In Theaters
In the Spectrum of Love
August 16 & 23, 2025
STArt Film Studio presents In the Spectrum of Love, a touring showcase of four iconic Chinese-language films. Across six cities, we invite you to rediscover these unforgettable portraits of intimacy, distance, silence, and resilience.
In the Spectrum of Love: Happy Together
1997 | 96 min. | Wong Kar-Wai
August 16, 2025
Ho Po-Wing and Lai Yiu-Fai are a gay couple from Hong Kong with a turbulent relationship marked by frequent separations and reconciliations. They visit Argentina together but break up after they become lost while traveling to visit the Iguazu Falls.
In the Spectrum of Love: Vive L'Amour
1994 | 118 min. | Tsai Ming-liang
August 16, 2025
Focusing on three city folk who unknowingly share the same apartment. A promiscuous real estate agent, her current lover and a homeless man who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Boys Go to Jupiter
USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Julian Glander
Now Playing - Aug 18, 2025
Set in the liminal period between Christmas and New Year’s, Boys Go to Jupiter follows the adventures of Billy 5000, a teenage gig worker with a rise-and-grind mindset whose quest to make $5,000 is derailed by the appearance of a gelatinous little dude from outer space.
Cloud
Japan | 2024 | 124 min. | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Now Playing - Aug 21, 2025
A genre-bending potboiler about a parasitic internet reseller who runs afoul of revenge-seeking vigilantes.
Highest 2 Lowest
USA | 2025 | 133 min. | Spike Lee
Now Playing
In Spike Lee’s contemporary interpretation of Kurosawa’s High and Low, music mogul (Denzel Washington) is targeted with a ransom plot and jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
CatVideoFest 2025
2025 | 70 min.
Now Playing - Aug 17, 2025
The world's #1 cat video festival is back with another compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit PAWS and NEKO Cat Cafe.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
USA | 2024 | 135 min. | Amy Berg
Now Playing - Aug 27, 2025
The definitive tale of Jeff Buckley, the rising young star with an otherworldly voice whose sudden death at age 30, after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Grace," shocked the world. Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts. Includes 26 minutes of exclusive, remastered footage from a previously unreleased solo performance filmed February 19, 1994, screening immediately after the film.
Weapons
USA | 2025 | 128 min. | Zach Cregger
Now Playing
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.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
August 19, 2025
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Brazil (New 4K Restoration)
United Kingdom | 1985 | 143 min. | Terry Gilliam
Opens August 21, 2025
40th anniversary of Terry Gilliam's dystopian masterpiece, newly restored, presented by the Grand Illusion Cinema.
Honey Don’t!
USA | 2025 | 90 min. | Ethan Coen
Opens August 21, 2025
She only has two desires, and one of them is justice. Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church in this comic noir.
In the Spectrum of Love: All Shall Be Well
2024 | 93 min. | Ray Yeung
August 23, 2025
Angie and Pat have been together for over four decades but after Pat's unexpected death, Angie finds herself at the mercy of Pat's family as she struggles to retain her dignity and the home that both had shared for over thirty years.
In the Spectrum of Love: Lan Yu
2001 | 86 min. | Stanley Kwan
August 23, 2025
Beijing, 1988. On the cusp of middle age, Chen Handong (Hu Jun) has known little but success all his life. The eldest son of a senior government bureaucrat, he heads a fast-growing trading company and plays as hard as he works. Few know that Handong's tastes run more to boys than girls. Chen develops a relationship with a young boy named Lan Yu (Ye Liu) that goes farther than he ever wanted it to.
Really Me: The Diary of a Soul In Transition
USA | 2025 | 76 min. | Andy Yardy, Andrea Groenink
August 23, 2025
Her mother called it blasphemy. Her wife called it courage. She called it becoming really me.
Splitsville
USA | 2025 | 100 min. | Michael Angelo Covino
Opens August 28, 2025
When his wife asks for a divorce, a man runs to his friends for support, only to learn that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage. Intro and Q&A with filmmakers Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin on August 29.
The Roses
USA | 2025 | 105 min. | Jay Roach
Opens August 28, 2025
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a picture-perfect married couple who descend into a bitter cat-and-dog divorce battle in this reimagining of The War of the Roses.
Jaws: 50th Anniversary (New 4K Restoration)
USA | 1975 | 124 min. | Steven Spielberg
Opens August 29, 2025
Originally released on June 20, 1975, Jaws, based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, became the first true summer blockbuster and a cultural tsunami. Celebrate 50 years of Jaws with this new 4K restoration, with four screenings presented in 3D.
SIFF Movie Club: The Florida Project
USA | 2017 | 115 min. | Sean Baker
September 3, 2025
Warm, winning, and gloriously alive, Sean Baker’s The Florida Project is a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Lead Hari Chitturi.
Love Hotel (New 2K Restoration)
Japan | 1985 | 88 min. | Shinji Somei
Opens September 5, 2025
A call girl and a married man with a debt to the yakuza have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair.
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
USA | 2018 | 135 min. | Ron Howard
Opens September 5, 2025
Witness the beginning of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely hero.
STAR WARS: ATTACK OF THE CLONES
USA | 2002 | 143 min. | George Lucas
Opens September 5, 2025
Young Anakin and Padmé fall in love as galactic war looms.
STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH
USA | 2005 | 141 min. | George Lucas
Opens September 5, 2025
As the Republic falls, a new regime lead by an ancient evil rises in its place.
STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE
USA | 1999 | 137 min. | George Lucas
Opens September 5, 2025
Jedi Knights discover Anakin Skywalker, a boy unusually strong in the Force.
The Friends (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1994 | 113 min. | Shinji Somai
Opens September 5, 2025
Three young boys form an unlikely friendship with a lonely old man and help him restore his house and neglected garden during the summer. New 4K restoration.
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY
USA | 2016 | 136 min. | Gareth Edwards
Opens September 6, 2025
Unlikely heroes band together to steal the plans to the Death Star.
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
USA | 1977 | 125 min. | George Lucas
Opens September 6, 2025
A young farm boy intercepts a distress call from Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan.
STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI
USA | 1983 | 136 min. | Richard Marquand
Opens September 6, 2025
Luke Skywalker faces Darth Vader in a final duel.
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
USA | 1980 | 124 min. | Irvin Kershner
Opens September 6, 2025
Luke Skywalker trains as a Jedi in order to confront the evil Sith Lord, Darth Vader.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
USA | 2015 | 141 min. | J.J. Abrams
Opens September 7, 2025
A lonely scavenger finds herself at the center of a galactic conflict.
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
USA | 2017 | 154 min. | Rian Johnson
Opens September 7, 2025
A spark of hope keeps the Resistance alive as they flee from the First Order.
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
USA | 2019 | 143 min. | J.J. Abrams
Opens September 7, 2025
The landmark Skywalker saga comes to a conclusion.
Book Larder presents: Dan Pelosi, Let's Party!
90 min.
September 9, 2025
Book Larder is thrilled to welcome New York Times bestselling author Dan Pelosi of @GrossyPelosi in celebration of his new cookbook, "Let's Party: Recipes and Menus for Celebrating Every Day"! Enjoy an author talk, Q&A, and book signing.
The Popcorn List: If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing
USA | 2024 | 95 min. | Sadie Bones
September 9, 2025
After being brutally dumped, 17-year-old Sydnie discovers she is pregnant, and decides to keep the baby as a quick fix to get her ex back and change her life. The Popcorn List is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America – not yet available in wide release.
L.A. Noir: Kiss Me Deadly
USA | 1955 | 106 min. | Robert Aldrich
September 10, 2025
Pulp novelist Mickey Spillane’s swaggering private eye Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) likes his dames and drinks, and cruising through life with the top down. He could do it half asleep, but one night he stops for a battered woman walking on a deserted highway--and wakes up to a web of dark forces that could snuff out the world. Kiss Me Deadly is a riff of noir jazz blowing hot, surreal, mysterious, scary. Hammer doesn’t even know who he’s fighting. But he can feel a chill, the cold heart of evil. And we feel full blast cinematic power: “Pretty pow!” Free Opening Night Top Pot Doughnuts.
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.
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
United Kingdom | 2025 | 123 min. | Simon Curtis
Opens September 11, 2025
Return to Downton Abbey for a last time, as the Crawleys navigate the turbulent 1930s, and prepare for the next generation.
Democracy Noir
USA | 2024 | 93 min. | Connie Field
Opens September 12, 2025
Democracy Noir follows three courageous women as they fight to expose both the step-by-step destruction of democracy and corruption within Viktor Orbán’s Hungary—a white nationalist regime, envied by promoters of a new brand of authoritarianism throughout the world.
L.A. Noir: Point Blank
1967 | 92 min. | John Boorman
September 17, 2025
There’s a scent of metaphysical mystery in the sultry air. A master thief (Lee Marvin) is shot by his partner (John Vernon), who takes off with “their” $93,000 and Marvin’s wife (Sharon Aker), and heads for L.A. Marvin survives, pursues them, his hard leather shoes clacking and echoing in the LAX airport hallway. His name is Walker, and like a hungry ghost or avenging angel, so cool he could frost palm trees, he strides forward unstoppable. Walker embraces a helpful woman (Angie Dickinson), and makes powerful men wish they’d never heard of him.
The Baltimorons
USA | 2025 | 99 min. | Jay Duplass
Opens September 17, 2025
After cracking a tooth on Christmas Eve, newly sober Cliff embarks on an unexpected May/December adventure through Baltimore with Didi, his emergency dentist.
Linda Linda Linda: 20th Anniversary (4K Restoration)
Japan | 2005 | 114 min. | Nobuhiro Yamashita
Opens September 19, 2025
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.
The Popcorn List: New Wave
USA | 2024 | 94 min. | Elizabeth Ai
September 23, 2025
Elizabeth Ai’s lively first feature delves into the rebellious Vietnamese new wave music scene, blending nostalgia with a deeply personsal re-examination of her community's hidden and unexamined past. The Popcorn List is an annual survey of acclaimed feature films recommended by film festival programmers across North America – not yet available in wide release.
L.A. Noir: The Long Goodbye
USA | 1973 | 112 min. | Robert Altman
September 24, 2025
Master noir novelist Raymond Chandler’s 1953 "The Long Goodbye" was taut and hard-boiled. Altman’s film version is charmingly meandering and woozy. Elliott Gould’s bedraggled, bumbling Philip Marlowe is the anti-Bogart version of the character. Buffeted by a whirlwind of chaotic corruption, Gould responds with his go-with-the-flow mantra, “It's okay with me.” But his shambling form hides a classic Marlowe integrity that will spark into action. Cinematic master Altman layers his widescreen frames with glass surfaces that reflect, obscure, and reveal shifting realities.
The Uncertain Detective, Season 4
USA | 2025 | 115 min. | Gregg Lachow
September 29, 2025
Sneak preview of the new season of this Seattle-produced YouTube favorite. A film director creates a surreal, neo-noir tv series featuring a bumbling detective, casts his wife and kids in it, and tries to juggle his two worlds. Q&A with creator Gregg Lachow.
L.A. Noir: Cutter’s Way (35mm)
1981 | 105 min. | Ivan Passer
October 1, 2025
One of the 1980s’ great films is warm with friendship, chilled with suspicion. One night beach boy Jeff Bridges thinks he may have seen an oil tycoon (Stephen Elliott) dispose of a teenage girl’s body in a misty alley. He tells his disabled war veteran friend John Heard about it, and Heard, angry about his own shortcomings and “the sins of the world,” plans to sleuth around and expose Elliott. Facts are veiled in uncertainty, but Heard, despite the warnings of Bridges and Heard’s wife Lisa Eichorn, won’t be deterred. As suspense spirals, should Bridges go with his gut or do a leap of faith? Presented on 35mm.
SIFF Movie Club: Green Room
USA | 2016 | 94 min. | Jeremy Saulnier
October 1, 2025
Green Room is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Assistant Manager Tony Ochoa.
National Theatre Live: Inter Alia
120 min. | Justin Martin
Opens October 3, 2025
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?
The Balconettes
France | 2024 | 104 min. | Noémie Merlant
Opens October 3, 2025
Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) co-writes, directs, and stars in this genre-bending feminist comic thriller, as a trio of Marseille roommates—a camgirl, a writer, and an actress—rage against toxic masculinity in the middle of a terrible heat wave.
L.A. Noir: The Two Jakes
1990 | 138 min. | Jack Nicholson
October 8, 2025
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.
L.A. Noir: Heat (30th Anniversary)
1995 | 170 min. | Michael Mann
October 15, 2025
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.
L.A. Noir: L.A. Confidential (35mm)
1997 | 138 min. | Curtis Hanson
October 22, 2025
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 Cameron) 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.
L.A. Noir: The Limey
1999 | 89 min. | Steven Soderbergh
October 29, 2025
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?
L.A. Noir: Drive
USA | 2011 | 100 min. | Nicolas Winding Refn
November 5, 2025
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.
SIFF Movie Club: The Ascent
Soviet Union | 1977 | 109 min. | Larisa Shepitko
November 5, 2025
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.
L.A. Noir: Inherent Vice
USA | 2014 | 148 min. | Paul Thomas Anderson
November 12, 2025
Smoking a joint helps beach town private eye Doc Sportello (a transcendent Jaoquin 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.
SIFF Movie Club: The Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary)
USA | 1955 | 93 min. | Charles Laughton
December 3, 2025
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.
Mountains on Stage - Winter Edition 2025
2025 | 180 min.
December 10, 2025
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.