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Wednesday November 2, 4PM & 7PM KELOWNA THE The Dark Horse SHOWTIME 4 & 7 pm RATED KELOWNA FILM SOCIETY New Zealand September 7, 2016 Sing Street (ENGLISH) 124 min 14A September 14, 2016 Dheepan The Dark Horse is based on the teenage nephew Mana. When Gen September 21, 2016 Dark Horse true story of Genesis ‘Gen’ Potini, volunteers to coach the ragtag a Maori speed-chess champion young members of the Eastern September 28,2016 The Passion of Augustine seeking redemption and a new Knights chess club, Mana is inspired October 5, 2016 Closet Monster purpose in life despite his struggles by his uncle’s determination to bring October 12, 2016 The Measure of a Man with bipolar disorder. hope to the children of the club and turn his troubled life around, while October 19,2016 Our Little Sister A former chess prodigy, Gen is seeing it as a chance to possibly brilliant and charismatic, bringing October 26, 2016 The Dressmaker save his own. unusual, potent energy to a game November 2, 2016 The Dark Horse most often played with quiet “Curtis is 100-per-cent watchable November 9, 2016 Mia Madre reserve. as a puffy, mumbling shuffler whose chess lessons double as life Theatre: Tickets: Upon his release from an institution, strategies.” Orchard Plaza 5 Cinema Single - $7.00 he is remanded into the custody of Brad Wheeler, his older brother Ariki, the leader #160-1876 Cooper Road 5 film pass - $35.00 (avoid line-ups) Globe & Mail of a rough street gang planning Tickets and passes at the door, no advance tickets. the initiation of Gen’s reluctant Cash or Cheque Only • NO DEBIT ACCEPTED Wednesday November 9, 4PM & 7PM KELOWNA FILM SOCIETY Contemporary World Cinema Information about the Two Film Screenings and our Awards Mia Madre As you probably know, the new reclining seats at Orchard Park Cineplex have significantly reduced the number of occupants at any given time. We Italy/France/Germany RATED have managed to secure two screenings (at 4 pm and 7 pm) for the Fall (ITALIAN/ENGLISH/FRENCH, ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 106 min 14A Season on a trial basis. If you are able, we ask that you consider attending the 4pm option as this is not possible for many of our movie goers. Doors Mia Madre is a 2015 Franco-Italian to help care for their ailing mother, should open at 3.30pm and 6pm (after the first film has finished). We are still drama film directed by Nanni Ada, a retired classics teacher who working out the ‘fine details’ of this arrangement. We are hoping this ‘trial’ Moretti. has been hospitalized. Margherita arrangement goes well and we can, with your continued support, secure comes to feel guilty for not taking on showings at Cineplex for our Winter and Spring sessions. Information about Margherita is a director working on more responsibility for her mother the scholarship and film awards, we made during our past season, can be a social-realist film about a factory and reflects on her relations with her found on our website. - Ruth Mellor, Chair KFS strike called Noi Siamo Qui (We Are family, friends and colleagues. Here), starring Italian-American A big thank-you to all the volunteers who make the films possible! actor Barry Huggins as the factory It was selected to compete for the owner. Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film As well, thanks to you, our loyal audience. Festival and won The Prize of the For concerns about ratings, please consult: Huggins consistently fails to deliver Ecumenical Jury. his lines properly and the fraught http://www.consumerprotectionbc.ca/consumers-film-and-video- FALL 2016 nature of the shoot is exasperated “Good, strong, understated homepage/recent-films by unhelpful advice from Margherita filmmaking is enlivened by Moretti’s Kelowna Film Society to her actors. She breaks up with characteristic wry blend of drama Cinema Guide PO Box 22132 Capri Centre, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9H9 her boyfriend, an actor in the film, and humor.” SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER and is divorced from the father of Deborah Young, www.kelownafilm.com her daughter, Livia. Her brother, Hollywood Reporter KELOWNA, BC • SHOWTIMES 4 AND 7 PM Giovanni, has taken time off work This brochure designed and printed in Kelowna by SINGLE TICKETS & 5 FILM PASSES AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR Wednesday September 7, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday September 14, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday September 21, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday September 28, 4PM & 7PM Sing Street Dheepan Dark Horse The Passion of Augustine Ireland, UK, USA RATED France RATED United Kingdom RATED Canada RATED (ENGLISH) 106 min PG (ENGLISH, FRENCH, TAMIL , ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 114 min 14A (ENGLISH) 85 min G (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 103 min PG Here’s a fun start to your film and adolescent jealousy, all Dheepan, by director Jacques inferno for another when Dheepan Dark Horse is a story of dreams, Unexpectedly, Dream Alliance shows In mid-1960 rural Québec, Mother liberalism, laicisation of schools and season. In the tradition of those accompanied by a ripping Audiard, who won the 2015 Cannes gets work as a caretaker, cleaning up determination and class great promise! Augustine teaches at a girls school overall acceleration of modernity sentimental 1930s kids movies soundtrack. Conor’s musical Palme D’or for this film, is a story of after the gangs that live in the building. consciousness set in the world with an outstanding music history. in 1960s Québec. With a gorgeous Osmond elicits warm and funny (“Hey everyone, let’s put on a development matches his ripening migrants fleeing conflict zones in Sri The new situation proves to be a of horse racing. This inspirational Her congregation has to face the score and luminous winter interviews from the participants, show!”), young Irish lad Conor feelings for Raphina and, with the Lanka for new homes in the west. ticking time bomb. documentary (from director Louise winds of change of Vatican II and cinematography, The Passion of particularly the plucky Vokes, and drastic budget cuts resulting from Augustine hits hearts and souls. navigates a troubled boyhood and guidance of older brother Brendan, Osmond) follows a group of friends At the height of the civil war, Dheepan, “There is such exhilarating movie illustrates the team’s anecdotes the Quiet Revolution in Québec. the hard life of his new school the story moves to two satisfying and neighbours in a small Welsh “A nuanced tale of generational a young Tamil soldier, first loses his mastery in this powerful new film through archival footage and artful Mother Augustine hopes that a by starting a band. The group’s conclusions. Sing Street is a film mining town who find themselves shift, personal transformation and comrades in battle, and then his about Tamil refugees in France... re-enactments. Footage of the horses promising – but rebellious – piano musical development is decidedly where you end up rooting for the breaking social barriers by competing the galvanizing power of music” family. He resolves to leave his war- bulging with giant confidence is captured so beautifully that you’ll pupil, Alice, can impress the judges spotty until Conor sets eyes on the characters and, like watching against some of the wealthiest of a national competition and The Gazette torn homeland and begin a new life in and packed with outbursts of that want to reach out and touch them! mysterious and gorgeous Raphina. vintage movies about Andy Hardy’s racehorse owners in the UK. of government representatives France. Borrowing a new name and mysterious epiphanic grandeur, like “The Passion of Augustine With such an engaging muse, the depression-era boyhood, it reminds “A heartwarming true story enough to save the school... and her identity from a dead man, Dheepan moments of sunlight breaking through It takes place during recession times never feels simplistic, or slow. music and fun soon start to flow. you how far we have come and how that has been expertly crafted vocation. makes the boat journey with two other cloud-cover... There is also something when a middle aged barmaid, named Its progress gracefully folds in much fun happened along the way. into an irresistible emotionally Writer/Director John Carney migrants who pass themselves off not always found... intelligent and Jan Vokes, rallies a syndicate of From world-acclaimed Canadian numerous performances of classical charged documentary” Allan piano works.” smoothly blends in traditional “The movie is by turns funny, heart- as his wife, Yalini, and his daughter, sympathetic interest in other human friends to pool money each week and director Lea Pool comes a multi- Hunter, Screen International faceted musical drama that draws Catholic schooling, bruising wrenching, soaring and surprising.” Illayaal. They move together into a beings”. put it towards breeding, raising and Variety “A rousing real-life fairy tale made attention to women whose lives bullies, Ireland’s mid-80s economic Jaymay, gritty Paris banlieue, or suburb. There Peter Bradshaw, training a racehorse they call Dream with both heart and humour” could rapidly have been buried by Best picture, troubles, family struggles, IMDB they find that they’ve abandoned one The Guardian Alliance. The Independent the concurrent waves of feminism, Québec Cinema Gala 2015 Wednesday October 5, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday October 12, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday October 19, 4PM & 7PM Wednesday October 26, 4PM & 7PM Closet Monster The Measure of a Man Our Little Sister The Dressmaker Canada RATED France RATED Japan RATED Australia RATED (ENGLISH) 90 min 14A (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 91 min PG (JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 128 min PG (ENGLISH) 118 min PG When Oscar Madly is just six years This is the first feature by writer- Actor Vincent Lindon gives his finest This low-key but ultimately After their estranged father’s death, with them.