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Local Sightings 2025 Opening Night: Police Beat 20th Anniversary Screening
19 Septembre 2025 19:00
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
19 Septembre 2025 19:00
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
20 Septembre 2025 15:30
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
20 Septembre 2025 16:00
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
20 Septembre 2025 18:30
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)
20 Septembre 2025 19:00
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)
21 Septembre 2025 15:30
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 MIPoPS Moving History: Forum Flashback Vol. 2
21 Septembre 2025 16:00
Behold the triumphant return of Moving History, a collaboration between Northwest Film Forum and Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), a local nonprofit dedicated to protecting archival video treasures. For this special edition, well delve deep into the Forums own archives, from our days as WigglyWorld Studios to ancient Local Sightings screenings of yore. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Homelands (Shorts)
21 Septembre 2025 18:30
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)
21 Septembre 2025 19:00
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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SAFF Arab Film Club: Dreams of a City [In-Person Only]
24 Septembre 2025 18:30
When his father dies, Dib, his younger brother and their mother move away from their hometown Quneitra to Damascus. |
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Seattle Film Society Presents Locals Only: September 2025 [In-Person Only]
25 Septembre 2025 19:00
Locals Only is a monthly screening event put on by the Seattle Film Society. |
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Local Sightings 2025 Wolf Land
26 Septembre 2025 18:30
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)
26 Septembre 2025 19:00
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
27 Septembre 2025 15:30
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)
27 Septembre 2025 16:00
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
27 Septembre 2025 19:00
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
28 Septembre 2025 15:30
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 ACTION! Stars
28 Septembre 2025 16:00
This special screening celebrates the talents of mentors and apprentices alike from Northwest Film Forums ACTION! Narrative Apprenticeship Program. |
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Local Sightings 2025 MASC
28 Septembre 2025 18:30
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
28 Septembre 2025 19:00
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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Truth To Fiction: Predators
02 Octobre
2025 19:00
PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking look at the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the hit reality TV show, and the world it helped create. |
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Predators
03 Octobre
2025 19:30 - 12 Octobre
2025 19:00
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: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
03 Octobre
2025 20:00
Pier Paolo Pasolinis Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom remains one of cinemas most notorious provocations, often cited as one of the most disturbing films of all time - a brutal descent into fascist excess where cruelty is ritualized and nothing is left sacred. |
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Woman in The Dunes
04 Octobre
2025 16:00 - 11 Octobre
2025 15:00
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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TRAUMA BOND: Threads
10 Octobre
2025 20:00
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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The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Oct. 2025)
11 Octobre
2025 19:00
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
12 Octobre
2025 16:00
A trans woman in trouble. Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender |
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TRAUMA BOND: Martyrs
17 Octobre
2025 20:00
The pinnacle of the New French Extremity movement, Martyrs pushes horror to its breaking point. |
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MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: House
19 Octobre
2025 20:00
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
22 Octobre
2025 19:00 - 23 Octobre
2025 19:00
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)
24 Octobre
2025 20:00
Michael Hanekes fully realized remake of his own film sees a seemingly idyllic family getaway that unravels into sheer terror. |
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Pulse
24 Octobre
2025 20:30 - 26 Octobre
2025 18:30
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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Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958 to 1989
25 Octobre
2025 13:00 - 02 Novembre
2025 14:30
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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The Cartoons of Max Fleischer: Halloween Party!
31 Octobre
2025 18:00
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
31 Octobre
2025 18:15 - 09 Novembre
2025 19:00
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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Truth To Fiction: WTO/99 [In-Person Only]
06 Novembre
2025 19:00
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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The Last Dive
14 Novembre
2025 18:30 - 23 Novembre
2025 19:30
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
04 Décembre 2025 19:00
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)
06 Décembre 2025 19:00
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*
17 Janvier 2026 20:00 - 18 Janvier 2026 20:00
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.
