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
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Saturday, Feb. 3 – Sid Williams Theatre (SID)
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Saturday, Feb. 3 – Florence Filberg Rotary Room (FFR)
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Saturday, February 3 – 8pm – Sid Williams Theatre
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
116 Cameras – 12:15 pm FFR – 16 min
116 Cameras Saturday 12:15 pm FFR 16 min. Birdling Films, 2017 Director: Davina Pardo As the Holocaust survivor community ages, the Shoah Foundation, in collaboration with the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, has embarked on an...
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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;...
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...