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Saturday, April 19, 2025 Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Salmon Defense, and the Olympia Film Society present: Fish War Post-film Q&A w/ Willie Frank III, Nisqually; Kadi Bizyayeva, Stillaguamish; Lisa Wilson, Lummi; and WDFW Director Kelly Susewind GA $16.25 & OFS $13.25 6pm doors / 7pm film All Prices Include Service Fees When the state of Washington made […]
April 6, 13, 20 & 27, 2025 OFS Kids Club Presents: Paddington in Peru Free for Kids 12 and Under When Paddington discovers his beloved aunt has gone missing from the Home for Retired Bears, he and the Brown family head to the jungles of Peru to find her. Determined to solve the mystery, they […]
April 10, 11 & 18, 2025 Blue Velvet 4K Restoration Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, […]
April 10, 11 & 13, 2025 Rare Prints: Private Lives on 35mm Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Director of Programming, Rob Patrick, on 4/10 A rarely screened 35mm print from the Warner archives. True wit meets marital grit in this timeless Noel Coward comedy about two bon vivants who can’t live without – or with […]
March 27 – April 6, 2025 No Other Land Winner of Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his […]
April 22, 28 & 29, 2025 The Encampments The Encampments follows student organizers at some of the world’s most prestigious universities as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, igniting one of the largest student movements in history which continues to have far-reaching effects on US and […]
April 3 – 6, 2025 Julie Keeps Quiet Star of an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the sport that she loves; when her coach is investigated and quickly suspended from his duties, Julie decides to keep quiet. Dir: Leonardo Van Dijl / 2025 / French and Dutch with English Subtitles / 97 min […]
March 9, 23 & 30, 2025 OFS Kids Club Presents: The Wild Robot Free for Kids 12 and Under Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the […]
March 28, 29 & 30, 2025 Dragon Inn Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Joaquin de la Puente on 3/28 at 4pm The art of martial-arts filmmaking took a leap into bold new territory with this action-packed tale of Ming-dynasty intrigue. After having the emperor’s minister of defense executed, a power-grabbing eunuch sends assassins to trail […]
March 28, 29 & 30, 2025 Goodbye, Dragon Inn Introduced by Olympia Film Society’s Joaquin de la Puente on 3/28 at 7pm Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s 1967 wuxia […]