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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2040 – 4:10 pm UNS 92 min.

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 – 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,...

Family Films – 1:00pm Lower Sid

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...

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Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees – 3:40 pm UNS 52 min.

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...

Haiti Betrayed – 12:55 pm FFR 90 min.

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...

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Children of Redress – 3:05 pm UNS – 18 min

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 – 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...

Link Arms with Us – 12:30 pm UNS – 5 min

Link Arms with Us – 12:30 pm UNS – 5 min

Link Arms with Us Saturday 12:30 UNS 5 min. Council of Canadians Comox Valley Chapter, 2017 Video footage by Clayoquot Action and Sea Wolf Adventures Post production: carswellfilm.ca In late August, 2017, First Nations leaders and members of the 'Namgis, Mamalilikala,...

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Tracing Roots – 2:25 pm FFR – 35 min.

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 – 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...

We Regret to Inform You – 12:10 pm FFR – 11 min.

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...

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We Call Them Intruders – 3:10pm 56min. FFR

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 – 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...

Little Moccasins – 12:30pm 10min. UNS

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...

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4:35pm UNS – 74 min.  Just Eat It

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

  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....

11:45am UNS – 53 min. Bringing it Home

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. ...