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August 21 – 30 WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? In Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) looks back on the legacy of Fred Rogers, focusing on his radically kind ideas. While the nation changed around him, Fred Rogers stood firm in his beliefs about the importance of […]
September 14 – 20 EIGHTH GRADE Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year—before she begins high school. Dir: Bo Burnham / 2018 / US / 94 min “First-time director Bo Burnham’s […]
Monday, August 6 FREE ADMISSION ERA OF MEGAFIRES Doors 5:30PM / Show 6:00PM Join Thurston CD and the Olympia Film Society for this 60-minute multimedia digital presentation featuring Dr. Paul Hessburg, a research landscape ecologist with Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station. Hessburg explains that over the past decade the number of large, severe wildfires has […]
July 21, 24, & 26 THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF After completing a feature documentary on New York’s High Line, award-winning filmmaker Thomas Piper met the inspirational designer and plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and the idea for a new project was born. The documentary, FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, immerses viewers in Oudolf’s work and […]
August 22, 24, 26 OFS Reel Film presents: THREE COLORS: BLUE on 35mm In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But Blue is more than just a blistering study […]
MovieMaker Magazine just released their list of the top 25 coolest film festivals in the world, and Olympia Film Festival made the cut! Every festival should “treat its moviemakers really well,” but does every fest ask a moviemaker what film inspired them, and then screen that film on 35mm? That’s a cut above the rest, […]
The 35th Annual Olympia Film Festival will take place from November 9th – 17th! Prepare for a festival of independence, inclusion, and discovery: a celebration of curiosity, boundless creativity, and the importance of cinematic exploration. The Capitol Theater in Olympia, Washington has been screening dramatic narratives and documentary features since 1924, and our belief in […]
July 27 – August 2 HEREDITARY When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. Making his feature debut, writer-director […]
SUN JULY 22, 2018 A RIVER’S LAST CHANCE Post-film Q&A w/ director Shane Anderson 4:30pm doors / 5:00pm film $9 general / $6 members Tickets available online & box office day of show One of the most diverse rivers in the United States, the Eel, ran dry in 2014—for the first time in history. Once […]
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September 8, 2018 Azúcar, A Celebration of Latin & Hispanic Heritage Doors 7:00PM / Show 8:00pm $20 General Admission $17 OFS members Show is 18 and over Beer and spirits 21 with ID Tickets available online and at the door one-hour before show. Hard tickets to be available soon! “Azúcar, A Celebration of Latin & […]