AUGUST 2024 HIGHLIGHTS
Crossing
AUG 9–22 • EGYPTIAN
A beautiful story of love and self-discovery from the director of Cannes favorite And Then We Danced (2019), in which Lia, a retired Georgian history teacher, travels to Istanbul in search of her missing niece who was kicked out of her house for being trans. But searching for someone who never intended to be found is harder than she expected—until she meets Evrim, a lawyer fighting for trans rights.
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Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
CatVideoFest 2024
Cuckoo
Munch:Love, Ghosts & Lady Vampires
Walking With M
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Burden of Dreams
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
AGFA: The Last Slumber Party
AGFA: Terminal USA
Munch:Love, Ghosts & Lady Vampires
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Crossing
Picasso: A Rebel in Paris
Trust in Love
Alien: Romulus
Blink Twice
Sugarcane
AGFA: The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape
AGFA: The Films of Sarah Jacobson
AGFA: The McPherson Tape
Reel Black: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
SIFF CINEMA DOWNTOWN
SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN
SIFF CINEMA EGYPTIAN
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
Heaven Adores You
Evening with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
Movie Club: The Crow (1994)
AGFA: She Freak
AGFA: Blood Feast
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
Adios Bueno Aires
Kneecap
AGFA: The Zodiac Killer
AGFA: Shredder Orpheus
Deadpool & Wolverine Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
AGFA: Indecent Desires
AGFA: Attack of the Beast Creatures
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
AGFA: Cannibal! The Musical CatVideoFest 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine [3D]
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
Kneecap
Widow Clicquot
AGFA: HEY FOLKS! IT’S INTERMISSION TIME VIDEO PARTY
AGFA: Donnie Darko
CatVideoFest 2024
Munch:Love, Ghosts & Lady Vampires
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Burden of Dreams
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Burden of Dreams
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Deadpool & Wolverine
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus
Kneecap
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing Crossing
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Crossing
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Crossing
Picasso: A Rebel in Paris
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Crossing
Picasso: A Rebel in Paris
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Classified Cinema
Crossing
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger
Crossing
Big Salad
Alien: Romulus
Dìdi (弟弟)
Sing Sing
Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger Blink Twice
Crossing
Alien: Romulus
Blink Twice
Sugarcane
Know Your Place
AGFA: The Peanut Butter Solution
Cabin in the Woods Film Festival
Alien: Romulus Blink Twice
Sugarcane
Know Your Place
AGFA: The Little Shop of Horrors
AGFA: The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club
Cabin in the Woods Film Festival
Alien: Romulus Blink Twice Sugarcane
AGFA: I Married a Witch
Sugarcane
AGFA: She Mob
AGFA: To Be or Not to Be Alien: Romulus Blink Twice Sugarcane Scope Screenings Alien: Romulus Blink Twice
AGFA: GLOW – The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Alien: Romulus
Blink Twice
Sugarcane
AGFA: Faces
AGFA: A Woman Under the Influence
Alien: Romulus
Blink Twice
AGFA: Shoalin Invincibles
AGFA: Secret Screening
Alien: Romulus
Blink Twice
MetallicaFest
Deadpool & Wolverine
NOW PLAYING • DOWNTOWN
Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine delivers the ultimate team-up throwdown. Wolverine is recovering from his injuries when he crosses paths with the loudmouth Deadpool. They team up to defeat a common enemy.
Alien: Romulus
Kinds of Kindness
CLOSES AUG 5 • UPTOWN
A triptych fable, following a man who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his missing wife has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Kneecap NOW PLAYING UPTOWN
There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
Heaven Adores You (2014)
AUG 6 • UPTOWN
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the film’s release, Heaven Adores You returns to theaters for a special event screening on August 6, which would have been the 55th birthday of musician Elliott Smith (1969-2003).
Dìdi (弟弟)
OPENS AUG 8 • UPTOWN
Oscar ® nominee Sean Wang (Nai Nai & Wài Pó, SIFF 2023 Grand Jury Prize Winner) won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance for this joyous tale about a skate video-loving NorCal Taiwanese American circa 2008 who spends his final pre-high school summer learning what it means to grow up.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
AUG 16–22 • UPTOWN
Martin Scorsese first encountered the films of Powell and Pressburger as a child, sitting in front of the family TV. Now, in this documentary, he tells the story of his lifelong love affair with their movies. See it before our upcoming Powell & Pressburger film series (Sep 18–Nov 20).
Sugarcane
OPENS AUG 15 • DOWNTOWN
The sci-fi/horror-thriller takes the phenomenally successful Alien franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
CatVideoFest 2024
AUG 23–29 • UPTOWN
A gutwrenching doc on the horrors of residential schools, centering on the abuse suffered at the hands of B.C.’s St. Joseph Mission. 2024 Seattle International Film Festival Official Competition Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary. Includes post-film Q&A at the Aug 24 screening.
Cuckoo
CLOSES AUG 8 • UPTOWN
Oscar ® nominee June Squibb (Nebraska) stars as the titular 93-year-old character who, when she is scammed out of $10,000, embarks on a daring mission across Los Angeles to recover her money by any means necessary. Featuring one of Richard Roundtree’s final performances.
Widow Cliquot AUG 2–8 UPTOWN
After her husband’s death, Madame Clicquot flouts convention by assuming the reins of their wine business, defying her critics and ultimately revolutionizing the champagne industry, establishing her as one of the world’s first great businesswomen.
AUG 7 • UPTOWN
The tale of a young musician Eric Draven who, along with his fiancé, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is risen from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes.
Harms.
Sing
Sing OPENS AUG 8 UPTOWN
Oscar ® nominees Colman Domingo and Paul Raci lead a cast of non-professionals, many of whom play themselves, in this inspirational true story about a troupe of incarcerated people who find healing through the redemptive power of theatre. 2024 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film.
Blink Twice OPENS AUG 22 UPTOWN
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, sparks fly. He invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But as strange things start to happen, Frida begins to question her reality.
AUG 2–4 • EGYPTIAN
Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2024, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Crossing
AUG 4 • EGYPTIAN
Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen (Hunter Schafer) leaves her American home to live with her father in the German Alps with his new family. However, something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Presented on 35mm.
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Your Place (2022)
AUG 23 & 24 • EGYPTIAN
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Gentrification’s impact on Seattle’s East African community is explored as two teenage boys navigate the city on an errand. 2022 Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award – Best Film. Includes post-film Q&A at the August 23 screening.
MetallicaFest
AUG 31 • EGYPTIAN
and Lady Vampires
AUG 3–5 • FILM CENTER
Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires strives to shed new light on Edvard Munch, a profoundly mysterious, fascinating man, a trailblazer and a master for everyone who came after him.
Burden of Dreams (1982)
AUG 9–11 • FILM CENTER
Burden of Dreams captures legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo, in which an entrepreneur (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. New 4K restoration.
Picasso: A Rebel in Paris
AUG 17–19 • FILM CENTER
Fifty years after his passing, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso’s Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important icons of the 20th century.
Munch: Love, Ghosts
SIFF MOVIE CLUB The Crow (1994)
Introduced by SIFF Cinema staffer Milo
Thelma