Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024

SS Film Fest Screening: The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes is Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, “one of Canada’s greatest scientists, man or woman”, who was the first scientist in the world to study African animal behaviour in the wild, four years before Dr. Jane Goodall. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m. $10.

Best of the Fests: And Then We Danced

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Screening of film by Levan Akin presented by the Salt Spring Film Festival Society. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.

Best of the Fests: If You Could Read My Mind

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Salt Spring Film Festival presentation of a film about legendary Canadian performer Gordon Lightfoot. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.

Salt Spring Film Festival Opening Gala Evening

Gulf Islands Secondary School 232 Rainbow Road, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

21st annual Salt Spring Film Festival opens with the screening of The Biggest Little Farm, the Oscar-shortlisted documentary. GISS. Doors at 5:30 p.m.; film at 7 p.m.

Film: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Salt Spring Film Festival Society presents film directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.

Salt Spring Film Festival Presents Call Jane

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Historical drama about the underground abortion movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver. ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m.

Salt Spring Film Festival Presents The Blue Caftan

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Multiple award-winning film (and a Best International Feature Film Oscar shortlist nominee) set in Morocco shows at ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m. Co-presented by DAISSI.

Salt Spring Film Festival Presents The Grizzlie Truth

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

You don’t have to be a basketball fan to enjoy this wildly entertaining investigation into why the Vancouver Grizzlies left Canada over 20 years ago. A huge hit at the Vancouver International Film Festival, this compelling true crime story seamlessly blends comedy with the filmmaker’s quixotic quest for truth and redemption, exploring the powerful connection […]

Best of the Fests: The Last Waltz

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

A Salt Spring Film Festival Society presentation at ArtSpring. 7:30 p.m. https://tickets.artspring.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent3724.html

Best of the Fests: 20,000 Species of Bees

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Newcomer Sofía Otero, the youngest-ever winner of the Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Actor, headlines an ensemble of astonishingly believable performances in Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s surprisingly assured début feature. Co-presented by DAISSI and Haiti Beekeepers Society (formerly Hives for Haiti).

Best of the Fests: Call Me Dancer

ArtSpring 100 Jackson Avenue, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Award-winning film about a young man's drive to become a professional dancer against his family's wishes in Mumbai.

Salt Spring Film Festival

Gulf Islands Secondary School 232 Rainbow Road, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Annual documentary film festival runs at GISS, with a gala film night and dinner on March 1, non-stop films and Social Justice Bazaar on March 2-3. See saltspringfilmfestival.com for exact times, films and more.

Salt Spring Film Festival

Gulf Islands Secondary School 232 Rainbow Road, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Annual documentary film festival runs at GISS, with a gala film night and dinner on March 1, non-stop films and Social Justice Bazaar on March 2-3. See saltspringfilmfestival.com for exact times, films and more.

Salt Spring Film Festival

Gulf Islands Secondary School 232 Rainbow Road, Ganges, Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada

Annual documentary film festival runs at GISS, with a gala film night and dinner on March 1, non-stop films and Social Justice Bazaar on March 2-3. See saltspringfilmfestival.com for exact times, films and more.