In Theaters
BFDI & Inanimate Insanity 2025 Tour
90 min.
Now Playing - Jul 27, 2025
BFDI & Inanimate Insanity are two hit YouTube animated series created by Jacknjellify and AnimationEpic!
She/Her Fest
64 min. | Various
July 26, 2025
A new film festival celebrating emerging women filmmakers.
Akira Kurosawa: High and Low (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1963 | 143 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Now Playing - Aug 14, 2025
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in this highly influential domestic drama and police procedural. New 4K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Throne of Blood (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1957 | 109 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Now Playing - Aug 8, 2025
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. New 4K restoration.
Caught by the Tides
China | 2024 | 111 min. | Jia Zhang-ke
Now Playing - Jul 30, 2025
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with Caught by the Tides, assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years.
Eddington
USA | 2025 | 148 min. | Ari Aster
Now Playing
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Sorry, Baby
USA | 2025 | 104 min. | Eva Victor
Now Playing - Jul 31, 2025
Eva Victor (“Billions”) writes, directs, and stars in this nonlinear, seriocomic story about a melancholic English professor’s complicated path toward healing in the aftermath of an all-too-common tragedy. Winner of the Sundance 2025 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
Akira Kurosawa: Sanjuro (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1962 | 95 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 28, 2025
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed companion piece to Yojimbo. New 4K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Yojimbo (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1961 | 110 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 28, 2025
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in this visually stunning and darkly comic genre-twister. New 4K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Seven Samurai (4K Restoration)
Japan | 1954 | 207 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 29, 2025
A 16th-century farming village requests protection from seven samurai against a horde of bandits who have warned they will return when the crops are ripe. A gripping three-hour ride from master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. 4K restoration.
Together
Australia | 2024 | 102 min. | Michael Shanks
Opens July 29, 2025
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
Akira Kurosawa: Red Beard (New 2K Restoration)
Japan | 1965 | 185 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 30, 2025
Perfectly capturing the look and feel of 19th-century Japan, this testament to the goodness of humankind stars powerhouse Toshiro Mifune in his last role for Kurosawa. New 2K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Stray Dog (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1949 | 122 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 31, 2025
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. This early classic goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind. New 4K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: The Hidden Fortress (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1958 | 139 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens July 31, 2025
Kurosawa’s first widescreen film is a delightfully comedic Samurai saga starring Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. New 4K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Ikiru (New 4K Restoration)
Japan | 1952 | 143 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens August 1, 2025
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an exploration of death. New 4K restoration.
Folktales
USA | 2025 | 105 min. | Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Opens August 1, 2025
At a Norwegian Folk School located 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle, teenagers learn survival skills in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
Emerald City Short Film Festival
USA | 2025 | 195 min. | Various
August 2, 2025
A collection of short films created by filmmakers local to Washington State.
Afternoons of Solitude
Spain | 2024 | 125 min. | Albert Serra
August 3, 2025
Presented by Grand Illusion Cinema. The new film from the visionary director of Pacifiction, Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude is a spellbinding documentary that turns its gaze on the ceremonial splendor and devastating brutality of bullfighting in Spain.
Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon (New 2K Restoration)
Japan | 1950 | 88 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens August 5, 2025
A horrible crime is told and retold from multiple—and vastly divergent perspectives—in the classic film that brought Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa to the global stage. New 2K restoration.
Akira Kurosawa: Ran (New 4K Restoration)
France | 1985 | 162 min. | Akira Kurosawa
Opens August 6, 2025
Akira Kurosawa’s favorite of his films, this innovative, epic adaptation of “King Lear”—nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director—returns to the giant screen. New 4K restoration.
Talking Pictures: Lex Vaughn presents Anchorman
USA | 2004 | Adam McKay
August 7, 2025
Join SIFF for Talking Pictures, a series of film experiences where local luminaries host a screening of a film of their choice at SIFF Cinemas and share with audiences how it has impacted them. On August 7, founder and editor of local satirical news outlet The Needling, Lex Vaughn, will present Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) at SIFF Cinema Downtown.
CatVideoFest 2025
2025 | 70 min.
Opens August 8, 2025
The world's #1 cat video festival is back with screenings in theaters across the USA and around the world.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
USA | 2024 | 106 min. | Amy Berg
Opens August 8, 2025
The definitive tale of Jeff Buckley, the rising young star with an otherworldly voice whose suddan 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.
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
USA | 2024 | 103 min. | Stimson Snead
Opens August 8, 2025
In this blast of WA state science fiction, a brilliant scientist invents a time machine and concocts a scheme to kill his younger self…with unintended consequences. Post-film Q&A on August 8 with director Stimson Snead.
Weapons
USA | 2025 | 128 min. | Zach Cregger
Opens August 8, 2025
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.
Sliding Scale Community Screening: Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (40th Anniversary)
USA | 1985 | 90 min. | Tim Burton
August 9, 2025
When Pee-wee Herman’s idyllic world is destroyed by the theft of his fire-engine red bicycle, he sets out on a manic cross-country odyssey to recover his most valued possession. In appreciation of our movie-loving community, tickets to this series are available on a sliding scale basis, starting at $5 for child tickets.
SIFF 'n' Stitch: 10 Things I Hate About You
USA | 1999 | 97 min. | Gil Junger
August 10, 2025
When the beautiful but fiercely independent Kat Stratford meets the charismatic bad boy Patrick Verona, sparks fly as they navigate a web of teenage drama, secret admirers, and unexpected emotions. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!
Seattle 48 Hour Film Project Screening and Awards 2025
2025 | 180 min.
August 11, 2025
Join us for screenings and awards of Seattle’s best 48 hour short films and global contenders!
SIFF Movie Club: They Live
USA | 1988 | 94 min. | John Carpenter
August 13, 2025
A rugged loner (Roddy Piper) stumbles upon a terrifying discovery: goulish creatures are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Assistant Manager Tony Ochoa.
Boys Go to Jupiter
USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Julian Glander
Opens August 15, 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
Opens August 15, 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
Opens August 15, 2025
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.
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.
CLASSIFIED CINEMA
91 min.
August 19, 2025
Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.
Honey Don’t!
USA | 2025 | 90 min. | Ethan Coen
Opens August 22, 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.
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.
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.
The Roses
USA | 2025 | 121 min. | Jay Roach
Opens August 29, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.