Pass and Voucher Exclusions

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The information on this page reflects the films and classes for which SIFF Cinema vouchers are NOT valid. Please see the specific film page for restrictions or updates. Seattle International Film Festival vouchers are not valid for SIFF Cinema programming. Vouchers may be exchanged in person at the SIFF Cinema box office for admission.

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Screenings and classes NOT accepting vouchers:

Searching for Nika

Spain | 2023 | 140 min. | Stanislav Kapralov

June 27, 2025

SIFF Film Center

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine, Nika, the family dog of director Stas Kapralov went missing. Determined to find her, Stas sets out into a war-ravaged country.

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We Ride Why

USA | 2025 | 70 min. | Greg Roth

June 28 - 29, 2025

SIFF Film Center

We Ride Why is a documentary film about the power of love, community, and hope in the face of cancer. The film follows the stories of several women who have been impacted by cancer, as well as the friends and family who support them. Through their stories, we learn about the collateral damage that cancer can bring, but also the hope that can be found in the relationships that are born out of trauma. Presented by Noir Rouge Productions.

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BFDI & Inanimate Insanity 2025 Tour

90 min.

Opens July 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

BFDI & Inanimate Insanity are two hit YouTube animated series created by Jacknjellify and AnimationEpic!

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She/Her Fest

64 min. | Various

July 26, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A new film festival celebrating emerging women filmmakers.

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L.A. Noir: Kiss Me Deadly

USA | 1955 | 106 min. | Robert Aldrich

September 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Pulp novelist Mickey Spillane’s swaggering private eye Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) likes his dames and drinks, and cruising through life with the top down. He could do it half asleep, but one night he stops for a battered woman walking on a deserted highway--and wakes up to a web of dark forces that could snuff out the world. Kiss Me Deadly is a riff of noir jazz blowing hot, surreal, mysterious, scary. Hammer doesn’t even know who he’s fighting. But he can feel a chill, the cold heart of evil. And we feel full blast cinematic power: “Pretty pow!” Free Opening Night Top Pot Doughnuts.

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L.A. Noir: Point Blank

1967 | 92 min. | John Boorman

September 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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L.A. Noir: The Long Goodbye

USA | 1973 | 112 min. | Robert Altman

September 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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L.A. Noir: Cutter’s Way (35mm)

1981 | 105 min. | Ivan Passer

October 1, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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L.A. Noir: The Two Jakes

1990 | 138 min. | Jack Nicholson

October 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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

1995 | 170 min. | Michael Mann

October 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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

1997 | 138 min. | Curtis Hanson

October 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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 Cameron) 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.

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L.A. Noir: The Limey

1999 | 89 min. | Steven Soderbergh

October 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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?

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L.A. Noir: Drive

USA | 2011 | 100 min. | Nicolas Winding Refn

November 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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L.A. Noir: Inherent Vice

USA | 2014 | 148 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

November 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Smoking a joint helps beach town private eye Doc Sportello (a transcendent Jaoquin 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.

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