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Northwest Film Forum is Seattle's premier film arts organization, screening over 200 independently made and classic films annually, offering a year-round schedule of filmmaking classes for all ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers. Click here to sign up for the NWFF Newsletter! |
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Mad Max: Fury Road [In-Person Only]
March 20, 2024 7:00 PM - March 31, 2024 7:30 PM
An apocalyptic story set in a scorched, barren land where the ruins of humanity huddle around Immortan Joe, a tyrant who controls a rare source of water. Held thrall by their thirst, nearly everybody that still draws breath is locked in a mad, incessant struggle, fighting for basic necessities of life. Within this world, two figures emerge whose rebellion against Joes order represents a glimmer of hope that the world might not be broken beyond repair yet. Max, a man of few words, whose only known motivation is to be left alone with the guilt of losing his wife and child and Furiosa, a woman whose own path of survival also leads back through her past, across the desert wasteland to the community she left behind as a child. |
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Lady Snowblood [In-Person Only]
March 20, 2024 7:30 PM - April 11, 2024 7:30 PM
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujitas spellbinding Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence. |
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Alliance Française de Seattle presents: Niagara [In-Person Only]
March 28, 2024 7:15 PM
Three brothers in their fifties will have to reconnect on the death of their father, who died prematurely from an ill-fated Ice Bucket Challenge. |
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Black Punk Weekend Afro-Punk [In-Person Only]
March 29, 2024 7:00 PM
Afro-Punk focuses on the lives of four African Americans dedicated to the punk rock lifestyle, interspersed with interviews from a chorus of over 80 Black punks from throughout the United States. |
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Black Punk Weekend [In-Person Only]
March 29, 2024 9:00 PM
Black Punk Weekend centers around the documentary film Afropunk, and release of the book, Black Punk Now both by James Spooner, who will be in attendance throughout the weekend. |
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Black Punk Weekend [In-Person Only] - Live Punk Showcase
March 29, 2024 10:00 PM
Featured artists of Black Punk Weekend: Black Ends and Brontez Purnell! In keeping with the theme of cultural celebration, BPW features live performances by Black musicians who embody the spirit of resilience and creativity. |
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Black Punk Weekend Rebel Dread [In-Person Only]
March 30, 2024 4:30 PM
Rebel Dread is the story of Don Letts, a first-generation British-born Black filmmaker, DJ, musician, and cultural commentator. The film frames Dons story with the 1968 Enoch Powell Rivers of Blood speech and the 2018 hostile environment immigration policy. |
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Black Punk Weekend The Baldies [In-Person Only]
March 30, 2024 5:00 PM
The Baldies shares the story of a mid-1980s group which formed based on the fashion of British skinhead culture. Inspired by historical street gangs including the Fordham Baldies and the Wanderers, the gang discovered a mutual distaste for and fought against Nazi-skinheads active in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis. Notably, they fought against the White Knights, a Nazi-skinhead gang, as well as St. Paul-based Bound for Glory, one of the largest white power bands in the world. Eventually the Baldies created a more inclusive group, the Anti-Racist Action (ARA). Members included skinheads and others who protested Nazis as well as other societal reformation topics including police brutality, foreign wars, the housing shortage and income inequality. |
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Black Punk Weekend Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. [In-Person Only]
March 30, 2024 7:00 PM
Bad Brains were already unique when they formed in 1977, gaining an immediate fan base in their native Washington DC for their blistering hardcore punk shows. But Bad Brains had already cut their musical teeth playing jazz fusion under the name Mind Power, and their version of punk was already pushing in different directions. |
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Black Punk Weekend White Riot [In-Person Only]
March 30, 2024 7:30 PM
Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right and fascist political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders writes a letter to the music press, calling for rock to be a force against racism. NME, Melody Maker, and Sounds all publish the letter. |
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Black Punk Weekend Wendell & Wild [In-Person Only]
March 31, 2024 4:00 PM
Two scheming demons strike a deal with a punk rock-loving teen so they can leave the Underworld and live out their dreams in the Land of the Living. |
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Black Punk Weekend Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché [In-Person Only]
March 31, 2024 7:00 PM
Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain, with a rare prescience. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. |
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Black Punk Weekend [In-Person Only] - Brunch Only
March 31, 2024 11:00 PM
On the last day of the festival (Sunday), Black & Tan Hall will host the Black Punk Brunch, where we will honor local artist and punk pioneer Kimya Dawson with an award; conversation with Kimya to follow! |
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Problemista [In-Person Only]
April 03, 2024 7:00 PM - April 18, 2024 7:00 PM
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system. |
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International Uranium Film Festival 2024 - Full Series Pass [In-Person Only]
April 12, 2024 7:00 PM
For 13 years, the International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) has presented cutting edge films on nuclear issues around the world, including Brazil, Germany, India, Canada and United States. Founded in 2010 by the Brazilian social scientist Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and the German environmental journalist Norbert G. Suchanek, IUFF is dedicated to all nuclear topics and the entire nuclear fuel chain, from uranium mining to nuclear waste, from nuclear war to nuclear accidents. |
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The Atomic Cafe [In-Person Only]
April 12, 2024 7:00 PM
Armageddon has never been so darkly funny as in this documentary cult classic. This 1982 cine-collage juxtaposes Cold War history, propaganda, music and culture, seamlessly crafted from government-produced educational and training films, newsreels and advertisements. Taken together, these sources cheerily instruct the public on how to live in the Atomic Age, how to survive a nuclear attack (!) and how to fight and win a nuclear war. As a U.S. Army training film advises, Viewed from a safe distance, the atomic bomb is one of the most beautiful sights ever seen by man. |
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Transmutations [In-Person Only]
April 13, 2024 4:00 PM
Transmutations: Visualizing Matter | Materializing Vision is a multi-year project that explores the history, legacy and radioactivity of uranium mining during the Cold War in Canada and the US. Captured over the course of three years using 35mm motion picture film and digital technologies, the film reveals the mineral and the people whose lives have been impacted by uranium: ex-miners that toiled decades underground, Indigenous leaders and activists leading the charge to clean up the mines and the places that shifted the balance of power on a global scale. |
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Richland [In-Person Only]
April 13, 2024 6:15 PM
Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. Richland offers a prismatic, place-making portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Moving between archival past and observational present, and across encounters with nuclear workers, community members, archeologists, local tribes, and a Japanese granddaughter of atomic bomb survivors, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time. |
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Atomic Bamboozle [In-Person Only]
April 14, 2024 3:00 PM
As political pressure mounts in the US to meet net zero carbon goals, the nuclear power industry makes its case for a nuclear renaissance. Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance a new doc by Necessity: Oil, Water & Climate Resistance director Jan Haaken follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend what they learn into a new struggle to stop small modular reactors (SMRs) from being built in the Pacific Northwest. |
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The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bombs [In-Person Only]
April 14, 2024 4:50 PM
Peace activists, including elderly Catholic nuns and priests, challenge the security and legality of Americas nuclear weapons when they gain entry to two top secret facilities: the Fort Knox of uranium in Tennessee and a U.S. Navy Trident nuclear submarine base near Seattle. The film follows the federal criminal cases against the activists who are driven by their deep conviction that nuclear weapons are immoral. Through their dramatic, non- violent protests, the activists seek to raise public consciousness on the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons to humanity. The film also follows efforts at the United Nations to negotiate the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. |
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Making Waves: The Rebirth of the Golden Rule + Burial [In-Person Only]
April 14, 2024 6:50 PM
A python slithers and curls over the abandoned control room of Chernobyls Big Sister the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Lithuania interpreting the plants radioactive core as an unleashed monster, one that will slither through time for millions of years. From Etruscan ruins and sunken cities to the most modern of underground repositories, artist and director Emilija karnulyt examines different ways in which humanity has attempted to bury the immortal. Burial is a gentle meditation on nuclear waste that examines burial traditions, and material and ritual heredity as it traces fresh and old scars that have been left on our geographical and cultural landscapes. |
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The People's Joker [In-Person Only]
April 17, 2024 7:30 PM - April 28, 2024 7:30 PM
A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader. |
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Open Script Reads (Spring '24)
April 21, 2024 1:00 PM
Open Script Read provides a nurturing, participatory environment for budding and seasoned filmmakers to support one another in the ongoing practice of screenwriting. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - Series Pass [In-Person Only]
April 21, 2024 8:00 PM
Seattle drag superstar Monday Mourning is ready to take your divine fixation with cult cinema to new and exciting heights by joining forces with Northwest Film Forum to bring you MOURNING SICKNESS: a quarterly showcase of essential cult & camp classics dusted off and brought back to life once more across the silver screen, featuring pre-show drag entertainment that will leave you looking camp right in the eye. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [In-Person Only]
April 21, 2024 8:00 PM
Trapped in a mansion as decayed as their fame, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford deliver unforgettable performances in this twisted camp classic that unravels the dark tale of two sisters, entangled in dangerous jealousy and faded glory. In a world where the spotlight has dimmed, their rivalry weaves a psychological masterpiece, spotlighting the cruel passage of time on stardom. |
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Terminal USA [In-Person Only]
May 08, 2024 7:00 PM - May 12, 2024 7:00 PM
Holly (Jenny Woo), Marvin (writer/director Jon Moritsugu), and Katzumi (Moritsugu again) are average Asian-American teenage siblings with not-so-average predilections for backstabbing, kinky sex, and drug-fueled freakouts. Neglected by their parents, the kids turn to outside help (including the scene-stealing Amy Davis, Moritsugus wife and longtime collaborator) in order to escape their bored existence. Naturally, this leads to gory killings, sex tapes, and the most hilarious phone conversations ever captured on 16mm film. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 Basic Instinct [In-Person Only]
July 14, 2024 8:00 PM
Beat the Seattle summer with a white-knuckle mystery so chilling, it cuts through the July heat like an ice pick through flesh. Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas lead us through a labyrinth of seduction, suspense, and peril in this defining erotic thriller of the 1990s. Stone delivers a career-defining performance, redefining the femme fatale as the alluring and unpredictable Catherine Trammel, in this masterclass in tension and intrigue thatll have you trusting only your most basic instincts. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 The Craft [In-Person Only]
October 20, 2024 8:00 PM
Summon the coven as Mourning Sickness invokes the spirit of Halloween with a spellbound tale of witchcraft and 90s teen angst. This nostalgic cult classic casts a spell of four teen outcast witches who wield their newfound powers for love, revenge, and liberation, bringing them face to face with the exhilarating yet perilous potential of their craft. Just dont let the popcorn hex your black lipstick. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 Showgirls Annual Screening [In-Person Only]
January 12, 2025 8:00 PM
The cornerstone of cult cinema makes its GRAND RETURN to Mourning Sickness for its ANNUAL SCREENING! |
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