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All About Me
Germany | 2019 | 100 minutes | Caroline Link
October 19, 2019
Dramatised origin story of one of Germany's most beloved contemporary comedians.
Butler
Poland | 2018 | 150 minutes | Filip Bajon
October 19, 2019
An epic tale spanning 45 years (1900- 1945) that follows the fate of the Prussian von Krauss family.
Forbidden Songs
Poland | 1947 | 105 minutes | Leonard Buczkokwski
October 19, 2019
A polish musical, It was the first feature film to be created in Poland after World War II.
Memories of Summer
Poland | 2016 | 90 minutes | Adam Guzinski
October 19, 2019
Twelve-year-old Piotrek has a very strong bond with his mother but their simple and clear relationship starts to get complicated.
Skatetown, U.S.A.
USA | 1979 | 98 minutes | William A. Levey
October 19, 2019
Brand new restoration! Never heard of Skatetown U.S.A.? Picture a so-bad-it’s-good version of Saturday Night Fever, but instead of Travolta strutting, it’s got Patrick Swayze (in his very first role) doing roller boogie to disco beats.
Solid Gold
Poland | 2019 | 145 minutes | Jacek Bromski
October 19, 2019
The investigation goes further and further and exposes the links between the world of business, public services and organised crime.
The Mover
Germany | 2017 | 100 minutes | David Nawrath
October 19, 2019
Walter is a 60-year-old removal man for forced evictions who recognizes in one of the tenants about to be evicted his estranged son.
25km/h
Germany | 2018 | 116 minutes | Markus Goller
October 20, 2019
Two very different brothers reunite and start for a very special journey through Germany.
Dolce Fine Giornata
Poland | 2019 | 95 minutes | Jacek Borcuch
October 20, 2019
Maria, a free-spirited poetess with decades of carrier, learns about she as Nobel Prize-winner for literature - but ...
Messenger
Poland | 2019 | 115 minutes | Wladyslaw Pasikowski
October 20, 2019
His solitary mission was to be decisive in the fates of Poland and World War II.
Modjeska. Woman Triumphant & Bridging Urban America. The Story of Ralph Modjeski
USA | 2016 | 90 minutes | Basia Myszynski, Leonard Myszynski
October 20, 2019
This is a documentary about one of America's greatest bridge designers.
Mr. Jones
Poland | 2019 | 120 minutes | Agnieszka Holland
October 20, 2019
The extraordinary untold story of Gareth Jones, an ambitious young Welsh journalist who traveled to the Soviet Union in 1933 and uncovered the appalling truth behind the Soviet “utopia” and Stalin’s regime.
Of Fathers and Sons
Germany | 2017 | 98 minutes | Talal Derki
October 20, 2019
Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years.
SQFF24 Closing Night Film + Party: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
France | 2019 | 119 minutes | Céline Sciamma
October 20, 2019
Desire can be a powerful force, capable of consuming the heart like a roaring fire.
ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band From Texas
USA | 2019 | 91 minutes | Sam Dunn
October 21, 2019
Hidden in plain view, the public persona of the multi-platinum selling trio known as ZZ Top has remained an impermeable mystery...until now.
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Mountaintop
2019 | 92 minutes
October 22, 2019
Neil Young and Crazy Horse continue their 50 year odyssey in the mountains of Colorado.
NT Live: Frankenstein (Reverse Cast)
United Kingdom | 2011 | 2hr 9min | Danny Boyle
October 23, 2019
Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the dramatic stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic monster tale. Reverse cast version.
The Night of a Thousand Scares
60 minutes
October 23, 2019
I'm looking at Andy and thinking, "Maybe that's our next meal."
Marshawn Lynch: A History
USA | 2019 | 85 minutes | David Shields
October 24, 2019
A mesmerizing video collage rather than a traditional doc, this portrait of heroically controversial ex-Seahawk Marshawn Lynch focuses on his narrative-controlling interview strategies in the context of race and media celebrity in America.
The Lighthouse
USA | 2019 | 110 minutes | Robert Eggers
Opens October 24, 2019
The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Parasite
South Korea | 2019 | 132 minutes | Bong Joon-ho
Opens October 25, 2019
Director Bong Joon-ho (Okja, Snowpiercer) took home the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival with this tale of a family struggling to survive under dire economic pressures.
April and the Extraordinary World
France | 2015 | 103 minutes | Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
October 26, 2019
In an alternate steampunk world of 1940s Paris, a young girl finds herself at the center of a far-reaching conspiracy. Based on the work of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi.
NT Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2019 | 180 minutes | Nicholas Hytner
Opens October 27, 2019
Join us for the Bridge Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s classic play, starring Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) and directed by Nicholas Hytner.
Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project
USA | 2019 | 100 minutes
Opens October 28, 2019
Premiere screenings for the 2019 Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project.
NT Live: Frankenstein
United Kingdom | 2011 | 2hr 14min | Danny Boyle
October 30, 2019
Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the dramatic stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic monster tale.
Collide-O-Scope Halloween 2019
USA | 2019 | 120 minutes
October 31, 2019
Collide-O-Scope is back with the best found-footage Halloween party in town!
Los Reyes
Chile | 2018 | 78 minutes | Bettina Perut, Iván Osnovikoff
Opens November 1, 2019
Iván Osnovikoff and Bettina Perut’s (Noticias) entrancing and form-bending new documentary follows the lives of two dogs living at the Los Reyes skatepark in Santiago, Chile.
Synonyms
Israel | 2019 | 123 minutes | Nadav Lapid
Opens November 1, 2019
In director Nadav Lapid’s (The Kindergarten Teacher) third feature, Yoav (Tom Mercier), an Israeli émigré to France, forsakes all aspects of his national past, including his native Hebrew tongue.
Exhibition on Screen - Leonardo: The Works
2019 | 85 minutes | Phil Grabsky
Opens November 3, 2019
Released on the 500th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive film about Leonardo: the first to truly tell the whole story.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
USA | 1987 | 93 minutes | John Hughes
November 6, 2019
Steve Martin and John Candy find their fates cast together in John Hughes’ resoundingly funny Thanksgiving/road movie masterpiece. Part of our new SIFF Movie Club.
Greener Grass
USA | 2019 | 97 minutes | Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Opens November 8, 2019
Comedians turned writer/director/actor power duo Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe’s absurdist candy-colored comedy upends everything you thought you knew about the suburbs.
Pain and Glory
Spain | 2019 | 112 minutes | Pedro Almodóvar
Opens November 8, 2019
Beloved filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother) returns with his most autobiographical film to date, starring Antonio Banderas as a struggling director whose best days are behind him.
NT Live: Hansard
2019 | 100 minutes | Simon Godwin
Opens November 10, 2019
See Olivier Award-winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman) and Alex Jennings (The Queen), in this brand new play from Simon Woods, captured live from the National Theatre in London.
Moon Hotel Kabul
Romania | 2018 | 100 minutes | Anca Damian
November 15, 2019
Ivan Semciuc (Florin Piersic Jr.) is a cynical investigative journalist who is skillfully combining truth and fiction in his reports.
Romanian Film Festival: Stories OFF the Wall (6th Edition)
Opens November 15, 2019
Join us in celebrating 30 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall with Romanian and Eastern European cinema.
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
Canada | 2018 | 83 minutes | Alison Reid
Opens November 15, 2019
Think the Jane Goodall of giraffes and you’d get Canadian zoologist and feminist trailblazer Anne Innis Dagg, whose unprecedented work and scholarship on South African wildlife was stonewalled by institutional chauvinism.
Heritage Shorts: ARCS Shorts (2019), A Distance (2018), The Call (2018), My Father's Shoes (2019)
Romania | 100 minutes | Misc
November 16, 2019
A collection of shorts made by ARCS heritage students, alongside with professional works by reputed filmmakers.
The Distance Between Me and Me
Romania | 2018 | 89 minutes | Mona Nicoară
November 16, 2019
Romanian Jewish avant-garde poet, musician, visual artist and femme fatale, Nina Cassian had more to wrestle with than most of us.
The Father
Bulgaria | 2019 | 87 minutes | Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
November 16, 2019
A day after Valentina’s passing, her bereaved husband Vassil and son Pavel discover that she persistently kept trying to call the neighbor on the phone.
The Whistlers
Romania | 2019 | 97 minutes | Corneliu Porumboiu
November 16, 2019
A police inspector in Bucharest plays both sides of the law.
Toto and His Sisters
Romania | 2014 | 94 minutes | Alexandru Nanau
November 16, 2019
Toto (10) and his sisters Ana (17) and Andreea (15) conquer life on their own during their mother's imprisonment.
Donbass
Ukraine | 2018 | 122 minutes | Sergey Loznitsa
November 17, 2019
Donbass is about the hybrid war in Eastern Ukraine, involving an armed conflict alongside killings and robberies perpetrated by separatist gangs.
Moldovan Stories
Lucia Lupu, Mihai Brumă, Ion Borsh, Evgheni Dudceac
November 17, 2019
A collection of shorts dealing with Moldovan identity and society challenges.
Parking
Romania | 2019 | 110 minutes | Tudor Giurgiu
November 17, 2019
Adrian is a poet, a Romanian immigrant working as a night guard at a car dealership in Cordoba.
That Trip We Took with Dad
Romania | 2016 | 111 minutes | Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
November 17, 2019
A Romanian German family living in the heart of Transylvania starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic in 1968.
The Escape
Romania | 2013 | 130 minutes | Andrei Gruzsnickzki
November 17, 2019
A feature film preceded by a short about life in communist Romania.
Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest
2019 | 95 minutes | Anton Corbijn
November 21, 2019
Directed by award-winning filmmaker/photographer Anton Corbijn (Control), Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest captures the energy and spectacle of the band’s 2017-18 Global Spirit Tour.
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Dragnet Girl with Live Score by Coupler
Japan | 1933 | 100 minutes | Yasujirô Ozu
November 21, 2019
Japanese master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s thrilling 1933 gangster tale takes on new life when paired with an original score by ambient/electronic trio Coupler.
End of the Century
Argentina | 2019 | 84 minutes | Lucio Castro
Opens November 22, 2019
Ocho, a poet from New York City, has a fling with Javi while vacationing in Barcelona. When it becomes clear that the men have met before, and the plot pivots to explore the past, what could have been, and what still could be.
Mr. Toilet: The World's #2 Man
USA | 2019 | 87 minutes | Lily Zepeda
November 26, 2019
Adopting the zany persona of Mr. Toilet, businessman turned activist Jack Sim uses his sense of humor (and boundless energy) to bring awareness and action to lack of proper sanitation in India and China. Filmmaker and subject in attendance!
Waves
USA | 2019 | 135 minutes | Trey Edward Shults
Opens November 27, 2019
A high school wrestling star (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) with a bright future makes a grave misstep that forever transforms the nature of his family in Trey Edward Shults' (It Comes at Night) masterfully told third feature.
Moomins on the Riviera
Finland | 2014 | 77 minutes | Xavier Picard
November 30, 2019
Tove Jansson’s much loved Moomin trolls set sail for the Riviera where Snorkmaiden is dazzled by the attentions of a playboy and Moomin learns that jealousy’s sting is the most painful of all.
NT Live: Present Laughter
United Kingdom | 2019 | 180 minutes | Matthew Warchus
Opens December 1, 2019
Join us for The Old Vic in London’s production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter, starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) and directed by Matthew Warchus.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
USA | 1992 | 85 minutes | Brian Henson
December 4, 2019
Charles Dickens’ timeless tale of Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine), his cold heart, and how the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future seek to show him the error of his ways comes to life through the magic of Jim Henson’s Muppets. Part of our new SIFF Movie Club.