Past Film Festivals

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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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A Crack in the Mountain

Director: Alistair Evans
7:30 PM – 100 min

Deep in the jungle of Central Vietnam, lies a magnificent underground kingdom. Hang Son Doòng which translates as “mountain river cave, is located in Quang Bình Province. In the middle of a UNESCO world heritage site, it is the largest cave passage in the world and a place of spectacular beauty.

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

Common Ground

Directors: Josh Tickell & Rebecca Tickell
8 PM – 105 min

Fusing journalistic exposé with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the sustainable food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind a broken food system. The film reveals how racist practices forged the current farm system in the US.

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Fashion’s Dirty Secrets – 3:05pm FFR 47 min.

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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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

  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 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...