The Powell River Film Festival is online and available across BC! Need something to look forward to this winter? Want something new to talk about with your friends? Join the festival February 5 - 16 and watch 12 films over 12 days. Go to https://prfilmfestival.eventive.org for the film line-up, trailers and to purchase passes and tickets – there’s free shorts too. Our curated film festival has something for everyone!

This year’s PRFF February 5 – 16, 2021 is all online! It’s the 20th Anniversary of the Powell River Film Festival and the first online across BC.

PRFF is Powell River’s preeminent winter festival. There’s no better time to settle in with a community of curious minds, dig into a bucket of popcorn, and be immersed in the bright light of the cinematic art form.

For 2021, we continue to bring the best of international, Canadian, and locally produced films to Powell River. The programming team at the Festival has been travelling far and wide searching out the perfect mix of films for our Festival. And once you take a look, we think you’ll agree that this spectacular line-up has a little bit of something for everyone.

Features - 7 documentaries, 5 dramas, 5 Canadian films, 1 USA/Canada/India, 3 USA, 2 UK, 1 Brazil, and 1 Iran; directors: 9 male, 4 female, 5 political in nature, 3 environment focused, 2 LGBTQ content, 2 health. 1 indigenous, 1 music.

Two films have specific LGBTQ Content - they are:

Ammonite
Director: Francis Lee
Language: English
(117 min)

In 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) works alone on the rugged Southern coastline. With the days of her famed discoveries behind her, she now searches for common fossils to sell to tourists to support herself and her ailing mother. When a wealthy visitor entrusts Mary with the care of his wife Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan), she cannot afford to turn his offer down.

Proud and relentlessly passionate about her work, Mary initially clashes with her unwelcome guest, but despite the distance between their social class and personalities, an intense bond begins to develop, compelling the two women to determine the true nature of their relationship.

Falling
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Language: English
(112 min)

John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis’s mind is declining, so John brings him west, hoping he and his sister, Sarah (Laura Linney), can help their father find a home closer to them. Their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s angry refusal to change his way of life in any way. In his directorial debut, Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts of a contemporary family. Willis’s abrasive nature, by turns caustic and funny, is aggravated by memory loss, bringing past and present into conflict. As father and son finally confront events that have torn them apart, including their differing recollections of John’s mother, Gwen (Hannah Gross), we embark on a journey from darkness to light, from rage and resentment to acceptance and hard-won grace.

You can read the reviews and watch trailers and see the full line-up at: https://www.prfilmfestival.ca/films/

To purchase tickets and passes click here: https://prfilmfestival.eventive.org/welcome

Made in BC and according to the NFB with PRFF now being on-line, provides one of the few opportunities to view The Magnitude of All Things, one of our most prestigious BC productions of the year.

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