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The Hidden Life of Trees
Playing at Pickford Film Center101 minutes, USA, In English, Documentary Rated NR: _ Bellingham Climate Action Week Presents The Hidden Life of Trees
Based on his bestselling book The Hidden Life of Trees, renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides viewers through his enlightened ecological insights with matter-of-fact candor — so everyone can see the forest for the trees. Traveling through Germany, Poland, Sweden and Vancouver, Peter discusses the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in woodlands, and the amazing scientific mechanisms behind these wonders of which we are often blissfully unaware. A walk in the forest will never be the same again!
Tickets are $5. All proceeds support Whatcom Million Trees Project, whose mission is to plant and protect one million trees in Whatcom County over the next five years as a climate crisis response and to enhance the well-being of local communities.
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Best Sellers
Playing at Pickford Film Center100 minutes, UK, Canada, USA, In English, Drama, Comedy Rated NR: _ Lucy Stanbridge (Aubrey Plaza) has inherited her father’s publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing titles. She discovers she is owed a book by Harris Shaw (Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier. In a last-ditch effort to save the company, Lucy and Harris release his new book and embark on a book tour from hell that changes them both in ways they didn’t expect.
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Playing at Pickford Film Center126 minutes, USA, In English, Biography, Drama, History Rated PG-13: for sexual content and drug abuse An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world’s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn’t long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.
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Language Lessons
Playing at Pickford Film Center91 minutes, USA, In English, Spanish, Drama Rated NR: _ A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
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On Broadway
Playing at Pickford Film Center85 minutes, USA, In English, DOC-Arts & Entertainment Rated NR: _ As the lights of Broadway tentatively turn back on comes this doc detailing the last time the Great White Way was on the brink. It’s a vibrant, performance-filled history lesson as only the likes of Helen Mirren, Ian McKellan, Hugh Jackman, and more can tell it.
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Torn
Playing at Pickford Film Center92 minutes, USA, In English, DOC-Outdoor/Adventure Rated NR: _ Sponsored by Chuckanut Builders. Alex Lowe was the greatest rock and ice climber of his generation, and his death at age 40 in 1999 left a giant hole for his wife and three sons to fill. His close climbing partner, Conrad Anker, took care of the family and ultimately married Alex’s widow—all of which is sensitively portrayed in son Max Lowe’s examination of the emotional toll of high-risk pursuits. *Director Max Lowe in person, Opening Night.
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Pickford Film Center stands in solidarity with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) communities across America to say racism against AAPI is real; racist misogyny, sexism and femicide are real and racist acts must stop.
Pickford Film Center stands in solidarity with Black communities across America to say enough is enough. Black lives matter. Without justice there is no peace and if we remain silent we are complicit in their perpetuation.
Pickford Film Center acknowledges our debt to the Coast Salish people and Indigenous people across America. The epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is real: racist misogyny, sexism and femicide must stop.
We call on our community to pay attention, to check your bias, to speak up, to understand the issues and to be generous to the organizations that are fighting to make an equitable future possible for everyone.
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On behalf of the Pickford Film Center staff and board we would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional, ancestral lands of the Lhaq’te’mish (Lummi Nation) and Nuxwsá7aq (Nooksack) Tribe, as well as all other Salishan families who, from time immemorial, share the ancestral homelands and salt waters of Whatcom County and the Salish Sea.