Kelowna

The Travelling World Community Film Festival will take place in Kelowna March 7-10, at UBCO (March 7-8) and Okanagan College’s KLO campus (March 9-10).

Photo: Contributed

This short film, Bee-Line, is a proletarian bug song for the honey bee.

The program this year features an outstanding selection of 43 documentary films from around the world. The films focus on the environment, social justice/human rights, and the arts. 

“This festival is a great way for people to get out with friends and neighbours and start thinking together about creating a vibrant democracy” says Carol Kergan, festival co-organizer.

Festival highlights this year include: 

• Status Quo, The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada, a special film for International Women's Day (March 8^th); 
• Sing Your Song, an inspirational survey of the life of singer/actor Harry Belafonte and his tenacious activism; 
• Shift Change, stories of successful employee-owned businesses that provide secure, dignified jobs in democratic workplaces;
• Maestra, a moving exploration of the impact of the 1961 literacy campaign on the Cuban women who participated. 

Exciting locally-produced features include:

• Holistic Healing in the Okanagan, on local medical pluralism; 
• Spinning Green, on SPIN farming & Curtis Stone;
• BEE-LINE, a proletarian bug dance for the honey bee.

Admission to the festival is free of charge. Donations are accepted for the Ki-low-na Friendship Centre and Inn from the Cold.