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SAFF 2025 - Shorts Program 1 [In-Person Only]
August 15, 2025 7:00 PM
The Seattle Arab Film Festival presents the first package of short films showcasing a depth and variety of cinematic perspectives from the Middle East. |
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Drowning Dry [In-Person Only]
August 15, 2025 8:30 PM
To celebrate Lukas victory at the martial arts tournament and Tomas birthday party, two sisters organize a weekend at the country house. |
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SAFF 2025 - A State of Passion [In-Person Only]
August 16, 2025 4:00 PM
British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerges to find himself as a face of Palestinian resistance |
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SAFF 2025 - Saturday Day Pass [In-Person Only]
August 16, 2025 4:00 PM
Seattle Arab Film Festival 2025 showcases 23 remarkable short films and 1 feature film that will surprise, challenge, and delight audiences with their insight into a rich diversity of Arab voices, experiences, and talent. |
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SAFF 2025 - Shorts Program 2 [In-Person Only]
August 16, 2025 7:00 PM
The Seattle Arab Film Festival presents the second package of short films showcasing a depth and variety of cinematic perspectives from the Middle East. |
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SAFF 2025 - Shorts Program 3 [In-Person Only]
August 17, 2025 4:00 PM
The Seattle Arab Film Festival presents the third package of short films showcasing a depth and variety of cinematic perspectives from the Middle East. |
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SAFF 2025 - Sunday Day Pass [In-Person Only]
August 17, 2025 4:00 PM
Seattle Arab Film Festival 2025 showcases 23 remarkable short films and 1 feature film that will surprise, challenge, and delight audiences with their insight into a rich diversity of Arab voices, experiences, and talent. |
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SAFF 2025 - Shorts Program 4 [In-Person Only]
August 17, 2025 7:00 PM
The Seattle Arab Film Festival presents the fourth package of short films showcasing a depth and variety of cinematic perspectives from the Middle East. |
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Xala [In-Person Only]
August 22, 2025 6:30 PM - August 31, 2025 6:30 PM
An adaptation of Ousmane Sembènes own 1973 novel, Xala offers a hilarious, caustic satire of political corruption under an inept patriarchy. |
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By The Stream [In-Person Only]
August 22, 2025 7:00 PM - August 31, 2025 7:00 PM
In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim asks her uncle Chu Sieon to direct a play for the skit festival put on by her department. |
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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Aug. 2025) [In-Person Only]
August 23, 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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Art Seen Films Presents: Rimas Tuminas' War and Peace [In-Person Only]
August 24, 2025 4:00 PM
Rimas Tuminas final Moscow production, the epic War and Peace, explores and comprehends destinies, paradoxes, madness, love, joy and despair. |
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Seattle Film Society Presents Locals Only: August 2025 [In-Person Only]
August 28, 2025 7:00 PM
Locals Only is a monthly screening event put on by the Seattle Film Society. |
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Truth To Fiction: Sweetheart Deal [In-Person Only]
September 04, 2025 7:00 PM
When the dangers of the streets close in on a group of sex workers battling addiction, they find refuge in the roadside motorhome of a self-styled savior with a mysterious past. |
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Don Hertzfeldt Presents: Animation Mixtape [In-Person Only]
September 05, 2025 7:30 PM - September 14, 2025 7:30 PM
Flying cows, mysterious gods and lyrical pandemonium: Don Hertzfeldt has made Animation Mixtape just for you. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Opening Night: Police Beat 20th Anniversary Screening
September 19, 2025 7:00 PM
Not One Drop of Blood is a haunting exploration of a 50 year old mystery: the killing and mutilation of cattle by inexplicable methods that have baffled ranchers and law enforcement alike. |
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Local Sightings Film Festival 2025: In-Person Only Full Festival Pass
September 19, 2025 7:00 PM
Presented by Seattle's Northwest Film Forum, the 28th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival is a virtual-and-in-person showcase of creative communities from throughout the Pacific Northwest. The 2025 program, which runs from September 19-28, 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 2025 Not One Drop of Blood
September 20, 2025 3:30 PM
Not One Drop of Blood is a haunting exploration of a 50 year old mystery: the killing and mutilation of cattle by inexplicable methods that have baffled ranchers and law enforcement alike. |
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Local Sightings 2025 The Y2K Killers
September 20, 2025 4:00 PM
In 2003, three teenagersthe sensitive Cash, his moody girlfriend Teeny, and their new friend Scamp--are being interrogated for their possible involvement in a murder on the rugged Washington coast. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Trash Baby
September 20, 2025 6:30 PM
In the early years of the new millennium, 12-year-old Stevie lives with her single mother and gross little brother in a trailer park on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Echoes of the Future (Shorts)
September 20, 2025 7:00 PM
In these sci-fi shorts set in the near future, humanity grapples with its place in the cosmos. Featuring time loops and time travel, truth-telling devices, and a smorgasbord of gadgets and gizmos. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Growing Pains (Shorts)
September 21, 2025 3:30 PM
Love, loss, and longing take on extra potency when youre a young person navigating a confusing world. These coming-of-age stories explore the turmoil of adolescence and beyond with poignancy and a poetic touch. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Homelands (Shorts)
September 21, 2025 6:30 PM
These documentary and narrative shorts explore diaspora, belonging, and the search for home across the Pacific Northwest, from a gentrifying Portland neighborhood to the Blackfeet Nations mountain plains. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Because I Love You (Shorts)
September 21, 2025 7:00 PM
Fall head over heels for these short films about the ups and downs of love, from meet-cutes to breakupsand everything in between. With humor, tenderness, and plenty of heart, these films explore the challenges of vulnerability, unconventional paths to love, and the journey of building a life with your partner. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Wolf Land
September 26, 2025 6:30 PM
From city council meetings to local newscasts, there is a debate raging over wolves in Washington State, which slowly returned in the 2000s after their near-eradication. It is a polarizing issue along class and ideological lines, with Stetson hat ranchers all-too-frequently pitted against Patagonia jacket environmentalists. Local documentarian Sarah Hoffmans debut feature-length film, Wolf Land, takes a refreshing cinéma vérité approach and injects much-needed nuance into this thorny issue. |
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Local Sightings 2025 9 to 5 (Shorts)
September 26, 2025 7:00 PM
Corporate life, the grind, the 9 to 5. With satirical wit and verve, these films tackle the workplace woes of impostor syndrome, the pressure to perform, and unequal power dynamics. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Evergreens
September 27, 2025 3:30 PM
20-year-old Eve (Darby Lee Stack, The Holdovers) has never left her hometown of Spokane, Washington. During an otherwise uneventful summer, she finds just the adventure shes been craving when she meets James (Edouard Philipponnat, Napoleon), a worldly, charismatic twentysomething en route to Seattle. |
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Local Sightings 2025 All In My Head (Shorts)
September 27, 2025 4:00 PM
Is it real, or is it all just in their heads? In these suspenseful shorts, characters encounter inter-galatic beings, hidden worlds, and haunted houses. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Local Haunts: Closing Night Shorts
September 27, 2025 7:00 PM
Join us for a series of short films about beloved Pacific Northwest gathering spaces. In an age of commercialization and gentrification, in which every week seems to bring a new headline about the closing of a beloved bar or theater, these local filmmakers celebrate our vital third places. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Firebreak
September 28, 2025 3:30 PM
Since WWII, states have relied on incarcerated labor to fight wildfires. Inmates risk their lives to protect us, and yet they face numerous barriers upon their release, from housing insecurity to discrimination in hiring. Firebreak follows Brandon and Royal, who served time in Californias penal system, as they start a nonprofit to help Californians turn their behind-bars firefighting experience into long-term careers. |
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Local Sightings 2025 MASC
September 28, 2025 6:30 PM
In a world of right wing pundits and politicians seeking to reclaim manhood, a young queer filmmaker journeys to discover non-toxic masculinity across class, race, and gender in America today, leading him to confront his own religious upbringing, pastor father, and what he was taught it means to be a man. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Afterimages: Experimental Shorts
September 28, 2025 7:00 PM
These spellbinding short films explore nostalgia, liminal and transition zones, the illusion of meaning, and other mysteries of the human condition. Featuring an array of filmmaking techniques, including abandoned 16mm home movies, stop-motion with recycled cardboard, and eco-friendly processing. |
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Predators [In-Person Only]
October 03, 2025 7:30 PM - October 12, 2025 7:30 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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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Oct. 2025) [In-Person Only]
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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MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: House [In-Person Only]
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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Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 19581989 [In-Person Only]
October 25, 2025 1:30 PM - November 02, 2025 3:00 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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Truth To Fiction: Blue [In-Person Only]
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) [In-Person Only]
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* [In-Person Only]
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.
