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Welcome Film Lovers!
The Stittsville Rotary International Film Series is thrilled to continue in-person film screenings to Landmark Theatre Kanata in the Fall with a four-film series:
The film team at the Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville has already been preparing for the SRIFS Fall Film Series and is pleased to announce the following schedule at Landmark Cinemas in Kanata with two showings at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm. For more details about the films and your purchasing options scroll down for the details below. The cost continues to be $60 for the four-film series.
If you are interested in buying these film passes, please contact:
Charles Mossman by e-mail at charcz@yahoo.com for 4:00 p.m. passes
OR
Sandra Burt by e-mail at sburt@uwaterloo.ca for 7:00 p.m. passes
Each of these four films will be shown at two times, 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and the cost is $60 for each four-film pass.
Stittsville Rotary International Film Series
Film descriptions - Fall 2025
Being Cyrano (Dans la peau de Cyrano) (French with subtitles, 93 minutes) 
September 29:
Fourteen year old Colin, played by Joachim Arseguel, in effect plays himself in this
moving, and sometimes humorous, story of a young man dealing with multiple
issues. Colin’s parents are in the midst of an acrimonious divorce. His mother,
Delphine, moves back to her home town near Paris, where Colin must attend a new school.
Colin has a stutter, and this makes it difficult for him to connect with other students.
Enter M. Devarseau, also new to the school, and committed to mounting
Cyrano de Bergerac as a school play. Colin will take on the role of Cyrano. The student actors
in this film are not professionals, and their performances are key to the film’s strengths.
Being Cyrano provides a nuanced examination of friendships, disabilities, gender identity,
and unconventional teaching methods. It is a triumph!
Bob Trevino Likes It, (US, English, 102 minutes)
October 27:
This film, which is based on the director’s life experiences, Lily Trevino is a 
young woman struggling to find her place in life. Lily is a home-help assistant who
has little or no relationship with her father Bob, who is a louse. She makes her way
on social media to a friendship with another Bob Trevino, who is kind,
compassionate – the sort of father that she would like to have. Lily “adopts” this
social media Bob as the father that she wants to have, and the two develop a strong
bond of friendship. This comedy-drama does a good job of entertaining, while
exploring Lily’s personal expectations and family relationships in general
Secret Mall Apartment, (US, English, 90 minutes)
November 24:
This documentary takes place in Providence Rhode Island, and explores urban
gentrification, homelessness, and artistic possibilities. The story begins in 2002
when Fort Thunder, an old mill building that provided low-cost rental housing,
was demolished in order to make way for a super-sized shopping mall. Michael
Townsend, a member of the Trummerkind Collective, tape artist and art teacher,
was one of the tenants of Fort Thunder, and is the central figure in this story of
urban protest. Together with seven other other local artists, Michael led the
project of building a secret apartment within the new Providence Place Mall,
in a show of defiance against gentrification and an exploration of public/private art.
The secret clubhouse was not discovered by the mall security guards for nearly
four years. This documentary was produced primarily with low-resolution video
footage filmed by the group of eight. You will want to learn what happened to the
eight, and in particular to Michael, after the secret apartment was discovered!
The Penguin Lessons, (Spain, UK, English/Spanish, subtitles, 110 minutes)
December 15:
This gem comes to us from the director of The Full Monty, and stars Steve Coogan as 
Michell, a self-centred Englishman who is hired to teach at a prestigious
English boarding school in Buenos Aires. The film is loosely based on true events that
occurred during a tumultuous time in Argentinian history. When a coup d’état shuts
down the school, Michell travels to Uruguay to have a holiday, and ends up returning
to the school with an emperor penguin in tow, rescued from an oil spill. The film
focuses on the developing relationship among Michell, his students, and the penguin.
We are witnesses to Michell’s personal and political awakening.