In Theaters
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
USA | 2025 | 109 min. | Kogonada
Now Playing
An imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them.
Sans Soleil
France | 1983 | 103 min. | Chris Marker
September 18, 2025
Presented by Mount Analogue ○ Art + Cinema. Considered one of the best documentaries of all time, Chris Marker's 1983 film Sans Soleil (Sunless) is a mind-bending free-form travelogue that journeys from Africa to Japan.
The Baltimorons
USA | 2025 | 99 min. | Jay Duplass
Now Playing
After cracking a tooth on Christmas Eve, newly sober Cliff embarks on an unexpected May/December adventure through Baltimore with Didi, his emergency dentist. Post-film Q&A with director Jay Duplass on September 17.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
United Kingdom | 2025 | 123 min. | Simon Curtis
Now Playing
Return to Downton Abbey for a last time, as the Crawleys navigate the turbulent 1930s, and prepare for the next generation.
L.A. Noir: Shadows in Paradise
September 10-November 12, 2025
Temperature’s rising, existential heat’s high, but L.A. Noir: Shadows in Paradise keeps its cool. Ten-film series presented by Greg Olson Productions, one film each week at SIFF Cinema Uptown September 10-November 12, 2025.
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
USA | 2018 | 135 min. | Ron Howard
Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025
Witness the beginning of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely hero.
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.
The Roses
USA | 2025 | 105 min. | Jay Roach
Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a picture-perfect married couple who descend into a bitter cat-and-dog divorce battle in this reimagining of The War of the Roses.
Honey Don’t!
USA | 2025 | 90 min. | Ethan Coen
Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025
She only has two desires, and one of them is justice. Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church in this comic noir.
Linda Linda Linda: 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration)
Japan | 2005 | 114 min. | Nobuhiro Yamashita
Opens September 19, 2025
Linda Linda Linda is a cult favorite and a hidden gem of Japanese cinema that follows a high school girls’ band preparing to perform at a school festival. Featuring music by James Iha (The Smashing Pumpkins), the film has gained a devoted following despite its limited U.S. release. New 4K restoration.
PTA: The Master
USA | 2012 | 137 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 19, 2025
Joaquin Phoenix as WWII vet Freddie Quell falls into the orbit of Philip Seymour Hoffman's self-styled prophet Lancaster Dodd in this tremulous 1950s psychodrama.
PTA: There Will Be Blood
USA | 2007 | 158 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 19, 2025
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
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.
PTA: Boogie Nights
USA | 1997 | 155 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 20, 2025
The rise and fall of a prodigiously-endowed performer on the '70s porno scene. Paul Thomas Anderson's flamboyant 1997 calling card movie revels in the wild success of xxxcess, before crashing to earth with a bump.
PTA: Hard Eight
USA | 1996 | 102 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 20, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson's debut is a deceptively modest character piece about a veteran gambler who takes a much younger man under his wing and teaches him how to play the system and win. Until things take a darker turn...
PTA: Phantom Thread
USA | 2017 | 130 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 20, 2025
Set in 1950's London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.
PTA: Punch-Drunk Love
USA | 2002 | 95 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 20, 2025
Paul Thomas Anderson's surreal screwball romantic comedy has a wildly experimental edge, not least in Jon Brion's audacious score, but there's something euphoric about the entire irresistible project.
PTA: Licorice Pizza
USA | 2021 | 133 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 21, 2025
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
PTA: Magnolia
USA | 1999 | 188 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 21, 2025
The fateful (or purely coincidental?) intertwining of nearly two dozen Los Angelinos’ lives searching for meaning in a spiteful world that unfolds over one chaotic day in Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterful tragi-comedy about dreams, despair, quiz shows, and a very special motivational speaker.
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.
The Popcorn List: New Wave
USA | 2024 | 94 min. | Elizabeth Ai
September 23, 2025
Elizabeth Ai’s lively first feature delves into the rebellious Vietnamese new wave music scene, blending nostalgia with a deeply personal re-examination of her community's hidden and unexamined past. The Popcorn List is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America – not yet available in wide release.
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.
Eleanor the Great
USA | 2025 | 98 min. | Scarlett Johansson
Opens September 25, 2025
Oscar nominee June Squibb (SIFF 2024 Honoree) stars in Scarlett Johansson’s thoughtful, provocative, and very funny feature directorial debut, about a nonagenarian who passes herself off as a Holocaust survivor.
One Battle After Another
USA | 2025 | 161 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens September 25, 2025
Washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio) exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). When his evil nemesis (Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
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.
SIFF Movie Club: Green Room
USA | 2016 | 94 min. | Jeremy Saulnier
October 1, 2025
Green Room is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Assistant Manager Tony Ochoa.
The Smashing Machine
USA | 2025 | 123 min. | Benny Safdie
Opens October 2, 2025
In one of the year’s most unexpected team-ups, indie icon Benny Safdie and star Dwayne Johnson unite in this powerful and gritty account of the career of MMA and UFC pioneer Mark Kerr.
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.
National Theatre Live: Inter Alia
120 min. | Justin Martin
Opens October 3, 2025
Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?
The Balconettes
France | 2024 | 104 min. | Noémie Merlant
Opens October 3, 2025
Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) co-writes, directs, and stars in this genre-bending feminist comic thriller, as a trio of Marseille roommates—a camgirl, a writer, and an actress—rage against toxic masculinity in the middle of a terrible heat wave.
Are We Good?
USA | 2025 | 97 min. | Steven Feinartz
October 5, 2025
The life of comic and podcast pioneer Marc Maron, as he struggles with the loss of his partner, Seattle icon Lynn Shelton.
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.
Scarecrowber: The Abominable Dr. Phibes
United Kingdom | 1971 | 94 min. | Robert Fuest
October 7, 2025
A proper kick-off, Dr. (of music and theology) Phibes mimics the G'tach—the ten lethal plagues of Egypt—with intentions of vengeance against the doctors and nurses responsible for a botched operation that resulted in the death of his wife. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Jonathan Marlow.
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.
Blacula
USA | 1972 | 92 min. | William Crain
October 9, 2025
In this Blaxploitation classic, African prince Mamuwalde visits Count Dracula to seek help ending the slave trade but is instead bitten and cursed to live eternally as a vampire—Blacula.
Scarecrowber: Tombs of the Blind Dead
Spain | 1972 | 101 min. | Amando de Ossorio
October 9, 2025
The first and finest of the Blind Dead tetralogy, unleashed upon the world in the early-1970s and known in its home-country as La noche del terror ciego (The Night of the Blind Terror)! Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Malakie Peters.
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.
A House of Dynamite
USA | 2025 | 112 min. | Kathryn Bigelow
Opens October 10, 2025
In Kathryn Bigelow’s taut thriller, when a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
Bring Them Home
USA | 2024 | 85 min. | Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet), Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet), Daniel Glick
Opens October 10, 2025
Lily Gladstone narrates this story about Montana’s Blackfoot tribe as they seek to reinstate a wild buffalo herd.
Scarecrowber: Toby Dammit + [Shhh!]
Italy | 1968 | 43 min. | Federico Fellini
October 14, 2025
Arguably the greatest of all Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, this Fellini featurette showcases the remarkable talents of Terrence Stamp in one of his most dynamic and demanding roles. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Jonathan Marlow.
After the Hunt
USA | 2025 | 139 min. | Luca Guadagnino
Opens October 15, 2025
Not everything is supposed to make you feel comfortable...
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.
DocFest: Space Cowboy
USA | 2024 | 98 min. | Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt
October 16, 2025
Thrill to the high-flying story of Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography and gasp-inducing aerial stunts, as he attempts the one stunt that has eluded him throughout his death-defying life.
SIFF DocFest
October 16-23, 2025
Annual weeklong film festival showcasing the best documentaries from around the world.
DocFest: Love+War
USA | 2025 | 96 min. | E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
October 17, 2025
Oscar® winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue, DocFest 2021) turn their camera on Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lynsey Addario as she documents the war in Ukraine and reflects on her career spent on the front lines.
DocFest: Runa Simi
Peru | 2025 | 86 min. | Augusto Zegarra
October 17, 2025
A charismatic Peruvian voice actor and his son embark on an extraordinary quest: to dub Disney’s The Lion King into their native language of Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in South America.
DocFest: 25 Cats From Qatar
USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Mye Hoang
October 18, 2025
An American flight attendant embarks on a bold, four-day mission to rescue abandoned cats from the streets of Doha for adoption in the USA in this compelling, heartwarming new film from director Mye Hoang (Cat Daddies, SIFF 2022). Director Mye Hoang scheduled to attend.
DocFest: Steal This Story, Please!
USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
October 18, 2025
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.
DocFest: Widow Champion
Kenya | 2025 | 95 min. | Zippy Kimundu
October 18, 2025
Fifteen years after being thrown off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow transforms herself into a fierce advocate for women’s land rights in her community, rallying her fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property.
DocFest - A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
USA | 2025 | 87 min. | Oriel Pe’er
October 19, 2025
Follow trailblazing trans icon and activist Peppermint’s rise from a struggling Harlem queen to history-making turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Broadway, in this documentary that pulls back the curtain on fame, transition, and the cost of living in the spotlight as a Black trans woman.
DocFest: Cutting Through Rocks
Iran | 2025 | 95 min. | Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
October 19, 2025
The first elected councilwoman of a remote Iranian village sparks a movement—and mounting backlash—when she urges the area’s young women to question long-held patriarchal traditions in this Sundance award-winning documentary.
DocFest: Speak.
USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman
October 19, 2025
Five bold young voices go on a high-stakes journey to conquer the Super Bowl of public speaking, offering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced. Director Jennifer Tiexiera, co-director Guy Mossman, producer Pamela Griner, and special guests scheduled to attend.
DocFest - Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert
Spain | 2024 | 95 min. | Paco Plaza
October 20, 2025
Director Paco Plaza takes us behind the closed doors of the legendary, Michelin-starred restaurant Mugaritz, where chef Andoni Luis Aduriz and his inventive team reinvent fine dining with a bold, boundary-pushing new menu each year.
DocFest: 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Ukraine | 2025 | 106 min. | Mstyslav Chernov
October 21, 2025
The Oscar®-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol return with a searing, unvarnished portrait of the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian soldiers, told from a deeply personal and devastatingly graphic vantage point. Winner of Sundance’s Directing Award for World Cinema Documentary.
DocFest: The Secret of Me
United Kingdom | 2025 | 97 min. | Grace Hughes-Hallett
October 22, 2025
A shocking medical discovery turns a college student’s life upside-down in this gripping film from the team behind Three Identical Strangers. Subject Jim Ambrose scheduled to attend.
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.
DocFest - Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
USA | 2025 | 84 min. | Christine Turner
October 23, 2025
A kaleidoscopic portrait of the visionary jazz musician, composer, and poet known as Sun Ra and the musical, historical, and philosophical currents that shaped him.
DocFest: Cover-Up
USA | 2025 | 117 min. | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
October 23, 2025
Urgent and deeply reported, Laura Poitras (All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, DocFest 2022) and Mark Obenhaus (“Frontline”) profile renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in this arresting reflection on power and accountability.
Scarecrowber: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
Japan | 1968 | 84 min. | Hajime Sato
October 23, 2025
Are Gokemidoro undead or are extraterrestrial bloodsuckers a different form of life-as-we-know-it? Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Matt Lynch.
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
USA | 2024 | 113 min. | Mary Bronstein
Opens October 24, 2025
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Scarecrowber: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Czech Republic | 77 min. | Jaromil Jires
October 28, 2025
We conclude our world-ranging romp across the permeable barrier of life and death with the greatest of all coming-of-age films. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Meghann Crafton and Jonathan Marlow.
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?
Bugonia
United Kingdom | 2025 | 120 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos
Opens October 30, 2025
Two conspiracy-obsessed men kidnap the CEO of a major company when they become convinced that she's an alien who wants to destroy Earth.
It Was Just an Accident
Iran | 2025 | 105 min. | Jafar Panahi
Opens October 31, 2025
Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, the latest from Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi — his first following his most recent prison sentence — follows a group of citizens pondering revenge against a man they believe was their torturer.
Skweezy Jibbs Makes a Movie
USA | 2025 | 85 min. | Michael Ward
November 4, 2025
Oddball internet legend Skweezy Jibbs is making the movie of his dreams. Unfortunately for him, he's got no money, no experience, no skill, and no filmmaking talent. Be among the first people to see the movie, and stay for an exclusive Q&A with Skweezy himself. One night only!
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.
SIFF Movie Club: The Ascent
Soviet Union | 1977 | 109 min. | Larisa Shepitko
November 5, 2025
Set during World War II's darkest days, The Ascent follows the path of two peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge through the snowy backwoods of Belarus seeking refuge among villagers. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Staff Member Adam Plesser.
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.
Cinema Italian Style 2025
November 12–16, 2025
Cinema Italian Style returns to Seattle November 12–16 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.
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.
Peter Hujar's Day
USA | 2025 | 76 min. | Ira Sachs
Opens November 14, 2025
Twenty-four hours in the life of the famously uncompromising Peter Hujar who was regarded as one of the most important characters in downtown New York's cultural scene.
Sentimental Value
Norway | 2025 | 135 min. | Joachim Trier
Opens November 20, 2025
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.
Hamnet
United Kingdom | 2025 | 125 min. | Chloé Zhao
Opens November 26, 2025
A lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley). From Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland).
SIFF Movie Club: The Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary)
USA | 1955 | 93 min. | Charles Laughton
December 3, 2025
Part fairy tale, part Southern gothic horror story, The Night of the Hunter tells the story of a psychopathic preacher who pursues two children who hold the key to hidden loot. 70th anniversary screening. Introduced by SIFF Education Manager Megan Garbayo-López.
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.