In Theaters
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: The Store (4K Restoration)
USA | 1983 | 118 min. | Frederick Wiseman
Now Playing - May 7, 2025
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes cameras inside a Neiman Marcus store and its corporate headquarters in Dallas.
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Welfare (4K Restoration)
USA | 1975 | 167 min. | Frederick Wiseman
Now Playing - May 11, 2025
Welfare shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly.
The Shrouds
France | 2024 | 119 min. | David Cronenberg
Now Playing
Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents gravetech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators. Join us on May 3 at 7:00pm to hear from author Violet Lucca and buy a copy of David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, her comprehensive new text on the cult director packed with stills, illustrations, and a forward from Viggo Mortensen (Crimes of the Future).
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: High School (4K Restoration)
USA | 1968 | 75 min. | Frederick Wiseman
Now Playing - May 11, 2025
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
The Wedding Banquet
USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Andrew Ahn
Now Playing - May 11, 2025
From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness, and family expectations.
Sinners
USA | 2025 | Ryan Coogler
Now Playing - May 11, 2025
Get ready for Ryan Coogler's (Black Panther) highly anticipated and wildly ambitious vampire take on the Jim Crow South in Sinners, featuring Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers. Critics are calling it 'gory, horny, relevant,' so you'll want to be sure to see it on our 97-foot screen in immersive Dolby Atmos sound.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
United Kingdom | 2024 | 99 min. | James Griffiths
Now Playing
The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together.
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Juvenile Court (4K Restoration)
USA | 1973 | 144 min. | Frederick Wiseman
Opens April 30, 2025
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman offers an unobtrusive examination of the goings-on of a children's court, Memphis Juvenile Court 616.
The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Persona
1965 | 83 min. | Ingmar Bergman
April 30, 2025
This pinnacle of mind-bending cinema has spawned decades of speculation and thousands of written words. A famous actress (the resplendent Liv Ullman) goes silent, and she’s tended by a nurse (Bibi Andersson) on a lonely island. The nurse spews tales of emotional and sexual revelation. Ullman listens, says nothing. Is she feeding on Andersson’s life force? Are they actually each other? Is there someone else on the island?
The Films of Frederick Wiseman: Public Housing (4K Restoration)
USA | 1997 | 200 min. | Frederick Wiseman
Opens May 1, 2025
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his cameras on a housing project that is home to some of the poorest residents living in Chicago's South Side.
No Other Land
Palestine | 95 min. | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Opens May 2, 2025
A devastatingly personal story about the decades-long forced demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Bank community. 2025 Academy Award Winner: Best Documentary Feature.
Pan Eros Film Festival 2025
90 min.
Opens May 3, 2025
These films touch on a range of experiences and sexuality, weaving a colorful tapestry of eroticism. Presented by Seattle Erotic Art Festival.
Metropolitan (35th anniversary)
USA | 1990 | 98 min. | Whit Stillman
May 4, 2025
An ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene, Metropolitan chronicles the rise and ultimate decline of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor, and the impending demise of their class. Director Whit Stillman is scheduled to attend.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
May 6, 2025
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Björk: Cornucopia
Iceland | 2025 | 120 min. | Ísold Uggadóttir
Opens May 7, 2025
Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years.
Tall Tales
2025 | 65 min. | Jonathan Zawada
May 8, 2025
Fabled English record producer Mark Pritchard, luminary songwriter Thom Yorke and groundbreaking visual artist Jonathan Zawada present Tall Tales—a debut collaborative visual and audio cinema experience a decade in the making.
SIFF 'n' Stitch: Mamma Mia!
United Kingdom | 2008 | 108 min. | Phyllida Lloyd
May 11, 2025
The votes are in, and for this Crafters' Choice Mother's Day edition of SIFF 'n' Stitch we are excited to be playing Mamma Mia!
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
France | 2024 | 94 min. | Laura Piani
Opens May 30, 2025
Agathe (Camille Rutherford) is a hopelessly clumsy yet charming young woman who works in the legendary Shakespeare & Co. bookshop in Paris, while she dreams of being a successful writer, and of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel, she finds herself desperately single and plagued by writers block.
Pavements
USA | 2024 | 128 min. | Alex Ross Perry
Opens May 30, 2025
Alex Ross Perry surveys the emblematic 1990s US indie rock band in typically idiosyncratic style: part-documentary, part-biopic, part-stage musical—but all Pavement.
Ran
France | 1985 | 162 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens May 30, 2025
Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.
Rashomon
Japan | 1950 | 88 minutes | Akira Kurosawa
Opens May 30, 2025
A horrible crime is told and retold from multiple—and vastly divergent perspectives—in the classic film that brought Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa to the global stage.
There is Another Way
2025 | 67 min. | Stephen Apkon
Opens May 31, 2025
In the midst of darkness, we discover who we truly are. There is Another Way tells the story of a group of visionaries who refuse to surrender to violence and injustice, and in doing so show that another path is possible—for them, for us, and for all humanity. Director Stephen Apkon and other guests scheduled to attend for a post-film Q&A on May 31.
Movie Club: Cinephiles' Choice
June 4, 2025
You're the programmer! Help choose the film for our June SIFF Movie Club screening. Vote by April 18, and the winning selection will be posted on May 1.
Flying In: A Discussion of a Life in Film with Producer and Author Gretchen McGowan
USA | 60 min.
June 5, 2025
Rewind with us to the grit and glam of how independent movies were made in the '90s and '00s. Presented in partnership with Elliott Bay Book Company.
The Phoenician Scheme
USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Wes Anderson
Opens June 5, 2025
The story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro plays tycoon Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton is Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera is Bjorn Lund, an entomologist.
High Art
USA | 1998 | 102 min. | Lisa Cholodenko
Opens June 6, 2025
At 24, Syd (Radha Mitchell) has landed what seems to be a dream job but she’s still stuck fetching coffee, until a chance meeting with her upstairs neighbor, Lucy Berlinerr (Ally Sheedy). Lucy, a once-celebrated photographer, lives an enthralling life with her drug-addicted German girlfriend, (Patricia Clarkson), that draws Syd in. Before she can catch her breath, Syd discovers dark truths of life on the edge, is forced to confont the price of her hunger for recognition and public esteem.
GRRL HAUS CINEMA x SIFF Presents NeuroCinema: Shorts by Neurodiverse Artists or Exploring Neurodiversity
June 8, 2025
With films spanning experimental, documentary, and narrative styles, NeuroCinema explores themes of identity, memory, perception, and sensory processing, offering personal and nuanced perspectives on the lived experiences of neurodiverse individuals.
Force of Water: Seattle Premiere
110 min.
June 12, 2025
Documentary following two communities—one in Ecuador and one in Uganda—as they take on the monumental task of building their own piped water systems. Join for a film screening, Q&A, and reception. Presented by Green Empowerment, Public Interest Registry.
Materialists
USA | 2025 | 109 min. | Celine Song
Opens June 12, 2025
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
2014 | 203 min. | Benedict Andrews
Opens June 13, 2025
Gillian Anderson ("Sex Education"), Vanessa Kirby ("The Crown"), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
They Call Her Death
USA | 2025 | 92 min. | Austin Snell
Opens June 14, 2025
On the wild frontier of the American prairie, Molly Pray is on a bloody crusade against the criminal forces that have wronged her. Filmed entirely on 16mm film using cameras from the 1960s, Kansas filmmaker Austin Snell's second feature captures the essence of low budget Euro-Westerns and Euro-Horror of the same era.
28 Years Later
United Kingdom | 2025 | Danny Boyle
Opens June 19, 2025
Academy Award®-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award®-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later.
Brokeback Mountain (20th Anniversary Re-Release)
USA | 2005 | 134 min. | Ang Lee
Opens June 22, 2025
“I wish I knew how to quit you.” Celebrate 20 years of Brokeback Mountain with SIFF. Ang Lee’s haunting, tender story of forbidden love between two cowboys brought to life by unforgettable performances from Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, was nothing short of revolutionary.
Pink Flamingos
USA | 1972 | 93 min. | John Waters
June 26, 2025
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”.
We Ride Why
USA | 2025 | 70 min. | Greg Roth
Opens June 28, 2025
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.
Jurassic World: Rebirth
USA | 2025 | 134 min. | Gareth Edwards
Opens July 2, 2025
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
BFDI & Inanimate Insanity 2025 Tour
90 min.
Opens July 26, 2025
BFDI & Inanimate Insanity are two hit YouTube animated series created by Jacknjellify and AnimationEpic!
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?