Winter 2025 Series

The Alberni Valley Museum is pleased to announce the Winter 2025 Series of Film Fest. The new season kicks off with “The Fabulous Four” on Sunday, January 19, 2025.

Series Pass: $55 – on sale now!
Single Film Tickets: $15 – Subject to availability, single tickets will be sold starting January 6.

Passes and tickets are available for purchase at the Alberni Valley Museum.

Seating is limited. Get your passes and tickets early as we expect all shows to sell out.

No exchanges or refunds.

Film Fest Port Alberni film series screens at the Landmark Cinemas Paramount Theatre on select Sundays at 5:00pm.

Series:

The Fabulous Four Sunday, January 19 5:00pm If three’s a crowd, four’s a party! The Fabulous Four is an uproarious comedy about a group of life-long friends (Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, and Sheryl Lee Ralph) who travel to Key West, Florida, to be bridesmaids in the surprise wedding of their best girlfriend Marilyn (Bette Midler). Over the course of one outrageous trip, sisterhoods are rekindled; the past resurfaces; and there are enough sparks, sex, and romance to change all their lives in unexpected ways. Starring a quartet of fabulous performers, this bawdy comedy is a celebration of female friendship and the enduring power of love and laughter. Country: USA Running Time: 98 minutes

Thelma Sunday, February 16 5:00pm After losing $10,000 to a phone scam, 93-year- old Thelma Post embarks on a quest to reclaim what was stolen from her. A phone scammer calls Thelma posing as Danny, her grandson, claiming he has been arrested. Thelma sends $10,000 to a local address as instructed. After a panic involving her daughter Gail and son-in-law Alan, Thelma finds out Danny is safe and she was scammed. Unable to get help from the police and unwilling to let the scammer get away with her money, Thelma evades her family and sets out to the address to retrieve it. Inspired by director Josh Margolin’s real-life experience with his own grandmother, Thelma puts a clever, hilarious spin on the action film genre, positioning an ordinary grandmother as an unlikely action hero. With the help of her children, friends, and devoted grandson, Thelma warms hearts as she navigates the perils of Los Angeles in search of her money. Thelma is as sweet as she is stubborn, and above all, deter-mined to age with dignity. Country: USA Running Time: 98 minutes

All We Imagine As Light Sunday, March 16 5:00pm This exquisitely beautiful and heartfelt film follows two nurses experiencing personal turning points tinged with the possibility of romance. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) and Anu (Divya Prabha) are roommates and nurses at a Mumbai hospital. Prabha is married, but her husband went abroad to work many years ago. Now drifting into middle age, she focuses on her job. Anu, by contrast, is young and full of dreams for her future, which she hopes will include the hand-some Muslim boy she’s secretly seeing. Prabha initially regards the potentially scandalous affair as an annoyance, but she comes to sympathize with Anu’s passion, perhaps because she, too, feels the tug of frustrated ardour, thanks to the attentions of a poetry-writing doctor. When Prabha’s friend Parvaty (Chhaya Ka-dam) is evicted from her home by heartless developers, she decides to return to the coastal village of her youth. Prabha and Anu tag along for a holiday. Far from the city’s perpetual clamour, the women’s feelings and sense of life’s possibilities are given free rein. Country: France, India, the Netherlands Running Time: 118 minutes

So Surreal: Behind the Masks Sunday, April 27 5:00pm So Surreal: Behind the Masks unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of the masks back home. Illustrating a wildly fascinating connection between the work of some Surrealist artists and Indigenous ceremonial masks from the Yup’ik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw nations, So Surreal: Behind the Masks goes on a journey from Turtle Island to Europe to find them. Country: Canada Running Time: 88 minutes

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For Information Contact the Alberni Valley Museum 250-720-2863.
Museum Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Thursdays to 8pm

Film Fest Port Alberni is a fundraising initiative of the Alberni Valley Museum.
The Films are distributed through The Film Circuit a Division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
It is our intent to provide our community with quality films that would not otherwise be available to the local theatre.
Each series of three to four films will feature a Canadian and a Foreign production.
Films are shown on select Sundays at 5pm at Landmark Cinemas Paramount on Argyle Street.
Funds raised go to support museum education and out reach programs.