Mini-Film Festival This Weekend

— from Jared Lovejoy —

Orcas Island Film Festival Presents an International 4-film mini-fest on June 23-24 at 7 and 9 p.m.
at the Sea View Theatre, featuring four incredible films from four countries. These films are fresh from the festival circuit and include early contenders for Oscar awards for next year.

See these films before their theatrical release!

Films & Showtimes:
6/23 @ 7:00pm: LANDLINE (USA) nominated for 2017 Sundance grand jury prize t his uproarious slice-of- life story is about two sisters and their dysfunctional Manhattan family in pre-cell-phone 1990s Manhattan who discover that their father is having an affair, and conspire to expose him.

6/23 @ 9:00pm: THE KINGS CHOICE (NORWAY) This dramatic wartime epic, shortlisted for the 2017 Best Foreign language Oscar®, is set over the course of three days in 1940, when the aging King of Norway is presented with an unimaginable ultimatum from the German army: Surrender or die!

6/24 @ 7:00pm: KILLS ON WHEELS (HUNGARY) Oscar submission for Hungary for 2017. This film is an engaging, disability-focused dramedy about two physically disabled young men who stumble into Budapest’s underbelly of gangsters and gunfights after they become involved with a wheelchair-bound hitman who seems to come straight out of a comic book in this inventive, action-packed coming-of-age fable.

6/24 @ 9:00pm: LADY MACBETH (UK) With 11 wins and 7 nominations from top festivals, based not on the famous Shakespeare character but is an adaptation of Russian writer Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk,” where a 19th century young bride sold into marriage to a middle-aged man discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

Tickets: $12 per film / $40 for all 4 films
Available now at www.orcasfilmfest.com