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SPECIAL SCREENING SERIES: BLACK GIRL Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black […]
OUR RIGHT TO GAZE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! In this collection of six shorts, filmmakers gaze at themselves and their world, attempting to make sense of what they see reflected back. From gripping drama to heart-warming comedy, Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities features […]
MINARI Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! We’re proud to partner with A24 to host two weeks of Minari virtual screenings as we work together to bring Lee Isaac Chung’s beloved film to the audiences who want to see it most. A tender and sweeping story about […]
Join us for our 2021 annual meeting at 6:00 PM, Monday, February 22, via ZOOM – please register here to attend. We will present the 2021 operations plan, take a look back at how OFS did last year and we will introduce the new group of nominated candidates joining the OFS Board of Directors! We […]
HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired Willie Nelson’s embrace of hippie attitudes and audiences, a younger generation of artists including Townes […]
DRIVE MY CAR January 13 and February 3, 2022 Two years after his wife’s unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by […]
A DOG CALLED MONEY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! As imaginative as the creative process it documents A DOG CALLED MONEY is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record. Writer and musician Harvey and award – winning photographer […]
THE CRANES ARE FLYING Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Veronica and Boris are blissfully in love, until the eruption of World War II tears them apart. Boris is sent to the front lines…and then communication stops. Meanwhile, Veronica tries to ward off spiritual numbness while Boris’s […]
I BLAME SOCIETY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! A struggling filmmaker (Gillian Wallace Horvat) senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film… and committing the perfect murder. Directed by former Olympia […]
SAINT FRANCES Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Flailing thirty-four-year-old Bridget (Kelly O’Sullivan) finally catches a break when she meets a nice guy and lands a much-needed job nannying six-year-old Frances (played by a scene-stealing Ramona Edith-Williams). But an unwanted pregnancy introduces an unexpected complication. To make […]