Tag Archive for: Film

Midday Movie: My Old Lady

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch My Old Lady

2014, 1 hour 47 minutes.

When Mathias inherits a sumptuous Parisian apartment, he is surprised to learn that it comes with two stubborn tenants who are not required to leave according to French law. But a complex labyrinth of secrets unites them all in unexpected ways.

Rated 14+

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Home, Family, Belonging: A Conversation with African Youth in New Westminster

Building Bridges with Rwanda, in collaboration with the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre Society / Museum of Migration and the New Westminster Public Library, is hosting a Black History Month event. We will screen a film produced by Baraza Collective, Douglas College and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto, and featuring the voices of African youth living in New Westminster about homelessness, climate change, poverty, racism, and hopes for the future.

There will be live music and a moderated conversation with the audience.

Midday Movie: iMordecai

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch iMordecai

2022, 1 hour 42 minutes.

A delightful comedy where a cranky retiree gets thrown headfirst into the digital age when his over-eager son buys him an iPhone. Digital adventures with TikTok, and Tinder ensue!

Rated 14+

Midday Movie: Christmas, Again

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch Christmas, Again

2015, 1 hour 18 minutes.

As a struggling Christmas tree lot worker spirals into despair he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman in the park. Her warming spirit and some colourful customers help rescue him from self-destruction.

Rated PG 13

Midday Movie: Festival in Cannes

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch Festival in Cannes

2001, 1 hour 40 minutes

A famed actress arrives at the Cannes Film Festival in the hopes of finding money to direct her first film. A farce of entertainment industry politicking ensues pulling in everyone from William Shatner to Tom Hanks.

Rated age 12+, for brief, strong language

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Climate Films: Weathering the Future

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

As extreme weather intensifies and also affects more and more people, how can we adapt? This episode of NOVA explores traditional knowledge and new solutions that can help us cope.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

This event is part of BC Library Association’s Climate Action Week, a province-wide initiative to highlight the ways communities and libraries are taking action in the climate crisis. Check out all the climate action events at the New Westminster Public Library from November 1-7! nwpl.ca/climate

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Climate Films: Trouble in the Headwaters

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

Communities around BC will be hosting a series of film screenings and panel discussions about the root causes of flooding, landslides and drought in BC. The film, Trouble in the Headwaters, is a hard-hitting 25-minute documentary by filmmaker Dan Pierce, which examines the disastrous 2018 flood event in Grand Forks, BC and the hydrological connection to clear-cut logging in the Kettle River Watershed.

Join us in New Westminster to watch the film, and engage in a discussion panel with the filmmaker, Daniel Pierce, and forest hydrologist, Dr. Younes Alila.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

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Climate Films: Eating for Tomorrow

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! Each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

Eating for Tomorrow is a powerful climate documentary that exposes the truth about our global food system — and offers hope for a better future.

Narrated by Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, this eye-opening film explores how our dietary choices contribute to climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental collapse — and what we can do to reverse course before it’s too late.

This award-winning documentary is visually stunning, emotionally moving, and filled with practical solutions that can help heal the planet, protect animals, and secure a future for humanity.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+

The Midday Movie: Swede Caroline

Come join us at our monthly movie series, featuring lighthearted selections from our Kanopy films, specially selected for in-library viewing. Relieve the monotony of the days with shared entertainment.

This month we watch Swede Caroline

2024, 1 hour 37 minutes

A British mockumentary of the Competitive Giant Vegetable Growing world, where an up-and-comer has her prized squash plants stolen, and the corruption goes all the way to the top!

Rated age 14+, includes swearing, some reference to sex and nudity, violence with comic intentions

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Climate Films: Juice

Join us to watch a climate-themed movie and have a discussion about the issues raised. Free popcorn is provided!

Join us for our Climate Films Series! On the second Wednesday of each month we will screen a film about the climate crisis, focusing especially on existing, difference-making solutions. We will have a brief discussion after the film led by members of Regenerate BC and the New Westminster Climate Action Hub.

While electricity availability doesn’t guarantee wealth, its absence almost always means poverty. Juice takes viewers to Beirut, Reykjavik, Kolkata, San Juan, Manhattan, and Boulder to tell the human story of electricity and to explain why power equals power. The defining inequality in the world today is the disparity between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. In fact, there are more than 3 billion people on the planet today who are using less electricity than what’s used by an average American refrigerator. Juice shows how electricity explains everything from women’s rights and climate change to Bitcoin mining and indoor marijuana production. Juice explains who has electricity, who’s getting it, and how developing countries all over the world are working to bring their people out of the dark and into the light.

 

Popcorn will be provided! Bring your own bowl!

Ages 12+