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Kamloops Film Society Bringing the world to Kamloops through film, diverse programming and screen-based events at the Paramount Theatre.

The Kamloops Film Society (KFS), originally the Cariboo College Film Society, was formed in 1973, and currently operates the Paramount Theatre and the Twin Rivers Drive-In. In 2021 the KFS bought the MovieMart operations and continues to rent videos to the public. The KFS is responsible for events such as the Thursday Film Series, the Indigenous Film Festival (in partnership with Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc) and the annual March Kamloops Film Festival (KFF), which includes the Kamloops Independent Short Shorts (KISS) Festival. Our mission is to provide publicly screened, hand-picked, diverse, high-quality films. To show the best in independent, Canadian and foreign cinema in Kamloops. As well, the Society endeavours to promote and support filmmaking and related visual media in the Kamloops area by offering grants periodically throughout each year when able to do so.

It’s not easy, killing people and raising a family. The new action-thriller ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is com...
10/19/2026

It’s not easy, killing people and raising a family. The new action-thriller ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is coming to the Paramount screens starting this week‼️

Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.

“’Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is its own beautiful singular thing, partly a stylish and pulpy neo-western thriller about a father racked with guilt, navigating violence that comes heavy and uneasy, but first and foremost a drama about a family reconciling their Muslim faith with their actions, their environments and their grief.” THE GUARDIAN⭐

📆 Showtime:
Wednesday, October 21 @ 7:00 PM
Thursday, October 22 @ 7:15 PM
Friday, October 23 @ 7:15 PM
Saturday, October 24 @ 2:30 PM
Sunday, October 25 @ 1:00 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

💀Grab your broomsticks, popcorn, and all the candy your heart desires for this lineup!💀🔪 ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your M...
10/17/2026

💀Grab your broomsticks, popcorn, and all the candy your heart desires for this lineup!💀

🔪 ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ | Oct 21, 22, 23, 24 & 25 – Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq bring us a hybrid of religious commentary and samurai action. 🩸

🎥 ‘Primetime’ | Oct 23, 24, 25 & 29 – Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen in this dramatic look at the high-stakes 2006 operation that turned a dream of fame into a nightmare of performative justice. 📺

🍽️ Our Thursday Film Series brings 
• ​‘The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover’ | Oct 22 – A Reel Catch; Committee Choice selection delivering lust, murder, and revenge in an upscale French restaurant. The finale to the series!🩸

• ​‘In the Mouth of Madness’ | Oct 29 – Sam Neill stars in this fall series pick, ‘They Shoot They Score!’, following an insurance investigator whose reality begins to unravel. 🔍🩸

👄 ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ | Oct 24 (SOLD OUT) – Get ready to do the Time Warp again with doors & prop bags at 6 PM, live music at 6:30 PM, and the costume showcase & screening at 7 PM! 👠🏆

🔪 ‘Scream’ | Oct 30 & 31 – “Do you like scary movies?” Don’t miss the 30th anniversary screenings of the horror classic on the big screen! 🩸👻

🐕 ‘Scooby-Doo’ | Oct 31 – Celebrate Halloween with Mystery Inc. on Spooky Island! FREE admission for kids 12 & under, Zoinks! 🚐🎢

👻 ‘Death Becomes Her’ | Oct 31 – Kick off Halloween night with this delightfully dark classic starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis, leading right into Kamloops Burlesque’s 19+ ‘Scary Movies!’ show. Tickets sold separately!🍸

Catch you next month! Happy Halloween to you all, stay safe and enjoy the spooky season.👻⭐️

10/15/2026

Are you ready to make television history? ‘Primetime’ brings the drama with Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, alongside Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, Matthew Maher, and Phoebe Bridgers.🎥

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.📺

“’Primetime’ is a media satire, a thriller, and a horror movie. It’s also about the meaning of the word evil—whether it is best understood as a description of thought and behavior, or a malevolent force. In the end, it makes a stronger case for the second meaning. The characters all fall into one of two categories: the corruptors and the corrupted. Evil seems to be passed from one character to another like a sickness. Sometimes it hides in the dark, waiting for the next vessel to arrive.” ROGER EBERT⭐

📆 Showtime:
Friday, October 23 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, October 24 @ 2:00 PM
Sunday, October 25 @ 1:15 PM
Thursday, October 29 @ 7:00 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

10/14/2026

Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and director Bassam Tariq come together to bring us ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’, a impactful hybrid of religious commentary, samurai action and family drama.🔪

Latif, a devoutly religious hitman, struggles to balance work, faith and fatherhood. When his wife dies, he embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children, confronting the forces closing in around him – and the beliefs threatening to unravel within.🩸

“Ali’s performance is easily among the best of the year, finding ways to add nuance and depth through movement, body language, and fight choreography as much as his mesmerizing face. While the film’s stoic hitman and samurai influences have drawn comparisons to “Drive” and “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai,” there’s something about Latif that’s also impressively original.” ROGER EBERT⭐

📆 Showtime:
Wednesday, October 21 @ 7:00 PM
Thursday, October 22 @ 7:15 PM
Friday, October 23 @ 7:15 PM
Saturday, October 24 @ 2:30 PM
Sunday, October 25 @ 1:00 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

10/13/2026

It’s a hard world for little things with Thursday Film Series committee member Sam’s choice, ‘The Night of the Hunter’.🐎

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.💸

“At its heart, the film is a children’s fairytale – strange and idiosyncratic – but also a noir thriller, laced with the darkest elements of both genres: death, guilt, greed, poverty, cruelty, biblical references and a terrifying pursuit by the scariest of bogeymen. Laughton described it as “a nightmarish sort of Mother Goose tale”.” THE GUARDIAN

This series was fished out of the members favourite movies, each film chosen by and representing a member of the Committee. There’s no overarching theme just films wrangled from the depths of our individual tastes.🎣

📆 Showtime:
Thursday, October 15 @ 7:00 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

A new South Korean science-fiction film from writer/director Na Hong-jin, ‘Hope‘.👣🚓In the remote South Korean village of...
10/12/2026

A new South Korean science-fiction film from writer/director Na Hong-jin, ‘Hope‘.👣🚓

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community.🚨

“One of the most expensive Korean films ever made, this epic sci-fi begins as a “breathless rollercoaster ride” and mashes up The Terminator, Predator, Aliens and Avatar.” BBC⭐️

💬 All ‘Cinema Passport’ screenings will have original audio with English subtitles.

📆 Showtime:
Friday, October 16 @ 7:15 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

Attended the festival this year? We want your feedback! 🎉Complete our quick survey now and help shape the 2027 Indigenou...
10/10/2026

Attended the festival this year? We want your feedback! 🎉

Complete our quick survey now and help shape the 2027 Indigenous Film Festival!🎥🍿
Your feedback guides next year’s plans, plus you can enter to WIN a free 2027 Festival Pass — the draw will be done on November 16th.

We really appreciate your time and insights! You can find the link for the survey in our bio.⭐️

10/09/2026

‘Silence of the Lambs’ is gracing our Paramount screens for its 35th anniversary.🐑

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.🩸

“Have the lambs stopped screaming yet?”⭐

📆 Showtime:
Saturday, October 17 @ 7:30 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

10/08/2026

The Cinema Passport presents ‘Hope’, Hong-jin’s sci-fi monster epic.🚨

In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.🚓👣

“It’s bold, provocative, and assured filmmaking that oscillates between moments of breathtaking cinematic prowess and satirical characterizations, whose coy rendering turns a mirror toward those who unconsciously lap up hollow action heroes when the far more intriguing story exists in plain sight.” ROGER EBERT⭐

💬 All ‘Cinema Passport’ screenings will have original audio with English subtitles.

📆 Showtime:
Friday, October 16 @ 7:15 PM

🎟️ Get your tickets at thekfs.ca

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503 Victoria Street
Kamloops, BC

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Thursday 6pm - 8pm
Friday 6pm - 8pm
Saturday 6pm - 8pm

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