SIFF Movie Club
Building community around film with monthly screenings and discussion.
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Celebrate classics and discover new favorites with SIFF Movie Club, a monthly gathering of film fans. Catch a movie on the big screen at SIFF Cinema Uptown, then meet up with fellow audience members at The Traveling Goat for a cinematic chat. We’ll laugh, cry…and add more titles to our watchlists!
SIFF Movie Club: Mandabi (New 4K Restoration)
Senegal | 1968 | 91 min. | Ousmane Sembène
February 2, 2026
In a new 4K restoration, Ousmane Sembène’s simple story of a man wrestling with a money order emerges as a magnificent parable.
SIFF Movie Club: SLC Punk
USA | 1998 | 97 min. | James Merendino
March 2, 2026
In this lively comedy, a blue-haired punker and his best pal find their anarchist ideals at odds with life in their starched hometown: Salt Lake City.
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.
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.
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.