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REPERTORY PICK: ALWAYS SHINE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Two friends, both actresses (Halt and Catch Fire’s Mackenzie Davis and Masters of Sex’s Caitlin FitzGerald), leave Los Angeles for Big Sur embarking on a weekend getaway to reconnect. Once alone, however, the two women’s suppressed jealousies […]
THE FIGHT Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! When a migrant mother is separated from her child, when a transgender soldier is at risk to lose his career, when reproductive rights and basic voting rights are under attack — five unsung heroes take legal action to protect […]
HOLY TRINITY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Tune into our Instagram on 8/8 @ 6PM PST for a live Q&A with director Molly Hewitt and Olympia Film Society director of programming Rob Patrick Trinity is an independent, sex-positive millennial working as a Dominatrix in Chicago. After […]
MIRAH Tuesday August 11 @ 5pm PST — songs from You Think It’s Like This but Really It’s Like This Tuesday August 25 @ 5pm PST — songs from Advisory Committee Tuesday September 8 @ 5pm PST — songs from C’mon Miracle $15 a show or $40 for series Tickets available online now In the […]
SHANGHAI TRIAD Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee, SHANGHAI TRIAD is a thrilling and sumptuously stylized potboiler about the Chinese criminal underworld of the 1930’s from legendary director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers). Hired to be […]
DENISE HO – BECOMING THE SONG Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Denise Ho – Becoming the Song profiles the openly gay Hong Kong singer and human rights activist Denise Ho. Drawing on unprecedented, years-long access, the film explores her remarkable journey from commercial Cantopop superstar to […]
THE KILLING FLOOR Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Praised by The Village Voice as the most “clear-eyed account of union organizing on film,” The Killing Floor tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago Stockyards. The screenplay […]
AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Human rights become profoundly personal when Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous artist, transforms Alcatraz Island prison into an astonishing expression of socially-engaged art focused on the plight of the unjustly incarcerated. At the core of the installation, […]
SUZI Q Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! Before Suzi Quatro burst on the music world in 1973, there were almost no women in rock, and absolutely none who played bass and sang lead vocals and led the band and rocked out and reached millions of people […]
CLEMENTINE Available to your home theater through the Olympia Film Society Streaming tickets now available! A heartbroken woman becomes entangled with a younger girl after breaking into her ex’s lake house in the Pacific Northwest. Equal parts psychological drama and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense rumination on who to love and how to […]