In Theaters
Sasquatch Sunset
USA | 2024 | 89 min. | Nathan Zellner, David Zellner
Now Playing
In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year.
Dune: Part Two
USA | 166 min. | Denis Villeneuve
Now Playing - Apr 25, 2024
The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on Dune: Part Two, the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel “Dune,” with an all-star ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, and more.
Civil War
USA | 2024 | 109 min. | Alex Garland
Now Playing
From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
Wicked Little Letters
United Kingdom | 2023 | 102 min. | Thea Sharrock
Now Playing
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy.
The Films of Edward Yang: A Confucian Confusion
Taiwan | 1994 | 125 min. | Edward Yang
Now Playing - Apr 18, 2024
After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values. New 4K restoration.
The Films of Edward Yang: Taipei Story
Taiwan | 1985 | 110 min. | Edward Yang
Now Playing - Apr 18, 2024
A former national Little League team player finds solace by hanging out with hedonistic youths. New 4K restoration.
Problemista
USA | 2023 | 104 min. | Julio Torres
Now Playing
From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system.
Love Lies Bleeding
USA | 2024 | 104 min. | Rose Glass
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From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Viva Italia! The Passion of Italian Cinema
February 28–April 24
See life as a human comedy, embrace beauty, feel deeply, pursue the sweet life with Italian gusto. Festa Italiana and Greg Olson Productions present a series of nine films that illuminate the golden age of 1960s-1970s Italian cinema. When traditional ways of thinking and behaving were challenged by liberated philosophical, political, social and sexual views and mores.
50 Years of SIFF: At the End of the Tunnel
Spain | 2016 | 120 min. | Rodrigo Grande
Opens April 19, 2024
Wheelchair user and computer geek Joaquin is thrust into a dangerous game of survival, double-cross, and redemption when he discovers his new neighbors, including a single mother whom he has feelings for, are planning a bank heist by tunneling under his home. Seattle International Film Festival 2017 Golden Space Needle Audience Award: Best Film and Best Director.
50 Years of SIFF: Sorry to Bother You
USA | 2018 | 112 min. | Boots Riley
Opens April 19, 2024
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. Seattle International Film Festival 2018 selection.
Chicken For Linda!
France | 2023 | 76 min. | Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Opens April 19, 2024
Directors Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (The Girl Without Hands) unleash a unique visual marvel of hand-painted animation with bright, color-blocked characters, and a story that is an intoxicating blend of slapstick comedy, musical, and family drama, as Paulette and Nina ultimately confront the grief of an unspoken tragedy, and the meal that could finally bring them closer together.
50 Years of SIFF: Cure
Japan | 1997 | 112 min. | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Opens April 20, 2024
In a city plagued by unexplainable murders, detective Kenichi uncovers a disturbing pattern, leading him into a chilling battle with a manipulative and mysterious adversary. Seattle International Film Festival 2001 selection, with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa highlighted at the Festival as an Emerging Master.
50 Years of SIFF: Gas Food Lodging
USA | 1992 | 101 min. | Allison Anders
Opens April 20, 2024
In a New Mexico town, a single mother and her daughters navigate love and identity amidst dusty trailer parks and fleeting romances. Seattle International Film Festival 1992 selection.
50 Years of SIFF: The Whole Wide World
USA | 1996 | 111 min. | Dan Ireland
Opens April 20, 2024
In 1930s Texas, schoolteacher and aspiring author Novalyne meets Robert E. Howard, a pulp fiction writer later famed for books including “Conan the Barbarian.” The true story of a turbulent courtship and cultural moment resonates in Dan Ireland’s classic romance. Seattle International Film Festival 1996 Opening Night selection and New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize winner. Director Dan Ireland was a co-founder of SIFF.
50 Years of SIFF: To Die For
USA | 1995 | 106 min. | Gus Van Sant
Opens April 20, 2024
A chilling tale of ambition gone awry, a small-town woman stops at nothing to achieve her dreams of fame, leading to deception, manipulation, and ultimately, deadly consequences. Seattle International Film Festival 1995 Golden Space Needle Audience Award: Best Actress.
Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation
USA | 2023 | 84 min. | Ward Serrill
April 21, 2024
A master of ancient Chinese poetry and search for lost tradition. Red Pine’s quest to find hermit sages reignited a movement in China to seek enlightenment through poetry and solitude.
Reel Black: Kirikou and the Sorceress
1998 | 74 min. | Michel Ocelot
April 21, 2024
Kirikou, an unusual little boy, must search the wisdom of the forbidden mountain in order to save his village from a spell cast by the evil sorceress Karaba.
50 Years of SIFF: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Japan | 1989 | 102 min. | Hayao Miyazaki
Opens April 22, 2024
In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back. Seattle International Film Festival 1998 selection.
The Uncertain Detective: Episode 3 and 4
USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Gregg Lachow
April 22, 2024
Episodes 3 and 4 from the hit serial, followed by a Q&A with director Gregg Lachow.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
Opens April 23, 2024
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Mountains on Stage - Summer Edition 2024
France | 210 min.
April 23, 2024
Mountains on Stage aims to bring the mountains to the city and to share all the beauty of mountain sports!
Be Bold Now Seattle 2024
USA | 2024
April 24, 2024
An evening full of compelling conversations with courageous changemakers using their bold voices to invest in the future of women and girls.
Viva Italia: La Grande Belleza
Italy | 2013 | 115 min. | Paolo Sorrentino
April 24, 2024
Overflowing with the sensual pleasures of Rome, this enchanting film could be called ROMA in homage to the realm of Maestro Federico Fellini's cinematic art, he who called Rome "the Internal City" of soul-searching.
50 Years of SIFF: Corn Island
Georgia | 2014 | 100 min. | George Ovashvili
Opens April 25, 2024
A farmer and his teenage granddaughter sow corn on a no-man’s land island that forms in the Inguri River each spring in this powerful and award-winning life-and-death fable reminiscent of master filmmakers Bresson, Tarkovsky, and Malick with a hint of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” Seattle International Film Festival 2015 selection. One of Senior Programmer Maryna Ajaja's favorites.
Challengers
USA | 2023 | 131 min. | Luca Guadagnino
Opens April 25, 2024
Tennis player turned coach Tashi (Zendaya) has taken her husband, Art (Mike Faist), and transformed him into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event—close to the lowest level of pro tournament—where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend (Josh O’Connor).
NFFTY 2024
USA | various | Various
Opens April 25, 2024
The 17th National Film Festival for Talented Youth, showcasing the best short films from filmmakers 24 and younger.
50 Years of SIFF: The Headless Woman
Argentina | 2008 | 87 min. | Lucrecia Martel
Opens April 26, 2024
An affluent dentist hits something in the road but neither she nor her friends report the incident. When evidence emerges that she may have killed someone, the men in her life protect her secret. An elliptical psychological drama about guilt, responsibility, and self-deception. Seattle International Film Festival 2009 selection, with director Lucretia Martel highlighted at the Festival as an Emerging Master.
PASANG: In the Shadow of Everest
USA | 2021 | 71 min. | Nancy Svendsen
Opens April 26, 2024
Transcending cultural barriers and consistently going against the grain, female Nepali climber Pasang Lhamu Sherpa attempted to summit Everest four times in the early nineties. Includes post-film Q&As with special guests, including Pasang's niece, Mingma Sherpa, and President of the Northwest Sherpa Association, Jangbu Sherpa.
Stop Making Sense
USA | 1984 | 88 min. | Jonathan Demme
April 27, 2024
The greatest concert film of all time brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians. Renowned filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) captures the band at their exhilarating best, in this new and complete restoration for the film's 40th anniversary. New 4k restoration, back by popular demand.
Nostalghia
Russia | 1983 | 125 min. | Andrei Tarkovsky
Opens April 29, 2024
Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. The first feature he made outside of Russia, newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
Seattle Film Society - Locals Only
April 30, 2024
Locals Only is a theatrical presentation of short films from Seattle-area independent filmmakers.
Movie Club: Leave Her to Heaven
USA | 1945 | 110 min. | John M. Stahl
May 2, 2024
A whirlwind romance turns deadly storm in this Technicolor melodrama starring a luminous Gene Tierney. Selected and introduced by SIFF Office Manager (and Ellen apologist) Caroline Beston.
Eno - Live Documentary Screening
USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Gary Hustwit
May 5, 2024
The Seattle Premiere of “Eno” – A Live Performance Screening.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
USA | 2024 | George Miller
Opens May 23, 2024
As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.
Guy Friends
USA | 2024 | 84 min. | Jonathan Smith
Opens May 31, 2024
When Jaime, a self-described "guy's girl," and her boyfriend break up, all of her guy friends simultaneously profess their secret, undying love for her.
Exhibition on Screen: John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger
2023 | David Bickerstaff
Opens June 1, 2024
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, Exhibition on Screen’s film will examine how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.
National Theatre Live: Nye
2024 | 160 min. | Rufus Norris
Opens June 8, 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state.
Reel Black: Neptune Frost
Rwanda | 2021 | 105 min. | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
June 23, 2024
In a cybernetic rebellion, love sparks against technological chains, forging an Afrofuturistic odyssey.
Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma
2024 | 150 min. | Simon Godwin
Opens July 13, 2024
Directed by Simon Godwin, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C, Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes & Indira Varma will be filmed live at a custom-built theatre space at Dock X in London, giving audiences the chance to be even closer to the action.
BFDI & Inanimate Insanity 2024 Tour
60 min.
July 14, 2024
Experience a live premiere of a new BFDI and Inanimate Insanity episode - followed by a Q&A with the series creators!
Reel Black: The Brother from Another Planet
USA | 1984 | 108 min. | John Sayles
July 21, 2024
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Reel Black: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
USA | 1971 | 97 min. | Melvin Van Peebles
August 25, 2024
A Revolutionary outsider challenges norms in a gritty quest for justice, passion, and empowerment in this influential 1971 cinematic milestone.
Reel Black: Soul (2020)
USA | 2020 | 100 min. | Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
September 22, 2024
Journey with a music teacher's Soul, exploring life's mysteries through humor, heart, and an extraordinary symphony of emotions.
Reel Black: The People Under the Stairs
USA | 1991 | 102 min. | Wes Craven
October 27, 2024
In a sinister mansion, a family stumbles upon a dark secret beneath the stairs, unveiling a twisted realm of horror and oppression.
Reel Black: A Wrinkle in Time
USA | 2018 | 109 min. | Ava DuVernay
November 17, 2024
Guided by celestial beings, a girl battles darkness to find her father in a visually stunning 2018 adventure of love and self-discovery.