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Membership Appreciation Screening: Buried
Calling all BendFilm Members! Save the date, February 23, and join us for BendFilm’s Special Annual Member Appreciation Screening! All active BendFilm Members get in free.
Not a member yet? Become one today! Here are some of the perks:
- 20 percent off BendFilm Festival Passes
- Free Film tickets for BendFilm Screenings at Tin Pan
- Purchase Festival film tickets before the general public
- FREE online access to Festival favorites in the Alumni Film Library
This BFF21 Official Selection Documentary Feature cleaned house with awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Editing!
More about the film: In the early 1980’s the Alpine Meadows Ski Patrol were the undisputed gods of winter in the mountain hamlet of Tahoe City, California, and they were guided by a newly minted avalanche forecaster named Jim Plehn. The responsibility to keep the skiing public safe on these avalanche-prone mountains was an all-consuming obsession for Jim, which made the day of March 31, 1982 all the more devastating. When millions of pounds of snow hurtled down the side of the mountain, demolishing the resort’s base lodge and burying the parking lot, the shell-shocked patrol team had to persevere under unrelenting weather conditions to rescue seven missing victims, hoping desperately for a miracle.
Father’s Group Film Series for Black History Month!
The Father’s Group Film Series is something you should all be talking about! We are extremely excited to be partnering with The Father’s Group for a month of movies. Each weekend we will be showing an important film or documentary series featuring black actors, directors and composers. Films will be playing at both Open Space and Tin Pan so don’t worry if you can’t make a certain time!
Tickets and Showtimes for Tin Pan:
February 6 — I Am Not Your Negro
February 11 — Amazing Grace
February 20 — Whose Streets?
February 27 — Unbanned AJ1
Become A Bendfilm Sponsor Today!
Join Bend’s film community and become a BendFilm sponsor! A variety of pricing levels are available with perks including film passes and awareness for your business. PLUS, you can feel good about supporting the arts. Now, that is a win win!
Festival Sponsors receive prominent exposure and coverage throughout the year and especially in the months before the event. BendFilm reserves the most significant visibility for these, our greatest supporters, by only working with a few Festival Partners and by providing them exclusive exposure that can’t be otherwise purchased. With different pricing levels there is something for everyone!
Win A Pair Of Skis!
Our friends at Crow’s Feet Mountain Collective are raffling off a pair of Dynafit skis to a lucky BendFilm fan! Not only can you get a free pair of brand new skis, you get incredible service and expertise in choosing the equipment.
Enter by March 15 for your chance to win!
Youtube Q&A Panels!
Finding yourself looking for something new to watch? Well, look no further! We recently updated our YouTube with tons of new Q&A content from our 2021 festival!
Go check it out and make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with all our content!
Tin Pan Ticket Packs!
Support and save with our Tin Pan ticket packs! This is perfect for any movie lover looking to save while keeping up with the best new movies. Buy for yourself, or give it to a friend as a gift! Buy 10 tickets for $75 or 6 for $45 (individual tickets are regularly priced at $10) Look are you already saving money in 2022!
Opening Friday!
Drive My Car
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.
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Continuing This Week
Parallel Mothers
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened. Starring Penélope Cruz.
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Velvet Queen
High up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson (In the Forest of Siberia) with him on his latest mission. For several weeks, they’ll explore these valleys searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.
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Benedetta
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core. From director Paul Verhoeven!
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
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One Night Only!
Father’s Group Film Series: I Am Not Your Negro
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Sunday February 6 at 4:30pm.
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La Liste: Everything or Nothing
Big mountain skiers, and close friends, Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten, find beauty and display grace in the dangerous world of free-skiing. Follow them as they set off around the world to find the most awe-dropping, high-altitude peaks and mountain ranges that exceed 6,000 metres, and do what they do best: ski.
Wednesday, February 9 at 8:30pm.
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Janus Night: Wings of Desire (1987)
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds — with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk — that it might be possible for him to take human form.
Thursday, February 10 at 7:30pm.
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VHS Night: Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents heavy metal music fans tailgating in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre (since demolished) in Landover, Maryland, on May 31, 1986, before a Judas Priest concert (with opening act Dokken).
Tuesdsay, February 8 7:30pm.
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Oscar Shorts!
February 25. Stay tuned for more details!
