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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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,...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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....
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. ...