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Witness the beginning of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely hero.

STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES

USA | 2002 | 143 min. | George Lucas

September 5 - 17, 2025

Young Anakin and Padmé fall in love as galactic war looms.

STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH

USA | 2005 | 141 min. | George Lucas

Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025

As the Republic falls, a new regime lead by an ancient evil rises in its place.

STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE

USA | 1999 | 137 min. | George Lucas

September 5 - 16, 2025

Jedi Knights discover Anakin Skywalker, a boy unusually strong in the Force.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

USA | 2016 | 136 min. | Gareth Edwards

September 6 - 15, 2025

Unlikely heroes band together to steal the plans to the Death Star.

STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE

USA | 1977 | 125 min. | George Lucas

September 6 - 15, 2025

A young farm boy intercepts a distress call from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan.

STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI

USA | 1983 | 136 min. | Richard Marquand

September 6 - 17, 2025

Luke Skywalker faces Darth Vader in a final duel.

STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

USA | 1980 | 124 min. | Irvin Kershner

September 6 - 16, 2025

Luke Skywalker trains as a Jedi in order to confront the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

USA | 2015 | 141 min. | J.J. Abrams

September 7 - 14, 2025

A lonely scavenger finds herself at the center of a galactic conflict.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

USA | 2017 | 154 min. | Rian Johnson

September 7 - 14, 2025

A spark of hope keeps the Resistance alive as they flee from the First Order.

STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

USA | 2019 | 143 min. | J.J. Abrams

September 7 - 14, 2025

The landmark Skywalker saga comes to a conclusion.

L.A. Noir: Point Blank

1967 | 92 min. | John Boorman

September 17, 2025

There’s a scent of metaphysical mystery in the sultry air. A master thief (Lee Marvin) is shot by his partner (John Vernon), who takes off with “their” $93,000 and Marvin’s wife (Sharon Aker), and heads for L.A. Marvin survives, pursues them, his hard leather shoes clacking and echoing in the LAX airport hallway. His name is Walker, and like a hungry ghost or avenging angel, so cool he could frost palm trees, he strides forward unstoppable. Walker embraces a helpful woman (Angie Dickinson), and makes powerful men wish they’d never heard of him.

Kino Armenia: Calendar

Canada | 1993 | 75 min. | Atom Egoyan

September 20, 2025

Atom Egoyan’s at once witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory, and displacement stars the director as a Canadian photographer exploring emotional and cultural alienation.

Kino Armenia: I will revenge this world with Love - S. Paradjanov

Armenia | 2024 | 110 min. | Zara Jian

September 20, 2025

Unfolding global events prompt the author of the film to leave the country where she lives and works. Returning home to Armenia to search for a solution, she seeks out an example-setting icon who can show us the way forward. The museum dedicated to Sergei Paradjanov becomes a place of inspiration, from which there can be no return to toxic reality. Director Zara Jian scheduled to participate in a virtual Q&A.

Kino Armenia: The Color of Pomegranates

Armenia | 1969 | 77 min. | Sergei Parajanov

September 20, 2025

Sergei Parajanov’s empirical masterpiece loosely follows the life of Sayat Nova, “King of Song,” an Armenian poet and musician born in the 18th century, through vibrant sets and costumes and hypnotic shots. This colorful and avant-garde masterpiece provides an utterly transformative cinematic experience.

Kino Armenia: Triad of Past and Present

September 20, 2025

Join SIFF Education in exploring the works of Armenian auteurs. The program features works from the rebellious legacy of Sergei Paradjanov, Atom Egoyan’s profoundly introspective exploration into cultural history, and proudly hosts the US premiere of filmmaker Zara Jian’s biographical documentary film, I will revenge this world with Love - S. Paradjanov. After the screening, enjoy a film talk and chat with director Zara Jian (joining virtually) and film educator Timofey Pozhitkov.

The Last Class

USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Elliot Kirschner

Opens September 21, 2025

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching his true calling. As he faces his final class, he wrestles with the dual realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.

L.A. Noir: The Long Goodbye

USA | 1973 | 112 min. | Robert Altman

September 24, 2025

Master noir novelist Raymond Chandler’s 1953 "The Long Goodbye" was taut and hard-boiled. Altman’s film version is charmingly meandering and woozy. Elliott Gould’s bedraggled, bumbling Philip Marlowe is the anti-Bogart version of the character. Buffeted by a whirlwind of chaotic corruption, Gould responds with his go-with-the-flow mantra, “It's okay with me.” But his shambling form hides a classic Marlowe integrity that will spark into action. Cinematic master Altman layers his widescreen frames with glass surfaces that reflect, obscure, and reveal shifting realities.

Who Killed Teddy Bear? (35mm)

USA | 1965 | 95 min. | Joseph Cates

Opens September 25, 2025

A new 35mm print of the never-before-seen director's cut of Joseph Cates's lurid '60s thriller, presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

The Uncertain Detective, Season 4

USA | 2025 | 115 min. | Gregg Lachow

September 29, 2025

Sneak preview of the new season of this Seattle-produced YouTube favorite. A film director creates a surreal, neo-noir tv series featuring a bumbling detective, casts his wife and kids in it, and tries to juggle his two worlds. Q&A with creator Gregg Lachow.

L.A. Noir: Cutter’s Way (35mm)

1981 | 105 min. | Ivan Passer

October 1, 2025

One of the 1980s’ great films is warm with friendship, chilled with suspicion. One night beach boy Jeff Bridges thinks he may have seen an oil tycoon (Stephen Elliott) dispose of a teenage girl’s body in a misty alley. He tells his disabled war veteran friend John Heard about it, and Heard, angry about his own shortcomings and “the sins of the world,” plans to sleuth around and expose Elliott. Facts are veiled in uncertainty, but Heard, despite the warnings of Bridges and Heard’s wife Lisa Eichorn, won’t be deterred. As suspense spirals, should Bridges go with his gut or do a leap of faith? Presented on 35mm.

Little Forest

South Korea | 2018 | 103 min. | Yim Soon-rye

October 3, 2025

Yim Soon-rye’s gentlest film transplants Little Forest, Daisuke Igarashi’s manga about slow living and natural cooking, to the Korean countryside. Introduction and Q&A with Director Yim Soon-rye moderated by Ungsan Kim, University of Washington Center for Korea Studies.

Quality Ski Time Film Tour presented by Salomon

150 min.

October 6, 2025

Ski movies will forever be a part of ski culture. Nothing else can match the community and excitement created by watching films with friends. So, why would you settle for just one film? Get stoked for winter with us by watching several films, each showcasing different stories, athletes and types of skiing.

Where to Land

USA | 2025 | 75 min. | Hal Hartley

Opens October 7, 2025

The latest feature film from legendary indie auteur, Hal Hartley! Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

L.A. Noir: The Two Jakes

1990 | 138 min. | Jack Nicholson

October 8, 2025

At the end of Chinatown (1978), private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) was a shattered man, his love Evelyn Mulwray shot dead, her daughter Catherine abducted by her monstrous grandfather. In The Two Jakes (like Chinatown, written by Robert Towne), it’s ten years later in 1940s L.A., and Gittes is back on his feet, but haunted by the past, his inability to help those he loved. This time SoCal corruption centers on the black gold of oil fields, and the houses built on them. There’s another Jake (Harvey Keitel, a jittery-sexy widow (Madeleine Stowe), a murder, and an alluring embodiment of days gone by.

Tron: Ares

USA | 2025 | 119 min. | Joachim Rønning

Opens October 9, 2025

Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

Cinema Dissection: Cinephiles' Spooky Choice

October 11, 2025

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a scene-by-scene breakdown of a spooky film selected by our die-hard film fans.

L.A. Noir: Heat (30th Anniversary)

1995 | 170 min. | Michael Mann

October 15, 2025

A criminal (Robert De Niro), a cop (Al Pacino). Ice and fire, coming to a boil. De Niro and his pals (Val Kilmer, Jon Voight) pull off big robberies with military precision. Steamed-up Pacino uses intuition and manpower to track them, with little success. Stylish director Mann (TV’s Miami Vice) pauses his onrushing crime saga so De Niro and Pacino can appear together and have coffee. The outlaw and the lawman are born to do what they do, and they’re not stopping, but they share words about the fullness and emptiness of their lives, what they win and lose.

Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) - New Restoration

Japan | 1988 | 65 min. | Hisayasu Satô

October 15, 2025

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. One of legendary pink film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, newly restored.

L.A. Noir: L.A. Confidential (35mm)

1997 | 138 min. | Curtis Hanson

October 22, 2025

Guided by James Ellroy’s fierce novel, director Hanson wonders why honorable men, sworn to uphold the law, tip towards the dark side. Passions and secrets drive a 1950s LAPD neophyte (Guy Pearce), a tough cop (Russell Crowe), and a showboat (Kevin Spacey) allied with gangsters, Hollywood, and sleazy tabloids. The top cop (James Cromwell) pulls strings, and fragments of meaning coalesce into story. The men’s jobs are their lives, but love can’t be denied. For Pearce and Crowe, it’s centered on a classy prostitute (Kim Basinger), who holds a key to the city. Presented on 35mm.

L.A. Noir: The Limey

1999 | 89 min. | Steven Soderbergh

October 29, 2025

This lean quest film hums with counterculture vibes. An aging ex-con (Swinging London icon Terence Stamp) flies to L.A. when his daughter (Melissa George) dies in a car crash. Her death was suspicious, and the road leads to a music mogul (Hip icon Peter Fonda), George’s last boyfriend. Fonda’s surrounded by protectors (Barry Newman of the 1970s cult film Vanishing Point), but Stamp gets help from his daughter’s friends (Cool Girl Lesley Anne Warren, Luis Guzman). Can Stamp’s consciousness expand beyond his need for cold revenge?

Cinema Dissection: Inglourious Basterds

November 1, 2025

War film, thriller, dark comedy, spaghetti western—Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is all these things and more. Join local filmmaker and PBS producer Jeremy Cropf to explore how Tarantino uses cinema itself as a weapon in rewriting history and resisting fascism.

L.A. Noir: Drive

USA | 2011 | 100 min. | Nicolas Winding Refn

November 5, 2025

Self-contained, in control, Driver (Ryan Gosling) is super professional as both Hollywood stunt driver and getaway transportation for criminals. When he shares an elevator ride with a sweet woman (Carey Mulligan) there’s only a shy glance between them, but a hum of connection persists, even after her husband (Oscar Issac) comes home from prison. Gosling’s like a romantic troubadour, pledged to his lady in spirit. There are good guys (Bryan Cranston) and bad (Albert Brooks), but Gosling will drive Mulligan in the golden afternoon and through the night, have no fear.

Girl Winter Film Tour

90 min.

November 6, 2025

Join us for a night of women-centric short ski films and get excited for winter at SIFF Uptown in Seattle, WA.

L.A. Noir: Inherent Vice

USA | 2014 | 148 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

November 12, 2025

Smoking a joint helps beach town private eye Doc Sportello (a transcendent Joaquin Phoenix) see all the dimensions of a case. HIs former girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up, then vanishes in the night. Her mysteries multiply as he encounters the sinister Golden Fang organization, a presumed-dead sax player (Owen Wilson), and Doc’s nemesis-friend Bigfoot (James Brolin). The brilliant, satirical universe of Thomas Pynchon’s source novel is on beguiling display, as beauty, menace, absurdity, heart and soul mix it up every minute. Doc rides his counterculture values, and Neil Young’s music, like a sweet wave. With Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon.

Cinema Dissection: Double Indemnity

November 22, 2025

Join facilitator and SIFF Programmer Dan Doody for a shot-by-shot investigation of the film’s ingenious narrative, its whip-smart dialogue, and how (not) to commit the perfect murder.

Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2025

2025 | 180 min.

December 10, 2025

Mountains on Stage aims to bring the mountains to the city, to share the beauty of mountain sports! A selection of the best documentaries on mountain activities are presented.