Peace Region celebrates Canadian National Film Day

Apr 15, 2026 | 1:03 PM

April 15 is National Canadian Film Day, and screenings are being held in some communities in the Peace Country to mark the occasion.

The Rycroft Community Library will be showing the animated movie, Ballerina! Show time will be 4 p.m., and there will be free popcorn.

Another showing, this time featuring Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, will start at 6 p.m. at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum by Wembley.

A documentary about seniors who make a horror movie called Silver Screamers will start at 2 p.m. at the River City Cinema in Peace River.

The same movie is being shown in Whitecourt at the Vista Theatre, also starting at 2 p.m., and at the Centre Cinema in Dawson Creek at 3 p.m., B.C. time.

Ballerina! is rated G, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is rated R, while Silver Screamers is not rated.

Admission is free for all showings.

Organizers say National Canadian Film Day is a “one-day, coast-to-coast-to-coast celebration of Canadian cinema.”

They add for the 2025 edition, there were more than 1,900 events held in 42 countries and that 2.5 million fans went out to see a show.

The first National Canadian Film Day was held in 2014.

More on the day and the movies playing can be found here.

by Curtis Galbraith