National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
Opens February 21, 2026
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.
SIFF year-round passes and vouchers are not valid for this screening.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-old boy named Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan and a Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?
Filmed live in London’s West End and featuring state-of-the-art visuals, the epic journey of endurance and hope is bought to life in a breath-taking new way for cinemas screens.
- Director: Max Webster
- Principal Cast: Hiran Abeysekera, Mina Anwar
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 150 min.
- Screenplay: by Yann Martel, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti
- Language: English