Boots Riley’s exhilarating directorial debut SORRY TO BOTHER YOU is a biting and bonkers satire that follows a black telemarketer who discovers an unknown skill which gives him magical selling powers that shoot him up the corporate ladder. Plays 7/30 at SIFF Cinema Uptown for Art House Theater Day.

HORSEGIRLS is the story of 22-year-old Margarita, a young woman with autism, who discovers the world of hobbyhorsing and sets out to prove her independence to her mother—stick horse and all. Plays 7/24-25 at SIFF Film Center. 🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/horsegirls-bs

🌊 This week: Your journey with Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY in 70mm is now boarding at DT. HONEYJOON is playing at the Film Center for the weekend, with a Q&A w/ dir Lilian T. Mehrel tonight. The Popcorn List screening of REMAINING NATIVE is 7/20 at the Film Center. 🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/nowplaying-bs

TASTE OF TEA plays this Saturday at 130pm at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. “As sweet as the lives it celebrates, it’s something to savor time and time again.” Rob Humanick, Slant grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-tas...

This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinemas on Sun 7/19 (matinees only) and Tue 7/21: ⭐️ GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS ⭐️ THE INVITE More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw

This weekend, after the 7pm screenings of MADDIE’S SECRET, stick around for a pre-recorded Q&A with John Early and one of these special guests: July 17 - Amy Sedaris July 18 - Hannah Einbinder July 19 - Sarah Sherman Tix & more info: siff.info/maddiessecretbs

Olivia Wilde. James Cameron. Mark Jenkin. Each has called projectionists the last member of the crew. In Seattle, that's Aaron Ridenour. He's bringing 70mm back to @siffnews.bsky.social tonight w/ Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY 📽️ My profile @seattletimes.com: www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

Tonight, the epic arrives. Our odyssey begins at 7pm. 🌊 There will be no trailers before the 70mm screenings of THE ODYSSEY, so be sure to grab your snacks early and get settled by showtime. Don’t be late to defy the gods!

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) follows a U.S. Army sergeant who is brainwashed into becoming a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot. Plays Wed 7/29 at SIFF Uptown as part of the Cold War Summer series. 🎟️: siff.info/manchurian-bs

Tickets are now on sale for our two screenings of Nicolas Winding Refn’s latest neon-drenched vibes fest HER PRIVATE HELL. July 31 and August 2 at the @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/her-pri...

Jane Campion’s THE PIANO (1993) comes to SIFF Cinema Uptown with a new 4K remaster, opening 7/24 at the Uptown: siff.info/piano-bs. Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, and the late, great Sam Neill, it’s stunning, haunting, and sensual.

It’s no secret that the MADDIE’S SECRET screenings with John Early were as sweet and delightful as his eponymous character. 💖 Photography by Kyle Fuhrmann.

Burst pipes, rats and financial pressure torment a Limerick theatre owner in 1984 in David Gleeson's heartwarming love letter to cinemas, ONCE UPON A TIME IN A CINEMA. 🍿 Plays Thu 7/30 at SIFF Cinema Uptown as part of Art House Theater Day. 🎟️: siff.info/onceuponatime-bs

Today’s $7 Movies at SIFF Cinema: ⭐ THE INVITE ⭐ MADDIE’S SECRET ⭐ GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS ⭐ MINIONS & MONSTERS Showtimes: siff.info/nowplaying-bs. Support provided by 4Culture.

Lights, camera, camp time! 🎬 SIFF Filmmaking Camps give young creatives ages 9-14 the chance to script, storyboard, shoot, and edit films in a week-long immersive filmmaking experience. The first session begins 8/3, and camps run through 8/28. Learn more & register: siff.info/camps26-bs

Experience Olivia Wilde's THE INVITE in stunning 35mm this Wednesday, July 15, at 4pm and 7pm 🎞️ 🎟️: siff.info/invite-bs

In her award-winning debut feature, HONEYJOON director Lilian T. Mehrel brilliantly transforms grief, desire, and human connection into something electric. Join us for a special post-film Q&A with Lilian T. Mehrel on 7/17. ✨ HONEYJOON plays 7/17-19 at SIFF Film Center. 🎟️: siff.info/honeyjoon-bs

I am huuuuuurting from how much I laughed at Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass, my fave thing from @davidwain.bsky.social and co in years. Screening in Seattle at @siffnews.bsky.social this week! go see it!!

Maddie's Secret writer/director/star John Early at @siffnews.bsky.social Uptown July 10. Very good TV-movie-of-the-week satire, crazy enthusiastic audience, and a fancy cake at the end from a rep wearing a John Waters t-shirt. Early also spritzed the theater with his Maddie's Secret eau de parfum.

TASTE OF TEA plays 7/18 at 130pm at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center, presented by us! New HD master supervised by the director! “So delightful and strange… It reminds me that small, personal acts of creation can still be cosmic.” Chase Burns, The Stranger grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-tas...

In this Venice Film Festival-winning magical realist comedy, aging Ghanaian Atta Oko sets his sights on finally having his own boat—he'll just need help from a dead talking fish. THE FISHERMAN plays Wed 7/22 at SIFF Film Center as part of The Popcorn List’s 2026 Pop-Up Series.

For opening weekend of THE ODYSSEY, we’ll have Kodak 70mm filmstrips available while supplies last! Ensure you get a souvenir by finding showtimes at siff.info/odyssey-bs.

REMAINING NATIVE follows 17-year-old Native American runner Kutoven Stevens as he chases a scholarship and honors his great-grandfather’s legacy of survival from an Indian boarding school. Plays Mon 7/20 at SIFF Film Center as part of The Popcorn List’s 2026 Pop-Up Series.

Attention documentarians! You have one week left to apply for the SIFF Grant for Courageous Documentary Filmmaking. 🎥 Two of our 2025 awardees were selected to screen at the 52nd Seattle International Film Festival. Your film could be next! Applications due Fri 7/17: siff.info/docgrant-bs

Tomorrow at the Film Center, Open Books: A Poem Emporium will be joining us for both screenings of MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD with a table full of amazing reads. 📚 Tickets for both the 1:30pm and 7:40pm screenings on Sat 7/11 available at: siff.info/maryoliver-bs.

CRITIC’S PICK “Superb, sensuously realized… Its bravura filmmaking is all in the service of letting us travel alongside Lina as she feels her way to self-understanding.” Nicolas Rapold, NY Times THE CURRENTS plays Sunday at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-cur...

☀️ This week: THE INVITE (with select 35mm showtimes), MADDIE’S SECRET (with intro and post-film Q&As with John Early tonight), and GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS, starring Zoey Deutch, are now taking over the Uptown. 🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/nowplaying-bs

This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinemas on Sun 7/12 (matinees only) and Tue 7/14: ⭐️ GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS ⭐️ THE INVITE (Digital Screenings Only) ⭐️ MINIONS & MONSTERS More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw

TRAINS plays tomorrow at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center at 730pm, co-presented by Mount Analogue Art+Cinema! “…a skillful and patient result of working with archives—but also a meditation on the moral weight & responsibility of images.” Ola Salwa, Cineuropa grandillusioncinema.org/film/trains/

We’re kicking off Cold War Summer with the nail-biting political thriller THE LIVES OF OTHERS (2006) in 35mm. In 1983 East Berlin, a Stasi officer conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. Plays Wed 7/22 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.

Get your summertime movie schedule on lock indoors AND outdoors, like at Eastlake Community Council's Eastlake Outdoor Movie Nights 2026! For the last two Fridays of this month at Fairview Park, watch AMERICAN FICTION (7/24) and TRACKS (7/31). More info at eastlakeseattle.org/announcements-events.

TRASH BABY is a coming-of-age drama that follows 12-year-old Stevie as she navigates growing up, getting out, and the art of finding beauty in the ugliest of places. Plays Wed 7/15 at 7:30pm as part of The Popcorn List’s 2026 Pop-Up Series.

After receiving a cryptic card on the date of his daughter's ninth birthday, a happily married man sets off on a backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon in an attempt to find peace with a decision from his past before it unravels his future. GRANITE RAPIDS MOON plays Tues 7/21 at SIFF Film Center

Summer captures her first crush through her late father’s camera—only to uncover photographs that reveal his hidden past, sending her on a journey that transforms her understanding of love and family. SUMMER’S CAMERA plays 7/15 at SIFF Film Center as part of The Popcorn List’s 2026 Pop-Up Series.

While we love films about foxes, horses, donkeys, apes, orcas, and kittens, there can only be one winner of Animalia August. And the wild thing crowned king is… AU HASARD BALTHAZAR (1966)! Love thy donkey with your fellow Movie Clubbers on Monday, 8/3, at the Uptown: siff.info/smcbalthazar-bs.

Katsuhito Ishii pulled out all the stops for this endearing outré take on the Japanese psyche, replete with non-stop gags, anime digressions, musical numbers & colorful lysergic passages. We present TASTE OF TEA on 7/18 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center! grandillusioncinema.org/film/the-tas...

Today’s $7 Movies at SIFF Cinema: ⭐ MINIONS & MONSTERS ⭐ BACKROOMS: EVERYTHING MUST GO EDITION W/ EXTRA FOOTAGE ⭐ I LOVE BOOSTERS ⭐ ROSE OF NEVADA ⭐ TUNER Showtimes: siff.info/nowplaying-bs. Support provided by 4Culture.

We're excited to join Seattle Art Fair this yr as a Cultural Partner! The 10th edition returns to Lumen Field Event Center this 7/23–26. Bringing together art galleries from around the world, the fair offers a dynamic platform for discovery, collecting, & cultural exchange. Info: seattleartfair.com

Our first screening of The Popcorn List’s 2026 Pop-Up Series is Brittany Shyne’s award-winning documentary SEEDS. Using lyrical black and white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land. Plays Mon 7/13 @ SIFF Film Center.

MADDIE’S SECRET is an unmissable directorial debut satirizing content culture from iconic alt-comedian John Early, who plays the titular role, alongside comedians including Kate Berlant, Vanessa Bayer, and Conner O’Malley. Opens Fri 7/10 @ SIFF Uptown. 🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/maddiessecretbs

Bride-to-be Gail Daughtry has a “celebrity pass” agreement with her fiancé— who uses it. With her relationship in crisis, she sets out on an epic journey through Hollywood to even the scales with her own celebrity pass: Jon Hamm. GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS opens Thu 7/9 @ SIFF Uptown.

In honor of our Movie Club screening of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES, SIFF Assistant Cinema Manager Jesse Broucek curated a list of "summer movies to keep your summer queer" that pair well with the 1991 classic. 🍅 Plays Mon 7/6 @ SIFF Uptown: siff.info/fgtbs ✨Letterboxd list: siff.info/queersummervibes-bs

If you’re as obsessed with Jay Duplass as we are, check out the Cascade PBS podcast “Your Last Meal.” Host Rachel Belle speaks to the SEE YOU WHEN I SEE YOU filmmaker about his mom’s lasagna! Listen to the episode here ⬇️

Exciting news! A SIFF audience favorite, SHE’S THE HE, is now available to rent or buy on digital VOD platforms. Check it out on Apple TV, Google Play, etc. ✨🎉

🎪 Now playing: MINIONS & MONSTERS is invading the Downtown! BACKROOMS: EVERYTHING MUST GO EDITION W/ EXTRA FOOTAGE is now playing at the Uptown, and BOUCHRA is screening at the Film Center for the weekend. 🎟️ + ⏰: siff.info/nowplaying-bs

This week’s open caption screenings at SIFF Cinemas on Sun 7/5 (matinees only) and Tue 7/7: ⭐️ ROSE OF NEVADA ⭐️ TUNER ⭐️ MINIONS & MONSTERS ⭐️ I LOVE BOOSTERS ⭐ BACKROOMS: EVERYTHING MUST GO EDITION W/ EXTRA FOOTAGE More info: siff.info/opencaptionstw

Mary Oliver – best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner; lover of dogs and walks in the woods; queer and out, but intensely private. MARY OLIVER: SAVED BY THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD gives insight into the iconic poet’s life and work. Plays 7/10-12 @ SIFF Film Center. ⏰+🎟️: siff.info/maryoliver-bs

“…anyone who loves a good crime movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously will need to get their butts into the theater for this one.” @bamfpire.bsky.social We present CAROLINA CAROLINE 7/8 at 7pm at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center. grandillusioncinema.org/film/carolin...

By Jove! It’s already July and we have all kinds of fun flicks for you to enjoy while you beat the heat (whenever the sun decides it’s summertime…). From THE ODYSSEY in 70mm to restorations of THE PIANO and MANHUNTER, see what’s playing this month in our cinema guide: siff.info/july26guide-bs.

In HONEYJOON, June and her mom Lela travel to the Azores Islands for a grief anniversary. A charming surfer brings balance as they surf the waves of life, loss, and flirting. ✨ Director Lilian T. Mehrel scheduled to attend for a post-film Q&A on July 17. Plays 7/17-19 @ SIFF FC