In Theaters
Romanian FF: High School Thieves
110 min.
November 8, 2025
In order to fulfill their dreams, four teenagers decide to make money by selling the SAT prompts online.
Romanian FF: Ink Wash
90 min.
November 8, 2025
A painter turning 40 attempts to reassess her future prospects after a breakup.
Romanian FF: The Dream
136 min.
November 8, 2025
In a Romanian prison, six inmates are cast in a theater rehabilitation program—until a seventh joins with a secret escape plan.
Romanian FF: The Spruce Forest
75 min.
November 8, 2025
This gripping hybrid documentary recreates the struggles faced by a Romanian community in Bessarabia while under Soviet occupation during World War II. Q&A with director Tudor Giurgiu.
Die My Love
United Kingdom | 2025 | 118 min. | Lynne Ramsay
Now Playing - Nov 13, 2025
Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson excel in Lynne Ramsay’s bold and brave film about a woman experiencing postpartum psychosis.
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
France | 2025 | 90 min. | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han
Now Playing - Nov 13, 2025
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.
Romanian Film Festival Seattle
November 7-9, 2025
The Romanian Film Festival Seattle returns with nine Romanian and Moldovan films, alongside international guests. This year’s theme, Unifying Stories, illustrates the breadth of our shared human experiences.
It Was Just an Accident
Iran | 2025 | 105 min. | Jafar Panahi
Now Playing - Nov 25, 2025
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.
Bugonia
United Kingdom | 2025 | 120 min. | Yorgos Lanthimos
Now Playing - Nov 18, 2025
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.
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.
Grave of the Fireflies
Japan | 1988 | 88 min. | Isao Takahata
November 9, 2025
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.
Romanian FF - TWST: Things We Said Today
85 min.
November 9, 2025
A time capsule of New York City in August 1965 framed by the Beatles’s first concert at Shea Stadium and other notable events.
Romanian FF: Comatogen
110 min.
November 9, 2025
Trying to get money to cover a debt for her son and avoid prison, Alina, a nurse, faces an ethical problem.
Romanian FF: Moldovan Tales
104 min.
November 9, 2025
Five short films offer unique perspectives on rural and urban life in contemporary Moldova. Q&A with director Natalia Shaufert.
Romanian FF: The New Year That Never Came
138 min.
November 9, 2025
A tragicomic puzzle of six people struggling to find their footing as society breaks down in December 1989, Romania. Q&A with cinematographer Boroka Biro.
Talking Pictures: Ken Jennings presents Quiz Show
USA | 1994 | 165 min. | Robert Redford
November 10, 2025
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.
Cinema Italian Style 2025
November 12–16, 2025
Cinema Italian Style returns to Seattle November 12–16 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.
Cinema Italian Style: Paternal Leave
Germany | 2025 | 113 min. | Alissa Jung
November 12, 2025
Torn between longing and anger, 15-year-old Leo travels to the coast of northern Italy to meet her biological father. The two are complete strangers to each other. They struggle to find truth, affinity, love and the courage to face themselves.
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 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.
Cinema Italian Style: Familia
Italy | 2024 | 120 min. | Francesco Costabile
November 13, 2025
A harrowing, white-knuckle family portrait and meditation on the terrible appeal of political extremism. Director Francesco Costabile and producer Gaetano Maiorino scheduled to attend.
Cinema Italian Style: The Tasters (Le assaggiatrici)
Italy | 2025 | 123 min. | Silvio Soldini
November 13, 2025
A gripping historical drama inspired by the incredible true story of Margot Wölk, a woman who was conscripted to be one of Hitler’s food tasters.
Sentimental Value
Norway | 2025 | 135 min. | Joachim Trier
Opens November 13, 2025
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.
Cinema Italian Style: Madly (Follemente)
Italy | 2025 | 98 min. | Paolo Genovese
November 14, 2025
And you thought your internal monologue was hectic! As Piero and Lara embark upon their first date, an ensemble of game performers act out their competing thoughts and emotions, Inside Out/”Herman’s Head”-style, in the latest from Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers).
Cinema Italian Style: Siblings (La vita da grandi)
Italy | 2025 | 95 min. | Greta Scarano
November 14, 2025
Siblings is a charming comedy-drama about various diagnoses, the courage required to see the world with open eyes, and how it is never too late to get to know your own sibling.
Peter Hujar's Day
USA | 2025 | 76 min. | Ira Sachs
Opens November 14, 2025
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.
Yi Yi: 25th Anniversary (New 4K Restoration)
Taiwan | 2000 | 173 min. | Edward Yang
Opens November 14, 2025
Set in Taiwan, the film follows the lives of the Jian family from the alternating perspectives of the three main family members: father N.J., teenage daughter Ting-Ting and young son Yang-Yang. New 4K restoration.
Cinema Italian Style: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t (Come ti muovi sbagli)
Italy | 2025 | 97 min. | Gianni Di Gregorio
November 15, 2025
A retired professor’s peaceful life – with a good pension, friends, and a companion – is disrupted when his daughter and two unruly children arrive.
Cinema Italian Style: La Grazia
Italy | 2025 | 131 min. | Paolo Sorrentino
November 15, 2025
Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo).
Cinema Italian Style: The Best Reward (La cosa migliore)
Italy | 2024 | 97 min. | Federico Ferrone
November 15, 2025
Mattia is a teenager from small-town Italy. Tormented by guilt over his brother’s death, he drops out of school, starts to work at a local factory, and converts to Islam. Will he avoid the trap of isolation and violence? Director Federico Ferrone scheduled to attend.
Cinema Italian Style: Heads or Tails? (Testa o croce?)
Italy | 2025 | 116 min. | Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
November 16, 2025
John C. Reilly plays a troubadour-style Buffalo Bill Cody in this cheerfully deranged genre riff from The Tale of King Crab directors Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis.
Cinema Italian Style: I Married You For Joy (Ti ho sposato per allegria) (New 4K Restoration)
Italy | 1967 | 102 min. | Luciano Salce
November 16, 2025
Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a wild pretty girl he met at an artists’ party. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to be going well, until his mother’s visit... New 4K restoration from Cinecittà.
Cinema Italian Style: Napoli-New York
Italy | 2024 | 124 min. | Gabriele Salvatores
November 16, 2025
The tale of two Neapolitan kids who embark on a ship to New York to escape Italy’s early postwar poverty.
Sliding Scale Community Screening: The Truman Show
USA | 1998 | 103 min. | Peter Weir
November 16, 2025
An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show. In appreciation of our movie-loving community, tickets to this series are available on a sliding scale basis, starting at $5 for child tickets.
Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project Premiere Screenings 2025
USA | 2025 | 120 min.
Opens November 17, 2025
The Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project challenges filmmakers to craft a short horror film in one weekend, premiering at SIFF.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
November 18, 2025
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Unstreamable: Angel’s Egg (4K Restoration)
Japan | 1985 | 73 min. | Mamoru Oshii
November 20, 2025
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.
Wicked: For Good
USA | 2025 | Jon M. Chu
Opens November 20, 2025
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.
PNW Awards: Twinless
USA | 2025 | 100 min. | James Sweeney
November 21, 2025
In this Sundance-winning, Portland-set dark comedy, two men trauma-bond at a support group for people who have lost their twin.
PNW Awards: To Kill A Wolf
USA | 2023 | 91 min. | Kelsey Taylor
November 22, 2025
In a modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway in the Oregon Wilderness and does his best to help her find a way home—a troubling exploration of trauma and redemption. Director Kelsey Taylor and Cinematographer Adam Lee scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: Wolf Land
USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Sarah Hoffman
November 22, 2025
“Wolf-protecting cowboy” Daniel Curry and rancher Jerry Francis try to find common ground between their conflicting interests. Director Sarah Hoffman, Editor David Wulzen, Director of Photography Bryce Yukio Adolphson, and Executive Producer Sarah Menzies scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: Not One Drop of Blood
USA | 2024 | 83 min. | Jackson Deveraux, Lachlan Hinton
November 23, 2025
In the remote expanses of Eastern Oregon, a rash of unexplained cattle mutilations reignites a decades-old mystery of the American West. Film team scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
PNW Awards: WTO/99
USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Ian Bell
November 23, 2025
An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. Director Ian Bell scheduled to attend for introduction and Q&A.
Twin Peaks: The Return (Parts 7 and 8)
USA | 2017 | 115 min. | David Lynch
November 25, 2025
One of the most staggering works of David Lynch's career... on the big screen! Presented by The Grand Illusion in collaboration with SIFF.
Eternity
USA | 2025 | 112 min. | David Freyne
Opens November 26, 2025
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan must choose between the man she spent her life with and her first love.
Hamnet
United Kingdom | 2025 | 125 min. | Chloé Zhao
Opens November 26, 2025
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).
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (Chapters 1-3)
USA | 2024 | 208 min. | Julia Loktev
Opens November 28, 2025
An extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety from the Russian journalistic front lines of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Chapters 1-3 (of this five-chapter documentary) will be presented with a 10 minute intermission at this screening.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (Chapters 4-5)
USA | 2024 | 125 min. | Julia Loktev
Opens November 28, 2025
An extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety from the Russian journalistic front lines of Putin's Ukraine invasion. Chapters 4-5 (of this five-chapter documentary) will be presented at this screening.
The Last Class
USA | 2025 | 71 min. | Elliot Kirschner
November 30, 2025
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.
The Donn Of Tiki
USA | 2024 | 100 min. | Alex Lamb, Max Well
December 1, 2025
The life of Donn Beach, creator of the Tiki Bar, has been frequently embellished, and at times flat-out fabricated. The Donn of Tiki attempts to separate fact from fiction as it explores his incredulous story and the legacy he left behind. Post-film Q&A with directors Alex Lamb and Max Well.
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.
The Glamour & The Squalor: 10th Anniversary
USA | 2015 | 80 min. | Marq Evans
December 4, 2025
Seattle DJ Marco Collins stars in this unflinching documentary about media fame and addiction, which tracks his rise, fall, and resurrection as an influential promoter of grunge, alternative rock, and electronic dance music.
Fuck My Son! (35mm)
USA | 2025 | 94 min. | Todd Rohal
Opens December 5, 2025
An X-Rated descent into demented comedy and maniacal horror. Presented in 35mm by Grand Illusion in collaboration with SIFF, with writer/director Todd Rohal in attendance for Q&As after each screening!
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Palestine | 2025 | 112 min. | Sepideh Farsi
Opens December 5, 2025
An intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona.
1984
United Kingdom | 1984 | 113 min. | Michael Radford
December 7, 2025
This masterly adaptation of George Orwell’s chilling parable about totalitarian oppression gives harrowing cinematic expression to the book’s prophetic dystopia.
Bach: A Christmas Miracle
Germany | 2024 | 90 min. | Florian Baxmeyer
December 7, 2025
Join the Seattle Bach Festival for an exclusive screening of the film “Bach: A Christmas Miracle,” a festive prelude to our much-anticipated performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio this December.
SIFF 'n' Stitch: Elf
USA | 2003 | 97 min. | Jon Favreau
December 7, 2025
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!
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.
Holiday Favorites: The Muppet Christmas Carol
USA | 1992 | 85 min. | Brian Henson
Opens December 11, 2025
Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge comes to life through the magic of Jim Henson’s Muppets. All ages welcome!
Dark and Tender: The Big Island (Debut)
USA | 2025 | 120 min. | Aaron Johnson
December 12, 2025
A film by the Chronically UnderTouched (CUT) Project directed by Aaron Johnson (Founder, The CUT Project) and produced by Ben Wilson and Color of Sound.
Sliding Scale Community Screening: Singin’ In the Rain
USA | 1952 | 103 min. | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
December 14, 2025
Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals. In appreciation of our movie-loving community, tickets to this series are available on a sliding scale basis, starting at $5 for child tickets.
Avatar: Fire and Ash (3D)
USA | 2025 | 192 min. | James Cameron
Opens December 18, 2025
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.
The Secret Agent
Brazil | 2025 | 159 min. | Kleber Mendonça Filho
Opens December 18, 2025
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.
Holiday Favorites: Fiddler on the Roof Sing-along
USA | 1971 | 191 min. | Norman Jewison
December 25, 2025
A holiday party with the best Jewish-themed musical of them all!
Song Sung Blue
USA | 2025 | Craig Brewer
Opens December 25, 2025
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.
Moulin Rouge! New Year’s Eve Sing-along
USA | 2001 | 127 minutes | Baz Luhrmann
December 31, 2025
Ring in the new year with the classic Baz Luhrmann romantic musical favorite!
Movie Club: Cinephiles' Choice - Interplanetary January
January 7, 2026
You're the programmer! Vote for the January 2026 Movie Club selection. Stay tuned for the winning selection, which will be posted on December 4, 2025.
National Theatre Live: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
2025 | 120 min. | Dominic Cooke
Opens January 17, 2026
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton ("The Crown") joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter ("Bridgerton") for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.
Fly Fishing Film Tour: 20th Anniversary
120 min.
February 5, 2026
The Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is proud to celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2026, marking two decades of unforgettable stories, breathtaking landscapes, and a community bound by a passion for fly fishing.
National Theatre Live: Life of Pi
2025 | 150 min. | Max Webster
Opens February 21, 2026
Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel.
National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
2025 | 100 min. | Finn den Hertog
Opens March 14, 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden ("Slow Horses," Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, "The Responder") in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.