Program brochure Spring 2015 - Sunshine Coast Film Society

Our Spring Season
Sunshine Coast Film Society
Annual Memberships 2014/15
Your $20 Basic Membership is good until Aug. 31,
2015. It gives you:
★ discounts on all films
★ reminders of films and special events
★ invitations to member social events
★ the opportunity to vote and volunteer
Gibsons - January 12
Pride
UK 2014 120 min., comedy/drama
Director: Matthew Warchus
Consider a Friends of the Film Society
membership for yourself, or give one as a gift. For
$99 you also receive:
★ admission to all Fall and Spring films
★ 2 single-event guest passes
A feel-good hit at the 2014 Cannes
Film Festival, Pride follows a group
of gay activists as they descend on
a small village in Wales to support
striking coal miners. Not surprisingly, the National
Union of Mineworkers isn’t too keen on their new
ally.
Ticket Prices:
Basic Members $5. Special Events $8.
Single Event Memberships: add $4.
Reservations:
Members can reserve tickets through our website
or by email (below). Reservations are held to 7:15.
Times and Venues:
• GIBSONS screenings are on Mondays at
7:30 pm at Gibsons Heritage Playhouse, North
Road and Gibsons Way.
• SECHELT screenings are on Sundays at 2 pm, at
Sechelt Seniors Centre, 5604 Trail Ave.
SCFS screens films that may not have been classified
by the BC Film Classification Board. Under BC law all
attendees must be members of SCFS, and 18 years of
age or older. Non-members can buy a single event
membership for $4.
Sunshine Coast Film Society
P.O. Box 152, Gibsons, BC V0N 1V0
email: [email protected]
886-2965 www.scfs.ca
A volunteer-run, non-profit society.
Web Design: Design by Billie Carroll
TRACKS
Spring 2015
Gibsons Screenings
Jan. 12
Jan. 26
Feb. 16
March 2
March 16
March 30
April 13
April 27
Pride
A Separation
Like Father, Like Son
Finding Vivian Maier
Mommy
Tracks
★ Ida ★
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed
Out the Window and Disappeared
Sechelt Screenings
Jan. 18 A Separation
Feb. 15 Finding Vivian Maier
★ Special Event
Based on actual events, Pride is a touching, often
quite hilarious document of how two wholly
different communities came together for a
common cause.
Sponsor: Coast Cable
Sechelt - January 18
Gibsons - January 26
A Separation
Iran 2011, 123 min., drama
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Persian with English Subtitles
Winner of over 80 awards, including an Oscar for
Best Foreign Language Film, this morally complex
marital drama is set in contemporary Iran.
Struggling to carry on after his wife leaves him and
their daughter, Nader hires a devout young woman
to assist with his frail father. However, when he
discovers that she has been lying to him, things go
terribly wrong and he is charged with murder.
Sechelt Sponsor: Sechelt Plumbing
PRIDE
February 16
Like Father, Like Son
Japan 2013, 121 min., drama
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Japanese with English Subtitles
A thoughtful exploration of the meaning of familial
bonds and paternal intimacy played out in a classic
babies-switched-at-birth plot between two very
different families, each of which must make the
same life-changing decision, but one that brings
about a redemptive transformation.
A masterful combination of both humour and
grief, with charismatic, innocent children pulling us
through an emotional journey from start to finish
Sponsor: A Smart Smile Dentists
Special Thanks to our
2014/15 Season Patrons:
Sechelt Screenings
March 16
April 13 - SPECIAL EVENT
Mommy
Ida
Canada 2014, 139 min., drama
Director: Xavier Dolan
French with English Subtitles
Poland/Denmark/France/UK 2013, 82 min.,
drama
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Polish/Latin/French with English Subtitles
Winner at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Mommy
is a powerful and heartfelt film about a recently
widowed mother trying to cope with a meagre
job and a deeply troubled teenage son. After
he is expelled from an institution for an act of
arson she has no choice but to bring him home.
Struggling to deal with his combustible mix
of childlike vulnerability and hormone-raging
sexuality and aggression, she finds new hope when
a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their
household.
Sechelt - February 15
Gibsons - March 2
Finding Vivian Maier
USA 2013, 83 min., documentary
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered one of
the 20th century’s greatest street photographers,
the mysterious Maier would have remained
anonymous but for a chance discovery at an
auction by John Maloof, amateur historian.
What he found changed his life, and took the
international photo art world by storm.
Tracks
Australia 2013, 112 min., biography/drama
Director: John Curran
Absorbing, touching and satisfyingly enjoyable ...
— New York Times
The amazing true story of a young woman who
tries to leave everything behind to trek 2700km
across the stunning deserts of Western Australia
accompanied only by her dog, four capricious
camels, and, briefly, an aboriginal elder. At times
she meets up with a photographer for National
Geographic, who, like others, both admires and
is perplexed by her uncompromising pursuit of
personal freedom and self discovery.
The movie does nearly everything right ...
— Chicago Tribune
... you miss Tracks at your aesthetic pleasure peril. It’s
a truly outstanding cinema experience.
Sechelt Sponsor: SWISH
SPECIAL EVENT with live music
In 1960s Poland, Anna, a young noviate nun on
the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark
family secret dating back to the years of Nazi
occupation. Forced to embark on a journey of
discovery that threatens to change the course
of her life, Anna meets her only living relative,
her aunt — a hard-bitten stranger.
— Glenn Kenny, Roger Ebert.com
January 18
A Separation
Iran 2011, 123 min., drama
April 27
March 30
For full descriptions, see Gibsons dates.
Sechelt screenings are held on Sundays at 2 pm,
at the Sechelt Seniors Centre.
The 100-Year-Old Man Who
Climbed Out the Window and
Disappeared
Sweden 2013, 114 min., adv/comedy
Director: Felix Herngren
Swedish with English Subtitles
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by
Jonas Jonasson, the unlikely story of a 100-yearold man who decides it’s not too late to start
over. For most people it would be the adventure
of a lifetime, but Allan Karlsson’s unexpected
journey is not his first. For a century he’s made
the world uncertain, and now he is on the loose
again.
Sponsor: Sechelt Plumbing
Winner of over 80 awards, including an Oscar
for Best Foreign Language Film, this morally
complex marital drama is set in contemporary
Iran. Struggling to carry on after his wife leaves
him and their daughter, Nader hires a devout
young woman to assist with his frail father.
However, when he discovers that she has been
lying to him, things go terribly wrong.
February 15
Finding Vivian Maier
USA 2013, 83 min., documentary
Who is Vivian Maier? Now considered
one of the 20th century’s greatest street
photographers, the mysterious Maier would
have remained anonymous but for a chance
discovery at an auction by John Maloof,
amateur historian.

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