Wednesday, May 11th, 7:00pm KELOWNA THE Mountains May Depart SHOWTIME 7:00 PM RATED KELOWNA FILM SOCIETY China/France/Japan March 30th 2016 Born To Be Blue (SUBTITLES: CHINESE/ENGLISH) 131 min PG13 April 6th 2016 Les etres chers (Our loved ones) PRESENTS Mountains May Depart is a timely China’s fuerdai (rich kids) generation April 13th 2016 My Internship in Canada film about the elephant currently which discovers that material th taking up a lot of space in the world’s success doesn’t make up for the loss April 20 2016 Meru living room. It tells the story of Tao of language, culture and family. April 27th 2016 Youth (superbly played by Shen Tao) as th Whether you’ve never set foot in May 4 2016 Standing Tall China transits the tricky development China or read a single page of its th phase during which, as Dung May 11 2016 Mountains May Depart history, you will be gripped by the Xiaoping warned, some would get th film’s narrative. And though the third May 18 2016 Embrace of the Serpent wealthy before others. segment of the movie, mainly set Theatre: Tickets: By turns funny, grim, engaging, abroad in 2025, hangs together least Orchard Plaza 5 Cinema Single - $7.00 surreal and haunting, writer/director well, this reviewer doubts that many Zhangke Jia’s film follows the key in the audience will be unmoved by #160-1876 Cooper Road 5 film pass - $35.00 (avoid line-ups) characters as history and fate Tao’s final scene, resonant of winter, Tickets and passes at the door, no advance tickets. buffets them badly. Much different death and an unbreakable will, which Cash or Cheque Only • NO DEBIT ACCEPTED from the historical eras dominated encapsulates the story of Mountains by war, economic deprivation and May Depart. Kelowna Film Society will again be offering scholarships to students in political turmoil, we are introduced to SD 23 who are entering film studies. Details atwww.kelownafilm.com . Applications close in mid-May, please spread the word to any students you th know. During this year we have awarded ten bursaries of $150 to attendees Wednesday, May 18 , 7:00pm at the Motion Picture Industry Orientation course. All awards are funded by money that is left after expenses – so thank you for attending our films. The AGM of the Kelowna Film Society will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at Embrace of the Serpent Parkinson Activity Centre at 7 pm. Please consider attending! Argentina, Venezuela, Columbia RATED For concerns about ratings, please consult: http://www.consumerprotectionbc.ca/consumers-film-and-video- (GERMAN, SPANISH, PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 122 min 14A homepage/recent-films

Embrace of the Serpent (nominated conducts his own search for the Kelowna Film Society www.kelownafilm.com in the best foreign film category at this elusive flower, with the same, now PO Box 22132 Capri Centre, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9H9 year’s Academy Awards) tracks two aged shaman, in a landscape parallel odysseys through the brutalized by the rubber trade. Amazon, three decades apart. This THE visionary adventure epic, from The film was inspired by the real life director Ciro Guerra, offers a journals of explorers of the Columbian SPRING 2016 heart-rending depiction of colonialism Amazon during the last century. The laying waste to indigenous culture. black and white photography used enhances the film’s sorrowful ode to a In 1909, an ailing German explorer world devastated. However, the Cinema Guide enlists the help of a young shaman in ceaseless teeming life of the his search for the yakruna plant’s rare soundtrack transports the audience APRIL TO MAY flower – that he believes could cure into the middle of the rainforest and him of his fatal illness. Their journey an array of breathtaking locations. KELOWNA, BC • SHOWTIME 7:00 PM takes them through rivers and jungles The serpent is the Amazon river! SINGLE TICKETS & 5 FILM PASSES AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR ravaged by European interference climaxing at a Spanish mission. “This cinematic journey into an Amazonian heart of darkness is a In a parallel narrative, set in the same haunting and unforgettable Contemporary World Cinema region in 1940, an American explorer experience.” Frank Swietek This brochure designed and printed in Kelowna by One Guy’s Opinion Wednesday, March 30 th, 7:00pm Wednesday, April 6 th, 7:00pm Wednesday, April 13 th, 7:00pm

Born To Be Blue Les etres chers (Our loved ones) My Internship in Canada Canada/United Kingdom RATED Canada RATED Canada RATED (ENGLISH) 97 min 14A (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 102 min 14A (FRENCH, ENGLISH, CREOLE, WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 108 min PG

A career-defining performance, Dad by Canadian actor Stephen Anne Edmond’s filmOur Loved However, throughout the film In this satirical look at Canadian war at home, Guibord is unable to an evocative look at the 50s and McHattie and as his girlfriend by Ones deals with a Quebecois family Edmond covertly plants portents, the politics, a Member of Parliament decide. As Guibord is beset on all 60s, a life of achievement and the brilliant Carmen Ejogo (Selma), forced to cope with the legacy of meaning of which become clear only finds himself thrust suddenly sides, salvation arrives in the form of turmoil, and some great jazz – not is often unrewarded. Interactions its patriarch. After the father kills much later, as we follow the lives of into the spotlight. It’s up to his Souverain, his new intern who is a bad for the price of a ticket! Ethan with greats Dizzy Gillespie and Miles himself, the truth is kept hidden David and his daughter, Laurence. young Haitian intern to help the young Haitian student and knows from his wife and children. Years hapless backbencher navigate considerably more about the ins and Hawke (Boyhood, Before Midnight) Davis showcase the rivalries within Our Loved Ones is a film of filial love, embodies Chet Baker, the legendary the jazz world. Baker’s recovery is later the oldest son, David (Maxim the complexities and pitfalls of outs of our parliamentary system Gaudette), is living what appears to family secrets, redemption and what Parliament Hill. than does his boss. trumpeter and vocalist who struggles authentically uneven and hard to is handed down. with addiction while producing watch but, more than a standard be a perfect life with his wife (Valerie Cadieux) and their two children in the A Conservative minority government, As Falardeau’s gently skewering unforgettable music. biopic, the film puts a clear price on “This film is a fascinating study of Bas-Saint-Laurent region. However, trying to pass a bill that will enable satire demonstrates, sometimes it the artistic life. Holocaust trauma rendered in them to go to war, suffers a setback takes a person from another country On the upswing of his career, Baker when David learns that his father intimate terms.” Eric Kohn, when one of the Tory MPs falls ill. to explain to us the workings — and suffers a brutal setback that requires Born To Be Blue “...explores the did not die of a heart attack as he Indiewire was led to believe, his idyllic calm is This leaves the key vote for the the value — of the unique system all his resources to survive as a musician’s life as though it were government in the hands of that makes our democracy spoiled and replaced by a deep- “Here the warped narrative functions person and performer. Hawke and merely a chord chart from which independent MP Steve Guibord (sometimes) function. seated melancholy. as an allegory for the stories that Canadian writer-director Robert to launch an improvised set of new (Patrick Huard, Starbuck), a former Budreau chart Baker’s return to the melodies.” The film spans a roughly three- people and nations recount to hockey player whose pro career “A genuine crowd-pleaser, no matter limelight and its temptations. Support Andrew Barker, decade period, affording many themselves in order to go on fizzled. Feverishly courted by the what colour that sign on your lawn from family and friends, including Variety glimpses of happy family gatherings surviving.” The Guardian Tories and subjected to a moral tug of might be.” Barry Hertz superb turns as Baker’s distant and day-to-day interactions. The Globe and Mail

Wednesday, April 20 th, 7:00pm Wednesday, April 27 th, 7:00pm Wednesday, May 4 th, 7:00pm Meru Youth Standing Tall India/USA RATED Italy/France/UK/Switzerland RATED France RATED (ENGLISH) 90 min PG (ITALIAN/SPANISH/SWISS GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 124 min R (FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) 120 min R

In the high-stakes game of big-wall Heartbroken and defeated, they This comedy/drama is beautifully Mick (Harvey Keitel) is a film maker Chronicling the turbulent teenage for the humane concern she shows climbing, the Shark’s Fin on Mount returned to their everyday lives. But acted by a top drawer cast. It has a hoping to soon put together what he years of a French delinquent (whose the unhappy souls who slouch into Meru may be the ultimate prize. they faced sudden physical and sumptuous setting, a breathtaking hopes will be his final masterpiece. police record reads longer than the her office. Yann (Benoît Magimel) Sitting at the headwaters of the emotional challenges back home, score and is gorgeously filmed. While around them other hotel complete works of Marcel Proust). is the tough, compassionate youth sacred Ganges River in Northern only exacerbated by the siren song of Youth has something for everyone! guests come and go — a pop star, Director Emmanuelle Bercot’s counsellor who may have gone India, the Shark’s Fin has seen more Meru. By September 2011, Anker had Standing Tall (La Tete haute) is a through this same process himself. a Buddhist monk, a mountaineer failed attempts by elite climbing convinced his two lifelong friends to The main characters are two aging gritty and compassionate look at teams over the past 30 years than undertake the Shark’s Fin once more, climber, actors and singers — Fred Eventually, Malony is sent to a juvenile artists — longtime friends who are the idea that rehabilitation, though a any other ascent in the Himalayas. under even more extraordinary and Mick reflect on their pasts. Each rehabilitation centre in an idyllic at ease in each other’s company — challenging process, can be effective. circumstances than the first time. finds that some of the most important country setting, where he meets the In October 2008, Conrad Anker, who have met up in a luxury spa hotel experiences can come later in life. Officials repeatedly tell the youth, daughter of the supervisor. Like Yann, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk Meru is the story of that journey – in the Swiss Alps. Fred (Michael Malony, (Rod Paradot), that their she too may have had her problems, arrived in India to tackle Meru. What one of friendship, sacrifice, hope and Caine) is a prominent composer Critics describe Youth as both a purpose is to provide “structure” and may be another successful was meant to be a seven-day trip obsession. It is a rare documentary in semi-retirement. His longed-for rich and rewarding experience and, and in a sense the film does just that graduate of the system. Their ensuing with the equivalent amount of food that is thought provoking; gripping – telling the story of a troubled life relationship changes everything. became a 20-day odyssey in sub- both visually and narratively and serenity is disrupted by the marital as a film, tender in characters and crises of his daughter, Lena (Rachel themes. within a framework of officialdom: zero temperatures. Like everyone offers thrilling wide screen vistas. court hearings, social-worker Standing Tall illustrates that it’s not Weisz) and by an unwanted request before them, their journey was interviews, counselling sessions. necessarily the system, or personal not a successful one. But they had “It’s a thoughtful meditation on life, for a command performance by the ties, that can provide a solution, reached further than anyone else. death and everything in between...” Royal Family. Catherine Deneuve, the juvenile court but sometimes an immeasurable Newsweek judge, is unanimously respected combination of both.