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The Victoria Film Festival is speeding toward the finish line, with supporters scrambling to procure tickets for the few remaining films that are not sold out.

What: Victoria Composers Collective: Omni Temporum. When/where: Thursday, Feb. 13, refreshments 7 p.m., Q&A 7:30, concert 8, Church of Truth (111 Superior St.). Tickets: $20 door, $15 advance. Online at brownpapertickets.com.

OPENING Downhill (Cineplex Odeon Victoria, Landmark Cinemas University Heights) A near-miss from an avalanche drives a wedge between a married couple on a family skiing trip in the Alps. With Will Ferrell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Miranda Otto.

ON STAGE What: Intrepid Theatre’s OUTstages Festival When: Through Sunday, Feb. 16 Where: Intrepid Theatre Club (1609 Blanshard St.) and the Metro Studio (1411 Quadra St.) Tickets: $10-$25 at ticketrocket.

Royal Roads University has entered into a partnership with the Vancouver Film School that will give students an opportunity to receive both a diploma from the film school and bachelor’s degree from the university in an accelerated two-year program.

Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot will tour sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ later this year, with a stop at the Royal Theatre on the itinerary. Lightfoot, 81, will play the Broughton Street theatre on Oct. 30.

The society that runs Greater Victoria’s largest performing arts venue has commissioned a feasibility study that will look at how expansion can benefit patrons and users of the Royal Theatre on Broughton Street.

In the new play The Ministry of Grace, which just opened at the Belfry Theatre, a young First Nations mother is compelled to abandon her children in a Canadian residential school to take work in southern California.

Listen to a concert of music inspired by the sea at Sea and Song, by the University of Victoria Wind Symphony with guests the Naden Band of the Royal Canadian Navy, Friday at the Farquhar auditorium at the University of Victoria.

ROCK What: Bedouin Soundclash Where: Capital Ballroom, 858 Yates St. When: Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Tickets: $34.59 (incl. fees) from eventbrite.ca Why: A seven-year hiatus meant good things for Mass, the fifth and latest album from Bedouin Soundclash.