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In 2026, the Seattle International Film Festival will be celebrating 52 years of the best international and independent films from around the globe! Running in-person May 7-17, 2026, filmmakers are invited to submit now through December 18, 2025. Submit at siff.info/callforentriestw.
🥧 This week: Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and ETERNITY, led by Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, and Miles Teller, are now playing at UPT. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW opens 11/28 at the Film Center.
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🥧 This week: Chloé Zhao’s HAMNET, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, and ETERNITY, led by Elizabeth Olsen, Callum Turner, and Miles Teller, are now playing at UPT. MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW opens 11/28 at the Film Center.
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
Join local filmmaker and PBS producer Jeremy Cropf in a shot-by-shot examination of a hauntingly beautiful portrait of resistance—against fascism, patriarchy, and the loss of innocence in Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006).
In session Saturday, 12/13, at SIFF Film Center.
In session Saturday, 12/13, at SIFF Film Center.
Cinema Dissection: Pan’s Labyrinth
Descend into the haunting world of Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth with filmmaker and PBS producer Jeremy Cropf—a dark fantasy rooted in resistance, where imagination becomes an act of rebellion against tyranny.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Join local filmmaker and PBS producer Jeremy Cropf in a shot-by-shot examination of a hauntingly beautiful portrait of resistance—against fascism, patriarchy, and the loss of innocence in Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006).
In session Saturday, 12/13, at SIFF Film Center.
In session Saturday, 12/13, at SIFF Film Center.
An extraordinary vérité document of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia — mere months before the invasion of Ukraine.
Structured in 5 chapters, this doc will be shown & ticketed in 2 parts:
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-5
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART I opens 11/28 at SIFF Film Center.
Structured in 5 chapters, this doc will be shown & ticketed in 2 parts:
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-5
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART I opens 11/28 at SIFF Film Center.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow
An extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety from the Russian journalistic front lines of Putin's Ukraine invasion.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
An extraordinary vérité document of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia — mere months before the invasion of Ukraine.
Structured in 5 chapters, this doc will be shown & ticketed in 2 parts:
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-5
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART I opens 11/28 at SIFF Film Center.
Structured in 5 chapters, this doc will be shown & ticketed in 2 parts:
Chapters 1-3
Chapters 4-5
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS PART I opens 11/28 at SIFF Film Center.
Today’s $6 movies at SIFF Cinema Uptown:
⭐ BUGONIA
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ YI YI (4K restoration)
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
⭐ BUGONIA
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ YI YI (4K restoration)
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today’s $6 movies at SIFF Cinema Uptown:
⭐ BUGONIA
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ YI YI (4K restoration)
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
⭐ BUGONIA
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ YI YI (4K restoration)
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
ELF (2003) is bringing us Christmas cheer as December’s selection for SIFF 'n' Stitch! Join us and Stitch Cafe for this Santa-crazed classic on December 7, at the Uptown. Tix at siff.info/elf-bs.
Remember: Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up! 🧶🪡
Remember: Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up! 🧶🪡
SIFF 'n' Stitch: Elf
The holiday classic starring Will Farrell as Buddy the Elf, on a mission to find his biological father and spread Christmas cheer to all. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ELF (2003) is bringing us Christmas cheer as December’s selection for SIFF 'n' Stitch! Join us and Stitch Cafe for this Santa-crazed classic on December 7, at the Uptown. Tix at siff.info/elf-bs.
Remember: Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up! 🧶🪡
Remember: Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up! 🧶🪡
Through intimate video calls between Iranian director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona, the current conflict in Gaza is told personally from Fatma’s life. PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK plays 12/5-8 at SIFF Film Center. siff.info/putyoursoul-bs
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
An intimate, first-hand perspective on life under siege in Gaza, captured through video calls between director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Through intimate video calls between Iranian director Sepideh Farsi and 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona, the current conflict in Gaza is told personally from Fatma’s life. PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK plays 12/5-8 at SIFF Film Center. siff.info/putyoursoul-bs
Last night, we were honored to welcome legendary filmmaker Jafar Panahi to Seattle!
Thank you to Peyvand for your incredible intro with director Panahi! And a heartfelt thank you to the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT team, NEON, and Jafar Panahi for stopping by SIFF on The Accidental Tour ‘25. 💙
Thank you to Peyvand for your incredible intro with director Panahi! And a heartfelt thank you to the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT team, NEON, and Jafar Panahi for stopping by SIFF on The Accidental Tour ‘25. 💙
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Last night, we were honored to welcome legendary filmmaker Jafar Panahi to Seattle!
Thank you to Peyvand for your incredible intro with director Panahi! And a heartfelt thank you to the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT team, NEON, and Jafar Panahi for stopping by SIFF on The Accidental Tour ‘25. 💙
Thank you to Peyvand for your incredible intro with director Panahi! And a heartfelt thank you to the IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT team, NEON, and Jafar Panahi for stopping by SIFF on The Accidental Tour ‘25. 💙
🍂 This week: Big films opening at UPT on 11/26 - Chloe Zao’s HAMNET (based on novel by Maggie O’Farrell) and the A24 rom-com ETERNITY. At Downtown, WICKED: FOR GOOD rules the screen, and it’s the Seattle Film Critics PNW Award nominees at FC with lots of special guests!
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🍂 This week: Big films opening at UPT on 11/26 - Chloe Zao’s HAMNET (based on novel by Maggie O’Farrell) and the A24 rom-com ETERNITY. At Downtown, WICKED: FOR GOOD rules the screen, and it’s the Seattle Film Critics PNW Award nominees at FC with lots of special guests!
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
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I am overwhelmed. Thank you, Jafar Panahi and @siffnews.bsky.social. 📽️
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I am overwhelmed. Thank you, Jafar Panahi and @siffnews.bsky.social. 📽️
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We’re showing the new film from the visionary directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS), REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, Dec. 3 at 730pm at the @siffnews.bsky.social!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/reflect...
grandillusioncinema.org/film/reflect...
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
We’re showing the new film from the visionary directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani (THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS), REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND, Dec. 3 at 730pm at the @siffnews.bsky.social!
grandillusioncinema.org/film/reflect...
grandillusioncinema.org/film/reflect...
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If you attend the @seattlecritics.bsky.social screening of Twinless Nov 21 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center, you'll get a virtual Q&A with filmmaker James Sweeney and the chance to win this Kraken plush (will make more sense if you've seen the film). Tickets and more info: tinyurl.com/45ersux4
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
If you attend the @seattlecritics.bsky.social screening of Twinless Nov 21 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center, you'll get a virtual Q&A with filmmaker James Sweeney and the chance to win this Kraken plush (will make more sense if you've seen the film). Tickets and more info: tinyurl.com/45ersux4
This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinemas on Sun 11/23 and Tue 11/25:
⭐️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐️ WICKED: FOR GOOD
⭐️ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
⭐️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐️ WICKED: FOR GOOD
⭐️ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinemas on Sun 11/23 and Tue 11/25:
⭐️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐️ WICKED: FOR GOOD
⭐️ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
⭐️ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐️ WICKED: FOR GOOD
⭐️ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
Mark your calendars! Passes for the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival go on sale January 12, 2026. SIFF Members will have one full week to purchase passes and ticket packs at the lowest prices for one full week before going on sale to the public on January 19. Bookmark siff.info/festtw
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Mark your calendars! Passes for the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival go on sale January 12, 2026. SIFF Members will have one full week to purchase passes and ticket packs at the lowest prices for one full week before going on sale to the public on January 19. Bookmark siff.info/festtw
Give the gift of SIFF membership this holiday season. 🎁 Perks of membership include discounts on tickets and passes, pre-sale access to SIFF festivals, free concessions, invites to member-only events, and so much more!
Get to gifting: siff.info/membershiptw
Get to gifting: siff.info/membershiptw
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Give the gift of SIFF membership this holiday season. 🎁 Perks of membership include discounts on tickets and passes, pre-sale access to SIFF festivals, free concessions, invites to member-only events, and so much more!
Get to gifting: siff.info/membershiptw
Get to gifting: siff.info/membershiptw
In the remote expanses of Eastern Oregon, a rash of unexplained cattle mutilations reignites a decades-old mystery of the American West.
NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD screens 11/23 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with the film team scheduled to attend: siff.info/notonedrop-bs.
NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD screens 11/23 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with the film team scheduled to attend: siff.info/notonedrop-bs.
November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the remote expanses of Eastern Oregon, a rash of unexplained cattle mutilations reignites a decades-old mystery of the American West.
NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD screens 11/23 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with the film team scheduled to attend: siff.info/notonedrop-bs.
NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD screens 11/23 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with the film team scheduled to attend: siff.info/notonedrop-bs.
From Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND), HAMNET is a lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley).
HAMNET opens Wednesday, 11/26, at the Uptown.
HAMNET opens Wednesday, 11/26, at the Uptown.
Hamnet
A lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley). From Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland).
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November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND), HAMNET is a lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley).
HAMNET opens Wednesday, 11/26, at the Uptown.
HAMNET opens Wednesday, 11/26, at the Uptown.
Today’s $6 movies at SIFF Cinema:
⭐ YI YI (new 4K restoration)
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ PETER HUJAR’S DAY
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
⭐ YI YI (new 4K restoration)
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ PETER HUJAR’S DAY
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today’s $6 movies at SIFF Cinema:
⭐ YI YI (new 4K restoration)
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ PETER HUJAR’S DAY
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
⭐ YI YI (new 4K restoration)
⭐ IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
⭐ SENTIMENTAL VALUE
⭐ PETER HUJAR’S DAY
Showtimes: siff.info/siffcinematw.
Support provided by 4Culture.
Tickets for AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in 3D are now on sale!
Return to Pandora in this third entry in James Cameron's series when it opens Thursday, December 18, at SIFF Cinema Downtown: siff.info/avatarfireash-bs.
Return to Pandora in this third entry in James Cameron's series when it opens Thursday, December 18, at SIFF Cinema Downtown: siff.info/avatarfireash-bs.
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tickets for AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH in 3D are now on sale!
Return to Pandora in this third entry in James Cameron's series when it opens Thursday, December 18, at SIFF Cinema Downtown: siff.info/avatarfireash-bs.
Return to Pandora in this third entry in James Cameron's series when it opens Thursday, December 18, at SIFF Cinema Downtown: siff.info/avatarfireash-bs.
WTO/99 is an archival doc that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact.
Screens 11/23 for Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, w/ dir Ian Bell scheduled to attend: siff.info/wto99-bsky
Screens 11/23 for Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, w/ dir Ian Bell scheduled to attend: siff.info/wto99-bsky
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WTO/99 is an archival doc that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO's impact.
Screens 11/23 for Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, w/ dir Ian Bell scheduled to attend: siff.info/wto99-bsky
Screens 11/23 for Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, w/ dir Ian Bell scheduled to attend: siff.info/wto99-bsky
In this modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway and does his best to help her find a way home.
TO KILL A WOLF screens 11/22 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with dir Kelsey Taylor & DP Adam Lee scheduled to attend: siff.info/tokillawolf-bs
TO KILL A WOLF screens 11/22 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with dir Kelsey Taylor & DP Adam Lee scheduled to attend: siff.info/tokillawolf-bs
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In this modern re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, a social pariah discovers a teenage runaway and does his best to help her find a way home.
TO KILL A WOLF screens 11/22 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with dir Kelsey Taylor & DP Adam Lee scheduled to attend: siff.info/tokillawolf-bs
TO KILL A WOLF screens 11/22 for the Seattle Film Critics PNW Awards, with dir Kelsey Taylor & DP Adam Lee scheduled to attend: siff.info/tokillawolf-bs
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Next Saturday is going to be extra lupine at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center: Our Best PNW Film series continues with a screening of 📽️ WOLF LAND, with director Sarah Hoffman in attendance for a Q&A.
🐺 Tickets still available at SIFF: www.siff.net/programs-and...
🐺 Tickets still available at SIFF: www.siff.net/programs-and...
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Next Saturday is going to be extra lupine at @SIFFnews.bsky.social Film Center: Our Best PNW Film series continues with a screening of 📽️ WOLF LAND, with director Sarah Hoffman in attendance for a Q&A.
🐺 Tickets still available at SIFF: www.siff.net/programs-and...
🐺 Tickets still available at SIFF: www.siff.net/programs-and...
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Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Screenings of @seattlecritics.bsky.social' PNW nominees continue! Shorts w/filmmakers at @nwfilmforum.bsky.social Nov 19 and features w/filmmakers at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center Nov 21-23: Twinless, Wolf Land, To Kill a Wolf, WTO/99, Not One Drop of Blood. We launched with Train Dreams Oct 29.
Voting for SIFF Movie Club’s January interplanetary film closes November 20!
One of these six flicks will be playing on the Uptown’s silver screen Wednesday, January 7. Vote now: forms.gle/dycRQb483ozwSbgr5.
One of these six flicks will be playing on the Uptown’s silver screen Wednesday, January 7. Vote now: forms.gle/dycRQb483ozwSbgr5.
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Voting for SIFF Movie Club’s January interplanetary film closes November 20!
One of these six flicks will be playing on the Uptown’s silver screen Wednesday, January 7. Vote now: forms.gle/dycRQb483ozwSbgr5.
One of these six flicks will be playing on the Uptown’s silver screen Wednesday, January 7. Vote now: forms.gle/dycRQb483ozwSbgr5.
🥔 This week: Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s new film, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, now playing at UPT. The new 4K restoration of YI YI is playing at UPT too! Ira Sachs’ PETER HUJAR’S DAY is at the FC ‘til 11/20.
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🥔 This week: Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s new film, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, now playing at UPT. The new 4K restoration of YI YI is playing at UPT too! Ira Sachs’ PETER HUJAR’S DAY is at the FC ‘til 11/20.
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/siffcinematw
This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinema on Sun 11/16 and Tue 11/18:
⭐ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
⭐ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinema on Sun 11/16 and Tue 11/18:
⭐ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw
⭐ BUGONIA
More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw