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The Brutalist

United Kingdom | 2024 | 215 min. | Brady Corbet

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SIFF Cinema Downtown

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... Golden Globes 2025 Winner: Best Director, Best Actor (Adrien Brody), Best Motion Picture - Drama.

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The Room Next Door

Spain | 2024 | 110 min. | Pedro Almodóvar

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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.

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A Complete Unknown

USA | 2024 | 135 min. | James Mangold

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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. Golden Globes 2025 nominee (Best Motion Picture, Drama).

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Powell & Pressburger: Peeping Tom

United Kingdom | 1960 | 101 min. | Michael Powell

January 22, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A psychologist experiments on his young son, who grows into a gentle, photography-obsessed man (Carl Boehm) who lives to see fear on others’ faces. Can we sympathize with a murderer? Powell calls this a “tender film,” full of empathy for a twisted soul. With Moira Shearer.

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Dinner in America

USA | 2019 | 106 min. | Adam Rehmeier

January 23, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with his band embark on a series of misadventures through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

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Classified Cinema presents EXPLOSIVE DANGER MEGAVIDEO SHOWDOWN featuring RM Brown

USA | 2025 | 90 min. | RM Brown

January 24, 2025

SIFF Film Center

A night of beautiful clips and grievances, featuring RM Brown (from YouTube).

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For Your Consideration: Conclave

USA | 2024 | 120 min. | Edward Berger

Opens January 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Oscar nominees Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci lead a brilliant ensemble cast in this stunning adaptation of Robert Harris’ high-stakes drama, in which Cardinals gather at the Vatican to elect a new Pope.

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For Your Consideration: The Substance

United Kingdom | 2024 | 140 min. | Coralie Fargeat

Opens January 24, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You should try this new product, The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE.

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For Your Consideration: Dune: Part Two

USA | 166 min. | Denis Villeneuve

Opens January 25, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on Dune: Part Two, the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel “Dune,” with an all-star ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, and more.

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For Your Consideration: Inside Out 2

USA | 2024 | 96 min. | Kelsey Mann

Opens January 25, 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!

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For Your Consideration: Maria

Italy | 2024 | 124 min. | Pablo Larraín

Opens January 25, 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.

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Dig! XX

USA | 2004 | 147 min. | Ondi Timoner

Opens January 26, 2025

SIFF Film Center

Ondi Timoner's genre-topping rockumentary about two Gen-X bands and their journey to alt-rock glory celebrates its 20th anniversary with an expanded reimagining of the original cut.

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For Your Consideration: Challengers

USA | 2023 | 131 min. | Luca Guadagnino

Opens January 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Tennis player turned coach Tashi (Zendaya) has taken her husband, Art (Mike Faist), and transformed him into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a “Challenger” event—close to the lowest level of pro tournament—where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend (Josh O’Connor).

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For Your Consideration: Emilia Pérez

France | 2024 | 132 min. | Jacques Audiard

Opens January 26, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.

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For Your Consideration: The Wild Robot

USA | 2024 | 102 min. | Chris Sanders

Opens January 26, 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.

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For Your Consideration: Anora

USA | 2024 | 139 min. | Sean Baker

January 27, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. Cannes 2024 Palme d'Or winner.

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For Your Consideration: Flow

Latvia | 2024 | 85 min. | Gints Zilbalodis

January 27, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

A wondrous journey, through realms natural and mystical, Flow follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Golden Globes 2025 nominee (Best Motion Picture, Animated).

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Powell & Pressburger: Gone to Earth

1950 | 111 min. | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

January 29, 2025

SIFF Cinema Uptown

A nature girl (Jennifer Jones) of the Welsh hills is courted by a pious vicar (Cyril Cusack) and tempted by a roguish squire (David Farrar). Amidst an evocatively rendered sense of place, sacred and profane love entwine in the Celtic twilight.

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For Your Consideration: A Real Pain

USA | 2024 | 90 min. | Jesse Eisenberg

Opens January 30, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history. Golden Globes 2025 nominee (Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy; Best Screenplay).

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For Your Consideration: Nickel Boys

USA | 2024 | 140 min. | RaMell Ross

Opens January 31, 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.

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For Your Consideration: Queer

Italy | 2024 | 135 min. | Luca Guadagnino

January 31, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone. Golden Globes 2025 nominee (Daniel Craig, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama).

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Street Trash (35mm)

South Africa | 2024 | 85 min. | Ryan Kruger

Opens January 31, 2025

SIFF Film Center

In the year 2050, global economic turmoil has destroyed the middle class in Cape Town, South Africa, which is now divided between the ultra-rich and the unhoused. Ronald and group of fellow houseless friends uncover a plot by the local government to “liquify“ the houseless population with a sinister chemical agent called “V”.

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For Your Consideration: Sing Sing

USA | 2023 | 107 min. | Greg Kwedar

Opens February 1, 2025

SIFF Cinema Downtown

Colman Domingo stars in the inspirational true story about incarcerated people who find healing through the redemptive power of theatre. 2024 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award - Best Film.

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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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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

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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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.

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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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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

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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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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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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 | 62 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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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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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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