Open Caption Screenings
SIFF is excited to bring more open caption screenings to better welcome deaf and hard of hearing audiences, as well as anyone who benefits from viewing captions. We present as many films as possible with open captions on every Tuesday and Sunday.
During the Seattle International Film Festival (May 15-25, 2025), we will have several open caption presentations throughout the run of the Festival. Here, you'll find a list of films that will have some screenings presented with open captions.
WHAT ARE OPEN CAPTIONS?
Open captioning is when the dialogue and sounds of a film are written as text that is overlaid on the film image for anyone in the audience to see. It is considered passive assistance, a service that is there to use or ignore.
We understand that open captions can be distracting for those who are not accustomed to using them, but in the spirit of making SIFF accessible for all cinephiles we appreciate your consideration for those who need open captions.
ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES
All SIFF Cinema venues and Seattle International Film Festival external venues will remain equipped with Assistive Listening devices on days when open captioning is not offered. Check-in with the Cinema or Festival Venue Manager to locate the devices at your venue.
All SIFF Cinema venues and Seattle International Film Festival external venues are equipped with Closed Captioning and Descriptive Listening devices, but services may vary per film. Call 206-464-5830 or email info@siff.net for more information.
Come See Me in the Good Light
USA | 2025 | 104 min. | Ryan White
Poet Andrea Gibson and their dedicated partner Megan Falley face a cancer diagnosis head-on with humor and grace.
Familiar Touch
USA | 2024 | 91 min. | Sarah Friedland
Ruth finds a new beginning when she is placed in an assisted living facility in this poignant, Venice Film Festival-winning drama.
Khartoum
Sudan | 2025 | 80 min. | Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox
Five refugees use green screen technology to reenact their lives leading up to the military coup that forced their evacuation.
Sally
USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Cristina Costantini
A peek into the life of astronaut Sally Ride, who kept a nearly three-decade romance with author Tam O’Shaughnessy a secret.
Slanted
USA | 2025 | 104 min. | Amy Wang
When Joan Huang hastily undergoes an experimental medical procedure to become Caucasian, the consequences could be devastating.
Viktor
Denmark | 2024 | 89 min. | Olivier Sarbil
Join a deaf Ukrainian war photographer Viktor on the frontlines in this wholly immersive and terrifying documentary.
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
France | 2024 | 94 min. | Laura Piani
Now Playing - Jun 12, 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.
The Phoenician Scheme
USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Wes Anderson
Now Playing
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.
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.
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.
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.
