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Sakinah: A Community Film Screening [In-Person Only]
February 20, 2025 7:00 PM
A community film screening showcasing projects that center on Muslim narratives, created by Muslim filmmakers. |
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No Other Land [In-Person Only]
February 20, 2025 7:30 PM - March 02, 2025 4:00 PM
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. |
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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story [In-Person Only]
February 21, 2025 7:30 PM - March 02, 2025 7:30 PM
A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal. |
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Secret Birthday Screening! [In-Person Only]
March 02, 2025 7:00 PM
It's SOMEONE's birthday! We won't say who, but come celebrate an icon with a free movie and some popcorn. |
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Truth to Fiction: Rat Film [In-Person Only]
March 06, 2025 7:00 PM
"Rat Film" is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat and the humans that love, live with, and kill, to explore the history of Baltimore. |
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Bona [In-Person Only]
March 06, 2025 7:30 PM - March 16, 2025 7:30 PM
Newly restored after 40 years, Lino Brocka's BONA is about blinding adoration and its stranglehold on both the lover and the beloved |
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Eraserhead [In-Person Only]
March 07, 2025 7:00 PM - March 16, 2025 7:00 PM
David Lynch's iconic debut feature ERASERHEAD comes to Northwest Film Forum for two weekends! |
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Brazilian Immigrant Cinema Volume I: Los Angeles [In-Person Only]
March 08, 2025 6:30 PM
Brazilian Immigrant Cinema is a series that showcases contemporary Brazilian filmmakers who live and work in the diaspora. |
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Alliance Française de Seattle presents: Ru [In-Person Only]
March 12, 2025 7:00 PM
Based on the award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, Ru is the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam, before landing in Quebec. |
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Daddy Dearest (18+) [In-Person Only]
March 20, 2025 7:30 PM - March 30, 2025 7:30 PM
Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s Daddy Dearest is a lighthearted but provocative exploration of fantasy, memory, and cinema. |
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Ruins and Resilience: An Evening with Karel Doing [In-Person Only]
March 21, 2025 7:00 PM
Karel Doing is an independent artist, filmmaker, and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature. |
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Crash [In-Person Only]
March 22, 2025 4:00 PM - March 29, 2025 4:00 PM
A TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife. |
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Secretary [In-Person Only]
March 29, 2025 7:00 PM - April 06, 2025 7:00 PM
A young woman, recently out of a mental hospital, works as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their relationship turns sadomasochistic. |
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Truth To Fiction: Sam Now [In-Person Only]
April 03, 2025 7:00 PM
Sam Harkness and his Seattle family are shocked and heartbroken when his mother suddenly disappears. |
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Secret Mall Apartment [In-Person Only]
April 04, 2025 7:30 PM - April 13, 2025 4:30 PM
The amazing true story of eight young Rhode Islanders who built and lived in a secret apartment inside a busy mall from 2003 to 2007. |
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl [In-Person Only]
April 11, 2025 7:00 PM - April 17, 2025 7:00 PM
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. |
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MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: Mulholland Dr. [In-Person Only]
April 13, 2025 8:00 PM
Mourning Sickness RETURNS to Northwest Film Forum with David Lynch's iconic Los Angeles daydream nightmare |
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Truth to Fiction: News From Home [In-Person Only]
May 01, 2025 7:00 PM
Letters from Chantal Akermans mother are read over a series of shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. |
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Truth To Fiction: Streetwise [In-Person Only]
June 05, 2025 7:00 PM
Taking his camera to the streets of supposedly Americas most livable city, Martin Bell tells the stories of homeless and runaway teens living in Seattle |
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Truth To Fiction: Carts of Darkness [In-Person Only]
July 10, 2025 7:00 PM
Murray Siple's documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts |
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MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: Barbie [In-Person Only]
July 20, 2025 8:00 PM
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken. |
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Mulholland Dr. [In-Person Only]
August 01, 2025 6:30 PM - August 10, 2025 6:30 PM
Blonde Betty Elms (Naomi Watts) has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia (Laura Harring). |
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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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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.
