In Theaters
Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project
90 min.
October 26, 2021
Enjoy 28 locally made horror films that were all shot during the course of a single weekend: October 15–17, 2021.
Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro
Japan | 1979 | 99 min. | Hayao Miyazaki
Opens October 27, 2021
New 4K restoration of Hayao Miyazaki's fantastical 1979 caper.
The Faction Collective Presents "Roots"
USA | 2021 | 45 min. | Etienne Mérel
October 28, 2021
The Faction Collective presents Roots, one of the biggest ski movies of the year.
The Stranger Presents: 2021 SLAY Film Festival
100 min.
Opens October 29, 2021
The Stranger presents the 2021 edition of SLAY Film Festival, the Northwest's independent horror film festival.
Collide-O-Scope Halloween
USA | 2021 | 150 min.
October 31, 2021
Collide-O-Scope's annual one-of-a-kind Halloween found-footage phantasmagoria returns to SIFF Cinema Egyptian!
Teton Gravity Research: Mountain Revelations
USA | 2021 | 60 min. | Justin Fann
November 2, 2021
Mountain Revelations follows three professional snowboarders—Jeremy Jones, Ryan Hudson, and Rafael Pease—on a human-powered 10-day mission in a remote corner of the Chugach Mountain Range in Alaska.
The Macaluso Sisters
Italy | 2020 | 94 min. | Emma Dante
November 4, 2021
Emma Dante’s moving, elegant drama follows the lives of five sisters whose world is turned upside down by a sudden, unexpected, tragedy that tests the bonds of their family.
In Balanchine’s Classroom
USA | 2020 | 88 min. | Connie Hochman
Opens November 5, 2021
In Balanchine’s Classroom takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to fulfill the vision of a genius.
The Image Machine of Alfredo C.
Italy | 2021 | 76 min. | Roland Sejko
November 5, 2021
An unexpected discovery in the Albanian historical archives unearths the life story of a cameraman who recorded the lives of the thousands of Italians detained in Albania during the Communist era.
Three Perfect Daughters
Italy | 2020 | 96 min. | Rolando Ravello
November 5, 2021
In this comedy hit set in Rome, Marco Giallini, Vincenzo Salemme, and Giuseppe Battiston star as three friends and brothers-in-law, Arturo, Antonio and Sergio, confronted with the same problem.
With or Without You
Italy | 2021 | 110 min. | Stefano Sardo
November 5, 2021
Longtime couple Alice and Tommaso invite their friends over for a special dinner. Everyone thinks they’re finally going to announce their engagement, but the truth surprises everyone.
Futura
Italy | 2021 | 110 min. | Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi
November 6, 2021
Three of Italy’s most exciting filmmakers travel the country, interviewing a cross-section of their nation’s youth to discover their hopes, dreams, and fears for the future.
The Inner Cage
Italy | 2021 | 117 min. | Leonardo di Costanzo
November 6, 2021
Toni Servillo, Silvio Orlando, and Alba Rohrwacher lead a remarkable ensemble in this tense prison drama, where any wrong choice could lead to violence.
The Innocent
Italy | 1976 | 129 min. | Luchino Visconti
November 6, 2021
Gabrielle d'Annunzio’s passionate novel is brought to life in the newly restored final masterpiece from acclaimed director Luchino Visconti, starring Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, and Jennifer O'Neill.
Ezio Bosso, the Things That Remain
Italy | 2021 | 104 min. | Giorgio Verdelli
November 7, 2021
Giorgio Verdelli’s inspiring portrait of the legendary composer Ezio Bosso captures his life and career, telling a great human story of talent, drive, and the sheer love of music.
The Predators
Italy | 2020 | 109 min. | Pietro Castillitto
November 7, 2021
Winner of Best New Director at the 2021 David di Donatello Awards, actor/director Pietro Castellitto delivers an entertaining black comedy which sees two families from opposing social backgrounds collide.
The Great Silence
Italy | 2021 | 107 min. | Alessandro Gassmann
November 8, 2021
In this bittersweet comedy, Rose decides to sell the dilapidated family home. Everyone reluctantly agrees—except her husband, Valerio—whose futile attempts to stop the sale unearth some unexpected family secrets.
A Chiara
Italy | 2021 | 121 min. | Jonas Carpignano
November 9, 2021
From multi award-winning writer/director Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra, Meditterranea), A Chiara is a searing, gripping and remarkably poignant drama about a Calabrian teenage girl who learns some difficult truths about her close-knit family.
Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Italy | 2021 | 109 min. | Riccardo Milani
November 10, 2021
The second chapter of the blockbuster comedy Like a Cat on a Highway sees the return of Paola Cortellesi and Antonio Albanese as foul-mouthed, tattooed Monica and radical chic intellectual Giovanni, three years since the end of their love story.
The Hand of God
Italy | 2021 | 129 min. | Paolo Sorrentino
November 11, 2021
Legendary director Paolo Sorrentino turns his lens to the formative experiences of his Neapolitan youth in this funny, moving, and deeply personal story of heartbreak and liberation.
Belfast
United Kingdom | 2021 | 97 min. | Kenneth Branaugh
Opens November 12, 2021
Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh, Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Only the Animals
France | 2019 | 116 min. | Dominik Moll
Opens November 12, 2021
Dominik Moll’s new thriller spans two continents and adopts a nonlinear narrative to explore the oppressive loneliness enveloping five people as they work to solve a murder in their small mountain town.
East of the Mountains
USA | 2021 | 93 minutes | SJ Chiro
Opens November 18, 2021
Local filmmaker SJ Chiro directs Tom Skerritt in this heartrending tale, based on the novel by David Guterson ("Snow Falling on Cedars"), about a terminally ill, retired heart surgeon who journeys back to Eastern Washington to end his life.
Found Footage Festival: Vol. 9
2020 | 90 minutes
March 13, 2022
The Found Footage Festival live show returns to SIFF with an all new show containing the weirdest and wildest VHS-sourced clips that founders Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher’s (The Colbert Report) could dig up.