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Everyone is welcome at Cinecenta! CINECENTA FILMS is located at Student Union Building, University Films that matter and deserve to been seen on the big screen.

CINECENTA FILMS is division of the non-profit University of Victoria Students' Society, conceived as an Inexpensive alternative for students, the university community and the public at large. Since 1971, Cinecenta has offered an eclectic mix of independent, documentary and international cinema, as well as the best of Hollywood, both contemporary and classic. Our cozy 300-seat theatre is equipped with both 35mm film and digital projection with Dolby stereo sound. Cinecenta has a terrific Munchie Bar with baked goods and espresso drinks featuring Kicking Horse Coffee. Damn fine popcorn, too, with real butter.

10/20/2026

THE SHINING
October 21 & 22: 6:30 pm
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado, hoping to cure his writer’s block. He settles in along with his wife, Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and his son, Danny (Danny Lloyd), who is plagued by psychic premonitions. As Jack’s writing goes nowhere and Danny’s visions become more disturbing, Jack discovers the hotel’s dark secrets and begins to unravel into a homicidal maniac hell-bent on terrorizing his family. “Though it deviates from Stephen King’s novel, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a chilling journey into madness, ditching more formulaic horror elements in favour of a study in madness and ambiguous evil. Kubrick was elevating horror to a different plane, removing its camp wiggeries to infuriate and bedazzle with sinewy suggestion and sumptuous, awe-inspiring technique. Technically, there is no better film in the genre. Its chills are less direct, rather something that creeps under the skin to unsettle and disturb.”—Empire Magazine

“A masterpiece.”—Time Out

10/19/2026

Oh Hi (NSFW language)
THE ROOM w/ GREG SESTERO
November 13 & 14: 7:00 pm
Get ready for a night of laughs with one of the most unforgettable experiences available in all of cinema, writer/director Tommy Wiseau‘s cult classic film THE ROOM. Greg Sestero (Mark) himself will be there to share behind-the-scenes stories and answer questions post screening. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience THE ROOM under peak conditions!

About Greg Sestero:
Greg Sestero is best known for his role as Mark in the 2003 cult film THE ROOM, as well as for his well-received memoir The Disaster Artist detailing his experiences making The Room, which was itself later adapted into a 2017 film.

Regular Passes not accepted. TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW - SOLD OUT BOTH NIGHTS LAST TIME!
$25 UVSS/Advance (fees extra) $35 Door
Advance ticketing will end at noon of show date.
DOORS OPEN FROM 6PM – COME EARLY FOR BEST SEATING

10/16/2026

WINTER OF THE CROW
October 18: 3:00 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:10 pm
October 19: 5:00 pm, 7:10 pm
…a fascinating, smart Cold War thriller by Polish director Kasia Adamik. Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, The Crown) plays Professor Joan Andrews, a British professor who comes to Poland in the mid-80s to give a lecture on psychiatry at a university in Warsaw. She’s pretty self-absorbed and can’t seem to wrap her head around the dire straits of the people around her, who are politically oppressed and can scarcely afford to eat. A university student, Alina (Zofia Wichlacz), who invited her, is acting as her host, but she’s also a political activist and a key player in the resistance movement to communism. Professor Andrews is upset when her luggage is lost, her lecture is interrupted by protests, and she’s given a couch to sleep on instead of being put up at a hotel. The next morning, her world is turned upside down as martial law is declared, tanks invade, and her hosts are nowhere to be found.-Film Threat

“Manville carries the film with an air of increasingly raw determination…”-Variety

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10/15/2026

TWILIGHT MARATHON!
🎬 Friday, October 16

• Twilight - 6:45 PM
• New Moon - 9:00 PM

🎬 Saturday, October 17

• Eclipse - 3:00 PM
• Breaking Dawn (Part 1) - 5:30 PM
• Breaking Dawn (Part 2) - 7:45 PM
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⭐️️ MARATHON PASS SALE: All 5 movies + FREE medium popcorn & pop for only $35!🍿

⚠️ Limited passes available! Grab yours at the Munchie Bar or Cinecenta Box Office NOW!

10/14/2026

HOPE
October 14 & 15: 4:20 pm, 7:20 pm
On the outskirts of a small South Korean town called Hope, a group of hunters come across the badly mauled co**se of a cow. The bovine victim is like the crab eaten arm in Jaws (1974), the first clue that something is out there, a monster endangering the community …The first hour of the film is essentially a chase scene of pure action cinema. Unrelenting, pounding and beautifully filmed by Parasite (2019) and Burning (2018) cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, the light of early morning slanting through car windows as the chase tears through different environments. The sheen of peak Steven Spielberg is blended with the dynamism of George Miller throughout the film. As the mystery is revealed, the scale of the film gets bigger and bigger, barmier and barmier, and the monsters themselves, performed via mo-cap by Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, are revealed as a CGI creation of a convincingness that varies. Some larger plot is at hand, presumably setting up a sequel which Na Hong-jin has already written.-BFI

10/12/2026

THE TWO TOWERS
October 13: 6:00 pm
“The Two Towers” follows the continuing quest of Frodo and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum. Aragorn, the Elf archer Legolas and Gimli the Dwarf encounter the besieged Rohan kingdom, whose once great King Theoden has fallen under Saruman’s deadly spell.-Rotten Tomatoes

THIS IS THE EXTENDED VERSION AND WILL INCLUDE INTERMISSION

10/06/2026

FAR FROM HOME
October 7 & 8: 5:20 pm, 7:00 pm
Q&A after 7pm screenings with the director, writer, and participants.
One family and the Tibetan nation are bound together by love, identity and their fight to resist erasure. As TC Tethong, a former deputy to the Dalai Lama, loses his memory, rediscovered archives reveal an unexpected love story with a Canadian named Judy, and their life-long struggle to keep a homeland alive in exile. With rare reflections from an aging Dalai Lama, personal and collective histories intertwine in an endless longing for a home out of reach.

10/04/2026

The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended)
October 6: 6:00 pm
The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ring-bearer – tasked to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged. -RT

THIS IS THE EXTENDED VERSION AND WILL INCLUDE INTERMISSION

10/03/2026

The Rivals of Amziah King
October 4: 2:30 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm
October 5: 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm
McConaughey plays the titular Amziah King, a rugged, banjo-playing Oklahoma beekeeper struggling to make ends meet in a business that’s not as profitable as it once was. It’s the perfect role for the Oscar winner, who clearly relishes every moment on screen and even showcases some surprisingly strong singing chops. Amziah’s journey centers around reconnecting with one of his foster children, Kateria (a game-changing performance by Angelina LookingGlass), and teaching her the ropes of the honey business. Together, they assist the police in investigating a string of incidents involving the theft of gallons of honey. Their investigation leads them down some unexpected (and surprisingly bloody) paths, with Patterson drawing on a Coen Brothers-esque sensibility that complements the film’s darker, rougher moments …The film is undeniably a crowd-pleaser, earning a large standing ovation after its premiere at SXSW.-The Only Critic

10/02/2026

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
October 3: 3:00 pm
10 minute intermission at 2 hours, 19 minutes.
Considered by many as one of the greatest films ever made, Lawrence of Arabia is an epic adventure set against the breathtaking images of the vast endless frightening desert landscape, which becomes a blazing metaphor for the mysterious spiritual struggle of a man grappling with his distant unknown destiny. T.E. Lawrence was a flamboyant minor British officer who helped to weld together disparate tribes of and led them successfully in guerrilla warfare. The filmmakers were aware of the dangers of biographical trivialization and conscientiously created a controversial and often contradictory character. To mount this spectacle was an enormous undertaking. Years in preparation, it took over 300 days to shoot in four countries. To write about this cinematic masterpiece will never approach the experience of the film. It is meant to be seen and heard.—Jeremy Kagan, The Criterion Collection

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Student Union Bldg, 3800 Finnerty Road
Victoria, BC
V8P5C2

Telephone

+12507218365

Website

http://www.cinecenta.com/

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