FILM & FILM FESTIVAL

March 3 to 12

qathet international film festival

For more, see qathetfilm.ca. All films screening at The Patricia Theatre.

Friday March 3

Exile

Opening Party 6 pm – Auditorium naming. Food & Cash bar. Film at 7 pm. Director in attendance. Filmed on location in qathet Regional District, this is a heartfelt movie about trying to reform and atone for your mistakes..

Saturday March 4

Corsage

1:30 pm. Royalty and the pedestal-prison of womanhood is the theme of this film, imagining the home life of the Hapsburg Empress Elizabeth of Austria in 1877, the year of her 40th birthday.

Triangle of Sadness

7 pm. Top prize winner at Cannes. A preening, obvious satire of contemporary hypocrisy, where an influencer couple join a luxury cruise for the super-rich.

Sunday March 5

The Territory

1:30 pm. This documentary about Brazil’s Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people trying to defend their land is essential viewing. The Brazilian rain forest is like the Wild West.

Until Branches Bend

7 pm. One day a young woman working at a peach factory finds a beetle inside a peach and brings it to her boss, who suggests they ignore it. Authorities shut it down and she gets blamed by the townspeople.

Monday March 6

One Fine Morning

7 pm. A widowed young mother is raising her daughter alone, while also caring for her sick father. She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with him, while fighting to get him the care he requires.

Tuesday March 7

Aftersun

7 pm. The best film of the year by a firsttime writer-director, it’s a subtle and complex investigation of post-divorce parenthood; a heartfelt tale to keep us smiling, nodding in recognition, and then fighting back tears.

Wednesday March 8

Rosie

1:30 pm. Rosie is an adorably infectious coming-of-age story set in Montreal. Orphaned and alone, Rosie, a precocious English-speaking Indigenous girl, is dropped at the doorstep of her foul-mouthed, artist, and Francophone, Aunty Fred. Short film Violet Gave Willingly screens before Rosie

Holy Spider

7 pm. Twenty years after a serial killer murdered 16 sex workers in Mashad, Ali Abbasi has made a fictionalised account of his capture and trial.

Thursday March 9

Triangle of Sadness

1:30 pm. Top prize winner at Cannes. A preening, obvious satire of contemporary hypocrisy, where an influencer couple join a luxury cruise for the super-rich.

Decision to Leave

7 pm. This tale of a married detective torn between infidelity and moral duty follows the emotional trajectory of two characters: the wife of the deceased man, and the detective who becomes fascinated by her.

Friday March 10

Rebellion

1:30 pm. An unlikely bunch of grassroots activists changed the face of climate-change protest forever. It’s 2018, and a former organic farmer decides that saving the planet can only happen by disrupting the economy.

Klondike

7 pm. A hard look at the war in Donbass that depicts the severe impact of the conflict on the region’s civilians — in particular, the innocent women to whom the film is dedicated.

Saturday March 11

Back Home

1:30 pm. Twenty years after the suicide of her brother, Nisha’s search for specialized medical treatment leads her to someone who was a good friend and she finally has the chance to truly know him through his chosen family.

Moonage Daydream

Closing Party 6 pm – with DJ Minerva. Food & Cash bar. Film — 7 pm. Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic imagery, personal archived footage, unseen performances, and anchored by David Bowie’s own music and words, we’re submerged in the unique world that is “Bowie”.

Sunday March 12

Exile

1:30 pm. Filmed on location in qathet Regional District, this is a heartfelt movie about trying to reform and atone for your mistakes.

March 12

Oscars Party

For more, see qathetfilm.ca.

March 13 to16

Women Talking

7pm nightly at The Patricia. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith. With Claire Foy, Rooney Mara, and Frances McDormand. Directed by Sarah Polley.

Upcoming in March at the Pat

Ant Man or Shazam

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