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SOPHIE JONES Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s directorial debut SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen year old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges […]
WOMEN’S ADVENTURE FILM TOUR Vol. 3 Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! The Women’s Adventure Film Tour features some of the world’s most inspiring women in adventure. This festival is a celebration of the fantastic women around us who are doing extraordinary things. This year’s lineup features […]
STRAY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Through the eyes of three stray dogs wandering the streets of Istanbul, STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security. As they search for food and shelter, Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal embark on inconspicuous […]
DEMONLOVER (2002) – NEW 2K RESTORATION SUPERVISED BY DIRECTOR OLIVIER ASSAYAS Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! “No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don’t understand.” So observes Connie Nielsen in Olivier Assayas’s hallucinatory, globe-spanning Demonlover, a postmodern neonoir thriller and media critique in which […]
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 […]