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We’re returning in 2026! Named one of the “Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World” by MovieMaker Magazine, the Capitol Theater has hosted the Olympia Film Festival since 1984. The OFS curated gathering is a week-long, around-the-clock extravaganza of movies, filmmaker appearances, special performances, and educational workshops. It attracts between 5,000 and 7,000 attendees […]
January 22 – 25, 2026 Rebuilding A gently humanist story of the American West from Max Walker-Silverman (A Love Song), Rebuilding follows Dusty (Josh O’Connor), a reserved, divorced father whose ranch has burned down in a devastating wildfire. Now living in a trailer community on a government-run campsite, Dusty finds solace with his new neighbors […]
January 16 – 18, 2026 Resurrection In a future where humanity has surrendered its ability to dream in exchange for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions, and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), […]
January 15 – 18, 2026 No Other Choice From director Park Chan-wook and based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel THE AX, the story follows Man-su on his desperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years. Nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – […]
January 7 – 28, 2026 Reel Oddities: Totally F***ed Up A delirious mix of punk nihilism and deadpan irony, the first film in Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy puts an audaciously queer spin on Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Masculin féminin. Across fifteen jagged episodes, Totally F***ed Up plunges headlong into the lives of a group of […]
Monday, January 12, 2026 Olympia Timberland Library & the Olympia Film Society present: The Librarians Introduced by Washington State Librarian Sara Jones 6:00pm doors & 7pm film Free Admission Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over […]
January 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2026 Animation Tuesdays: The Wolf House Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Kelly Ramirez on January 13 Maria, a young woman finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the […]
December 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2025 Animation Tuesdays: Angel’s Egg – 4K Restoration In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. A boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird […]
January 8, 9 & 11, 2026 To Die For Introduced by Olympia Film Society Volunteer, Vivienne Lumière on 1/8 at 7pm The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as […]
December 26, 2025 – January 1, 2026 Bugonia Nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Picture – Musical or Comedy. Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos / 2025 / US / 118 min “Lanthimos’s […]
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
Comedy with JOSH BLUE: March 21, 2026
THE OLYMPIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION PRESENTS: GABRIEL RUTLEDGE: Saturday, April 18, 2026
ECSTATIC SOUND COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: THE RUMBLE w/ TOUBAB KREWE: Thursday, March 26, 2026
HUMP! FILM FESTIVAL – SPRING 2026: Saturday, February 28
PINK FLOYD THE WALL w/ LIVE SHADOWCAST: March 27, 28 & 29, 2026
COZY COMEDY PRESENTS: KYLE KINANE: Saturday, April 11, 2026
FREE MUSIC OLYMPIA FUNDRAISER: THE BLACK TONES, AFROK with E11EVEN, MAZIGAZI: Friday, February 13
