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For Your Consideration: Memoir of a Snail

Australia | 2024 | 95 min. | Adam Elliot

Now Playing - Feb 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

After a series of misfortunes, a snail-collecting, melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of everyday life. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Best Animated Feature.

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IRL Movie Club: The Thinking Game

USA | 84 min. | Greg Kohs

February 2, 2025

SIFF Film Center

The Thinking Game chronicles the extraordinary life of Demis Hassabis, a visionary scientist on a relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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For Your Consideration: Sing Sing

USA | 2023 | 107 min. | Greg Kwedar

Now Playing - Feb 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Colman Domingo stars in the inspirational true story about incarcerated people who find healing through the redemptive power of theatre. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Actor (Colman Domingo), Original Song, Adapted Screenplay.

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For Your Consideration: Nickel Boys

USA | 2024 | 140 min. | RaMell Ross

Now Playing - Feb 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay.

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Germany | 2024 | 168 min. | Mohammad Rasoulof

Now Playing - Feb 6, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. 2025 Academy Award Nominee: Best International Feature.

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For Your Consideration: The Wild Robot

USA | 2024 | 102 min. | Chris Sanders

Now Playing - Feb 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot - ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short - that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Best Animated Feature, Original Score, Sound.

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For Your Consideration: Inside Out 2

USA | 2024 | 96 min. | Kelsey Mann

Now Playing - Feb 2, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Best Animated Feature.

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For Your Consideration: Maria

Italy | 2024 | 124 min. | Pablo Larraín

Now Playing - Feb 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Academy Award®-winner Angelina Jolie is Maria Callas, one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century in acclaimed director Pablo Larrain's operatic Maria. The film follows the American-Greek soprano as she retreats to Paris after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. Maria reimagines the legendary soprano in her final days as the diva reckons with her identity and life. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Cinematography.

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The Brutalist

United Kingdom | 2024 | 215 min. | Brady Corbet

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost... Ten-time 2025 Academy Awards nominee including Best Picture, Actor (Adrien Brody), and Director.

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The Room Next Door

Spain | 2024 | 110 min. | Pedro Almodóvar

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. Golden Globes 2025 nominee (Tilda Swinton, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama).

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Nosferatu

2024 | 132 min. | Robert Eggers

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup & Hairstyling, Production Design.

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A Complete Unknown

USA | 2024 | 135 min. | James Mangold

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SIFF Cinema Uptown

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A Complete Unknown follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Eight-time 2025 Academy Awards nominee including Best Picture, Actor (Timothée Chalamet), and Director.

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For Your Consideration: Porcelain War

Ukraine | 2024 | 87 min. | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev

February 3, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Ukraine-based Slava Leontyev and Anya Stasenko make tiny porcelain figurines as the war rages on around them. 2025 Academy Awards nominee: Best Documentary Feature.

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For Your Consideration: Wicked

USA | 2024 | Jon M. Chu

February 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Wicked is the untold story of the witches of Oz starring powerhouse Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba–a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power–and superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda–a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actress (Cynthia Erivo), and Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande).

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Macbeth: David Tennant & Cush Jumbo

114 min. | Max Webster

Opens February 5, 2025

SIFF Film Center

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo lead a stellar cast in a new 5-star production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Unsettling intimacy and brutal action combine at breakneck speed as Max Webster directs this tragic tale of love, murder, and nature’s power of renewal.

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Movie Club: Tampopo (4K Restoration)

Japan | 1985 | 114 min. | Jûzô Itami

February 5, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A modern cowboy, his trusty sidekick, and an intrepid noodle shop owner embark on the quest for the perfect recipe in the 4K restoration of Juzo Itami’s rapturous “ramen western.” Introduced by Community Engagement Manager Hannah Baek.

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I’m Still Here

Brazil | 2024 | 137 min. | Walter Salles

Opens February 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 Nominee: Best Picture, Actress, International Feature.

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No Other Land

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

Opens February 7, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (New 4K Restoration)

France | 1964 | 93 min. | Jacques Demy

Opens February 7, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy, one of the most revered and unorthodox movie musicals of all time.

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SIFF 'n' Stitch: When Harry Met Sally...

USA | 1989 | 95 min. | Rob Reiner

February 9, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Calling all crafty cinephiles! Stitch Cafe and SIFF are co-hosting our first ever craft night at the movies. The lights will stay on so you can socialize and work away while watching the 1989 comedic classic, When Harry Met Sally..., as voted on by our crafting community.

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Talking Pictures: J. Kenji López-Alt presents Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

USA | 1971 | 100 min. | Mel Stuart

February 10, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

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.

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CLASSIFIED CINEMA

91 min.

Opens February 11, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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

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2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animated

2024

Opens February 14, 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.

Opens February 14, 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

Opens February 14, 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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Noir City: Hell's Half Acre (35mm)

USA | 1954 | 90 min. | John H. Auer

February 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Ready for a hundred-proof dose of “Tiki Noir?” Evelyn Keyes goes undercover as a taxi-dancer in Honolulu’s notorious red-light district searching for her missing GI husband. Toss sultry and statuesque Marie Windsor into the mix and it’s noir Nirvana with a slack-key guitar soundtrack.

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Noir City: The Narrow Margin (35mm)

USA | 1952 | 71 min. | Richard Fleischer

February 14, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Set mostly on a train rife with killers, a tough cop (Charles McGraw) is assigned to haul a mobster’s wife to L.A. to testify against a gang of mobsters. Marie Windsor gives one of her signature performances in this inventive B film thriller.

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Universal Language

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

Opens February 14, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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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Noir City: Cry Danger (35mm)

USA | 1951 | 79 min. | Robert Parrish

February 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Film Noir Foundation Restoration. When Rocky Mulloy (Dick Powell) is sprung from prison after serving five years on a robbery charge, he returns to Los Angeles looking to settle things with the crooks who set him up. A shady, wounded war vet (Richard Erdman) and his cellmate’s gorgeous wife (Rhonda Fleming) help him play cat-and-mouse with the local gangster (William Conrad) out to get him. A crackerjack crime film—short, smart, sassy, and full of surprises.

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Noir City: Mary Ryan, Detective (35mm)

USA | 1949 | 68 min. | Abby Berlin

February 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Intended as the first in a series of B features about an intrepid policewoman (stylish and vivacious Marsha Hunt), this engaging entry was the only one produced. Although modestly budgeted, it has a sharp and satisfying script from B veteran George Bricker, adept direction, and a supporting cast of B stalwarts such as John Litel, Harry Shannon, and June Vincent.

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Noir City: Out of the Past (35mm)

USA | 1947 | 97 min. | Jacques Tourneur

February 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas vie for the honor of being betrayed by Jane Greer, the most desirable of devil dolls, in this quintessential noir masterpiece. A grubby private eye (Mitchum) is hired by a sleek gangster (Douglas) to rein in his fugitive frail (Greer). Equal measures of poetry, poignancy, and hardboiled fatalism.

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Noir City: The Sleeping City (35mm)

USA | 1950 | 86 min. | George Sherman

February 15, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Cop Richard Conte poses as a doctor to investigate a murder in a big city hospital. Coleen Gray is the dedicated nurse who helps him get to the bottom of things—which may include the East River. Shot on location in New York City's Bellevue Hospital.

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Noir City: 99 River Street (35mm)

USA | 1953 | 83 min. | Phil Karlson

February 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Very few films captured as well as 99 River Street the pulpy delights of 1950s paperback crime fiction, making this perhaps the signature film of slam-bang director Phil Karlson. Amid the gaggle of tough guys, Evelyn Keyes and Peggie Castle radiate sexy charisma. A “one long night” thriller that delivers nail-biting suspense start to finish.

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Noir City: Alias Nick Beal (35mm)

USA | 1949 | 93 min. | John Farrow

February 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

This Faustian tale of soul corruption has campaigning politician Thomas Mitchell making a devilish pact with slick fixer Nick Beal (Ray Milland)—who may be Lucifer incarnate. Beal ensnares the faithful family man in a scandalous affair with delectable devil-doll Audrey Totter, over whom he casts a devious spell.

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Noir City: Caged (35mm)

USA | 1950 | 97 min. | John Cromwell

February 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The best “women behind bars” movie ever made. Sentenced to prison for her role in a robbery that killed her husband, innocent Marie Allen (Oscar-nominated Eleanor Parker), undergoes a degrading transformation in the “joint.” Writer Virginia Kellogg went undercover as an inmate in several southern prisons to research the groundbreaking and controversial script.

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Noir City: Tension (35mm)

USA | 1949 | 95 min. | John Berry

February 16, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Audrey Totter pulls out all the stops portraying her ultimate “bad girl,” vile voluptuary Claire Quimby, in one of the most underrated noir films of the forties. Richard Basehart plays a milquetoast pharmacist married to the over-sexed and chronically unfaithful Claire. But this sad sack has a plan to get revenge.

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Noir City: Murder, My Sweet (35mm)

USA | 1944 | 95 min. | Edward Dmytryk

February 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell), quintessential L.A. private eye, searches for an ex-con’s girlfriend, but winds up swimming in deceit and double-crosses. A brilliant evocation of novelist Raymond Chandler’s favorite corrupt city, featuring tempting Claire Trevor as the femme fatale, a role that re-vamped her career.

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Noir City: My True Story (35mm)

USA | 1951 | 67 min. | Mickey Rooney

February 17, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Mickey Rooney directed this unusual drama, produced in association with True Story magazine. Helen Walker (Nightmare Alley) gives a fantastic performance as an ex-con who gets railroaded into working with a gang of thieves who are after an unusual payoff—a supply of myrrh, the secret ingredient used in “Temptation” perfume.

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Noir City: Raw Deal

USA | 1948 | 79 min. | Anthony Mann

February 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Dennis O’Keefe busts out of prison hellbent on settling scores with double-crossing gangster Raymond Burr. Along for the ride are good-girl social worker Marsha Hunt and bad-girl gun moll Claire Trevor, duking it out for the soul of this vengeful homme fatale.

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Noir City: The Killing

USA | 1956 | 85 min. | Stanley Kubrick

February 18, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

You’ll think you’ve died and gone to hardboiled heaven. Or is it hell? Kubrick was only twenty-eight when he unleashed this twisty and twisted masterpiece studded with diamond-hard dialogue courtesy of pulp master Jim Thompson. Sterling Hayden arranges a clockwork racetrack robbery only to learn the hard way what happens to best-laid plans.

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Noir City: Detour

USA | 1945 | 68 min. | Edgar G. Ulmer

February 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Ann Savage’s ferocious performance as “Vera” is at the black heart of this classic—the ultimate in noir fatalism. Tom Neal plays Al Roberts who hitchhikes cross-country to reunite with his estranged girlfriend. Things go from bad to worse once vixenish vagabond Vera gets her hooks into him.

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Noir City: Phantom Lady (4K Restoration)

USA | 1944 | 87 min. | Robert Siodmak

February 19, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Ella Raines is “one hep kitten” as she high-heels her way through the noir demimonde, searching for the one woman who can save her boss from a murder rap. Director Siodmak wrings every bit of shadowy mystery from the novel by master of suspense Cornell Woolrich. New 4K digital restoration!

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The Dawn Is Too Far

USA | 2024 | 56 min. | Persis Karim and Soumyaa K. Behrens

February 19, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Poetics and Politics and the multi-generational perspective on Belonging.

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Noir City: Ace in the Hole

USA | 1951 | 111 min. | Billy Wilder

February 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

On its release, critics called this the most bitter, cynical, mean-spirited movie ever made. It still might hold the honor. What’s certain is how scarily prescient Wilder’s tale of media manipulation turned out to be. Kirk Douglas is stupendously rotten as a reporter reclaiming the spotlight. A genuine masterpiece.

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Noir City: The Long Wait

USA | 1954 | 94 min. | Victor Saville

February 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Johnny McBride (Anthony Quinn) is injured in a car accident and wakes to discover he has no memory and no fingerprints! Then he discovers he’s wanted for murder! This Mickey Spillane story has one of the genre’s kinkiest climaxes, making maximum use of fulsome fifties femme Peggie Castle.

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The Monkey

USA | 2025 | 95 min. | Osgood Perkins

Opens February 20, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Based on the Stephen King short story, and produced by James Wan (The Conjuring, Saw), The Monkey is a new trip from Longlegs writer/director, Osgood Perkins.

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Fantasy A Gets a Mattress / FUNDRAISER for Fantasy A’s next film, CRYSTAL BALL!

USA | 2023 | 120 min. | Noah Zoltan Sofian & David Norman Lewis

February 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Special fundraiser screening of Fantasy A Gets a Mattress with live musical introduction and sneak peek at our next film!

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

France | 1975 | 201 min. | Chantal Akerman

Opens February 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

Australia | 1975 | 115 min. | Peter Weir

Opens February 21, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace during a rural summer picnic in Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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National Theatre Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Max Webster

Opens February 22, 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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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Summer With Monika

1952 | 96 min. | Ingmar Bergman

February 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Young Monika (Harriet Andersson) and her boyfriend feel a breeze of freedom. They throw off their city responsibilities of work and family for a summer of idyllic island love, but can they cope with the inevitable grownup complications? Bergman’s gorgeous images and rebellious, free-wheeling spirit inspired French New Wave pioneers Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut. And the film introduces Harriet Andersson, one of the key players in Bergman’s stable of extraordinary actors.

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Origins: The Last Reefnetters

USA | 2025 | 60 min. | Samuel Wolfe

February 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Join Cascade PBS for a preview screening of Origins: The Last Reefnetters, a documentary series on the history and culture of reefnet fishing in the Salish Sea, followed by a discussion with local filmmaker Samuel Wolfe of Fishboat Media and special guests.

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SIFF x NFNR present: Zurawski v Texas

USA | 2024 | 100 min. | Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault

February 27, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An evening to support abortion rights and celebrate the power of storytelling.

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To Live and Die in L.A.

USA | 1985 | 114 min. | William Friedkin

February 27, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

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Girls Town (4K Restoration)

USA | 1996 | 90 min. | Jim McKay

Opens February 28, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Girls Town offers a vivid portrayal of irreverent young women coming of age. One of the earliest indie features to deal with the secret shame of rape, the film follows its feisty protagonists on a zigzag path to empowerment as spontaneous acts of revenge give way to deeper understanding and more profound gestures.

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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night

1955 | 108 min. | Ingmar Bergman

March 4, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

Wine, witty dialogue and prospects of love flow at a sumptuous weekend country house party. Can true feelings triumph over romantic misadventures and inflated egos? This delightful comic confection inspired Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Smiles won the Cannes Film Festival Prize for Best Poetic Humor. Gunnar Bjornstrand joins Bergman’s acting troupe.

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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.

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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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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

March 8, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

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

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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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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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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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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 Film Center

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.

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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 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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The Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Through a Glass Darkly

1961 | 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 Magic Lantern of Ingmar Bergman: Winter Light

1963 | 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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Secret Screening #1

April 24, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Shhh… It’s a secret.

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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 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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Pink Flamingos

USA | 1972 | 93 min. | John Waters

June 26, 2025

SIFF Film Center

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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Secret Screening #2

July 31, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Shhh… It’s a secret.

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