In Theaters
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (35mm)
USA | 2001 | 146 min. | Steven Spielberg
Now Playing - Mar 29, 2026
25th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's monumental production of Stanley Kubrick's unrealized science fiction dream project. Presented in 35mm by Grand Illusion Cinema.
NFFTY 2026
Now Playing - Mar 29, 2026
The National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) returns for its 19th edition, showcasing the best short films from filmmakers 24 and younger. The festival weekend will feature 235 short films from 41 countries and 30 states.
Tow
USA | 2025 | 105 min. | Stephanie Laing
Now Playing - Mar 26, 2026
Rose Byrne delivers an unstoppable performance as real-life unhoused hero, Seattle-ite Amanda Ogle, whose fight to regain custody of her live-in automobile becomes an unforgettable rallying cry for the little guy.
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.
Sirāt
Spain | 2025 | 115 min. | Óliver Laxe
Now Playing
A winner of the 2025 Cannes Competition Jury Prize, Sirât is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver…
2026 Oscar Nominated Shorts
Feb 20 - Mar 26
For the 21st consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action, and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners.
Alpha
France | 2025 | 122 min. | Julia Ducournau
Opens March 27, 2026
Life swiftly starts to unravel for Alpha and her single mom after the rebellious 13-year-old comes home with a stick-and-poke tattoo made with a used needle…
Ghost Elephants
2026 | 99 min. | Werner Herzog
March 29, 2026
The latest documentary from legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, GHOST ELEPHANTS is a lyrical tale of survival, reconnection, and the enduring power of ancient knowledge in the face of modern loss. Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.
Bushido
Japan | 2024 | 129 min. | Kazuya Shiraishi
Opens March 30, 2026
Combining the classic themes of samurai films with modern questions of honor and morality, beloved filmmaker Kazuya Shiraishi's Edo-period drama follows a wandering ronin as he faces betrayal and revenge, all building to a pulse-pounding finale.
Kin-dza-dza!
Soviet Union | 1986 | 135 min. | Georgiy Daneliya
March 30, 2026
40th anniversary screening of the wonderfully weird sci-fi comedy, recently restored and presented by Grand Illusion Cinema in honor of their 22nd anniversary as a volunteer-operated non-profit.
Scorsese: The Age of Innocence
USA | 1993 | 139 min. | Martin Scorsese
April 1, 2026
In this adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, 1870s New York society shapes and controls lives. A lawyer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is set to marry a wealthy socialite (Winona Ryder), when he falls in love with an outsider (Michelle Pfeiffer). Secret love expressed with flowers, and a glove erotically removed. Scorsese the romantic.
I Live Here Now (35mm)
USA | 2025 | 91 min. | Julie Pacino
Opens April 2, 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.
Miroirs No. 3
Germany | 2025 | 86 min. | Christian Petzold
Opens April 2, 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.
The Drama
USA | 2026 | 106 min. | Kristoffer Borgli
Opens April 2, 2026
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Palestine 36
Palestine | 2025 | 118 | Annemarie Jacir
Opens April 3, 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.
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.
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
Two Prosecutors
Germany | 2025 | 118 min. | Sergei Loznitsa
Opens April 17, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.