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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PUSH – 1:00 pm UNS 92 min.

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...

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Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives – 4:45 pm FFR 63 min.

Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives – 4:45 pm FFR 63 min.

Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives Saturday 4:45 pm FFR 63 min. www.filmfreeway.com, 2018 Director: Jim Brown Singer, songwriter and social activist Holly Near has been performing for over 50 years and in the process created what Gloria Steinem called, “the first...

Gurrumul – Friday 7:30 pm SID – 100 min.

Gurrumul – Friday 7:30 pm SID – 100 min.

Gurrumul Opening Night 7:30 SID 100 min. Blue Ice Docs, 2018 Director: Paul Damien Williams Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia....

WAJD: Songs of Separation – 1:00 pm LNS 88 min.

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...

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Rebels On Pointe – 4:30 pm UNS – 89 min

Rebels On Pointe – 4:30 pm UNS – 89 min

Rebels On Pointe Saturday 4:30 UNS 89 min. 2017 Director: Bobbi Jo Hart Exploring universal themes of identity, dreams and family, Rebels on Pointe celebrates the world famous Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The notorious all-male, comic, drag ballet company...

Evolution of Organic – 4:30 pm FFR – 87 mins

Evolution of Organic – 4:30 pm FFR – 87 mins

Evolution of Organic Saturday 4:30 pm FFR 87 min. www.evolutionoforganic.com, 2017 Director: Mark KitchellThis is the story of organic agriculture, told by those who built the movement. A motley crew of back-to-the-landers reject chemical farming and set out to...

The Forger – 12:35 pm FFR – 16 min

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...

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Wheel of Life – 3:15 pm FFR – 15 min.

Wheel of Life – 3:15 pm FFR – 15 min.

Wheel of Life Saturday 3:15PM FFR 15 min. Patchwork Films, 2015 Director: Ken Schneider Meet El Oso (the Bear), one of the founders of Casino, the Cuban dance that launched salsa. A simple man whose joie de vivre is a delight, Oso travels through his Havana regaling...

Havana Curveball – 3:35 pm FFR – 56 min.

Havana Curveball – 3:35 pm FFR – 56 min.

Havana Curveball Saturday 3:35PM FFR 56 min. Patchwork Films, 2015 Director: Ken Schneider   Havana Curveball is a heart-warming coming-of-age story about Mica, an ordinary American teenager who faces extraordinary challenges when he sets his heart on donating...

Unbroken Ground – 12:20 pm UNS – 26 min.

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...

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ĀINA – 8:00pm 23min. SID

ĀINA – 8:00pm 23min. SID

ĀINA Closing Night – 8:00 pm SID 23 min. 2015 Living Ancestors Directors: Dave Mossop & Josh Thome   ĀINA (pronounced "eye-nah") means “that which feeds us” in the Hawaiian language. Some of the world's largest chemical companies use the island of Kaua`i as...

Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World – 8:00pm 75min. SID

Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World – 8:00pm 75min. SID

Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World Closing Night 8:00pm SID 75 min. 2015 Shore Films Director: Charles Wilkinson   Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World focuses on life on the archipelago along the northern B.C. coast. It tells the story of the people and the...

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1:00pm FFR – 85 min. On The Side of the Road

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...