Tickets are on sale now for the Comox Valley Art Gallery鈥檚 (CVAG) Spring Film Series, which starts Wednesday, March 5, with 鈥淯niversal Language鈥�.
The series of eight films will run every Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at the Landmark Cinemas, 2265 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay, until April 23. Tickets are available on-line at .
Regular tickets are $19 for each film, or $18 for CVAG members. A series pass for all eight films is $133, or $126 for CVAG members.
The series features films from the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit.
March 5 鈥� 鈥淯niversal Language鈥�
Set in a reimagined Winnipeg, the film follows a group of children on eccentric quests to flummox the adults around them, and the government worker who returns home only to find his family is not what he remembered.
March 12 鈥� 鈥淚鈥檓 Still Here鈥�
Director Walter Salles focuses on the real-life story of Eunice Paiva, whose terrifying experience of sequestration and loss during Brazil鈥檚 military dictatorship transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.
March 19 鈥� 鈥淨ueens鈥�
Things happen fast in Lima in the summer of 1992. Lucia, Aurora, and their mother are apprehensive about saying goodbye to a country, to family and friends, but above all to Carlos, a father and ex-husband who has all but disappeared from their lives.
March 26 鈥� 鈥淒rive Back Home鈥�
In the winter of 1970, a cantankerous, small-town plumber from rural New Brunswick must drive his beat-up work truck 1,000 miles to Toronto to get his estranged, gay brother out of jail after his arrest for having sex in a public park.
April 9 鈥� 鈥淭he Room Next Door鈥�
Ingrid and Martha became close friends while working together at the same magazine. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
April 2 鈥� 鈥淣ever Look Away鈥�
Margaret Moth was an award-winning journalist known for capturing catastrophic events and atrocities on film, no matter the risk.
April 16 鈥� 鈥淎ll We Imagine As Light鈥�
This exquisitely beautiful film follows two nurses experiencing personal turning points tinged with the possibility of romance. Moving from urban bustle to seaside idyll, celebrated filmmaker Payal Kapadia locates the beating heart of Mumbai.
April 23 鈥� 鈥淔low鈥�
Thrown together by circumstance in an eerily depopulated world now submerged in ever-rising waters, the furry and feathered characters in Gints Zilbalodis鈥� animated feature must find common ground if they hope to survive.
For more details about the film series, or to see trailers, visit .
Purchasing advance tickets on-line is strongly recommended since most many films sell out. People can purchase tickets immediately prior to each screening for $19, cash only, at the Theatre, but only if there are available seats.
Proceeds from the film series contribute to CVAG鈥檚 artistic programming.
