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Quality Ski Time Film Tour presented by Salomon

150 min.

October 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ski movies will forever be a part of ski culture. Nothing else can match the community and excitement created by watching films with friends. So, why would you settle for just one film?
Get stoked for winter with us by watching several films, each showcasing different stories, athletes and types of skiing.

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Linda Linda Linda: 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration)

Japan | 2005 | 114 min. | Nobuhiro Yamashita

Now Playing - Oct 9, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Linda Linda Linda is a cult favorite and a hidden gem of Japanese cinema that follows a high school girls’ band preparing to perform at a school festival. Featuring music by James Iha (The Smashing Pumpkins), the film has gained a devoted following despite its limited U.S. release. New 4K restoration.

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National Theatre Live: Inter Alia

120 min. | Justin Martin

Now Playing - Oct 6, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

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The Smashing Machine

USA | 2025 | 123 min. | Benny Safdie

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

In one of the year’s most unexpected team-ups, indie icon Benny Safdie and star Dwayne Johnson unite in this powerful and gritty account of the career of MMA and UFC pioneer Mark Kerr.

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Eleanor the Great

USA | 2025 | 98 min. | Scarlett Johansson

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Oscar nominee June Squibb (SIFF 2024 Honoree) stars in Scarlett Johansson’s thoughtful, provocative, and very funny feature directorial debut, about a nonagenarian who passes herself off as a Holocaust survivor.

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One Battle After Another

USA | 2025 | 161 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

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SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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L.A. Noir: Shadows in Paradise

September 10-November 12, 2025

Temperature’s rising, existential heat’s high, but L.A. Noir: Shadows in Paradise keeps its cool. Ten-film series presented by Greg Olson Productions, one film each week at SIFF Cinema Uptown September 10-November 12, 2025.

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Scarecrowber: The Abominable Dr. Phibes

United Kingdom | 1971 | 94 min. | Robert Fuest

October 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A proper kick-off, Dr. (of music and theology) Phibes mimics the G'tach—the ten lethal plagues of Egypt—with intentions of vengeance against the doctors and nurses responsible for a botched operation that resulted in the death of his wife. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Jonathan Marlow.

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Where to Land

USA | 2025 | 75 min. | Hal Hartley

Opens October 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

The latest feature film from legendary indie auteur, Hal Hartley! Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

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L.A. Noir: The Two Jakes

1990 | 138 min. | Jack Nicholson

October 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

At the end of Chinatown (1978), private eye Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) was a shattered man, his love Evelyn Mulwray shot dead, her daughter Catherine abducted by her monstrous grandfather. In The Two Jakes (like Chinatown, written by Robert Towne), it’s ten years later in 1940s L.A., and Gittes is back on his feet, but haunted by the past, his inability to help those he loved. This time SoCal corruption centers on the black gold of oil fields, and the houses built on them. There’s another Jake (Harvey Keitel, a jittery-sexy widow (Madeleine Stowe), a murder, and an alluring embodiment of days gone by.

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Videodrome (Director's Cut)

Canada | 1983 | 89 min. | David Cronenberg

October 8, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Grand Illusion Cinema's annual screening of David Cronenberg's sci-fi body horror classic, in memory of William (Bill) Kennedy.

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Blacula

USA | 1972 | 92 min. | William Crain

October 9, 2025

SIFF Film Center

In this Blaxploitation classic, African prince Mamuwalde visits Count Dracula to seek help ending the slave trade but is instead bitten and cursed to live eternally as a vampire—Blacula.

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Scarecrowber: Tombs of the Blind Dead

Spain | 1972 | 101 min. | Amando de Ossorio

October 9, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The first and finest of the Blind Dead tetralogy, unleashed upon the world in the early-1970s and known in its home-country as La noche del terror ciego (The Night of the Blind Terror)! Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Malakie Peters.

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Tron: Ares

USA | 2025 | 119 min. | Joachim Rønning

Opens October 9, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.

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A House of Dynamite

USA | 2025 | 112 min. | Kathryn Bigelow

Opens October 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

In Kathryn Bigelow’s taut thriller, when a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

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Bring Them Home

USA | 2024 | 85 min. | Ivan MacDonald (Blackfeet), Ivy MacDonald (Blackfeet), Daniel Glick

Opens October 10, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Lily Gladstone narrates this story about Montana’s Blackfoot tribe as they seek to reinstate a wild buffalo herd. Producer Melissa Grumhaus scheduled to attend the October 10 screening for introduction and Q&A.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Mary and the Witch's Flower (Dubbed)

Japan | 2018 | 102 min. | Hiromasa Yonebayashi

October 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

From Hiromasa Yonebayashi comes a dazzling adventure about a young girl named Mary, who discovers a flower that grants magical powers, but only for one night. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!

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The Last Class

USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Elliot Kirschner

October 12, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching his true calling. As he faces his final class, he wrestles with the dual realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.

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Tinā

Aotearoa New Zealand | 2024 | 124 min. | Miki Magasiva

October 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A grieving Samoan educator, Mareta, starts a school choir to help her students—and, unexpectedly, herself—heal. Winner of the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film at SIFF 2025. Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema in collaboration with SIFF.

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Scarecrowber: Toby Dammit + [Shhh!]

Italy | 1968 | 43 min. | Federico Fellini

October 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Arguably the greatest of all Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, this Fellini featurette showcases the remarkable talents of Terrence Stamp in one of his most dynamic and demanding roles. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Jonathan Marlow.

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After the Hunt

USA | 2025 | 139 min. | Luca Guadagnino

Opens October 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Not everything is supposed to make you feel comfortable...

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L.A. Noir: Heat (30th Anniversary)

1995 | 170 min. | Michael Mann

October 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A criminal (Robert De Niro), a cop (Al Pacino). Ice and fire, coming to a boil. De Niro and his pals (Val Kilmer, Jon Voight) pull off big robberies with military precision. Steamed-up Pacino uses intuition and manpower to track them, with little success. Stylish director Mann (TV’s Miami Vice) pauses his onrushing crime saga so De Niro and Pacino can appear together and have coffee. The outlaw and the lawman are born to do what they do, and they’re not stopping, but they share words about the fullness and emptiness of their lives, what they win and lose.

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Re-Wind (aka Celluloid Nightmares) - New Restoration

Japan | 1988 | 65 min. | Hisayasu Satô

October 15, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. One of legendary pink film director Hisayasu Satô's most powerful and impressive early works, newly restored.

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DocFest: Space Cowboy

USA | 2024 | 98 min. | Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt

October 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Thrill to the high-flying story of Joe Jennings, a pioneer of skydiving cinematography and gasp-inducing aerial stunts, as he attempts the one stunt that has eluded him throughout his death-defying life.

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SIFF DocFest

October 16-23, 2025

Annual weeklong film festival showcasing the best documentaries from around the world.

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DocFest: Love+War

USA | 2025 | 96 min. | E. Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

October 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Oscar® winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue, DocFest 2021) turn their camera on Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lynsey Addario as she documents the war in Ukraine and reflects on her career spent on the front lines.

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DocFest: Runa Simi

Peru | 2025 | 86 min. | Augusto Zegarra

October 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A charismatic Peruvian voice actor and his son embark on an extraordinary quest: to dub Disney’s The Lion King into their native language of Quechua, the most widely spoken Indigenous language in South America.

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DocFest: 25 Cats From Qatar

USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Mye Hoang

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An American flight attendant embarks on a bold, four-day mission to rescue abandoned cats from the streets of Doha for adoption in the USA in this compelling, heartwarming new film from director Mye Hoang (Cat Daddies, SIFF 2022). Director Mye Hoang scheduled to attend.

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DocFest: Steal This Story, Please!

USA | 2025 | 101 min. | Tia Lessin, Carl Deal

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

This riveting portrait of "Democracy Now!"'s Amy Goodman spotlights journalism's power—and peril—amid rising corporate control and political attacks on the press.

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DocFest: Widow Champion

Kenya | 2025 | 95 min. | Zippy Kimundu

October 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Fifteen years after being thrown off her land by her in-laws, a Kenyan widow transforms herself into a fierce advocate for women’s land rights in her community, rallying her fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property.

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DocFest - A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

USA | 2025 | 87 min. | Oriel Pe’er

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Follow trailblazing trans icon and activist Peppermint’s rise from a struggling Harlem queen to history-making turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Broadway, in this documentary that pulls back the curtain on fame, transition, and the cost of living in the spotlight as a Black trans woman. Director Oriel Pe’er scheduled to attend.

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DocFest: Cutting Through Rocks

Iran | 2025 | 95 min. | Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The first elected councilwoman of a remote Iranian village sparks a movement—and mounting backlash—when she urges the area’s young women to question long-held patriarchal traditions in this Sundance award-winning documentary.

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DocFest: Speak.

USA | 2025 | 103 min. | Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman

October 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Five bold young voices go on a high-stakes journey to conquer the Super Bowl of public speaking, offering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced. Director Jennifer Tiexiera, co-director Guy Mossman, producer Pamela Griner, film participants, and special guests scheduled to attend. Post-screening conversation moderated by director Dawn Porter (Luther: Never Too Much).

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Lady Vengeance (35mm)

South Korea | 2005 | 115 min. | Park Chan-wook

Opens October 19, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. 20th anniversary of the final film in Park Chan-wook's thematically-linked "Vengeance Trilogy," with special intros from film educator Hannah Baek before each screening.

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Television Terror Triple Feature Pizza Party

300 min.

October 19, 2025

SIFF Film Center

The Grand Illusion Cinema presents a triple feature of chilling tales from the heyday of made-for-TV horror movies. Plus pizza! And more!

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DocFest - Mugaritz: No Bread, No Dessert

Spain | 2024 | 95 min. | Paco Plaza

October 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Director Paco Plaza takes us behind the closed doors of the legendary, Michelin-starred restaurant Mugaritz, where chef Andoni Luis Aduriz and his inventive team reinvent fine dining with a bold, boundary-pushing new menu each year.

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA SECRET MOVIE DOUBLE FEATURE

200 min.

October 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

TWO MOVIES FOR THE PRICE OF NONE! Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve

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DocFest: 2000 Meters to Andriivka

Ukraine | 2025 | 106 min. | Mstyslav Chernov

October 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The Oscar®-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol return with a searing, unvarnished portrait of the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war on Ukrainian soldiers, told from a deeply personal and devastatingly graphic vantage point. Winner of Sundance’s Directing Award for World Cinema Documentary.

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DocFest: The Secret of Me

United Kingdom | 2025 | 97 min. | Grace Hughes-Hallett

October 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A shocking medical discovery turns a college student’s life upside-down in this gripping film from the team behind Three Identical Strangers. Subject Jim Ambrose scheduled to attend.

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DocFest: The Tale of Silyan

North Macedonia | 2025 | 81 min. | Tamara Kotevska

October 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A Macedonian folktale comes to life when a wounded stork is rescued by an unlikely savior, transforming both of their lives for the better in this whimsical and breathtaking new film from director Tamara Kotevska (Honeyland). North Macedonia's Official 2026 Academy Awards® Submission for Best International Feature.

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L.A. Noir: L.A. Confidential (35mm)

1997 | 138 min. | Curtis Hanson

October 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Guided by James Ellroy’s fierce novel, director Hanson wonders why honorable men, sworn to uphold the law, tip towards the dark side. Passions and secrets drive a 1950s LAPD neophyte (Guy Pearce), a tough cop (Russell Crowe), and a showboat (Kevin Spacey) allied with gangsters, Hollywood, and sleazy tabloids. The top cop (James Cromwell) pulls strings, and fragments of meaning coalesce into story. The men’s jobs are their lives, but love can’t be denied. For Pearce and Crowe, it’s centered on a classy prostitute (Kim Basinger), who holds a key to the city. Presented on 35mm.

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DocFest - Sun Ra: Do the Impossible

USA | 2025 | 84 min. | Christine Turner

October 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A kaleidoscopic portrait of the visionary jazz musician, composer, and poet known as Sun Ra and the musical, historical, and philosophical currents that shaped him. Associate Producer Talia Moore scheduled to attend.

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DocFest: Cover-Up

USA | 2025 | 117 min. | Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus

October 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Urgent and deeply reported, Laura Poitras (All The Beauty and the Bloodshed, DocFest 2022) and Mark Obenhaus (“Frontline”) profile renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh in this arresting reflection on power and accountability.

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Scarecrowber: Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

Japan | 1968 | 84 min. | Hajime Sato

October 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Are Gokemidoro undead or are extraterrestrial bloodsuckers a different form of life-as-we-know-it? Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Matt Lynch.

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

USA | 2024 | 113 min. | Mary Bronstein

Opens October 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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Rocky Horror Pole Show

Opens October 25, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Seattle artists bring The Rocky Horror Picture Show to life with a dazzling twist—pole, burlesque, and drag collide with the cult classic film in a chaotic, campy, and deliciously risqué spectacle.

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Scarecrowber: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Czech Republic | 1974 | 77 min. | Jaromil Jires

October 28, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

We conclude our world-ranging romp across the permeable barrier of life and death with the greatest of all coming-of-age films. Introduced by Scarecrow Video's Meghann Crafton and Jonathan Marlow.

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L.A. Noir: The Limey

1999 | 89 min. | Steven Soderbergh

October 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

This lean quest film hums with counterculture vibes. An aging ex-con (Swinging London icon Terence Stamp) flies to L.A. when his daughter (Melissa George) dies in a car crash. Her death was suspicious, and the road leads to a music mogul (Hip icon Peter Fonda), George’s last boyfriend. Fonda’s surrounded by protectors (Barry Newman of the 1970s cult film Vanishing Point), but Stamp gets help from his daughter’s friends (Cool Girl Lesley Anne Warren, Luis Guzman). Can Stamp’s consciousness expand beyond his need for cold revenge?

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Bugonia

United Kingdom | 2025 | 120 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos

Opens October 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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Haze

Japan | 2005 | 49 min. | Shinya Tsukamoto

October 30, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A truly frightening, claustrophobic experience from irreverent Japanese genre wizard Shinya Tsukamoto. Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema.

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Queens of The Dead

USA | 2025 | 99 min. | Tina Romero

October 30, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. Tina Romero’s directorial debut is a riotous blend of horror and comedy, infused with queer sensibilities and sharp social commentary.

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It Was Just an Accident

Iran | 2025 | 105 min. | Jafar Panahi

Opens October 31, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride

USA | 2005 | 77 min. | Tim Burton, Mike Johnson

November 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

On the eve of his wedding, nervous groom Victor accidentally marries corpse bride Emily and descends with her into the underworld. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!

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Skweezy Jibbs Makes a Movie

USA | 2025 | 85 min. | Michael Ward

November 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Oddball internet legend Skweezy Jibbs is making the movie of his dreams. Unfortunately for him, he's got no money, no experience, no skill, and no filmmaking talent. Be among the first people to see the movie, and stay for an exclusive Q&A with Skweezy himself. One night only!

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L.A. Noir: Drive

USA | 2011 | 100 min. | Nicolas Winding Refn

November 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Self-contained, in control, Driver (Ryan Gosling) is super professional as both Hollywood stunt driver and getaway transportation for criminals. When he shares an elevator ride with a sweet woman (Carey Mulligan) there’s only a shy glance between them, but a hum of connection persists, even after her husband (Oscar Issac) comes home from prison. Gosling’s like a romantic troubadour, pledged to his lady in spirit. There are good guys (Bryan Cranston) and bad (Albert Brooks), but Gosling will drive Mulligan in the golden afternoon and through the night, have no fear.

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SIFF Movie Club: The Ascent

Soviet Union | 1977 | 109 min. | Larisa Shepitko

November 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Set during World War II's darkest days, The Ascent follows the path of two peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge through the snowy backwoods of Belarus seeking refuge among villagers. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Staff Member Adam Plesser.

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Girl Winter Film Tour

90 min.

November 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Join us for a night of women-centric short ski films and get excited for winter at SIFF Uptown in Seattle, WA.

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Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

France | 2025 | 90 min. | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han

Opens November 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Based on Amélie Nothomb’s bestselling novel The Character of Rain,” Mäilys Vallade and Liane-cho Han’s wondrous animated feature looks at the world through the eyes of a Belgian girl discovering everything around her as she approaches her third birthday.

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Grave of the Fireflies

Japan | 1988 | 88 min. | Isao Takahata

November 9, 2025

SIFF Film Center

This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources.

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Talking Pictures: Ken Jennings presents Quiz Show

USA | 1994 | 165 min. | Robert Redford

November 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Directed and produced by the late Robert Redford, Quiz Show (1994) is about a big-money, high-stakes TV game show that becomes the subject of scandal when a Washington investigator uncovers corruption behind-the-scenes. This special Talking Pictures event – where local luminaries present a movie of their choice and share with audiences how it has impacted them – will be presented by “Jeopardy!” Host and Seattle native (and quiz-show champion), Ken Jennings.

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Cinema Italian Style 2025

November 12–16, 2025

Cinema Italian Style returns to Seattle November 12–16 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.

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L.A. Noir: Inherent Vice

USA | 2014 | 148 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson

November 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Smoking a joint helps beach town private eye Doc Sportello (a transcendent Joaquin Phoenix) see all the dimensions of a case. HIs former girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston) shows up, then vanishes in the night. Her mysteries multiply as he encounters the sinister Golden Fang organization, a presumed-dead sax player (Owen Wilson), and Doc’s nemesis-friend Bigfoot (James Brolin). The brilliant, satirical universe of Thomas Pynchon’s source novel is on beguiling display, as beauty, menace, absurdity, heart and soul mix it up every minute. Doc rides his counterculture values, and Neil Young’s music, like a sweet wave. With Martin Short, Reese Witherspoon.

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Sentimental Value

Norway | 2025 | 135 min. | Joachim Trier

Opens November 13, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.

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Peter Hujar's Day

USA | 2025 | 76 min. | Ira Sachs

Opens November 14, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Twenty-four hours in the life of the famously uncompromising Peter Hujar who was regarded as one of the most important characters in downtown New York's cultural scene.

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA

91 min.

November 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.

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Wicked: For Good

USA | 2025 | Jon M. Chu

Opens November 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Now demonized as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba lives in exile in the Ozian forest, while Glinda resides at the palace in Emerald City, reveling in the perks of fame and popularity. As an angry mob rises against the Wicked Witch, she'll need to reunite with Glinda to transform herself, and all of Oz, for good.

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Unstreamable: Angel’s Egg (4K Restoration)

Japan | 1985 | 73 min. | Mamoru Oshii

November 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

In an underwater city, a young girl takes care of a large egg she holds carefully in her arms – a treasure that she believes is an angel’s egg. 4K Restoration

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Hamnet

United Kingdom | 2025 | 125 min. | Chloé Zhao

Opens November 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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).

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SIFF Movie Club: The Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary)

USA | 1955 | 93 min. | Charles Laughton

December 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Part fairy tale, part Southern gothic horror story, The Night of the Hunter tells the story of a psychopathic preacher who pursues two children who hold the key to hidden loot. 70th anniversary screening. Introduced by SIFF Education Manager Megan Garbayo-López.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Elf

USA | 2003 | 97 min. | Jon Favreau

December 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The holiday classic starring Will Farrell as Buddy the Elf, on a mission to find his biological father and spread Christmas cheer to all. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!

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Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2025

2025 | 180 min.

December 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Mountains on Stage aims to bring the mountains to the city, to share the beauty of mountain sports! A selection of the best documentaries on mountain activities are presented.

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Holiday Favorites: The Muppet Christmas Carol

USA | 1992 | 85 min. | Brian Henson

Opens December 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to life through the magic of Jim Henson’s Muppets. All ages welcome!

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Avatar: Fire and Ash (3D)

USA | 2025 | 192 min. | James Cameron

Opens December 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Jake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief after Neteyam's death, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges. All screenings presented in 3D.

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Holiday Favorites: Fiddler on the Roof Sing-along

USA | 1971 | 191 min. | Norman Jewison

December 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A holiday party with the best Jewish-themed musical of them all!

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Song Sung Blue

USA | 2025 | Craig Brewer

Opens December 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it's never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

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Moulin Rouge! New Year’s Eve Sing-along

USA | 2001 | 127 minutes | Baz Luhrmann

December 31, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ring in the new year with the classic Baz Luhrmann romantic musical favorite!

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