For Your Consideration
January 30- February 12, 2026
Yet another year where you haven't seen many Oscar hopefuls? Seen almost all of them but haven't caught a few you think might win big? Have no fear! For Your Consideration is coming to SIFF Cinema Downtown to make sure you're ready for Hollywood's biggest night. Whether you're a die-hard cinephile, or just love making predictions for your Oscars pool, this is your chance to see the films everyone will be talking about.
For Your Consideration: Blue Moon
USA | 2025 | 100 min. | Richard Linklater
Opens February 2, 2026
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”
For Your Consideration: Bugonia
United Kingdom | 2025 | 120 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos
Opens February 1, 2026
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.
For Your Consideration: F1
USA | 2025 | 155 min. | Joseph Kosinski
February 2, 2026
Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.
For Your Consideration: Frankenstein
USA | 2025 | 149 min. | Guillermo del Toro
Opens February 1, 2026
Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro reimagines Mary Shelley's classic tale of a brilliant scientist and the creature his monstrous ambition brings to life.
For Your Consideration: Hamnet
United Kingdom | 2025 | 125 min. | Chloé Zhao
Opens January 30, 2026
A lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley). From Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland).
For Your Consideration: Hedda
USA | 2025 | 107 min. | Nia DaCosta
Opens January 30, 2026
Transplanted to mid-century England, Candyman director Nia DaCosta’s bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s play features a magnetic lead performance from Tessa Thompson (Passing) in a fresh, feminist game of power.
For Your Consideration: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
USA | 2024 | 113 min. | Mary Bronstein
Opens February 7, 2026
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.
For Your Consideration: It Was Just an Accident
Iran | 2025 | 105 min. | Jafar Panahi
February 7, 2026
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.
For Your Consideration: KPop Demon Hunters
USA | 2025 | 99 min. | Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans
Opens February 1, 2026
When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums or topping the Billboard charts, they're moonlighting as demon hunters to protect their fans from ever-present supernatural danger.
For Your Consideration: Marty Supreme
USA | 2025 | 149 min. | Josh Safdie
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Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. From writer/director Josh Safdie and starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher. Three Golden Globe nominations including Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy.
For Your Consideration: One Battle After Another
USA | 2025 | 161 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
Opens January 31, 2026
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.
For Your Consideration: The Secret Agent
Brazil | 2025 | 159 min. | Kleber Mendonça Filho
February 3, 2026
Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) returns with a thrillingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic set in his hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, starring a magnetic Wagner Moura as a man on the run from his past.
For Your Consideration: Sentimental Value
Norway | 2025 | 135 min. | Joachim Trier
February 9, 2026
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s (The Worst Person In the World) moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes 2025.
For Your Consideration: Sinners
USA | 2025 | Ryan Coogler
Opens January 30, 2026
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.
For Your Consideration: Sirāt
Spain | 2025 | 115 min. | Óliver Laxe
February 8, 2026
A winner of this year’s 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…
For Your Consideration: Sorry, Baby
USA | 2025 | 104 min. | Eva Victor
Opens February 4, 2026
Eva Victor (“Billions”) writes, directs, and stars in this nonlinear, seriocomic story about a melancholic English professor’s complicated path toward healing in the aftermath of an all-too-common tragedy. Winner of the Sundance 2025 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
For Your Consideration: Train Dreams
USA | 2025 | 102 min. | Clint Bentley
Opens January 31, 2026
Set in the Pacific Northwest during the first decades of the 20th century, director Clint Bentley’s beguiling adaptation of Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson’s novella stars Joel Edgerton as a humble labourer immersed in a rapidly changing world of natural splendour and voracious industry.
For Your Consideration: Weapons
USA | 2025 | 128 min. | Zach Cregger
Opens January 31, 2026
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.