordinary individuals who bravely put...
WAJD: Songs of Separation – 1:00 pm LNS 88 min.
WAJD: Songs of Separation Saturday 1:00 pm LNS 88 min. www.wajdfilm.com, 2018 Director: Amar Chebib Wajd: Songs of Separation introduces us to three men—Ibrahim, Abdulwahed, and Mohamad—all talented musicians, who have fled war-torn Syria and are re-assembling their...
Treeline – 1:00 pm SID 40 min.
Treeline Saturday 1:00 pm SID 40 min. Patagonia, 2018 Director: Jordan ManleyTreeline celebrates the forests on which our species have always depended, and around which some skiers and snowboarders have based their entire lives. Follow a group of snow-seekers,...
Save Space Nugget – 1:45 pm SID 41 min.
Save Space Nugget Saturday 1:45 pm SID 41 min. 2017 Director: Trish Neufeld Save Space Nugget is the story of the determined community of Cumberland coming together to save their forest from the timber company who intended to harvest it for profit. It’s a David and...
Family Venue Films – 1pm – 2:30 pm Lower SID
Family Films 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Lower SID Theme: Trees & ForestsOne Forest in the World 6 min. A film by Fox & Bee Studio Young members of the Cumberland community share how the Cumberland Community Forest is a part of their lives and why they value this...
Dust n’ Bones – 2:40 pm LNS 45 min.
Dust n' BonesSaturday 2:40 pm LNS 45 min. Less Bland Productions, 2018 Director: Leslie Bland Dust n' Bones examines the challenges and mysteries of dealing with the discovery, preservation, and re-interment of First Nations artefacts and remains. These themes are...
Celling Your Soul – 2:40 pm FFR 48 min.
Celling Your Soul Saturday 2:40 pm FFR 48 min. McNabb/ Connolly, 2017 Filmmaker: Joni Siani Celling Your Soul is a powerful and informative examination of how young people actually feel about connecting in the digital world and their love/hate relationship with...
Metamorphosis – 2:45 pm SID 95 min.
Metamorphosis Saturday 2:45 pm SID 95 min. NFB, 2018 Filmmakers: Nova Ami & Velcrow Ripper A poem for the planet, Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper’s film Metamorphosis takes the pulse of our earth and bears witness to a moment of profound change: the loss of one...
Ecology Transforms Youth – 2:45 pm UNS 35 min.
Ecology Transforms Youth Saturday 2:45 pm UNS35 min.youthecology.ca, 2018Filmmaker: Ed CarswellCarswellfilm.ca Travel with several youth as they explore the rivers and estuaries of the Comox Valley. Created by Wendy Kotilla in 2004, the Youth & Ecological...
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees – 3:40 pm UNS 52 min.
Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees Saturday 3:40 pm UNS 52 min. Treespeak Films, 2018 Director: Jeff McKay We follow visionary scientist, conservationist and author, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, on her journey to the most beautiful forests of the northern...
Being the Change: A New Kind of Climate Documentary – 3:40 pm LNS 58 min.
Being the Change: A New Kind of Climate Documentary Saturday 3:40 pm LNS 58 min. www.treehugger.com, 2018 Filmmakers: Mary Grandelis and Dave Davis Is it possible to move away from fossil fuels and live a more joyful life? That is the question NASA atmospheric...
The Radicals – 3:40 pm FFR 55 min.
The Radicals Saturday 3:40 pm FFR 55 min. www.theradicalsfilm.com, 2018 Filmmakers: Brian Hockenstein & Tamo Campos With breathtaking cinematography, The Radicals follows four snowboarders and surfers driven to become social and environmental stewards through...
Satan & Adam – 4:40 pm UNS 80 min.
Satan & Adam Saturday 4:40 pm UNS 80 min. Cargo Film and Releasing, 2018 Filmmaker: Scott Balcerek Sterling Magee experienced firsthand the music industry’s exploitation of black musicians. So he walked away to play music on the Harlem streets. Re-inventing...
Threads – 8:00 pm SID 32 min.
Threads Closing Night 8:00 pm SID 32 min. Collective Eye Films, 2017 Director: Kathy Stevulak Torn from her family, her paintings, and her beloved Calcutta after the partition of India, artist Surayia Rahman finds a new life in Bangladesh teaching impoverished mothers...
Soufra – 8:40 pm SID 72 min.
Soufra Closing Night 8:40 pm SID 72 min. Hydro Studios, 2018 Director: Thomas MorganExecutive Producer: Susan Sarandon Soufra follows the inspirational story of intrepid social entrepreneur Mariam Shaar, a refugee who has spent her entire life in the 69 year-old Burl...
Threads – 8:00 pm SID 32 min.
Threads Closing Night 8:00 pm SID 32 min. Collective Eye Films, 2017 Director: Kathy Stevulak Torn from her family, her paintings, and her beloved Calcutta after the partition of India, artist Surayia Rahman finds a new life in Bangladesh teaching impoverished mothers...
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters – Friday 7:30 pm SID – 92 min
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters Opening Night 7:30 SID 92 min. 2017 Director: Natalie Boll & LaTiesha Fazakas Filmmakers LaTiesha Fazakas and Natalie Boll will be in attendance. Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters is a portrait of a Canadian...
Denial – 10:00 am UNS – 92 mins
Denial Satuday 10:00 am UNS 92 min. McNabb /Connolly, 2016 Filmmaker: Derek Hallquist Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but the problem is easy to ignore. We often find it difficult to face change. We'd rather be in...
True Conviction – 10:00 am LNS – 84 min
True Conviction Saturday 10:00 am LNS 84 min. Film Collaborators, 2017 Director: Jamie MeltzerThere's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. True Conviction is a character-driven...
Pre-Crime – 10:00 am FFR – 88 min
Pre-Crime Saturday 10:00 am FFR 88 min. Rise and Shine, 2017 Directors: Monika Hielscher & Matthias Heeder What if tomorrow's murders could be prevented today? To predict a future crime scene and to prevent a murder seems like something from a sci-fi movie. To...
Footprint: Population, Consumption and Sustainability – 11:35 am LNS – 82 min
Footprint: Population, Consumption and Sustainability Saturday 11:35 am LNS 82 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Director: Valentina Canavesio Footprint takes a dizzying spin around the globe, witnessing population explosions, over-consumption, limited resources, and...
The Silent Land – 11:40 am SID – 75 min
The Silent Land Saturday 11:40 am SID 75 min. 2017 Director: Jan Van den Berg 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 maintain...
19 Paper Cranes – 11:45 am FFR – 6 min
19 Paper Cranes Saturday 11:45 am FFR 6 min. L'Arche International, 2017 Director: Michael Joseph On July 25th, 2016, a young man attacked a centre for people with disabilities in Japan, killing 19 and wounding 26. He had sent a letter to the president of the Japanese...
Seeking Wisdom: Students & Elders in the Sea to Sky – 11:50 am UNS – 24 min
Seeking Wisdom: Students & Elders in the Sea to Sky Saturday 11:50 am UNS 24 min. Carswellfilm.ca © Squamish Nation & School District 48, 2017 Director: Ed Carswell Students from School District 48's Aboriginal Leadership Group travel...
Cooperativa: La Lucha Sigue – 11:40 am UNS 40 min.
Cooperativa: La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues) Saturday 11:40 am UNS 40 min. carswellfilm.ca, 2018 Filmmaker: Ed Carswell Produced by World Community, Cafe Etico & Carswellfilm.ca Journey to organic coffee farms in the jungle highlands of Nicaragua...
Interspecies Relationships – Shorts – 11:45 am FFR 45 min.
Interspecies Relationships – Shorts Program - FFRPacific Herring: Small Fish, Big Problem 11:45 am - 10 min. Lotus Eater Filmsconservancyhornbyisland.org Pacific Herring need our help if we are to save the salmon, killer whales and other marine species in the Salish...
Haiti Betrayed – 12:55 pm FFR 90 min.
Haiti BetrayedSaturday 12:55 pm FFR 90 min. 2018 Director: Elaine BriereHaiti Betrayed is a point-of-view documentary revealing how Canada, in contravention of international law, allied with the US and France to overturn the democratically elected government in Haiti...
Defiant Lives – 1:00 pm UNS 85 min.
Defiant Lives Saturday 1:00 pm UNS 85 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Filmmaker: Sarah BartonDefiant Lives is a triumphant film that traces the origins of the worldwide disability rights movement. It tells the stories of the extraordinary individuals who bravely put...
The Forger – 12:35 pm FFR – 16 min
The Forger Saturday 12:35 pm FFR 16 min. NY Times Documentary and Manual Cinema Studios, 2016 Filmmakers: Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia, Pamela Druckerman It’s 1944 in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a Left Bank...
We Are Protectors of the Water – 1:00 pm UNS – 2 min
We Are Protectors of the Water Saturday 1:00 pm UNS 2 min. Island Soul Films, 2017 Filmmaker: Shane Philip Poem: Yarrow WillardBeautifully filmed local watersheds, lakes and rivers provide the images for Yarrow Willard's poem and call to action, “We Are Protectors of...
The Road Forward – 1:10 pm UNS – 101 min
The Road Forward Saturday 1:10 pm UNS 101 min. NFB, 2017 Director: Marie ClementsThe Road Forward, a musical documentary, connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First...
Bending the Arc – 1:15 pm SID – 102 min
Bending the Arc Saturday 1:15 pm SID 102 min. Film Collaborators, 2017 Director: Kief Davidson Executive Producers: Matt Damon & Ben Affleck The film centers on three Harvard medical students: Jim Kim, current president of the World Bank, and Paul Farmer and...
Family Venue Films – 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm Rotary Room – “Critters”
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Rotary Room - “Critters” Free for children, $5 for adults without a pass (children must be accompanied by an adult) The Story of Flowers 4 min. Produced by AMKK Director: Azuma Makoto Illustrator: Katie Scott Animator: James Paulley Many...
Birthright: A War Story – 1:15 pm LNS – 100 min
Birthright: A War Story Saturday 1:15 pm LNS 100 min. Women Make Movies, 2017 Director: Civia Tamarkin In the US today, a radical movement has tightened its grip on state power, seeking to control whether and how women bear children. In this crusade,...
Finding Kukan – 3:05 pm SID – 75 min
Finding Kukan Saturday 3:05 pm SID 75 min. New Day Films, 2015 Director: Robin Lung In the late 1930s China is in dire straits. The country will collapse under Japan’s military juggernaut if it doesn’t get outside help. Chinese American firebrand Li Ling-Ai jolts...
Vancouver: No Fixed Address – 3:05 pm UNS – 75 min
Vancouver: No Fixed Address Saturday 3:05 pm SID 75 min. Shore Films, 2017 Director: Charles WilkinsonWhat’s going on with exploding housing costs in key cities around the world? Vancouver: No Fixed Address focuses on the global housing bubble in a city often voted to...
Children of Redress – 3:05 pm UNS – 18 min
Children of Redress Saturday 3:05 pm UNS 18 min. 2013 Director: Greg Masuda In 1942 the Canadian government ordered the uprooting of 22,000 men, women and children in one of the nation's largest and cruelest dispossession and dispersals ever. A generation later,...
The Hands That Feed Us – 3:05 pm FFR – 16 min
The Hands That Feed Us Saturday 3:05 FFR 16 min. 2017 Director: Devon CookeFirst and foremost, a farm is a business, but it takes more than just business sense to run a successful farm. Amara Farm succeeds because it’s a marriage. Love and dedication to the land, and...
A Silent Transformation – 3:25 pm FFR – 55 min
A Silent Transformation Saturday 3:25 pm FFR 55 min. Powerline Films, 2017 Filmmakers: Simon Brothers, Luke Mistruzzi, Anton Smolski, & Mark Preston This is a film about the transformative power of the co-operative enterprise model. The co-op...
The Right to Remain – 3:30 pm LNS – 45 min
The Right to Remain Saturday 3:30 pm LNS 45 min. 2015 Director: Greg MasudaThe Right To Remain is a look at Vancouver's Downtown Eastside residents and their fight to save their community from development. The documentary is told from a Japanese-Canadian perspective...
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters – Friday 7:30 pm SID – 92 min
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters Opening Night 7:30 SID 92 min. 2017 Director: Natalie Boll & LaTiesha Fazakas Filmmakers LaTiesha Fazakas and Natalie Boll will be in attendance. Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters is a portrait of a Canadian...
Denial – 10:00 am UNS – 92 mins
Denial Satuday 10:00 am UNS 92 min. McNabb /Connolly, 2016 Filmmaker: Derek Hallquist Every day our changing climate pushes us closer to an environmental catastrophe, but the problem is easy to ignore. We often find it difficult to face change. We'd rather be in...
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters – Friday 7:30 pm SID – 92 min
Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters Opening Night 7:30 SID 92 min. 2017 Director: Natalie Boll & LaTiesha Fazakas Filmmakers LaTiesha Fazakas and Natalie Boll will be in attendance. Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters is a portrait of a Canadian...
Nice People – 8:00 pm SID – 91 min.
Nice People Closing Night 8:00PM SID 91 min. Kinosmith, 2015 Directors: Anders Helgeson, Karin af Klintberg The predominantly white community of the rural town of Borlänge is changed within two years by the influx of 3,000 Somalis who have fled war and come to...
KONELĪNE: Our Land Beautiful – 7:30 pm SID – 96 min.
KONELĪNE: Our Land Beautiful Opening Night 7:30 SID 96 min. Canada Wild Productions, 2016 Director: Nettie Wild (in attendance) Cinematography: Van Royko KONELĪNE is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who...
Angry Inuk – 10:00 am SID – 83 min.
Angry Inuk Saturday 10:00AM SID 83 min. NFB, 2016 Director: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril In her film Angry Inuk, Inuit director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril joins a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit as they campaign to challenge long-established perceptions of seal hunting. Though...
A New Economy – 10:00 am UNS – 85 min.
A New Economy Saturday 10:00AM UNS 85 min. Domain 7 Studio Director: Trevor Meier What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch, as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By rewarding...
Seeds of Justice: In the Hands of Farmers – 10:00 am LNS – 37 min.
Seeds of Justice: In the Hands of Farmers Saturday 10:00AM LNS 37 min. USC Canada in collaboration with the Gaia Foundation, 2015 Filmmaker: Jess Phillimore Seeds of Justice follows Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede’s inspirational work to value...
The Brainwashing of My Dad – 10:00 am FFR – 90 min.
The Brainwashing of My Dad Saturday 10:00AM FFR 90 min. www.thebrainwashingofmydad.com, 2016 Filmmaker: Jen Senko As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long US Democrat to an angry right-wing...
Pan: Our Musical Odyssey – 10:45 am LNS – 53 min.
Pan: Our Musical Odyssey Saturday 10:45AM LNS 53 min. www.pan.tt , 2015 Directors: Jerome Guiot and Thierry Teston During World War II, Trinidad & Tobago's underprivileged urban gangs stole oil drums to create a new musical instrument - the Steelpan. This...
Alive and Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa – 11:45am SID – 19 min.
Alive and Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa Saturday 11:45AM SID 19 min. 2015 Filmmaker: Lara-Ann deWet Filmed in the heart of Limpopo, South Africa, the village grannies (aged 55 - 84) lace up their soccer boots and start kicking their way through...
WEconomics – 11:45 am UNS – 20 min.
WEconomics Saturday 11:45AM UNS 20 min. McNabb/ Connolly, 2016 Filmmakers: Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young The Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy has one of the highest concentrations of cooperative businesses in the developed world. The capital, Bologna,...
Planetary – 12:10 pm SID – 53 min.
Planetary Saturday 12:10PM SID 53 min. McNabb/Connolly, 2015 Director: Guy Reid Planetary is a provocative and breathtaking wake-up call – a cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species. It is a poetic and...
We Regret to Inform You – 12:10 pm FFR – 11 min.
We Regret to Inform You Saturday 12:10PM FFR 11 min. NFB, 2016 Filmmakers: Eva Colmers & Heidi Janz In a check-box society that functions by dividing us into neatly-defined categories, where does someone with a strong mind and a weak body fit in? Dr. Heidi...
The Sea Between Us – 12:15 pm LNS – 30 min.
The Sea Between Us Saturday 12:15PM LNS The Sea Between Us 22 min, 2016 Refuge 8 min, 2016 Filmmaker: Caoimhe Butterly The Sea Between Us was filmed in early 2016. These are the stories of some of the women, men and children who have made the perilous sea...
Unbroken Ground – 12:20 pm UNS – 26 min.
Unbroken Ground Saturday 12:20PM UNS 26 min. Patagonia, 2016 Director: Chris Malloy Unbroken Ground explores the critical role food plays in finding solutions to the environmental crisis. The vast majority of our food is produced using methods that reduce...
4 Short Films – 12:25 – 12:55 pm FFR
Diversity & Inclusion - 2016 Comox Valley Art Gallery Youth Media Project - Saturday 12:25PM FFR Tales of Kona 3 min. A film by Michaela Planomaniac A fun and light play on the roles of service dogs Identity Crisis 2 min. A film by Sienna Orbell Educating...
River Blue – 1:15 pm UNS – 96 min.
River Blue Saturday 1:15PM UNS 95 min. riverbluethemovie.com , 2016 Director: Roger Williams Following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, River Blue spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world’s most polluting industries, fashion. Narrated by...
Drumbeats & Dreams – 1:15 pm FFR – 12 min.
Drumbeats and Dreams Saturday 1:15PM FFR 12 min. CarswellFilm.ca, 2016 Filmmaker: Ed Carswell (in attendance) Zena is graduating from Merritt Secondary School but the journey was not easy. From the haunting past of residential schools to the ongoing lack of...
Family Films 1:15 pm – 2:45 Lower SID (Fountain Level)
Family Venue (5 Films) 1:15pm – 2:45pm Free for children, $5 for adults without a pass (children must be accompanied by an adult) Water Detectives 12 min. NFB After a severe water shortage in Matamoros, thousands of children were trained as water detectives with the...
Migrant Dreams – 1:20 pm SID – 90 min.
Migrant Dreams Saturday 1:20PM SID 90 min. www.migrantdreams.ca, 2016 Director: Min Sook Lee Migrant Dreams exposes the underbelly of the Canadian government's Temporary Foreign Worker Program which empower brokers and growers to exploit and deceive migrant...
The Resurrection of Victor Jara – 1:20 pm LNS – 89 min.
The Resurrection of Victor Jara Saturday 1:20PM LNS 89 min. 2015 Filmmaker: John Travers This feature documentary presents the heroic yet tragic story of Victor Jara: from his rise to prominence as a noted theater director, to his years as a folk-inspired...
Keepers of the Coast – 1:35 pm FFR – 38 min.
Keepers of the Coast Saturday 1:35PM FFR 38 min. 2016 Filmmaker: Twyla Roscovich (in attendance) The central coast of BC is one of the most spectacular and biologically rich places left on the planet – where ancient temperate rainforest intertwines with the...
Tracing Roots – 2:25 pm FFR – 35 min.
Tracing Roots Saturday 2:20PM FFR 35 min. New Day Films, 2014 Director: Ellen Frankenstein Tracing Roots is a portrait of an artist and a mystery. The film follows master weaver and Haida elder Delores Churchill on a journey to understand the origins of a...
How I Got Over – 3:05 pm LNS – 87 min.
How I Got Over Saturday 3:05PM LNS 87 min. McNabb/ Connolly, 2014 Director: Nicole Boxer How I Got Over is an intimate profile of 15 formerly homeless and incarcerated African-American women that dramatically reveals the social causes of their plight and how...
Atlantic – 3:15 pm SID – 75 min.
Atlantic Saturday 3:15PM SID 75 min. www.theatlanticstream.com, 2016 Director: Risteárd Ó Domhnaill Narrator: Brendan Gleeson Atlantic follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland, united and divided by the...
Driving With Selvi – 3:15 pm UNS – 74 min.
Driving With Selvi Saturday 3:15PM UNS 74 min. Eyesfull Productions, 2015 Filmmaker: Elisa Paloschi Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patriarchal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, only to find herself in a violent and abusive marriage....
Nice People – 8:00 pm SID – 91 min.
Nice People Closing Night 8:00PM SID 91 min. Kinosmith, 2015 Directors: Anders Helgeson, Karin af Klintberg The predominantly white community of the rural town of Borlänge is changed within two years by the influx of 3,000 Somalis who have fled war and come to...
KONELĪNE: Our Land Beautiful – 7:30 pm SID – 96 min.
KONELĪNE: Our Land Beautiful Opening Night 7:30 SID 96 min. Canada Wild Productions, 2016 Director: Nettie Wild (in attendance) Cinematography: Van Royko KONELĪNE is a sensual, cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia, and all the dreamers who...
Nice People – 8:00 pm SID – 91 min.
Nice People Closing Night 8:00PM SID 91 min. Kinosmith, 2015 Directors: Anders Helgeson, Karin af Klintberg The predominantly white community of the rural town of Borlänge is changed within two years by the influx of 3,000 Somalis who have fled war and come to...
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID (Fountain Area) One Forest in the World 6 min. A film by Fox & Bee Studio Young members of the Cumberland community share how the Cumberland Community Forest is a part of their lives and why they value this forest. Through...
Hadwin’s Judgement – Saturday 10:00am 91min. SID
Hadwin's Judgement Saturday 10:00am SID 91 min. 2015 NFB www.hadwinsjudgement.com Director: Sasha Snow Grant Hadwin loved the forest, and made his living finding the best routes for roads that cut deep into BC's remote and ancient forests for logging companies....
Bikes vs. Cars – Saturday 10:00am 88min. UNS
Bikes vs. Cars Saturday 10:00am UNS 88 min. 2015 Kinosmith www.bikes-vs-cars.com Director: Fredrik Gertten Bikes vs Cars depicts a global crisis that we need to talk about; climate, Earth's resources, and cities where the entire surface is consumed by cars....
Food Chains – Saturday 10:00am 86min. LNS
Food Chains Saturday 10:00am LNS 86 min. 2015 www.foodchainsfilm.com Director: Sanjay Rawal Farm labour has always been one of the most difficult and poorly paid jobs and has relied on some of the most vulnerable people. Exploitation still exists, ranging from...
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret – 10:00am 85min. FFR
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret Saturday 10:00am FFR 85 min. 2014 www.cowspiracy.com Filmmaker: Kip Andersen Cowspiracy follows filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers one of the most destructive industries facing the planet today and investigates why the...
The Hand That Feeds -11:40am 84min. LNS
The Hand That Feeds Saturday 11:40am LNS 84 min. 2014 McNabb Connolly thehandthatfeedsfilm.com Filmmaker: Robin Blotnick At a popular bakery café, residents of New York's Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the...
24 Hour Drum – 11:40am 34 min. UNS
24 Hour Drum - Aboriginal Youth in the Sea to Sky Saturday 11:40am UNS 2015 Produced by School District 48 carswellfilm.ca Filmmaker: Ed Carswell This film follows a three month journey taken by an Aboriginal Youth Leadership group in BC’s Sea to Sky corridor....
Nefertiti’s Daughters – 11:40am 39min. FFR
Nefertiti's Daughters Saturday 11:40am FFR 39 min. 2015 Icarus Films www.nefertitisdaughters.com Director: Mark Nickolas Nefertiti's Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the critical...
Circus Without Borders – 11:40am 70min. SID
Circus Without Borders Saturday 11:30am SID 70 min. 2015 Kinosmith circuswithoutborders.com Director: Susan Gray Circus Without Borders is a documentary about Guillaume Saladin and Yamoussa Bangoura, best friends and world-class acrobats from remote corners of...
Facing Fear – 12:30pm 23min. FFR
Facing Fear Saturday 12:30pm FFR 23 min. 2014 McNabb Connolly www.facingfearmovie.com Filmmaker: Jason Cohen Worlds collide when a former neo-Nazi skinhead and the gay victim of his hate crime attack meet by chance 25 years after the incident that dramatically...
Little Moccasins – 12:30pm 10min. UNS
Little Moccasins Saturday 12:30pm UNS 10 min. 2014 Ken Matheson Productions Little Moccasins is about young students honouring First Nations children who died and were buried in unmarked graves while attending the Dunbow Indian Residential School near Calgary...
Hishuk-ish t’sawalk (Everything is One) – 12:45pm 15min. UNS
Hishuk-ish t'sawalk (Everything is One) Saturday 12:45pm UNS 15 min. 2013 Writer/ Producer: Drew Burke Filming and Editing: Mark Wyatt Our coast is one of the most beautiful places in the world, but decades of destructive logging, mining and development...
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony – 1:10pm 79min. SID
Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony Saturday 1:10pm SID 79 min. 2013 beethovenhero.com Director: Kerry Candaele Filmed on 5 continents and in 12 countries, Following The Ninth is the story of people whose lives have been...
The Pass System – 1:10pm 50min. UNS
The Pass System Saturday 1:10pm UNS 50 min. 2015 Director: Alex Williams www.facebook.com/thepasssystem www.twitter.com/ThePassSystem www.tamarackproductions.com The Pass System illuminates Canada’s hidden history of racial segregation. For over 60 years, the...
The True Cost – 1:10pm 92min. FFR
The True Cost Saturday 1:10pm FFR 92 min. 2015 McNabb/Connolly truecostmovie.com Director: Andrew Morgan This is a story about clothing. It is about the clothes we wear, the people who make them and the impact it's having on our world. The price of “fast...
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley – 1:15pm 91min. LNS
Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley Saturday 1:15pm LNS 91 min. 2014 Naretiv Productions resistenciathefilm.com Filmmaker: Jesse Freeston In 2009, the first coup d’état in a generation overthrows the elected president of Honduras, plunging the whole...
A Sorry State – 2:05pm 47min. UNS
A Sorry State Saturday 2:05pm UNS 47 min. 2012 McNabb/Connolly mitchmiyagawa.com Filmmaker: Mitch Miyagawa Is saying "sorry" enough? In 1988, Mitch Miyagawa’s Japanese-Canadian family received an apology from Prime Minister Brian Mulroney for the internment of...
After Winter, Spring – 3:00pm 74min. UNS
After Winter, Spring Saturday 3:00pm UNS 74 min. 2013 McNabb/Connolly afterwinterspring.com Director: Judith Lit After Winter, Spring is a beautiful and intimate look into the lives of contemporary French peasants who heroically struggle to maintain the dignity...
Jumbo Wild – 3:05pm 60min. SID
Jumbo Wild Saturday 3:05pm SID 60 min 2015 FilmSprout Director: Nick Waggoner For decades, First Nations, conservationists, backcountry skiers and snowboarders have fought a proposed large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains near Invermere, BC. After...
The Fisherman’s Son – 3:10pm 29min. LNS
The Fisherman's Son Saturday 3:10pm LNS 29 min. 2015 FilmSprout Filmmaker: Chris Malloy Ramon Navarro, a third-generation subsistence fisherman and farmer who lives on the coast of Chile at Punta Lobos, learned to surf on a broken surfboard left by a visiting...
We Call Them Intruders – 3:10pm 56min. FFR
We Call Them Intruders Saturday 3:10pm FFR 56 min. 2015 Cinécoop Productions wecallthemintruders.wordpress.com Filmmakers: Susi Porter-Bopp & Tamara Herman How well do you know your money? Two Vancouver-based filmmakers trace their investments to Canadian...
Knitting Nannas – 3:50pm 22min. LNS
Knitting Nannas Saturday 3:50pm LNS 22 min 2013 Frogmouth Films www.knitting-nannas.com Director: Rani Brown Knitting Nannas Against Gas is a group of sweet ladies who ‘protest’ by unfolding some lawn chairs, popping the kettle on and knitting. The KNAGs, who...
Lowdown Tracks – 4:20pm 86min. SID
Lowdown Tracks Saturday 4:20pm SID 86 min. 2015 McNabb/ Connolly www.lowdowntracks.com Director: Shelley Saywell Music is an expression of the spirit for everyone. But for some who survive on the periphery of society, it can also be a life-saving coping...
Landfill Harmonic – 4:25pm 85min. UNS
Landfill Harmonic Saturday 4:25pm UNS 85 min. 2015 The Film Collaborative www.landfillharmonicmovie.com Director: Graham Townsley Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical youth group of kids that live next to one of...
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID (Fountain Area) One Forest in the World 6 min. A film by Fox & Bee Studio Young members of the Cumberland community share how the Cumberland Community Forest is a part of their lives and why they value this forest. Through...
Hadwin’s Judgement – Saturday 10:00am 91min. SID
Hadwin's Judgement Saturday 10:00am SID 91 min. 2015 NFB www.hadwinsjudgement.com Director: Sasha Snow Grant Hadwin loved the forest, and made his living finding the best routes for roads that cut deep into BC's remote and ancient forests for logging companies....
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID
Family Films 1:15pm – 2:45pm Lower SID (Fountain Area) One Forest in the World 6 min. A film by Fox & Bee Studio Young members of the Cumberland community share how the Cumberland Community Forest is a part of their lives and why they value this forest. Through...
Family Films – Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Lower Sid)
Family Films 2015 Saturday 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lower Sid Williams Theatre (Downstairs) Sponsored by Grunberg Patterson Counselling and Psychological Services The Magic Lion - 7 min. This animated short is about a Kenyan boy who goes...
7:30pm SID – 22 min. Reaching Blue
Opening Night 7:30pm Reaching Blue - 22 min - SID Global Reef Films Filmmakers: Ian Hinkle and Andy Robertson An oyster farmer, a writer and an ocean scientist share their thoughts about a coastal way of life under threat, where stories from...
8:20pm SID – 82 min. Becoming Bulletproof
Opening Night 8:30pm Becoming Bulletproof - 82 min - SID superfilms.tv Director: Michael Barnett Joy and persistence triumph over adversity in this award-winning documentary about a diverse group of people from across North America who come...
10:00am SID – 88 min. Marmato
10am Marmato - 88 min - SID Calle Films Director: Mark Gieco If Colombia is the focal point of the new global gold rush, then Marmato, a mining town with over 500 years of mining history, is the new frontier. Gold, estimated to be worth 20...
10:00am UNS – 84 min. The Secret Trial 5
10am The Secret Trial 5 - 84 min. - UNS Blue Ice Docs Director: Amar Wala Imagine spending years in prison without being charged with a crime or knowing exactly what you're accused of. A film about the human impact of the “War on...
10:00am LNS – 83 min. American Revolutionary
10am American Revolutionary - 83 min. - LNS Good Docs Director: Grace Lee Grace Lee Boggs is a 99-year-old Chinese American writer, activist, and philosopher. Rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her...
10:00am FFR – 72 min. Shameless Propaganda
10am Shameless Propaganda - 72 min. - FFR NFB Director: Robert Lower This feature film examines its own genre, the documentary, which has often been called Canada's national art form. Released in the year of the NFB's 75th birthday,...
11:30am FFR – 70 min. Connected by Coffee
11:30am Connected by Coffee - 70 min. - FFR Stone Hut Studios Filmmakers: Aaron Dennis & Chelsea Bay Dennis The film follows two North American coffee roasters on a journey across Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua to...
11:40am LNS – 64 min. The Man Who Stopped the Desert
11:40am The Man Who Stopped the Desert - 64 min. - LNS 1080 Films Director: Mark Dodd As early as the 1970s, desertification began to creep southwards in the land between the Sahara Desert and forests of tropical Africa. By the...
11:45am SID – 54 min. The Revolutionary Optimists
11:45am The Revolutionary Optimists - 54 min. - SID Collective Eye Films Director: Nicole Newnham & Maren Grainger-Monsen The Revoluntionary Optimists draws us into the world of two 11-year olds with no access to clean...
11:45am UNS – 53 min. Bringing it Home
11:45am Bringing it Home - 53 min. - UNS McNabb/Connolly Directors: Linda Booker & Blaire Johnson A father’s search to find the healthiest building materials leads him to the completion of the first hemp house in the US. ...
1:00pm SID – 88 min. Open Sesame
1pm Open Sesame; the Story of Seeds - 88 min. - SID Director: M Sean Kaminsky One of the world’s most precious resources is at risk. Seeds are essential to life, providing the basis for everything from fabric to...
1:00pm FFR – 85 min. On The Side of the Road
1:00pm FFR - 85 min. On the Side of the Road Naretiv Productions Filmmaker: Lia Tarachansky Tarachansky grew up in Israel's largest settlement, Ariel. When the second Intifadah broke out in 2000 her family moved to Canada where, for the first...
1:00pm UNS – 5 min. Tribal Canoe Journey
1pm Tribal Canoe Journey - 5 min. - UNS Carswell Productions Filmmaker: Ed Carswell This film captures a rare event that happened in 2014 on a warm July evening in the K'omoks Estuary, BC. As part of the annual Tribal Canoe Journey,...
1:00pm LNS – 84 min. Soft Vengeance
1pm Soft Vengeance; Albie Sachs and the New South Africa - 84 min. - LNS Director: Abby Ginzberg Soft Vengeance is an inspiring film about Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter. For his...
1:10pm UNS – 59 min. How a People Live
1:10pm How a People Live - 59 min. - UNS Moving Images Distribution Director: Lisa Jackson The Gwa'sala and the 'Nakwaxda'xw First Nations people lived as two distinct groups along BC's northwest coast. In 1964, for...
2:45pm SID – 88 min. All the Time in the World
2:45pm All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect - 88 min. - SID www.allthetimeintheworld.ca Director: Suzanne Crocker Story Editor: Nettie Wild In search of a new perspective, a family of five leaves...
2:45pm UNS – 95 min. Above All Else
2:45pm Above All Else - 95 min. - UNS Fiege Films Director: John Fiege Above All Else is an intimate portrait of a group of landowners and activists in East Texas who take peaceful direct action to stop construction...
2:55pm LNS – 90 min. A Dangerous Game
2:55pm A Dangerous Game - 90 min. - LNS www.adangerousgame.org Director: Anthony Baxter A Dangerous Game is about the environmental, cultural, historical, and human costs of golf, a game that has been hijacked by...
2:55pm FFR – 84 min. The Malagasy Way
2:55pm FFR - 84 min. The Malagasy Way Director: Lova Nantenaina “The Chinese make everything and the Malagasy fix everything.” The people of Madagascar pride themselves on producing things out of nothing;...
4:35pm UNS – 74 min. Just Eat It
4:35pm Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story - 74 min. - UNS Peg Leg Films Filmmakers: Grant Baldwin and Jenny Rustmeyer We all love food, so how could we possibly be throwing away nearly half of it? Filmmakers Jen and...
4:35pm SID – 78min. Alive Inside
4:35pm SID - 78min. Alive Inside www.filmsalescorp.com Director Michael Rossato-Bennett Alive Inside is a joyous cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity....
8:00pm SID – 88 min. DamNation
Closing Night 8:00pm DamNation - 88 min. - SID IndieCan Directors: Travis Rummel & Ben Knight This powerful film odyssey across the US explores the sea change in attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future...
Family Films – Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Lower Sid)
Family Films 2015 Saturday 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lower Sid Williams Theatre (Downstairs) Sponsored by Grunberg Patterson Counselling and Psychological Services The Magic Lion - 7 min. This animated short is about a Kenyan boy who goes...
7:30pm SID – 22 min. Reaching Blue
Opening Night 7:30pm Reaching Blue - 22 min - SID Global Reef Films Filmmakers: Ian Hinkle and Andy Robertson An oyster farmer, a writer and an ocean scientist share their thoughts about a coastal way of life under threat, where stories from...
Family Films – Saturday 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (Lower Sid)
Family Films 2015 Saturday 1:00 pm-2:30 pm Lower Sid Williams Theatre (Downstairs) Sponsored by Grunberg Patterson Counselling and Psychological Services The Magic Lion - 7 min. This animated short is about a Kenyan boy who goes...