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Flow

Latvia | 2024 | 85 min. | Gints Zilbalodis

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood.

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Queer

Italy | 2024 | 135 min. | Luca Guadagnino

Now Playing - Dec 24, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

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Seattle Film Critics Society PNW Award Nominees

December 6–8, 2024

Screenings of the five nominated films for the Seattle Film Critics Society's 2024 Pacific Northwest Filmmaking Award.

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SFCS: Rainier: A Beer Odyssey

USA | 2024 | 124 min. | Isaac Olsen

December 6, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Crack open a cold one with the epic story of Rainier Beer and its world-famous 1970s advertising campaign. Filmmakers/producers Isaac Olsen, Justin Peterson, and Robby Peterson are scheduled to be in attendance for an intro and post-film Q&A.

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

USA | 1992 | 85 min. | Brian Henson

Now Playing - Dec 8, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to life through the magic of Jim Henson’s Muppets. All ages welcome!

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All We Imagine as Light

France | 2024 | 118 min. | Payal Kapadia

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut. 

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Wicked

USA | 2024 | Jon M. Chu

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SIFF Cinema Downtown

Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.

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A Real Pain

USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Jesse Eisenberg

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Sundance 2024 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic.

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SFCS: All We Carry

USA | 2024 | 87 min. | Cady Voge

December 7, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Honduran refugees find sanctuary in a Seattle synagogue, who show mercy on them as they await asylum. Filmmaker Cady Voge is scheduled to be in attendance for an intro and post-film Q&A.

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SFCS: Strange Darling

USA | 2023 | 96 min. | JT Mollner

December 7, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer's vicious murder spree. We’re thrilled to be showing J.T. Mollner’s twisty tale Strange Darling as part of our best-of PNW series. Not only will you be able to see this cult hit with a crowd, but you'll be able to hear from stars Kyle Gallner, Willa Fitzgerald, and Ed Begley Jr. in a Q&A after the film.

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SFCS: Fish War

USA | 2024 | 79 min. | Jeff Ostenson, Charles Atkinson, Skylar Wagner

December 8, 2024

SIFF Film Center

In 1974, a conservative federal judge upheld Indigenous fishing rights in Washington, ending violent clashes with law enforcement and laying the foundation for environmental stewardship in this locally produced activism documentary. Filmmakers/producers Jeff Ostenson, Ed Johnstone, Trevor Pyle, and Rodney Sisson are scheduled to be in attendance for an intro and post-film Q&A.

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SFCS: Gasoline Rainbow

USA | 2023 | 108 min. | Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross

December 8, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Reimagining the road movie with the next generation of misfits, celebrated directorial duo the Ross Brothers make a coming-of-age film that runs on free-flowing feeling. Alive with friendship and the promise of the moment, Gasoline Rainbow is a beautiful reminder of what matters and what’s real.

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Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2024

France | 2024 | 150 min.

December 10, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A selection of the best films related to mountain activities on the big screen are presented.

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Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto: Interstella 5555

France | 2004 | 93 min. | Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Opens December 12, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Interstella 5555 tells the story of the abduction of an alien music band by an evil human character who has dark plans. The hour-long film was cut into music videos to accompany Daft Punk’s album "Discovery," and is rare to see in its original form in cinemas.

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Exclusive Screening of Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy

USA | 2024 | 99 min. | Nic Stacey

December 13, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Join Amazon Employees for Climate Justice and Troublemakers for a free screening of the new documentary, Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy. After the film, stick around for a brief Q&A with Maren Costa from the film and others involved in local environmental organizing here in Seattle.

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The Sacrifice (New 4K Restoration)

Sweden | 1986 | 145 min. | Andrei Tarkovsky

Opens December 13, 2024

SIFF Film Center

As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island—and the happy mood turns to horror. 

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Carol of the Bells

Ukraine | 2022 | 112 min. | Olesia Morhunets-Isaienko

December 14, 2024

SIFF Film Center

Do you know the story of 'Carol of the Bells' written by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych?

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SIFF Cinema Downtown’s First Birthday Bash: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

USA | 1971 | 100 min. | Mel Stuart

December 14, 2024

SIFF Cinema Downtown

You step into a world of pure imagination every time you enter SIFF Cinema Downtown, and we want to share it with you this December!

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA

91 min.

December 17, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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

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Mufasa: The Lion King

USA | 2024 | 120 min. | Barry Jenkins

Opens December 19, 2024

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Exploring the unlikely rise of the beloved king of the Pride Lands, Mufasa: The Lion King enlists Rafiki to relay the legend of Mufasa to young lion cub Kiara, daughter of Simba and Nala, with Timon and Pumbaa lending their signature schtick.

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A Complete Unknown

USA | 2024 | 135 min. | James Mangold

Opens December 24, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

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Babygirl

USA | 2024 | 114 min. | Halina Reijn

Opens December 25, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.

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Fiddler on the Roof Sing-along

USA | 1971 | 191 min. | Norman Jewison

December 25, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A holiday party with the best Jewish-themed musical of them all!

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Nosferatu

2024 | 132 min. | Robert Eggers

Opens December 25, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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Moulin Rouge! New Year’s Eve Sing-along

USA | 2001 | 127 minutes | Baz Luhrmann

December 31, 2024

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ring in the new year with the classic Baz Luhrmann romantic musical favorite!

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Movie Club: American Psycho

USA | 2000 | 102 min. | Mary Harron

January 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fiancée (Reese Witherspoon)..... Introduced by SIFF Graphic Designer Manager Rhys Iliakis.

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The Room Next Door

Spain | 2024 | 110 min. | Pedro Almodóvar

Opens January 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years.

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Powell & Pressburger: The Tales of Hoffmann

United Kingdom | 1951 | 138 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

January 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Set to Jacques Offenbach’s enchanting music, an archetypal Poet (Robert Rounseville) courts women, his muses (Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina), in various lands and times, ever pursued by his nemesis (Robert Helpmann). Delectably intoxicating.

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Powell & Pressburger: Peeping Tom

United Kingdom | 1960 | 101 min. | Michael Powell

January 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A psychologist experiments on his young son, who grows into a gentle, photography-obsessed man (Carl Boehm) who lives to see fear on others’ faces. Can we sympathize with a murderer? Powell calls this a “tender film,” full of empathy for a twisted soul. With Moira Shearer.

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Dinner in America

USA | 2019 | 106 min. | Adam Rehmeier

January 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band embark on a series of misadventures through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

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Powell & Pressburger: Gone to Earth

1950 | 111 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

January 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A nature girl (Jennifer Jones) of the Welsh hills is courted by a pious vicar (Cyril Cusack) and tempted by a roguish squire (David Farrar). Amidst an evocatively rendered sense of place, sacred and profane love entwine in the Celtic twilight.

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Street Trash (35mm)

South Africa | 2024 | 85 min. | Ryan Kruger

Opens January 31, 2025

SIFF Film Center

In the year 2050, global economic turmoil has destroyed the middle class in Cape Town, South Africa, which is now divided between the ultra-rich and the unhoused. Ronald and group of fellow houseless friends uncover a plot by the local government to “liquify“ the houseless population with a sinister chemical agent called “V”.

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Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

114 min. | Max Webster

Opens February 5, 2025

SIFF Film Center

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo lead a stellar cast in a new 5-star production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal.

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Movie Club: Tampopo

Japan | 1985 | 114 min. | Jûzô Itami

February 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A modern cowboy, his trusty sidekick, and an intrepid noodle shop owner embark on the quest for the perfect recipe in the 4K restoration of Juzo Itami’s rapturous “ramen western.” Introduced by Community Engagement Manager Hannah Baek.

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National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Max Webster

Opens February 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa ("Doctor Who;" "Sex Education") in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

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To Live and Die in L.A.

USA | 1985 | 114 min. | William Friedkin

February 27, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

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Movie Club: The First Slam Dunk

Japan | 2022 | 124 min. | Takehiko Inoue

March 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Takehiko Inoue adapts his own highly influential 90s basketball manga into a quiet portrait of a broken family - and one of the most thrilling sports movies ever made. Introduced by Cinema Rentals Manager Patrick McFarland.

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Sea Slug Animation Festival

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A new film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation. Presented by Sea Slug Animation Festival.

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CreepTime The Podcast LIVE

90 min.

March 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

CreepTime LIVE starring Sylas and Stew. A night of haunting tales brought right to you in Seattle. Presented by CreepTime The Podcast.

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Super Mario Bros. (35mm)

United Kingdom | 1993 | 104 min. | Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

March 27, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They’re the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.

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Movie Club: My Own Private Idaho

USA | 1991 | 104 min. | Gus Van Sant

April 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

"I always know where I am by the way the road looks..." Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix star in director Gus Van Sant's seminal meditation on the nature of innocence as two young men living on the fringes of society peddle their bodies for sex. Introduced by Education Manager Megan Garbayo-López.

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National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove

2025 | Sean Foley

Opens April 5, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.

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Secret Screening #1

April 24, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Shhh… It’s a secret.

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Pink Flamingos

USA | 1972 | 93 min. | John Waters

June 26, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.

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Secret Screening #2

July 31, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Shhh… It’s a secret.

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