Adult Pass - $49.99 | Student Pass - $29.99 Experience unlimited access to films featured throughout the Women of WIFF screening event with our Weekend Pass. The films featured are important films by and about women. What's Included: One ticket to each film throughout the whole weekend. Ultimate Flexibility: With the Weekend Pass, you have the freedom to choose any of the films across the 7 screenings that pique your interest, while saving you money. With the Weekend Pass you can save a total of $46 if you watch all 5 films! How It Works: 1. Purchase Your Weekend Pass: Buy your Weekend Pass online or at our box office (open only during screening times, in the lobby of the Capitol Theatre). 2. Get Your Tickets: Patrons must come to the box office and use the proof of purchase to select their films and receive the individual screening tickets. Box Office: Capitol Theatre Lobby Saturday, June 21 from 10:00am-7:45pm Sunday, June 22 from 11:00am-4:45pm

WOMEN OF WIFF | The untold story of the halcyon era of women’s professional cycling. For six glorious years during the 1980s, the Tour de France held a women’s race alongside the men’s race. These women raced over the same cobblestones, conquered the same mountains, and were cheered by the same throng of adoring crowds as the men. The women’s race delivered underdog victories, great rivalries, and immense feats of courage. Along the way they battled financial hardship, injuries, discrimination, derision, the emerging doping culture and logistical nightmares. But they also found something else, an inner strength and a bond of sisterhood that would last the rest of their lives. Ultimately their race was cancelled, and their heroic deeds have been almost forgotten. More than three decades later, older and wiser, the women look back at their brief moment at the pinnacle of cycling. What did they lose? What did they gain? And what can these pioneers of women’s sports offer to the next generation who dare to dream?

WOMEN OF WIFF | Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, is preparing for her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, the spirited bride, has a plan. She secretly invites three men from her mother's past in hope of meeting her real father and having him escort her down the aisle on her big day. This anniversary event also includes a special featurette, Meryl's Big Number, never-before-seen on the big screen!

WOMEN OF WIFF | PICTURE A SCIENTIST is a feature-length documentary film chronicling the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. A biologist, a chemist and a geologist lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, overcoming brutal harassment, institutional discrimination, and years of subtle slights to revolutionize the culture of science. From cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we also encounter scientific luminaries who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

WOMEN OF WIFF | SALLY! brings into focus the life and legacy of Sally Gearhart—a charismatic lesbian-feminist, activist, professor, and fantasy author. A trailblazer in the 1970s and '80s U.S. lesbian feminist movement, Sally is a “hidden figure” deserving more attention: she was a key spokeswoman for an important period of women’s history. The film makes clear most of us haven't heard of Sally or her accomplishments largely due to the patriarchal lens through which history is recounted. At the same time, the documentary honestly and unflinchingly examines Sally’s contradictions, iconoclasm, and the complex relationship between spokeswomen like her and the movements for social change they champion, which are necessarily collective and layered. Balancing humor, insight, and heart, SALLY! is both a celebration of a radical icon, a meditation on the tensions inherent in revolutionary movements, and a powerful reflection on the lessons her work offers for today’s struggles for civil rights, justice, and equality.

WOMEN OF WIFF | Samia defies taboos by racing through the streets of Mogadishu, in a society where a woman is not supposed to run. Her passion will one day take her to the Olympic Games.

WOMEN OF WIFF | WE LEND A HAND: THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF ONTARIO FARMERETTES 1940. It is a time of national emergency. Hitler’s army ruthlessly sweeps Western Europe. In face of invasion, Britain suffers devastating bombing raids. The U-Boats wreak havoc in the Atlantic. Desperate food shortages seem to foreshadow imminent invasion. The Old World seeks help from the New. 2024. Bonnie Sitter, a 79 year old author based in Exeter, Ontario, mourns the recent death of her husband. As she searches through some of her family photographs, she finds a captivating little black and white image: a group of smiling women on the running board of a truck. When she flips the photo, an intriguing caption reads: “Farmerettes 1946”. This single image sparks a compelling research journey that eventually leads her to co-author an entire book on the subject. Told from Bonnie’s perspective, We Lend a Hand reveals the true and forgotten story of the Ontario Farm Service Force, which put 40,000 volunteer teenage girls to work between 1941 and 1952. Arriving from different parts of Ontario and Quebec to many locations in Southwestern Ontario, the young women began this work with no prior farming experience. Their job: to ensure critical food production during the most perilous period of modern history. The remarkable contingent of young women who were called to replace the men on Canadian farms were known as the Farmerettes. Their hardships were tremendous. For long months, they worked under relentless weather conditions and schedules. Yet they single-handedly managed to produce hundreds of thousands of tons of food that were shipped off to the frontlines to feed starving European populations and even prisoners of war. As they fulfilled their duty, their bond grew stronger. The girls were coming of age and figuring out their place in the world, while humanity endured one of the most destructive conflicts of the 20th century. Through reenactments and unique archival images, We Lend a Hand recounts the story of these magnificent young women, now in their late 90s, bringing back their most cherished memories while reminding us– perhaps for the last time - that service comes in many forms.