Where to Land
Opens October 7, 2025
Tuesday, October 7 | 6:15pm & 8:15pm | SIFF Film Center
Wednesday, October 15 | 6:00pm | SIFF Film Center
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema
The latest feature film from a true legend of American independent cinema, Where to Land is a touching farce about a successful director of romantic comedies in his senior years whom everyone mistakenly suspects is dying because he is having his Last Will and Testament drawn up.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
Seeking a quieter life and a closer connection to nature, retired filmmaker Joseph Fulton applies for a job as an assistant groundskeeper at a local cemetery, simply to keep himself occupied, while also deciding that it is time to get his affairs in order by drafting his Last Will and Testament. But his family, friends, and neighbors misunderstand and assume he is dying, crowding into his apartment to express their last farewells and to clumsily philosophize about the meaning of life.
Featuring veterans of Hartley's many critically acclaimed films like Bill Sage (Henry Fool), Edie Falco (Trust), Robert John Burke (Simple Men, The Unbelievable Truth), and Gia Crovatin (Ned Rifle), along with newer collaborators including Obie Award winner Kathleen Chalfant and fresh new faces, Kim Taff and Katelyn Sparks.
“…peak Hal Hartley, warm and optimistic, damnedly funny and vital.”—Paul F. Verhoeven, ABC Radio
- Director: Hal Hartley
- Principal Cast: Bill Sage, Kim Taff, Katelyn Sparks, Robert John Burke, Edie Falco
- Country: USA
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 75 min.