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Confronting Whiteness in Hollywood: The Frontier

120 minutes

February 20, 2020

SIFF Film Center

Explore what the depictions of westward expansion on film tells us about violence, gender, and the white imagination in the United States.

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Cinema Dissection: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Vivian Hua

total event = 360 mins

March 7, 2020

SIFF Film Center

Michel Gondry's surprisingly balanced Romantic-SciFi-Comedy-Drama affords a wonderful opportunity to uncover its cinematic secrets with NWFF's Vivian Hua as our fearless leader.

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Cinema Dissection: The New World with Jeff Crouse

total event = 360 mins

April 18, 2020

SIFF Film Center

The lush visual and aural landscape of Malick's investigation into the first interaction of European Settlers and Indigenous Americans is a perfect opportunity to find deeper understanding in the methods of his collage-like structure.

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What The Femme: I Will Survive - Virtual Class

120 minutes

November 10, 2020

How does female victimization onscreen impact representations of strong, independent women characters? Join pop culture analyst Dr. Allison Palumbo to discuss the woman-as-survivor identity and her role in film since the 1980s.

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Cinema DNA: Children of Vertigo - Virtual Class

120

May 4, 2021

Zoom

Expand and enrich your appreciation of the power that Hitchcock and Vertigo brought to the cinema through the examination of several great films that owe enormous debt to Vertigo and honor its continuing place in film culture.

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Dark Dreams: The Original Film Noir Series

USA | 106 min. | Multiple

September 27 - November 30, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Enjoy Seattle's, and the world's, longest-running film noir celebration.

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Quality Ski Time Film Tour presented by Salomon

USA | 120 min.

October 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Get stoked for ski season with an all-new lineup of the greatest ski films of the year, copious gear giveaways, and poster signings with your favorite pro skiers.

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18th Tasveer Film Festival

Various

October 12 - 22, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Tasveer Film Festival showcases the best of South Asian films and provide a platform to amplify under-represented South Asian voices.

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Seattle Queer Film Festival 2023: All Of Us Strangers

United Kingdom | 2023 | 105 min. | Andrew Haigh

October 12, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Seattle Queer Film Festival opening night film: All Of Us Strangers.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: It Came from the Water

Poland | 2022 | 120 min. | Xawery Żuławski

October 13, 2023

SIFF Film Center

A group of Warsaw high school graduates, sick and tired of lockdowns and online schooling, decide to head to the seaside for a party to remember.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Swarm

Poland | 2023 | 110 min. | Bartek Bala

October 13, 2023

SIFF Film Center

For ten years a family has been living on an island, isolated from reality. This apparent harmony turns into a trap. Against her partner's wish, the mother decides to return to the world she has left behind.

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TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR

USA | Sam Wrench

October 13 - November 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film experience with a breathtaking, cinematic view of the history-making tour. All ages welcome!

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Backwards

Poland | 2022 | 112 min. | Jarosław Barzan

October 14, 2023

SIFF Film Center

The story of the mother of an autistic boy, whose fight against bureaucracy and human heartlessness led to significant changes in the Polish education system. Inspired by real events.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Dangerous Gentlemen

Poland | 2022 | 107 min. | Maciej Kawalski

October 14, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Tadeusz Boy-Zelenski, Witkacy, Joseph Conrad and Bronislaw Malinowski, four leading figures among the Zakopane bohemians, wake up after an all-night drunken party. Their hangover headaches are killing them, none of them remembers anything, and finding the corpse of a male stranger on the floor doesn't help.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Elephant

Poland | 2022 | 94 min. | Kamil Krawczycki

October 14, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Bartek runs a small horse farm in the mountains in Poland. He had to become head of the family when his father left and his mother fell apart. One day their neighbour dies and his son Dawid comes back to the village for funeral. Bartek becomes fascinated by Dawid and his carefreeness. First love will force him to decide if he’s ready to choose his freedom above family obligations.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Tough Luck

Poland | 2023 | 86 min. | Mateusz Głowacki

October 14, 2023

SIFF Film Center

During the wake after the funeral of their beloved grandfather, the family finds out that the numbers that grandfather played all his life have just been drawn in the lottery.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Dad

Poland | 2022 | 110 min. | Anna Maliszewska

October 15, 2023

SIFF Film Center

A lonely dad, facing the sudden death of a Ukrainian babysitter, takes his daughter and her friend on a journey by the truck. Will trucker and two scamp girls handle the transport of frozen fish, body smuggling and life without a home?

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

USA | 2011 | 113 min. | Joseph Dorman

October 15, 2023

SIFF Film Center

American biographical documentary film about Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem, who is best known for his stories about Tevye the Dairyman, the basis for the musical Fiddler on the Roof.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Woman on the Roof

Poland | 2022 | 97 min. | Anna Jadowska

October 15, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Mira, a 60 year-old woman, appears to have a normal life. One morning she starts her day like any other, wakes up early, puts her family's clothes out to dry, purchases food for her fish and commits a bank robbery with a kitchen knife. She discovers her need for money is surpassed only by her need for love.

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Author Event: An Evening with Molly Baz, More is More

90 min.

October 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Book Larder is thrilled to present New York Times-bestselling author Molly Baz to celebrate her newest cookbook, More is More!

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A Once and Future Peace Film Screening & Launching of the Peacemaking Institute

90 min. | Eric Metzgar

October 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Please join us to launch the Peacemaking Institute with this film screening.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Filip

Poland | 2022 | 125 min. | Michał Kwieciński

October 20, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Filip, an attractive twenty-something man, juggles working as a waiter in a luxury hotel with trying to enjoy life in a time when enjoyment is hard to find. But pleasure can also be derived from vengeance, especially when every day brings uncertainty in terms of survival. This very current study of identity and wartime trauma dressed in period garb poses unsettling questions about the limits of human resilience and the price of salvation.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: If I Were You

Poland | 2023 | 110 min. | Antonio Galdamez-Munoz

October 20, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Normal married couple with one adorable child find fighting about everything the norm until one day they wake up in the other's body.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Baptism

Poland | 2022 | 88 min. | Jakub Skoczeń

October 21, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Marianna wants the family to live in harmony. The christening of her youngest grandson is a chance for reconciliation between her relatives. Plans are thwarted by General Jaruzelski. It is December 13, 1981. On this solemn day for the whole family, martial law is introduced.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Songs About Love

Poland | 2021 | 90 min. | Tomasz Habowski

October 21, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Contemporary Warsaw. A young musician meets an aspiring vocalist from a small town. Can two different sounds harmonize?

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: True Life of Angels

Poland | 2022 | 77 min. | Artur W. Baron

October 21, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Adam, a famous actor, a man with typical troubles of the middle-aged male and difficulties in finding the meaning of life, gets a stroke and loses contact with the world. Doctors make a catastrophic diagnosis.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Until the Last Drop

Poland | 2023 | 69 min. | Ewa Ewart

October 21, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The latest documentary by the famous director and producer Ewa Ewart, created in co-production with TVN24.

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Love Will Make it Alright

USA | 2023 | 60 min. | Andrew J Montana & Shawn McConaghy

October 22, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

A Farewell to Andrew Jay Event Performance and Film Premiere

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: The Breach

Poland | 2023 | 95 min. | Bartosz Konopka

October 22, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Maciek's wife's accident turns his life upside down. Soon the tragedy turns into a mystery full of secrets.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: The Hidden Web

Poland | 2022 | 106 min. | Piotr Adamski

October 22, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Young journalist Julita Wójcicka is investigating the mysterious death of a television celebrity. She believes that what the services classify as an unfortunate accident was in fact a precisely planned crime.

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Seattle Polish Film Festival: Young Eagles Grodno ‘39

Poland | 2022 | 104 min. | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz

October 22, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Young Eagles is a dramatic depiction of war against the Soviets as seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy, Leon.

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Classified Cinema presents: SECRET MOVIE

84 min.

October 24, 2023

SIFF Film Center

Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Always fun, never pretentious.

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10th Annual Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film project

October 30 - 31, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

60 spooky and terrifying films all made during the weekend of October 13, 2023.

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Collide-O-Scope Halloween

USA | 2023 | 120 min.

October 31, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Collide-O-Scope’s annual Halloween celebration returns with their one-of-a-kind found-footage phantasmagoria of hilariously hair-raising film freakouts and outrageous oddball video!

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SOMM: Cup of Salvation

Armenia | 2023 | 90 min. | Jason Wise

November 3, 2023

SIFF Film Center

The next chapter in the acclaimed SOMM films, the Cup of Salvation dives into what wine truly means to human history and the land we inhabit.

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European Film Festival: The Secret of Little Rose

Poland | 2023 | 106 min. | Jan Kidawa-Blonski

November 4, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

European Film Festival - Frontline: Poland Movie Series presents The Secret of Little Rose.

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Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Boss

Romania | 2022 | 126 min. | Bogdan Mirică

November 4, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Bogdan, an ambulance driver in Bucharest, takes part in an armed robbery gone wrong, leading his life to spiral out of control.

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Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Playback

Romania | 2023 | 77 min. | Iulia Rugină

November 4, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Playback follows Sorin Lupașcu, a famous DJ during Romania's communist years, as the film subtly reveals the country's transformations to a democracy.

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Kishi Bashi Presents His Song Film: Omoiyari

120 min.

November 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Join us for a screening of the documentary film, 'Omoiyari', followed by a conversation and live set by Kishi Bashi performing the album in its entirety.

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Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Between Revolutions

Romania | 2023 | 68 min. | Vlad Petri

November 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Two friends separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.

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Romanian Film Festival Seattle: Taxi Drivers

Romania | 2023 | 100 min. | Bogdan Theodor Olteanu

November 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Bucharest’s nightlife is seen through the eyes of two taxi drivers, Liviu and Lică, who run into a series of unexpected and hilarious events.

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SEATTLE PREMIERE - WE START WITH THE THINGS WE FIND

USA | 2023 | 81 min. | Thomas Piper

November 7, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Look at things differently. Join filmmaker and LOT-EK architects for a screening and Q&A.

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48 Hour Horror Film Project Awards

USA | 150 min.

November 8, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Awards screening and ceremony for the best Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project films in 2023

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European Film Festival: The Green Border

Poland | 2023 | 147 min. | Agnieszka Holland

November 11, 2023

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

European Film Festival - Frontline: Poland Movie Series presents The Green Border. The Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the film depicts a migration crisis that erupted in late 2021 at Europe's gateway; a forested border between Poland and Belarus.

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UniFilm Festival: In Your Light Do We See Light + A Perfect Love

17 min. and 28 min.

November 16, 2023

SIFF Film Center

The short film, In Your Light Do We See Light, tells a beloved story about how to find herself. The short film, A Perfect Love, tells a true lovely family story about adoption.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: A Day, 365 Hours

Turkey | 2023 | 79 min. | Eylem Kaftan

November 17, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

One of the boldest documentaries of 2023, this film focuses the legal battle of two women who have been victims of abuse and violence.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Şeytan (aka Turkish Exorcist)

Turkey | 1974 | 101 min. | Metin Erksan

November 17, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A scene-by-scene remake of the Exorcist from the vaults of Turkish cult cinema.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Who is Mihri

Turkey | 2022 | 89 min. | Berna Gencalp

November 17, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Documentary about Mihri, one of the first female portrait painters, whose journey is traced from the late Ottoman Empire era Istanbul to Rome, Paris and New York.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Black Night (Gala Film and Party)

Turkey | 2022 | 114 min. | Özcan Alper

November 18, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Gala Film and Party.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Iguana Tokyo

Turkey | 2023 | 74 min. | Kaan Müjdeci

November 18, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A small family living in Tokyo experiences a dramatic change in their lives when they begin playing a virtual reality game.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Shorts program

Turkey | 2023 | 180 min.

November 18, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A collection of short narrative films from Türkiye, including STFF Jury award winners.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: About Dry Grasses

Turkey | 2023 | 197 min. | Nuri Bilge Ceylan

November 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Winner of Best Actress and nominated for a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Docs program

Turkey | 2023 | 120 min.

November 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A collection of short documentaries from Türkiye.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Smile

Turkey | 2023 | 91 min. | Sezgin Cengiz, Şiyar Gedik

November 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A dark comedy where Mustafa's life takes a dark turn when he visits his father at the hospital.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: Suddenly

Turkey | 2022 | 115 min. | Melisa Önel

November 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A woman who loses her smell embarks on a journey to find her true self.

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Seattle Turkish Film Festival: The Man Who Saves the World (aka Turkish Star Wars)

Turkey | 1982 | 91 min. | Çetin İnanç

November 19, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A crowd-pleaser cult classic from the vaults of Turkish cult cinema.

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Found Footage Festival Vol. 10

USA | 2023 | 85 min.

November 30, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) have over 11,000 VHS tapes in their collection and will take viewers on a guided tour through their latest and greatest finds.

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Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2023

France | 180 min.

December 5, 2023

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Mountains on Stage aims to bring the mountains to the city and share the beauty of mountain sports with a selection of the best documentaries on mountain activities.

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National Theatre Live: Romeo & Juliet

2023 | 100 min. | Simon Godwin

Opens January 27, 2024

SIFF Film Center

This bold new film brings to life the remarkable backstage spaces of the National Theatre in which desire, dreams and destiny collide to make Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy sing in an entirely new way.

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National Theatre Live: Skylight

United Kingdom | 2014 | 135 min. | Stephen Daldry

Opens February 3, 2024

SIFF Film Center

The original 2014 London production of the Tony Award winning play returns, starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan, directed by Stephen Daldry.

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National Theatre Live: Fleabag

United Kingdom | 2019 | 84 min. | Vicky Jones

Opens February 13, 2024

SIFF Film Center

The hilarious, award-winning play that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, was filmed live on stage in London’s West End in 2019.

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National Theatre Live: Vanya

110 min. | Sam Yates

Opens March 2, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Andrew Scott ("Fleabag") brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ ("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

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