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Predators
October 10, 2025 7:30 PM - October 12, 2025 7:00 PM
To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create. |
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TRAUMA BOND: Threads
October 10, 2025 8:00 PM
Often considered the most harrowing depiction of nuclear war ever broadcast what begins as ordinary life in Sheffield soon unfolds into a cold, stark nightmare where the government and its civilians prove powerless against nuclear annihilation. |
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Woman in The Dunes
October 11, 2025 3:00 PM - October 19, 2025 12:30 PM
One of the sixties' great art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the idiosyncratic worldview of Hiroshi Teshigahara. |
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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Oct. 2025)
October 11, 2025 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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Castration Movie Anthology i. The Fear of Having No One to Hold at the End of the World
October 12, 2025 4:00 PM
A trans woman in trouble. Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender |
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Seattle Film Society In Focus: Georgia Krause
October 16, 2025 7:00 PM
Seattle Film Society presents a night of films directed by local filmmaker Georgia Krause |
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Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival 2025 FULL FESTIVAL PASS
October 16, 2025 7:15 PM
Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival is a film festival by and for trans people. The purpose of the festival is to support trans film and its production by connecting trans filmmakers to their audiences, and to celebrate trans lives by showing our stories through film. |
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STUFF 2025: Dog Movie & Laughtrack
October 16, 2025 7:15 PM
Dog Movie tells the story of a passive-aggressive tenderqueer couple that send their household into a quiet tailspin when they adopt an elderly pitbull. |
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STUFF 2025: OUTSIDE THE LINES
October 17, 2025 7:00 PM
OUTSIDE THE LINES combines animated, experimental, and films shot-on-film that defy expectations, playing with the physicality and form of the medium. |
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TRAUMA BOND: Martyrs
October 17, 2025 8:00 PM
The pinnacle of the New French Extremity movement, Martyrs pushes horror to its breaking point. |
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STUFF 2025: SLICE OF LIFE
October 18, 2025 3:00 PM
SLICE OF LIFE is a program dedicated to films about the infinite possibilities of the trans experience. |
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STUFF 2025: TRANS-IT
October 18, 2025 5:10 PM
The TRANS-IT program explores how we get from one place to another, both physically and emotionally. Let us take you for a ride! |
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STUFF 2025: HOT BLOODED (18+)
October 18, 2025 7:20 PM
Come celebrate trans bodies in all our visceral glory, flesh shivering in pleasure and pain. |
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STUFF 2025: Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds
October 19, 2025 12:00 PM
A trans woman in trouble. Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender |
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Pulse
October 19, 2025 3:30 PM - October 26, 2025 6:30 PM
PULSE tells the story of a group of friends rocked by the sudden death of a friend, and his ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. |
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MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: House
October 19, 2025 8:00 PM
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. |
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Earshot Jazz Presents Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
October 22, 2025 7:00 PM - October 23, 2025 7:00 PM
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser highlights the life of one of the most extraordinary individuals in the history of jazz. |
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TRAUMA BOND: Funny Games (2007)
October 24, 2025 8:00 PM
Michael Hanekes fully realized remake of his own film sees a seemingly idyllic family getaway that unravels into sheer terror. |
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Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958 to 1989
October 25, 2025 1:00 PM - November 02, 2025 2:30 PM
Israel Palestine on Swedish Television 19581989 is the definitive cinematic account of the background to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through unique and immersive footage |
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SAFF Arab Film Club: With Hasan in Gaza
October 29, 2025 7:00 PM
A cinematic reflection on memory, loss and the passage of time, capturing a Gaza of the past and lives that may never be found again. |
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The Cartoons of Max Fleischer: Halloween Party!
October 31, 2025 6:00 PM
Northwest Film Forum presents a program of newly-restored cartoons created by the famous Max and Dave Fleischer for a special Halloween Program |
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Recollections of The Yellow House
October 31, 2025 6:15 PM - November 09, 2025 7:00 PM
In this iconic first appearance of his tramp-like alter ego, João César Monteiro directs himself as a penniless flâneur living in a decaying boarding house. |
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Engauge 2025 History/Memory/Archive
November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
These filmmakers mine the past in all its richnessusing found footage, recovered audio, source footage, movement, re-creations, documentary evidenceto convey senses of beauty, sorrow, solace and resilience. |
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Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Full Festival Pass
November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð |
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Truth To Fiction: WTO/99 [In-Person Only]
November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
An archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the WTO and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest them. |
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Engauge 2025 Embodied Landscapes
November 07, 2025 4:30 PM
Filmmakers in this program work with landscape, broadly defined, using it as a prism for their concerns and passions and to speak truth to power. |
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Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Friday Day Pass
November 07, 2025 4:30 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð |
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Engauge 2025 Bodies in Space and Time
November 07, 2025 7:30 PM
The body, our most intimate landscape, is a site for detailed examinations of the aging, changing, meditative, playful, remembered, non-conforming, and contested self in the world. |
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Engauge 2025 A Panoply of Techniques
November 08, 2025 3:30 PM
One of the great things about experimental filmmaking is that there are really no rules for how to make a film. Like 2-D artists or poets, experimental filmmakers explore the possibilities, often starting there. In this program, the filmmakers employ a mind-boggling array of techniques: direct animation, hand painting and drawing, collage, cyanotypes, scratch animation, emulsion manipulation, laser jet printing, cameraless filmmaking and more. Come see what is possible. |
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Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Saturday Day Pass
November 08, 2025 3:30 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð |
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Engauge 2025 In Situ
November 08, 2025 5:30 PM
This collection of site-specific films beautifully document, gesture toward and find meaning in urban and rural locations around the globe, demonstrating once again that the constraints of place can be artistically liberating. |
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Engauge 2025 Sound/Light/Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film featuring Lori Goldston
November 08, 2025 7:30 PM
Cellist Lori Goldson returns to Engauge with a new program, featuring original scores to silent films from the Engauge archive + a newly digitized copy of one of Engauge founder Jon Behrens rarely screened films. |
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Happyend
November 09, 2025 4:00 PM - November 21, 2025 7:00 PM
In a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. |
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives with Henry Art Gallery
November 14, 2025 6:00 PM
Afflicted with kidney disease, Uncle Boonmee is preparing himself for death. He has assembled his relatives in the countryside, convinced he will soon die. |
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The Last Dive
November 14, 2025 6:30 PM - November 23, 2025 7:30 PM
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea. |
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Truth To Fiction: Blue
December 04, 2025 7:00 PM
In his finaland most daringcinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. |
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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Dec. 2025)
December 06, 2025 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. 4: Showgirls *Annual Screening*
January 17, 2026 8:00 PM - January 18, 2026 8:00 PM
The cornerstone of cult cinema makes its GRAND RETURN to Mourning Sickness for its ANNUAL SCREENINGS! You read that right, multiple screenings! |
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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.
