Throwback Movie Night: Bend It Like Beckham

We will be back on Orcas Island on Saturday, September 19 for an evening of youth directed shorts and a throwback screening of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002). The three shorts we will screen are: ⛸️SUMMER BEFORE PRAGUE by Leesha Grant (6 min, Canada, 2024) – Leesha is the very first Cree female goalie to […]

FREE FORUM 2026: Mississippi Masala

As part of Northwest Film Forum‘s annual Summer program.  Admission is FREE, but please reserve a ticket! The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after […]

Films at Odd Fellows

Presented by Orcas Microcinema, join us for a viewing of two stories of the lives of people at the margins of society, navigating questions of family, love, community and finding solace in new places and relationships.Post-film gatherings to follow each film. $15 – $25 as you wish, for one or both movies. [ RSVP ] […]

The Other Side of Hope

This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a clear-eyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves behind his wife and job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable seafood restaurant. […]

Mississippi Masala

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South are blended and simmered into a rich and fragrant fusion feast in Mira Nair’s luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, […]

16mm Film Loops: Mixed Media in Motion Animation Workshop

Poster for 16 mm film workshop. Images of film strips, scissors, pencils, and other crafting materials.

Build your own 16mm film loop and watch it come to life moments later in this FREE workshop! With a sumptuous buffet of materials and tools at their disposal – Sharpies, stamps, pins, steel wool, ink, decorative washi tape, hole punches, and more – students can explore what a variety of abstract animation techniques and […]

Summer’s Camera

A young girl with a camera around her neck and a large red backpack is standing on a blue square, maybe she's thinking or waiting.

Summer is reluctant to finish her late father’s final roll of film until she finds a surprisingly captivating subject: her school’s soccer star Yeonwoo. When she develops her prints, she is puzzled to find lovingly framed photographs of a strange man. On her quest to unravel the mystery of her father’s friend and her own […]

Moving (お引越し)

Poster for Moving, the film. Painted image of a girl's face in the center with two faces near. Painted globs of color on top of their faces, forming flower shapes.

Free Registration When her parents split and her father Kenichi moves out of their family home, Renko (Tomoko Tabata), a bright and energetic 6th grade girl, is left alone with her mother, Nazuna, in Kyoto. As Nazuna sets out new rules for their life together, Renko makes plans of her own, and sees to it […]

Queens

A poster for Queens, the movie. a family sitting at a long dining table.

Free Registration Everything happens very fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora and their mother Elena are about to leave. They are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives. In the […]

The Quiet Migration

A young boy is standing inside a deep dug out hole in the grass. His head and shoulders are visible, he is looking down at something.

Co-Presented with Asian Adult Adoptees of Washington (AAAW)! Free Registration Carl, 19, lives a quiet life in the Danish countryside with his adoptive parents, who expect him to take over the family farm one day, continuing their traditions. But Carl begins to feel the pull of two worlds – “home” plus his native homeland, South Korea – and the day is fast […]