In Theaters

Democracy Noir

USA | 2024 | 93 min. | Connie Field

Now Playing - Sep 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Democracy Noir follows three courageous women as they fight to expose both the step-by-step destruction of democracy and corruption within Viktor Orbán’s Hungary—a white nationalist regime, envied by promoters of a new brand of authoritarianism throughout the world. Q&As with director Connie Field on September 12.

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

United Kingdom | 2025 | 123 min. | Simon Curtis

Now Playing

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Return to Downton Abbey for a last time, as the Crawleys navigate the turbulent 1930s, and prepare for the next generation.

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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.

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STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

USA | 2015 | 141 min. | J.J. Abrams

Now Playing - Sep 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A lonely scavenger finds herself at the center of a galactic conflict.

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STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

USA | 2017 | 154 min. | Rian Johnson

Now Playing - Sep 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A spark of hope keeps the Resistance alive as they flee from the First Order.

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STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER

USA | 2019 | 143 min. | J.J. Abrams

Now Playing - Sep 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The landmark Skywalker saga comes to a conclusion.

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

USA | 2016 | 136 min. | Gareth Edwards

Now Playing - Sep 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Unlikely heroes band together to steal the plans to the Death Star.

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STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE

USA | 1977 | 125 min. | George Lucas

Now Playing - Sep 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A young farm boy intercepts a distress call from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan.

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STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI

USA | 1983 | 136 min. | Richard Marquand

Now Playing - Sep 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Luke Skywalker faces Darth Vader in a final duel.

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STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

USA | 1980 | 124 min. | Irvin Kershner

Now Playing - Sep 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Luke Skywalker trains as a Jedi in order to confront the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader.

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SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

USA | 2018 | 135 min. | Ron Howard

Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Witness the beginning of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely hero.

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STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES

USA | 2002 | 143 min. | George Lucas

Now Playing - Sep 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Young Anakin and Padmé fall in love as galactic war looms.

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STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH

USA | 2005 | 141 min. | George Lucas

Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

As the Republic falls, a new regime lead by an ancient evil rises in its place.

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STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE

USA | 1999 | 137 min. | George Lucas

Now Playing - Sep 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Jedi Knights discover Anakin Skywalker, a boy unusually strong in the Force.

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The Roses

USA | 2025 | 105 min. | Jay Roach

Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Honey Don’t!

USA | 2025 | 90 min. | Ethan Coen

Now Playing - Sep 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA

91 min.

September 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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

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FernGully: The Last Rainforest (PPFFFS)

USA | 1992 | 75 min. | Bill Kroyer

September 16, 2025

SIFF Film Center

ParkPunks Family-Friendly Film Series presents FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Animated tale of sylvan sprites imperiled when humans invade their forest and threaten to unleash an evil spirit. Free and open to the public.

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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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The Baltimorons

USA | 2025 | 99 min. | Jay Duplass

Opens September 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

USA | 2025 | 109 min. | Kogonada

Opens September 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An imaginative tale of two strangers and the unbelievable journey that connects them.

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Sans Soleil

France | 1983 | 103 min. | Chris Marker

September 18, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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Linda Linda Linda: 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration)

Japan | 2005 | 114 min. | Nobuhiro Yamashita

Opens September 19, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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PTA: The Master

USA | 2012 | 137 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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PTA: There Will Be Blood

USA | 2007 | 158 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

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Kino Armenia: Calendar

Canada | 1993 | 75 min. | Atom Egoyan

September 20, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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Kino Armenia: I will revenge this world with Love - S. Paradjanov

Armenia | 2024 | 110 min. | Zara Jian

September 20, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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Kino Armenia: The Color of Pomegranates

Armenia | 1969 | 77 min. | Sergei Parajanov

September 20, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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PTA: Boogie Nights

USA | 1997 | 155 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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PTA: Hard Eight

USA | 1996 | 102 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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...

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PTA: Phantom Thread

USA | 2017 | 130 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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PTA: Punch-Drunk Love

USA | 2002 | 95 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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PTA: Licorice Pizza

USA | 2021 | 133 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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PTA: Magnolia

USA | 1999 | 188 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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The Last Class

USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Elliot Kirschner

Opens September 21, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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The Popcorn List: New Wave

USA | 2024 | 94 min. | Elizabeth Ai

September 23, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Elizabeth Ai’s lively first feature delves into the rebellious Vietnamese new wave music scene, blending nostalgia with a deeply personsal 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.

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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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Eleanor the Great

USA | 2025 | 98 min. | Scarlett Johansson

Opens September 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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One Battle After Another

USA | 2025 | 161 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

Opens September 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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Who Killed Teddy Bear? (35mm)

USA | 1965 | 95 min. | Joseph Cates

Opens September 25, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A new 35mm print of the never-before-seen director's cut of Joseph Cates's lurid '60s thriller, presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

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The Uncertain Detective, Season 4

USA | 2025 | 115 min. | Gregg Lachow

September 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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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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SIFF Movie Club: Green Room

USA | 2016 | 94 min. | Jeremy Saulnier

October 1, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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The Smashing Machine

USA | 2025 | 123 min. | Benny Safdie

Opens October 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Little Forest

South Korea | 2018 | 103 min. | Yim Soon-rye

October 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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National Theatre Live: Inter Alia

120 min. | Justin Martin

Opens October 3, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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?

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The Balconettes

France | 2024 | 104 min. | Noémie Merlant

Opens October 3, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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Are We Good?

USA | 2025 | 97 min. | Steven Feinartz

October 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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Quality Ski Time Film Tour presented by Salomon

150 min.

October 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Where to Land

USA | 2025 | 75 min. | Hal Hartley

Opens October 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

The latest feature film from legendary indie auteur, Hal Hartley! Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

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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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Blacula

USA | 1972 | 92 min. | William Crain

October 9, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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Tron: Ares

USA | 2025 | 119 min. | Joachim Rønning

Opens October 9, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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A House of Dynamite

USA | 2025 | 112 min. | Kathryn Bigelow

Opens October 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Bring Them Home

USA | 2024 | 85 min. | Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet), Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet), Daniel Glick

Opens October 10, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Lily Gladstone narrates this story about Montana’s Blackfoot tribe as they seek to reinstate a wild buffalo herd.

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After the Hunt

USA | 2025 | 139 min. | Luca Guadagnino

Opens October 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Not everything is supposed to make you feel comfortable...

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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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Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) - New Restoration

Japan | 1988 | 65 min. | Hisayasu Satô

Opens October 15, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. One of legendary pink film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, newly restored.

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DocFest: Space Cowboy

USA | 2024 | 98 min. | Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt

October 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Love+War

USA | 2025 | 96 min. | E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

October 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Runa Simi

Peru | 2025 | 86 min. | Augusto Zegarra

October 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: 25 Cats From Qatar

USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Mye Hoang

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Steal This Story, Please!

USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Widow Champion

Kenya | 2025 | 95 min. | Zippy Kimundu

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest - A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

USA | 2025 | 87 min. | Oriel Pe’er

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Cutting Through Rocks

Iran | 2025 | 95 min. | Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Speak.

USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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. Co-director Guy Mossman, producer Pamela Griner, and special guests scheduled to attend.

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DocFest - Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert

Spain | 2024 | 95 min. | Paco Plaza

October 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

Ukraine | 2025 | 106 min. | Mstyslav Chernov

October 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: The Secret of Me

United Kingdom | 2025 | 97 min. | Grace Hughes-Hallett

October 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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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 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.

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DocFest - Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

USA | 2025 | 84 min. | Christine Turner

October 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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DocFest: Cover-Up

USA | 2025 | 117 min. | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

October 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

USA | 2024 | 113 min. | Mary Bronstein

Opens October 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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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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Bugonia

United Kingdom | 2025 | 120 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos

Opens October 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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It Was Just an Accident

Iran | 2025 | 105 min. | Jafar Panahi

Opens October 31, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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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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SIFF Movie Club: The Ascent

Soviet Union | 1977 | 109 min. | Larisa Shepitko

November 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Girl Winter Film Tour

90 min.

November 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Join us for a night of women-centric short ski films and get excited for winter at SIFF Uptown in Seattle, WA.

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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 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.

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Peter Hujar's Day

USA | 2025 | 76 min. | Ira Sachs

Opens November 14, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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.

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SIFF Movie Club: The Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary)

USA | 1955 | 93 min. | Charles Laughton

December 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2025

2025 | 180 min.

December 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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