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Movie Club: The First Slam Dunk

Japan | 2022 | 124 min. | Takehiko Inoue

March 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Takehiko Inoue adapts his own highly influential 90s basketball manga into a quiet portrait of a broken family - and one of the most thrilling sports movies ever made. Introduced by Cinema Rentals Manager Patrick McFarland. Arrive early to join us for a '90s basketball and anime preshow.

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East of Eden

USA | 1955 | 115 min. | Elia Kazan

Now Playing - Mar 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Hollywood legend James Dean stars in this adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel. Teenaged Cal Trask longs for the affection that his father reserves for his brother Aron, but his efforts meet only rejection. Also attracted to Aron's girlfriend, Cal becomes so frustrated in his search for love and acceptance that he reveals a long-held secret about their mother to Aron, knowledge that now tears the family apart.

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Rebel Without A Cause

USA | 1955 | 111 min. | Nicholas Ray

Now Playing - Mar 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

That iconic red motorcycle jacket. An apron-wearing father. The brutal intensity of James Dean’s face, and Natalie Wood’s nurturing touch. This classic drama by renowned director Nicolas Ray is perhaps the perfectly crafted teen angst film, catapulting Dean’s short-lived film career and guaranteed to tear you apart.

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Vermiglio

Italy | 2024 | 119 min. | Maura Delpero

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Towards the end of the Second World War, in a high, remote mountain village in the Italian Alps, the arrival of a refugee soldier alters the dynamics of the place forever. Italy’s Official 2025 Academy Awards® Submission (Best International Feature).

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2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animated

2024

Now Playing - Mar 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb 14. With all three categories offered–Animated, Live Action, and Documentary–this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 2nd.

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2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary

2024 | 159 min.

Now Playing - Mar 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb 14. With all three categories offered–Animated, Live Action, and Documentary–this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 2nd.

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2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action

2024

Now Playing - Mar 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

For the 20th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Feb 14. With all three categories offered–Animated, Live Action and Documentary–this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, March 2nd.

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I’m Still Here

Brazil | 2024 | 137 min. | Walter Salles

Now Playing - Mar 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

BRAZIL, 1971 - Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. 2025 Academy Award Winner: Best International Feature.

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Mickey 17

USA | 2024 | 139 min. | Bong Joon Ho

Opens March 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, Mickey 17. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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No Other Land

Palestine | 95 min. | Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Opens March 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A devastatingly personal story about the decades-long forced demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Bank community. 2025 Academy Award Winner: Best Documentary Feature.

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Opening Spotlight: Boys Go to Jupiter & Miisufy

USA | 2024 | 101 min. | Julian Glander

March 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Kick off the festival with Miisufy, a Tamagotchi-inspired short, and the Seattle premiere of Boys Go to Jupiter, a dreamy new feature made entirely in Blender that stars Julio Torres, Cole Escola, Sarah Sherman, and more.

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Rainier: A Beer Odyssey

USA | 2024 | 124 min. | Isaac Olsen

Opens March 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Crack open a cold one with the epic story of Rainier Beer and its world-famous 1970s advertising campaign.

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RATS!

USA | 2023 | 85 min. | Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry

Opens March 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

In this maniacal stoner epic of bad taste, young vandal Raphael must survive the unhinged citizens of Pfresno, Texas.

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Sea Slug Animation Festival

Opens March 7, 2025

A new film festival in Seattle celebrating the ingenuity, creativity, and weirdness of independent animation for adults. Presented by Sea Slug Animation Festival.

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Seven Veils

Canada | 2023 | 109 min. | Atom Egoyan

Opens March 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, theater director Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. From renowned director Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter).

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Universal Language

Canada (Québec) | 2024 | 89 min. | Matthew Rankin

Opens March 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways.

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Closing Retrospective: Allegro non troppo & Gina Kamentsky's Pinocchio in 70mm

Italy | 1977 | 88 min. | Bruno Bozzetto

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Close out the festival with Gina Kamentsky's explosive analog short about Pinocchio's greatest wish, and Allegro non troppo—a raunchy and rarely seen spoof of Disney's Fantasia. Co-presented by Unstreamable.

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Shorts I: Everything Animated All at Once!

76 min.

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Come alive in 2D, stop-motion, strata-cut and more with these 11 mind-bogglingly colorful tales of life animated.

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Shorts II: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

86 min.

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Plunge into an alternate state of mind with these 10 bizarre and otherworldly shorts.

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2025 Fly Fishing Film Tour

USA | 2025 | 120 min.

March 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The highly anticipated 19th Annual Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) is back and ready with a curated selection of the best fly fishing films from around the world.

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA

91 min.

Opens March 11, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Immaculately curated films kept top secret until they hit the screen. Still free, always fun, never pretentious.

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CreepTime The Podcast LIVE

90 min.

March 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

CreepTime LIVE starring Sylas and Stew. A night of haunting tales brought right to you in Seattle. Presented by CreepTime The Podcast.

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Black Bag

United Kingdom | 2024 | 93 min. | Steven Soderbergh

Opens March 13, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

From director Steven Soderbergh, Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal

1956 | 96 min. | Ingmar Bergman

March 13, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A noble medieval Knight (Max von Sydow) plays a game of chess with Death. He hopes to survive, but he also has a deeper strategy in mind. At the time of the film’s making Existentialism was in the philosophical/cultural air, a truth-seeking state of mind Bergman was born with. Bergman’s discovery actor Max von Sydow becomes an international star.

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Eephus

USA | 2024 | 99 min. | Carson Lund

Opens March 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams face off one last time. Named for a rare pitch, this poignant comedy is an ode to sports, community, and the passage of time.

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The North Face Presents: Reel Rock 19

USA | 120 min.

Opens March 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Reel Rock 19 showcases three new climbing stories that span disciplines, characters, and continents.

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Theater of Thought

USA | 2022 | 108 min. | Werner Herzog

Opens March 14, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theater of Thought takes audiences on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our thoughts, or if our brains will inevitably become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not so distant future. Neuroscientist Eberhard Fetz scheduled to attend the 7:30pm screening on March 14.

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GRRL HAUS

125 min. | Various

March 16, 2025

SIFF Film Center

International film festival GRRL HAUS CINEMA brings the ruckus to SIFF, with this best-of screening of short films centering the works of women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer filmmakers.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Hairspray

USA | 1988 | 92 min. | John Waters

March 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

It's Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious “pleasantly plump” teenager attempts to be one of the featured stars on a popular dance show and win the coveted "Miss Auto Show" crown. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries

1957 | 91 min. | Ingmar Bergman

March 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

For Bergman reality is multi-layered, and here an aged professor (Swedish cinema pioneer Victor Sjostrom), through potent memories and current conflicts and beatitudes, deals with those who see him as a failure, or a grand success. With human sympathy and warmth, Bergman deals with his own parental conflicts while celebrating his idol Sjostrom. Ingrid Thulin becomes one of Bergman’s star actors.

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Waxer: Occidentally in Love

USA | 2025 | Cuinn Fey

March 20, 2025

SIFF Film Center

An intimate look at Seattle's favorite indie rock band, Waxer, on their soon-to-be legendary Japan tour.

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Young French Cinema: Dahomey

France | 2024 | 68 min. | Mati Diop

March 21, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Blurring the line between fiction and documentary, the Golden Bear-winning new film from Mati Diop (Atlantics) exploring France’s repatriation of Benin’s royal treasures is a poignant commentary on the role of museums and the enduring ghosts of colonialism. Seattle Art Museum Curator of African and Oceanic Art Pam McClusky scheduled to attend and introduce the film. Senegal's Official Oscar Submission (Best International Feature Film).

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Young French Cinema: Àma Gloria

France | 2023 | 84 min. | Marie Amachoukeli

March 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Young Cléo tags along with her beloved nanny to Cape Verde, learning more about the woman who practically raised her.

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Young French Cinema: Little Girl Blue

France | 2023 | 95 min. | Mona Achache

March 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

After her mother's death, Mona Achache discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation, she brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was and what happened to her.

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Young French Cinema: Marinette

France | 2023 | 95 min. | Virginie Verrier

March 22, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Marinette Pichon is one of the world’s greatest stars of football, having held for almost two decades the record for the number of goals and caps for the French team (men/women combined), before becoming a FIFA Legend by being the first French player to have a career in the US.

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Found Footage Festival: 20th Anniversary Show

90 min.

March 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Joe Pickett ("The Onion") and Nick Prueher ("Late Show") have over 13,000 VHS tapes in their collection and have been taking viewers on a guided tour through their latest and greatest finds since 2004. To celebrate two decades of this VHS nonsense, Joe & Nick will serve up their all-time greatest finds including the dumbest exercise videos, the craziest public access shows and updates with the most wonderful weirdos they’ve met along the way.

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Young French Cinema: Sisterhood

France | 2023 | 101 min. | Nora El Hourch

March 23, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Despite their different social backgrounds, Amina, Djeneba, and Zineb have been friends for as long as they can remember. When Zineb experiences harassment from her brother’s best friend, Amina decides to post a compromising video of him on social media, hoping he will stop. Little does she know that the video will not only jeopardize her safety, but also strain their friendship.

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Young French Cinema: Spirit of Ecstasy

France | 2023 | 98 min. | Héléna Klotz

March 23, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Jeanne is 24 years old. She lives on a military base with her father, a police officer, and her little brother and sister. She's determined to make it in the world of finance. Not for the glory or wealth, but because it's leading her on the path to freedom.

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30th Seattle Jewish Film Festival: March 22-April 6

March 25, 2025

30th SJFF Pearl Anniversary: Like a pearl formed through resilience and transformation, for 30 years SJFF has illuminated powerful stories that shine through history’s darkest moments and celebrate the triumphs of Jewish life, culture and cinema: 30 films for 30 years.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: The Magician

1958 | 100 min. | Ingmar Bergman

March 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A traveling 19th-century magician (Max von Sydow) encounters skepticism and hostility, especially from a learned doctor (Gunnar Bjornstrand). The mysterious conjurer responds with dark powers, but are they supernatural or human skills? Bergman bends genders, and Bibi Andersson joins Bergman’s league of fine performers.

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Super Mario Bros. (35mm)

United Kingdom | 1993 | 104 min. | Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton

March 27, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They’re the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa. Presented in partnership with Scarecrow Video's Unstreamable.

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Bob Trevino Likes It

USA | 2024 | 105 min. | Tracie Laymon

Opens March 28, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Lily finds solace in Facebook of all places when she connects with and befriends a kindhearted man who shares her father’s name.

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Trail Running Film Festival

USA | 2025 | 140 min.

March 28, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

An international film festival that celebrates running as a universal exploration of potential and dreams. Films document trail running culture, support creatives, and foster community through inclusivity, while promoting adventure, wilderness, art, and diversity.

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Post Alley Film Festival presented by Women in Film Seattle

Various

March 29, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Post Alley Film Festival is a one-day festival of woman-centric and eccentric short films by established, award-winning, and emerging filmmakers from around the block and around the globe. Films by women for everyone.

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Sliding Scale Community Screening: Jumanji (30th Anniversary)

USA | 1995 | 104 min. | Joe Johnston

March 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! In appreciation of our movie-loving community, tickets to this series are available on a sliding scale basis, starting at $5 for child tickets.

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The Films of Lou Ye: An Unfinished Film

Singapore | 2024 | 105 min. | Lou Ye

March 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

January 2020. A film crew reunites near Wuhan to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier, only to share the unexpected challenges as cities are placed under lockdown.

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The Films of Lou Ye: Suzhou River

China | 2000 | 83 min. | Lou Ye

March 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A murky Shanghai river, the Suzhou, becomes a haunting backdrop for a man's obsessive search for a lost love, mirroring the city's shadowy underbelly and his own fractured memories.

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The Films of Lou Ye: Blind Massage

China | 2014 | 104 min. | Lou Ye

March 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A drama centered on the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.

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The Films of Lou Ye: Spring Fever

China | 2010 | 116 min. | Lou Ye

March 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo's girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: The Virgin Spring

1959 | 89 min. | Ingmar Bergman

April 1, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

In medieval Sweden pagan beliefs are tempered by a new Christian sense of morality. Chance brings a passionate father (Max von Sydow) face-to-face with men who harmed his angelic daughter (Gunnel Lindblom). Which actions are sinful, which righteous? And what of miracles? Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

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Movie Club: My Own Private Idaho

USA | 1991 | 104 min. | Gus Van Sant

April 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

"I always know where I am by the way the road looks..." Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix star in director Gus Van Sant's seminal meditation on the nature of innocence as two young men living on the fringes of society peddle their bodies for sex. Introduced by Education Manager Megan Garbayo-López.

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National Film Festival for Talented Youth 2025

Various

Opens April 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The 18th National Film Festival for Talented Youth, showcasing the best short films from filmmakers 24 and younger. The festival weekend will feature 240 short films from 31 countries and 28 states. The four day festival includes professional development sessions, networking opportunities, masterclasses, parties, and more!

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The Fall of the House of Usher

USA | 1960 | 85 min. | Roger Corman

April 3, 2025

SIFF Film Center

When a beautiful young woman's suitor arrives to ask her hand in marriage, the doors of the mysterious house of Usher fling open and terror begins. It seems the young woman's brother is violently opposed to her planned marriage and resorts to macabre ends to prevent the tainted Usher blood from spreading to future generations.

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National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

United Kingdom | 2024 | Max Webster

Opens April 4, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa ("Doctor Who;" "Sex Education") in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

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RITUAL Mountain Bike Film Tour

USA | 2025 | 120 min. | Ritual

April 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Ritual is a big screen celebration of incredible athletes, creative filmmakers, engaging storylines and stunning cinematography.

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BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest XIV

USA | 2025 | 11 hr. | Various

April 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The 14th BoneBat "Comedy of Horrors" Film Fest is a full evening of giggles and gore, presenting the finest in independent Horror Comedy features and shorts from around the world, live music and prizes galore, hosted by Steve and Gord of The BoneBat Show!

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National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove

2025 | Sean Foley

Opens April 5, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

USA | 1973 | 108 min. | Norman Jewison

Opens April 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

This groundbreaking reimagining of the final weeks of Christ, filmed on location in Israel, features a truly superstar performance from vocal powerhouse, musician, and actor Ted Neeley as Jesus. One of the most successful musicals of the 1970s, as brought to life by director Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof).

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The Prince of Egypt

USA | 1998 | 99 min. | Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells

Opens April 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

An epic adventure that captivated movie audiences the world over in this familiar tale of two brothers- one born of royal blood, one an orphan with a secret past. As one becomes the ruler of a powerful empire and the other the chosen leader of his people, their final confrontation will forever change the world.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Through a Glass Darkly

1960 | 89 min. | Ingmar Bergman

April 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

On a remote island a visionary young woman (Harriet Andersson) hears God hiding behind the wallpaper, His manifestation is imminent. Her writer father (Gunnar Bjornstrand) and doctor husband (Max von Sydow) respectively view her artistically and clinically, but her brother has the human touch. Oscar for Best Foreign Film and Screenplay.

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The Chase Film Tour

USA | 2024 | Dylan Harris

April 9, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The Chase is a riveting feature length film that takes you deep into the 2024 Cocodona 250, a grueling 250-mile ultramarathon through Arizona's breathtaking and punishing terrain. Following the film will be a Meet and Greet Q&A session with Joe McConaughy and other prominent people in the community.

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The Ballad of Wallis Island

United Kingdom | 2024 | 99 min. | James Griffiths

Opens April 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favorite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together.

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To Live Is To Dream: Dune

USA | 1984 | 137 min. | David Lynch

Opens April 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

David Lynch's controversial yet celebrated take on Frank Herbert's Dune returns to the big screen for a limited time.

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To Live Is To Dream: Wild at Heart

USA | 1990 | 125 min. | David Lynch

Opens April 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

David Lynch directs this hallucinatory crime thriller about runaway convicts and forbidden love, blending elements of The Wizard of Oz and Elvis Presley fetishism with an eclectic, intense soundtrack. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern star as Sailor and Lula, two lovers who know in their hearts that “this whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top.”

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When Fall is Coming

France | 2024 | 103 min. | François Ozon

Opens April 11, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a charming Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. She eagerly anticipates her grandson Lucas spending the school vacation with her, but things don’t go as planned. Feeling lonely, Michelle loses her sense of purpose, until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.

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Strings of Legacy: The Journey of a Poetic Music Legend - Free Beats

105 + 111 mins.

April 12, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Experience two powerful documentaries that tell heartfelt stories of Asian rebellious history, dynamic music, culture, and the timeless influence of Chen Ming-Chang, Taiwan’s Bob Dylan.

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Strings of Legacy: The Journey of a Poetic Music Legend - On The Train

105 + 111 mins.

April 12, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Experience two powerful documentaries that tell heartfelt stories of Asian rebellious history, dynamic music, culture, and the timeless influence of Chen Ming-Chang, Taiwan’s Bob Dylan.

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Talking Pictures: Eric Barone presents The Straight Story

USA | 1999 | 112 min. | David Lynch

April 12, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Join SIFF for Talking Pictures, a new series of film experiences where local luminaries present a movie of their choice at SIFF Cinemas and share with audiences how it has impacted them. On April 12, Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, creator of Stardew Valley, will lead an extended introduction for David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999) along with SIFF Artistic Director Beth Barrett.

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Anime Auteurs: Osamu Tezuka’s Metropolis

Japan | 2002 | 108 min. | Rintarô

April 13, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Brace yourself for a totally new experience in cutting-edge animation. Based on the classic comic created by Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy), written by Japanese anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and directed by Rintaro (Galaxy Express 999), Metropolis is a spectacular film featuring stunning imagery and unforgettable characters. Show up early to shop anime-inspired prints from local artist Boya Sun!

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Exclusive Seattle Preview: Don't Close Your Eyes

Bulgaria | 2025 | 108 min. | Nikolay Egerman

April 13, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Presented by Itchy Rodent Films. Two men find redemption in the shadows of doubt.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Labyrinth

United Kingdom | 1986 | 101 min. | Jim Henson

April 13, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Live Soundtrack by The Invincible Czars

Germany | 1920 | 76 min. | Robert Wiene

April 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Robert Weine’s 1920 German expressionist masterpiece returns to our screen with a live score by Austin, Texas band The Invincible Czars.

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The Phantom of the Opera with Live Soundtrack by The Invincible Czars

USA | 1925 | 93 min. | Rupert Julian

April 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The iconic moment when Mary Philbin removed Lon Chaney's mask in The Phantom of the Opera is one of cinema’s most enduring images. Now, The Invincible Czars will bring their signature blend of eclectic instrumentation, adventurous arrangements and sense of emotional depth to this 100-year-old classic with their new, tastefully modern soundtrack, performing it live at SIFF Cinema Downtown.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Winter Light

1961 | 81 min. | Ingmar Bergman

April 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A village pastor's (Gunnar Bjornstrand) personal soul-searching dilutes his ability to console his community. A woman (Ingrid Thulin) who adores him and a man afraid of nuclear annihilation (Max von Sydow) remain troubled. Bergman believed that human beings are innately holy on this earth, and the pastor must seek that level. There are revelations to be seen.

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Grand Tour

Portugal | 2024 | 129 min. | Miguel Gomes

Opens April 18, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée, Molly, the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Yet Molly, determined to marry and amused by his move, follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

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Mountains on Stage - Summer Edition 2025

France | 195 min.

April 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Mountains on Stage aims to bring the mountains to the city and to share all the beauty of mountain sports!

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: The Silence

1962 | 96 min. | Ingmar Bergman

April 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Like Jean Cocteau and David Lynch, Bergman is a visionary of subjective consciousness and dream logic. A young boy (Jorgen Lindstrom), his mother (Ingrid Thulin) and her sister (Gunnel Lindblom) come to a strange country, where erotic and aggressive currents flow in a shadowy hotel. Mystery abides, but the boy receives three meaningful words.

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The Shrouds

France | 2024 | 119 min. | David Cronenberg

Opens April 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents gravetech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

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Young Hearts

Belgium | 2024 | 97 min. | Anthony Schatteman

Opens April 25, 2025

SIFF Film Center

When 14-year-old Elias first sets eyes on his new neighbor, Alexander, a delicate first love emerges between the two.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Persona

1965 | 83 min. | Ingmar Bergman

April 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

This pinnacle of mind-bending cinema has spawned decades of speculation and thousands of written words. A famous actress (the resplendent Liv Ullman) goes silent, and she’s tended by a nurse (Bibi Andersson) on a lonely island. The nurse spews tales of emotional and sexual revelation. Ullman listens, says nothing. Is she feeding on Andersson’s life force? Are they actually each other? Is there someone else on the island?

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Metropolitan (35th anniversary)

USA | 1990 | 98 min. | Whit Stillman

May 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene, Metropolitan chronicles the rise and ultimate decline of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor, and the impending demise of their class. Director Whit Stillman is scheduled to attend.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: Crafters' Choice—Mother’s Day

May 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Vote on your favorite film about mother relationships, *Mothers* mothering, mother figures, unconventional moms, and found family by March 23.

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Pink Flamingos

USA | 1972 | 93 min. | John Waters

June 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as “The Filthiest Person Alive”.

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