If you weren't able to catch Cole (by local director Carl Bessai) at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival, you're in luck.

The First Weekend Club, which helps to promote Canadian films, is hosting a screening of the film on November 17 at District 319 (319 Main Street). The special event will be a part of Motion Picture Industry Week, held by the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of B.C.

Richard de Klerk stars in the titular role as an aspiring writer who's trapped in his small-town life in Lytton, B.C. When he meets and falls for a beautiful woman (Kandyse McClure) in his writing class, he becomes torn between his old and new lives.

In addition to musical entertainment (Haley Turner) and a wine-tasting reception (6:30 p.m.) before the show (7:30 p.m.), the director and star will both participate in a question and answer period. As if that's not enough, there'll also be an after-show party.

To make it a full night out, you can also get 15 percent off dinner at the nearby Boneta Restaurant (1 West Cordova Street) if you take your ticket print-out. For more information or tickets ($12, must be purchased by November 16), visit the First Weekend Club Web site.

Also, just a reminder that today (November 11) is the last day for the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival. 

If you'd like to spend your Remembrance Day taking some films from the festival, there are four screenings at the Ridge Theatre (3131 Arbutus Street). Things commence at 1 p.m. with the documentary Bloodlines, about a woman haunted by her family's involvement with the Nazi party.

There's also Gruber's Journey (Calatoria lui Gruber), which tells the true story of an Italian journalist who wrote about the deportation and deaths of thousands of Romanian Jews (2:45 p.m.), and Spring 1941, about a cellist's return to Poland to revisit what happened to her and her family there during the Second World War (4:45 p.m.).

The closing gala, which will include guest speakers and a wrap party, will include The Little Traitor (7:30 p.m.), an adaptation of Amos Oz's novel Panther in the Basement about a militant 12-year-old boy in Palestine in 1947 who is befriended by a British soldier (Alfred Molina). His friendship soon brings him under suspicion.

For full details, visit the VJFF Web site.