In Theaters
Miroirs No. 3
Germany | 2025 | 86 min. | Christian Petzold
Now Playing - Apr 9, 2026
Petzold’s follow-up to the Berlinale prize winner “Afire” is his fourth collaboration with actress Paula Beer about a woman taken in by a family after she survives a seemingly devastating car crash.
Palestine 36
Palestine | 2025 | 118 | Annemarie Jacir
Now Playing - Apr 5, 2026
Filmmaker Annemarie Jacir takes us back to Palestine in the 1930s, charting the lives and ambitions of those living under British rule. Jeremy Irons and Hiam Abbass round out a tremendously strong international cast.
Two Prosecutors
Germany | 2025 | 118 min. | Sergei Loznitsa
Now Playing - Apr 23, 2026
Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, Ukranian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.
I Live Here Now
USA | 2025 | 91 min. | Julie Pacino
Now Playing - Apr 9, 2026
A haunting, dreamlike psychodrama about identity, trauma, and the fragile line between memory and madness. Shot on vibrant 35mm with striking 16mm sequences and directed by Julie Pacino in her feature debut. Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.
The Drama
USA | 2026 | 106 min. | Kristoffer Borgli
Now Playing
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Project Hail Mary
USA | 2026 | 156 min. | Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Now Playing
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out.
SIFF Movie Club: Cléo from 5 to 7
France | 1962 | 90 min. | Agnès Varda
April 6, 2026
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
Serpent's Path and Chime
Japan | 130 min. | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Opens April 7, 2026
Two masterworks from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, released theatrically for the first time in the US! Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.
Scorsese - Casino: 30th Anniversary
USA | 1995 | 179 min. | Martin Scorsese
April 8, 2026
Juicy, over the top, deliciously gaudy 1970s excess, as Robert De Niro tries to keep his casino free of Mob interference, while his enforcer (Joe Pesci), his wife (Sharon Stone), and her ex (James Woods) pursue their often conflicting agendas. With Don Rickles, Frankie Avalon, and Scorsese’s mother Catherine. 30th anniversary screening.
Exit 8
Japan | 2025 | 95 min. | Genki Kawamura
April 9, 2026
Genki Kawamura’s Dante-inspired spin on Kotake Create’s cult game traps Arashi star Kazunari Ninomiya in a looping, sterile subway where one mistake resets everything. A purgatorial thriller born from on-set collaboration, Exit 8 fuses gameplay logic with razor-sharp, emotionally charged cinema.
André is an Idiot
USA | 2025 | 87 min. | Anthony Benna
Opens April 10, 2026
Andre, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
DJ Ahmet
North Macedonia | 2025 | 97 min. | Georgi M. Unkovski
Opens April 10, 2026
Teenage shepherd Ahmet rebels against his conservative farming village when he gets a taste of electronic dance music.
Films of Joost Rekveld
Netherlands | 85 min. | Joost Rekveld
April 12, 2026
Six abstract films (1991-2013) by visionary Dutch artist Joost Rekveld, presented on 35mm and 16mm.
Scorsese: The Wolf of Wall Street
USA | 2013 | 165 min. | Martin Scorsese
April 15, 2026
In Leonardo DiCaprio’s pet project he’s a Wall Street player who, with his partner (Jonah Hill), scams millions from vulnerable investors. It’s a euphoric ride through the most depraved aspects of our human nature. With the late, great, much-loved Rob Reiner.
The Christophers
United Kingdom | 2025 | 100 min. | Steven Soderbergh
April 16, 2026
The great Ian Mckellen and I May Destroy You's Michaela Coel make a brilliant pairing in Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh's incisively witty chamber
Ani-Marathon: Millennium Actress
Japan | 2001 | 87 min. | Satoshi Kon, Kô Matsuo
Opens April 17, 2026
When the legendary Ginei Studios shuts down, filmmaker Genya Tachibana and his assistant are tasked with interviewing its reclusive star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, who had retired from the spotlight 30 years prior.
Ani-Marathon: Paprika
Japan | 2006 | 90 min. | Satoshi Kon
Opens April 17, 2026
Dr. Atsuko Chiba uses a new invention to enter the dreams of her mysteriously troubled patients. When the device is stolen, only Atsuko and her dream alter-ego Paprika can save Tokyo from an apocalyptic dissolution of dreams and reality. A masterfully trippy anime from the director of PERFECT BLUE.
Ani-Marathon: Perfect Blue
Japan | 1997 | 81 min. | Satoshi Kon
Opens April 17, 2026
Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see her go… Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered.
1st Seattle Taiwanese Eco Film Festival: Birds and Us
Taiwan | 2025 | 81 min. | Chun-Hsiu Hung
April 18, 2026
Celebrate the historic launch of the 1st Seattle Taiwanese Eco Film Festival (STEFF), hosted by GreenShower.
1st Seattle Taiwanese Eco Film Festival: Pongso no Tao~Island of People
Taiwan | 2025 | 79 min. | Wen-Chieh Tsao and Wan-Yu Lin
April 18, 2026
Celebrate the historic launch of the 1st Seattle Taiwanese Eco Film Festival (STEFF), hosted by GreenShower.
Ani-Marathon: Angel’s Egg (4K Restoration)
Japan | 1985 | 73 min. | Mamoru Oshii
Opens April 18, 2026
In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. 4K restoration.
Ani-Marathon: Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis
Japan | 2002 | 108 min. | Rintarô
Opens April 18, 2026
A detective and his sidekick discover a duke's plot to control the world via a humanlike robot.
Ani-Marathon: Summer Wars
Japan | 2009 | 114 min. | Mamoru Hosoda
Opens April 18, 2026
Kenji is a teenage math prodigy working for OZ, who is recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job – her fake boyfriend... until a rogue A.I. program steals his online identity, and Kenji is accused of hacking OZ and causing real world catastrophes.
Ani-Marathon: The End of Evangelion
Japan | 1997 | 101 min. | Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Opens April 18, 2026
An alternative ending to "Neon Genesis Evangelion." SEELE plans an attack on NERV after failing to create a Third Impact. Asuka returns and begins the counterattack, as new enemies descend from the heavens.
Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival
Opens April 18, 2026
The Museum of Pop Culture in partnership with SIFF presents the annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival.
Ani-Marathon: A Silent Voice
Japan | 2016 | 130 min. | Naoko Yamada
Opens April 19, 2026
Shoya Ishida, haunted by his past bullying of Shoko Nishimiya due to her deafness, sets out on a path of redemption. Is it too late to make amends?
Ani-Marathon: Mind Game
Japan | 2004 | 103 min. | Massaki Yuasa, Koji Morimoto
Opens April 19, 2026
After a deadly encounter with two yakuza, a loser with a crush on his childhood girlfriend goes to heaven and back, embarking on a psychedelic self-discovery experience with her and his friends.
Ani-Marathon: Wolf Children
Japan | 2012 | 117 minutes | Mamoru Hosoda
Opens April 19, 2026
Master animator Mamoru Hosoda's visually breathtaking family epic––a huge hit in Japan––follows a young girl, an enigmatic wolf-man, and their spirited children discovering the call of the wild. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Ani-Marathon: Ghost in the Shell
Japan | 1995 | 83 min. | Mamoru Oshii
Opens April 21, 2026
2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master,” a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts.
Ani-Marathon: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Japan | 2001 | 115 min. | Shinichiro Watanabe
Opens April 22, 2026
Set in the year 2071, this engaging animated tale follows an eclectic crew of space bounty hunters as they hunt down a biochemical terrorist on Mars.
Ani-Marathon: Redline
Japan | 2010 | 100 min. | Takeshi Koike
Opens April 22, 2026
The most dangerous underground car race sets the stage for this visually explosive anime, where a daredevil battles fierce opponents willing to unleash all-out destruction to secure the winning title.
Scorsese: Silence
USA | 2016 | 161 min. | Martin Scorsese
April 22, 2026
Scorsese chose to show this spiritual thriller, in which 17th-century priests (Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver) seek their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) in Japan, where Christianity is outlawed, but a visionary voice still speaks. A meditation on Christian and Buddhist thought, an illumination of physical and metaphysical faith. Scorsese as landscape painter.
Ani-Marathon: Promare
Japan | 2019 | 111 min. | Hiroyuki Imaishi
Opens April 23, 2026
A brash firefighter faces off against a strong-willed, misunderstood pyrokinetic struggling to free his people – with the Earth's fate on the line.
I Swear
United Kingdom | 2025 | 121 min. | Kirk Jones
Opens April 23, 2026
Funny, honest, and deeply human, I Swear tells the inspirational true story of John Davidson, a trailblazer whose honesty and humour helped the world better understand what it means to live with Tourette Syndrome.
Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable
2026 | 91 min. | David Bickerstaff
Opens April 24, 2026
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also fierce rivals, both using landscape painting to reflect their changing world—Constable with old school realism, Turner with abstraction and dreamlike impressions.
Steal This Story, Please!
USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Opens April 24, 2026
This riveting portrait of "Democracy Now!"'s Amy Goodman spotlights journalism's power—and peril—amid rising corporate control and political attacks on the press.
The Stranger
France | 2025 | 122 min. | François Ozon
Opens April 24, 2026
François Ozon brings Albert Camus’ acclaimed 1942 novel to the big screen as a sun-baked, black-and-white neo-noir, a potent blend of psychological thriller and anti-colonial critique.
Ani-Marathon: ChaO
Japan | 2025 | 90 min. | Yasuhiro Aoki
Opens April 25, 2026
After a freak boating accident, engineer Stephan wakes to find himself engaged to the mermaid princess who saved his life. It’s good for the city, good for business, good for Stephan’s air jet project. There’s only one problem: his wife is a fish.
Ani-Marathon: Weathering With You
Japan | 2019 | 111 min. | Makoto Shinkai
Opens April 25, 2026
The summer of his freshman year, Hodaka runs away to bustling, ever-raining Tokyo and falls for Hina, a girl who seems able to manipulate the weather.
Community Screening: Meet Me in St. Louis
USA | 1944 | 113 min. | Vincente Minnelli
April 26, 2026
In turn of the century St. Louis, Judy Garland sings about trollies and pines for “Boy Next Door” Tom Drake, Margaret O’Brien braves the terrors of Halloween, Mom Mary Astor looks lovely in Technicolored middle-age, and Dad Leon Ames debates taking that Gotham job as the 1903 World’s Fair beckons.
Ani-Marathon: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
Japan | 2017 | 91 min. | Masaaki Yuasa
Opens April 29, 2026
An offbeat Kyoto love story from the pages of a best-selling novel comes to life on screen.
Mountains on Stage - Summer Edition 2026
France | 2025 | 190 min.
April 29, 2026
Mountains on Stage brings the mountains to the city.An inspiring selection of the best mountain sports documentaries, celebrating adventure, passion and the beauty of high-altitude life.
Scorsese: The Irishman
USA | 2019 | 209 min. | Martin Scorsese
April 29, 2026
A stunning epic panorama of mid-century America, seen through the youth-to-old age viewpoint of Mob hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), right hand man to top Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Mafia bosses (Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel), Kennedy, Nixon, Watergate, are evoked, but the intimate drama center’s on Sheeran's family, and the consequences of the way he's spent his time.
SIFF Movie Club: Sansho the Bailiff
Japan | 1954 | 126 min. | Kenji Mizoguchi
May 4, 2026
One of cinema's greatest masterpieces, Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi's empathetic examination of human resilience in the face of evil takes place in medieval Japan, where the family of an exiled nobleman are left to fend for themselves and become wrenched apart by vicious slave traders.
Community Screening: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
USA | 1982 | 115 min. | Steven Spielberg
May 31, 2026
A young boy, Elliott, discovers and befriends a friendly alien stranded on Earth. Together, they embark on a heartwarming and magical adventure, teaching us the power of friendship, love, and the boundless wonders of the universe. 4K restoration
SIFF Movie Club: Velvet Goldmine
United Kingdom | 1998 | 118 min. | Todd Haynes
June 1, 2026
It’s been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight. Now, it’s the job of investigative reporter Arthur Stuart to locate this living legend and uncover the truth behind his disappearance.
SIFF Movie Club: Fried Green Tomatoes
USA | 1991 | 130 min. | Jon Avnett
July 6, 2026
Towanda! Amidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in 1920s Whistle Stop, Alabama.
CatVideoFest 2026
2025 | 70 min.
Opens August 7, 2026
The world's #1 cat video festival is back with another compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.