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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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Wakamusha [In-Person Only]
July 26, 2024 7:00 PM - July 28, 2024 7:00 PM
Writer-director Ryutaro Ninomiya follows his 2017 film, Sweating the Small Stuff, with another small-scale drama of disaffected youth in Japan. Three young men live and work in a nearly-deserted Japanese city. Eiji is the loud-mouth, looking for trouble and causing mischief with unsuspecting bystanders; Wataru is the quiet one, whose blank exterior belies a troubled past and a roiling rage; Mitsunori is in between, adopting the worldview of whoever he is with. The three wander the streets, ruminating on the pointlessness of life in the modern age, never quite living up to the deeds of a fallen friend, until one of them goes too far and permanently fractures their relationship. |
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Aleksandr Ptushko - The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane)
July 26, 2024 7:30 PM - July 28, 2024 7:30 PM
Based on a famous fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, The Tale of Tsar Saltan is one of director Aleksandr Ptushkos most sublime creations: a ravishingly beautiful fantasy about love, magic, betrayal and abandoned family. Driven from the Russian court by her sisters scheming, the young Tsarina is thrown into the sea in a cask with her infant son. Surviving the storm-tossed voyage, the mother and her now magically-adult son land on a remote island where he falls in love with a Swan Princess in human form, and longs for reunion with his estranged father, Tsar Saltan. |
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Open Script Reads (Spring/Summer 2024)
July 28, 2024 1:00 PM - August 25, 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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Aleksandr Ptushko - Ruslan and Ludmila (Ruslan i Lyudmila)
August 02, 2024 6:30 PM - August 04, 2024 3:00 PM
The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko, Ruslan and Ludmila was a glorious and magical summation of his career: a two-and-a-half-hour greatest hits package filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual effects and mythic storytelling that put him on par with Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava. |
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In Our Day [In-Person Only]
August 02, 2024 7:00 PM - August 04, 2024 7:00 PM
Sangwon (Kim Minhee), an actress recently returned to South Korea, is temporarily staying with her friend, Jungsoo (Song Sunmi), and her cat, Us. Elsewhere in the city, the aging poet Uiju (Ki Joobong) lives alone, his cat having recently passed away. On this ordinary day, each of them has a visitor: Sangwon is visited by her cousin, Jisoo (Park Miso) and Uiju, by a young actor, Jaewon (Ha Seongguk). Each of them wants to learn about a career in the arts. But they also have bigger questions. Both Sangwon and Uiju have ramyun noodles for lunch and they both add hot pepper paste to their ramyun noodles, not a very common thing to do. As our friends talk and drink the day away, similarities between these encounters multiply and we begin to realize they may be more than just mere coincidence. |
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Negativland & SUE-C: "We Can Really Feel Like We're Here" [In-Person Only]
August 03, 2024 6:45 PM - August 04, 2024 6:45 PM
Legendary sound collage group Negativland and real-time cinema visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring you their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions as we head into our next election: WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE'RE HERE. Negativland performs with video designed and produced by SUE-C, who appears virtually. |
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RE-COLLECT [In-Person Only]
August 08, 2024 1:00 PM
RE-COLLECT is an experimental dance documentary that traces an embodied exchange of intergenerational dance artists. Recorded in 2022 at a research symposium called Think Gravity Dance Tank: Celebrating & Reckoning with Contact Improvisation and Performance, RE-COLLECT honors and interrogates the revolutionary dance form Contact Improvisation. The film serves as a time capsule during a pivotal moment at the intersection of COVID-19 and racial justice uprisings in the United States. Considering the gravity of these times, RE-COLLECT questions Contact Improvisations historical narrative and brings unspoken histories to the forefront to invite a more inclusive future of the form. The documentary will be followed by a post screening panel discussion with artists involved in the film. |
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Lyd [In-Person Only]
August 08, 2024 7:00 PM - August 18, 2024 7:30 PM
Lyd is a feature-length, speculative documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd (alternatively Lod, as it is now called), a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was a bustling Palestinian town, until it was taken over by the state of Israel. As the film unfolds, residents create a tapestry of the Palestinian experience of this city and exemplify the trauma left by the 1948 massacre and expulsion. Vivid animations envision an alternate reality where the same people live free from the trauma of the past and the violence of the present. Using never-before-seen archival footage of Israeli soldiers who carried out the massacre and expulsion, the personified city explains that these events were so devastating that they fractured reality, and now there are two Lyds one occupied and one free. As the film cuts between fantastical and documentary realities, it ultimately leaves the viewer questioning which future should prevail. |
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CANCELED - Emerald Jett Reading with SassyBlack [In-Person Only]
August 09, 2024 7:00 PM
Come and listen to the first public reading of Catherine SassyBlack Harris-White's musical Emerald Jett. After the reading will be an artist talk with Catherine. |
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Coconut Head Generation [In-Person Only]
August 09, 2024 7:00 PM - August 11, 2024 7:30 PM
The term coconut head generation originated as an insult targeting todays Nigerian twenty-somethings, who have been sweepingly mischaracterized as lazy and apathetic. Reclaiming the term as an ironic self-moniker, a growing number of the nations youth are instead proving themselves to be politically and morally engaged. |
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Seattle Arab Film Festival 2024 - Love and Revolt
August 10, 2024 5:00 PM - August 11, 2024 5:00 PM
Love & Revolt, the 5th edition of the Seattle Arab Film Festival (SAFF), is a celebration of the rebellious spirit of Arab stories despite the pain of oppression. |
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It's Such a Beautiful Day + ME by Don Hertzfeldt [In-Person Only]
August 14, 2024 7:00 PM - August 18, 2024 7:00 PM
Back in theaters for the first time since 2012, Don Hertzfeldt's celebrated mixed-media animation opus It's Such a Beautiful Day will play alongside his new short film ME, a 22-minute musical odyssey. |
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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Aug. 2024) [In-Person Only]
August 17, 2024 7:00 PM
The Disabled List, produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, takes place bimonthly at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA. |
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Bubble Bath (Habfürdö) [In-Person Only]
August 23, 2024 7:00 PM - August 25, 2024 7:00 PM
Hungarian director György Kovásznais wildly idiosyncratic animated musical is one of the most indescribably strange, personal and totally irresistible cartoon features ever made. |
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Torrey Pines [In-Person Only]
August 23, 2024 7:30 PM - August 25, 2024 7:30 PM
Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale, taking place in Southern California in the early 1990s. |
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Querelle Screening + Medusa of the Roses Book Release [In-Person Only]
August 30, 2024 7:00 PM - September 01, 2024 7:00 PM
The lurid romanticism of French author Jean Genet has inspired the work of countless queer writers and filmmakers for over eighty years. In the realm of literature, author and artist Navid Sinakis debut novel Medusa of the Roses is one such work, suffused with Genets sensibility. To celebrate its publication by Grove Atlantic, well be hosting Sinaki in person for special screenings of Rainer Werner Fassbinders final film, Querelle (1982), an adaptation of a Genet novel. |
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20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas) [In-Person Only]
August 30, 2024 7:30 PM - September 01, 2024 7:30 PM
In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at her mother Litas home for summer vacation where they are surrounded by extended family and nosy neighbors. Ane and her mothers relationship is strained Lita disapproves of her daughters frayed marriage, career as an artist, and the way she parents her obstinate and mischievous children. Chief among them is eight-year-old Aitor, nicknamed Coco after it becomes clear that being referred to as Aitor elicits feelings of distress in the child. Born biologically male, neither birth name nor the genderless nickname feel quite right, and Anes concern for her child grows as Coco becomes more withdrawn. The childs only respite lies in the Basque hills, where Anes aunt Lourdes tends to the familys beekeeping farm. Among the peaceful humming of bees and Lourdes open-minded guardianship, Coco slowly begins to confide in family and friends her discomfort in her body, eventually voicing a desire to be treated as a girl. As Coco explores her own developing identity over the summer, Ane and the rest of her family in turn must learn to accept the child as she is. |
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The Triplets of Belleville (Les triplettes de Belleville)
September 06, 2024 7:00 PM - September 08, 2024 7:00 PM
When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire to rescue him. |
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The Secret Life of Plants [In-Person Only]
September 06, 2024 7:30 PM - September 08, 2024 7:30 PM
Supported by Stevie Wonders exuberant and sometimes haunting soundtrack, this documentary conveys the pain and joy plants experience and how they communicate it. |
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Staff Picks - Your Fat Friend [In-Person Only]
September 13, 2024 7:00 PM - September 15, 2024 7:00 PM
Acclaimed director Janie Finlay charts the rise of Aubrey Gordon. Shot over six years, we see Aubrey go from anonymous blogger yrfatfriend to New York Times best-seller and beloved podcaster with an audience of millions. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Opening Feature: Punderneath it All [Hybrid]
September 20, 2024 7:00 PM
This delightful doc explores the idiosyncratic, camaraderie-filled subculture of punsters, and shows how language (even puns!) is a tool for social change. Join us for a live, movie-themed pun-off before the screening, hosted by Seattles own Forest Ember and featuring a slate of to-be-announced comedians! Buckle up for not only puns, but also idioms, acronyms, and other wordplay delights. |
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Local Sightings Film Festival 2024: In-Person Only Full Festival Pass
September 20, 2024 7:00 PM - September 27, 2024 7:00 PM
Presented by Seattle's Northwest Film Forum, the 27th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival is a virtual-and-in-person showcase of creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The 2024 program, which runs from September 20-29, features a competitive selection of curated short film programs and feature films, inviting regional artists to experiment, break, and remake popular conceptions around filmmaking and film exhibition. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Kinetic Energies [Hybrid]
September 21, 2024 4:00 PM
Showcasing the multifaceted talents of Pacific Northwest performers, these energizing shorts use dance and music to break down barriers. Join us for a pre-show dance performance from one of the virtuosic FORever FeroshUS performers! |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Next of Kin [Hybrid]
September 21, 2024 4:30 PM
Heartwarming and heartrending in equal measure, these relatable shorts feature multiple generations of immigrant, multicultural, and neuro-diverse families. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - The Eternal Ephemeral [Hybrid]
September 21, 2024 7:00 PM
These experimental films tackle such heady topics using a smorgasbord of techniques eco-processing, intaglio printing, direct animation, and more. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - The Space Between [Hybrid]
September 21, 2024 7:30 PM
A program of poignant shorts about found family, childhood friends, old lovers, and everyone else who lingers in our thoughts when we go to sleep. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Moving History: Forum Vault Flashback [In-Person Only]
September 22, 2024 4:00 PM
NWFF and MIPoPS delve deep into the Forums own archives for treasure from our days as WigglyWorld Studios and the ancient Local Sightings screenings of yore. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Call Me Mule [In-Person Only]
September 22, 2024 4:30 PM
A man traveling with three mules fights to maintain a nomadic lifestyle in the increasingly inhospitable American West. Featuring an in-person Q&A with director John McDonald! |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Hard Laughs [Hybrid]
September 22, 2024 7:00 PM
These side-splitting shorts push the boundaries of comedy (and ... good taste) with tales of racist ghosts, dead dogs, and team-building exercises gone amok. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Can't Seem to Make You Mine [In-Person Only]
September 22, 2024 7:30 PM
Recently released from prison and newly in love with a woman from a pen-pal site, Wilder struggles to stay sober, get a job, and be a father to his son. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Monster of the Week [Hybrid]
September 27, 2024 7:00 PM
Travel back in time with these campy, throwback monster flicks ranging from the hilarious to the spine-tingling. Featuring a Seattle horror film from 1936! |
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Local Sightings 2024 - All We Carry [In-Person Only]
September 27, 2024 7:30 PM
A film following the journey of Magdiel, Mirna, and their toddler Joshua from Honduras to Seattle; a human story beyond the headlines of the refugee crisis. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Dreaming Animals [Hybrid]
September 28, 2024 4:00 PM
Prepare to be dazzled by these existentially trippy shorts, programmed in partnership with Scarecrow Video! "We're just a bunch of dreaming animals." |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Why Dig When You Can Pluck screens w/ Fireworks [In-Person Only]
September 28, 2024 4:30 PM
While on a camping trip with her family, a filmmaker's competing desires to be both a good mother and a visionary artist are brought to a head. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Seattle of the Future? Closing Shorts [Hybrid]
September 28, 2024 7:00 PM
This trio of powerhouse films grapples with, bemoans, and interrogates Seattle's changing physical landscape. These filmmakers ask: Can intentional, grassroots community spaces provide an antidote to "placelessness"? |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Block Dog screens w/ Managed to Extinction [In-Person Only]
September 28, 2024 7:30 PM
Experience the rough-and-tumble camaraderie between tree-planters in B.C.'s wilderness, as seen through the eyes of their adorable canine companions. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Doomsday [Hybrid]
September 29, 2024 7:00 PM
What happens after the end of the world? These thrilling shorts plunge us into a post-apocalyptic America full of fire-and-brimstone preachers and corporate-execs-turned-survivalists. |
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Local Sightings 2024 - Finding Groovopolis [In-Person Only]
September 29, 2024 7:30 PM
Several years after his mysterious, brilliant father David's passing, Wil resolves to bring an unmade screenplay of David's, "Groovopolis," to life. |
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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Oct. 2024) [In-Person Only]
October 19, 2024 7:00 PM
The Disabled List, produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, takes place bimonthly at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - The Craft [In-Person Only]
October 20, 2024 7:00 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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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Dec. 2024) [In-Person Only]
December 07, 2024 7:00 PM
The Disabled List, produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, takes place bimonthly at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - Showgirls Annual Screening [In-Person Only]
January 12, 2025 7:00 PM
The cornerstone of cult cinema makes its GRAND RETURN to Mourning Sickness for its ANNUAL SCREENING! |
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