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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. Click here to sign up for the NWFF Newsletter! |
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Problemista [In-Person Only]
April 17, 2024 7:00 PM - April 18, 2024 7:00 PM
Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system. |
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The People's Joker [In-Person Only]
April 17, 2024 7:30 PM - April 28, 2024 7:30 PM
A law-breaking comedian who is grappling with her gender identity forms a new anti-comedy troupe with a friend and finds herself battling a fascistic caped crusader. |
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Cadence 2024 - They multiply more and more [Hybrid]
April 19, 2024 7:30 PM
Enter the dream state. Shared dreams, lucid dreams, unattainable dreams, waking dreams. These video poems are portals into ourselves and others where new associations and unexpected connections are crafted. We are suspended in the gravity of these pieces, our feet never quite touching solid ground as our emotional core soars. Using erasure, installation, tableaux, anthropomorphism, and live music, this showcase traverses the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious to imagine the multitude of pathways through reality. What will we wake up to? |
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Cadence 2024 - We are looking for our shape [Hybrid]
April 20, 2024 4:30 PM
Simultaneously the products of our lineage, environment, and interactions, we miraculously retain our individual edges. How can we integrate all our identities as essential to the whole? How does miming past generations feed our future selves? How will we transcend fantasies to build a castle of our own? Through a translator, an immigrant, a tourist, a voicemail, a fairytale, and others, these video poems ask: how, and how often, do we (re)make ourselves? |
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Cadence 2024 - When we bite down [Hybrid]
April 20, 2024 7:30 PM
Poetry has a history of getting people in trouble. Throughout time, poetry has been suppressed and poets persecuted for not writing the party line. This showcase gives voice to the outcasts and the cast out, the identity-torn seeking belonging, and the otherwise outlawed. By questioning the status quo and our place within it, these video poems reveal disruptive truths. To all poets who persist, who write rebellion, who reject silence and speak out--it can be dangerous, but we are many and poetry provides us refuge. |
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Open Script Reads (Spring '24)
April 21, 2024 1:00 PM - May 26, 2024 1:00 PM
Open Script Read provides a nurturing, participatory environment for budding and seasoned filmmakers to support one another in the ongoing practice of screenwriting. |
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Cadence 2024 - Our never ending [Hybrid]
April 21, 2024 4:30 PM
This showcase is a raft in times glacial runoff. Watching these video poems, we are carried by a current of memory, lineage, and rebirth. Some of the works in this showcase alter linear time to revise inherited hurt or to recycle joy into new purpose. Others contain multiple realitiesworlds where past trauma and future recovery exist in the tension of now, where the horrors of war share a line with clipping coupons. These pieces accept that the river of time is endless, that there are always possibilities for progress. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? [In-Person Only]
April 21, 2024 7:00 PM
Trapped in a mansion as decayed as their fame, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford deliver unforgettable performances in this twisted camp classic that unravels the dark tale of two sisters, entangled in dangerous jealousy and faded glory. In a world where the spotlight has dimmed, their rivalry weaves a psychological masterpiece, spotlighting the cruel passage of time on stardom. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - Series Pass [In-Person Only]
April 21, 2024 8:00 PM
Seattle drag superstar Monday Mourning is ready to take your divine fixation with cult cinema to new and exciting heights by joining forces with Northwest Film Forum to bring you MOURNING SICKNESS: a quarterly showcase of essential cult & camp classics dusted off and brought back to life once more across the silver screen, featuring pre-show drag entertainment that will leave you looking camp right in the eye. |
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I Like Movies [In-Person Only]
April 24, 2024 7:30 PM - April 28, 2024 7:00 PM
Socially inept 17-year old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager. |
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Good Symptom - Cadence 2024: Between Serenity & Sirens [Live via Zoom]
April 27, 2024 12:00 PM
A free and rare opportunity to connect with Ukrainian artists live-via-Zoom, reflecting on and living with the war. Marking the onset of Ukraines third year under attack by Russian invaders, The 3rd Thing Press in collaboration with Cadence Video Poetry Festival offers this special Good Symptom event, Between Serenity and Sirens, an online screening of two short films followed by a live-via-Zoom conversation with Ukrainian filmmakers, Marusya Shuvalova, Yarema Malashchuk, Roman Khimei, and guest essayist Anastasia Babenko, who is also Ukrainian. Good Symptom, a serial anthology of time-based disturbances, is produced and distributed by , and is co-curated by M Freeman and Cadence Video Poetry Festival directors Rana San and Chelsea Werner-Jatzke. |
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Creepshow [In-Person Only]
May 01, 2024 7:00 PM - May 05, 2024 7:00 PM
In 1982, two horror legends joined forces to make an endlessly entertaining tribute to the horror comics of their youth. Written by Stephen King (his first screenplay!) and directed by George A. Romero (fresh off of Dawn of the Dead and Knightriders), Creepshow assembles five shorts into a splashily colorful, hugely stylish package in which petulant cadavers DEMAND revenge on the living, ancient Arctic monsters terrorize the hallowed halls of academia, and meteors unleash mossy plagues. A cult classic that only grows more beloved by the year, Creepshow is truly the most fun youll ever have BEING SCARED! |
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Mystics in Bali [In-Person Only]
May 01, 2024 7:30 PM - May 05, 2024 7:30 PM
Visiting Bali for research on a book that shes writing, Cathy takes an interest in the black magic cult of Leák. When she is deceived by an evil witch who promises to instruct her in the dark arts, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan: a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck. Its up to the local holy men to try to contain this force for evil before the Cathy-Penanggalan achieves immortality! |
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1960s-80s Alternative Film Movement in Belgrade [In-Person Only]
May 04, 2024 7:30 PM
This compilation presents a selection of films that were made in the Academic Film Center in the first three decades of its existence; films that indicate the themes that preoccupied the cine club in its formative years. |
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Terminal USA [In-Person Only]
May 08, 2024 7:00 PM - May 12, 2024 7:00 PM
Holly (Jenny Woo), Marvin (writer/director Jon Moritsugu), and Katzumi (Moritsugu again) are average Asian-American teenage siblings with not-so-average predilections for backstabbing, kinky sex, and drug-fueled freakouts. Neglected by their parents, the kids turn to outside help (including the scene-stealing Amy Davis, Moritsugus wife and longtime collaborator) in order to escape their bored existence. Naturally, this leads to gory killings, sex tapes, and the most hilarious phone conversations ever captured on 16mm film. |
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Saving Face [In-Person Only]
May 08, 2024 7:30 PM - May 12, 2024 7:30 PM
When 48-year-old widow Hwei-Lan Gao (Joan Chen) informs her less-than understanding father shes pregnant, he banishes her from Flushing until she remarries or proves Immaculate Conception. With nowhere else to go, Hwei-Lan moves in with her grown daughter, Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a Manhattan doctor who doesnt want a roommate, especially since shes met Viv (Lynn Chen), her sexy young lover. So Wil does what any dutiful child with an expectant, unmarried mother on her hands would do: she proceeds to set Hwei-Lan up with every eligible bachelor in town. |
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Staff Picks Barking Dogs Never Bite [In-Person Only]
May 15, 2024 7:00 PM - May 22, 2024 7:30 PM
The debut that marked the arrival of a modern master, Barking Dogs Never Bite is critically acclaimed director Bong Joon-hos snappy black comedy about a downtrodden young man whos being assailed by both man and beast. |
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams [In-Person Only]
May 26, 2024 4:00 PM - June 02, 2024 7:00 PM
Unfolding in a series of eight mythic vignettes, this late work by Akira Kurosawa was inspired by the beloved directors own nighttime visions, along with stories from Japanese folklore. In a visually sumptuous journey through the masters imagination, tales of childlike wonder give way to apocalyptic apparitions: a young boy stumbles on a fox wedding in a forest; a soldier confronts the ghosts of the war dead; a power-plant meltdown smothers a seaside landscape in radioactive fumes. Interspersed with reflections on the redemptive power of creation, including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese), Akira Kurosawas Dreams is both a showcase for its makers artistry at its most unbridled and a deeply personal lament for a world at the mercy of human ignorance. |
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Unstreamable The Linguini Incident [In-Person Only]
June 05, 2024 7:00 PM - June 09, 2024 4:00 PM
Lucy (Rosanna Arquette) is a under-paid, under-appreciated waitress at a terminally hip NYC restaurant called Dali. Shes also an aspiring escape artist desperately in need of cash to buy Harry Houdinis wedding ring. Monte (David Bowie) is the shady but charming new bartender who desperately needs to get married at any cost. Together they join forces along with Lucys best friend, the self-defense bra designing Viv (Eszter Balint) to rob the popular restaurant, and all the trend-sucking leeches who dine there. As one might expect, it doesnt go as planned, but thats not necessarily a bad thing. |
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Pinkwashing Exposed [In-Person Only]
June 09, 2024 7:00 PM
Pinkwashing is a term activists have coined for when countries promote themselves as gay friendly to divert attention from terrible human rights violations in this case, from the brutal colonization of Palestine. Israel is the country most famous for pinkwashing, engaging it as a strategy in their rebranding campaign for the last decade. |
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Naked Acts [In-Person Only]
June 20, 2024 7:00 PM - June 27, 2024 7:30 PM
Beautiful aspiring actor Cicely (Jake-ann Jones) has just landed her first major role, but theres a big problem: it requires a nude scene. Her mother was a Blaxploitation star known for her sex appeal, while Cicely is a survivor of sexual assault with lifelong body image issues, all of which has left her with a strong aversion to disrobing in public. Now, with the support of her boyfriend Joel (Ron Cephas Jones), she attempts to get past her fear. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 Basic Instinct [In-Person Only]
July 14, 2024 7:00 PM
Beat the Seattle summer with a white-knuckle mystery so chilling, it cuts through the July heat like an ice pick through flesh. Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas lead us through a labyrinth of seduction, suspense, and peril in this defining erotic thriller of the 1990s. Stone delivers a career-defining performance, redefining the femme fatale as the alluring and unpredictable Catherine Trammel, in this masterclass in tension and intrigue thatll have you trusting only your most basic instincts. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - The Craft [In-Person Only]
October 20, 2024 7:00 PM
Summon the coven as Mourning Sickness invokes the spirit of Halloween with a spellbound tale of witchcraft and 90s teen angst. This nostalgic cult classic casts a spell of four teen outcast witches who wield their newfound powers for love, revenge, and liberation, bringing them face to face with the exhilarating yet perilous potential of their craft. Just dont let the popcorn hex your black lipstick. |
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Mourning Sickness Vol. 3 - Showgirls Annual Screening [In-Person Only]
January 12, 2025 7:00 PM
The cornerstone of cult cinema makes its GRAND RETURN to Mourning Sickness for its ANNUAL SCREENING! |
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