One of the most popular films to play at the Seattle International Film Festival this year was a locally produced documentary about …
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: Radioheart: The Drive and Times of DJ Kevin Cole
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: Phoenix Jones: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Superhero
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: Powwow People
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: The Life We Leave
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: Again, Again
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026: Closing Weekend Picks
The 52nd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this week! Running in person from May 7-17 the festival features 203 films playing in-person: with most in SIFF’s Lower Queen Anne Headquarters and at the SIFF Downtown.
SIFF 2026 Northwest Connections Notebook: Assets & Liabilities
I guess this is growing up? Set in Tacoma, Zach Weintraub’s tightly scripted feature finds his fictional counterpart “Zach” settling into the realities of adulthood: making uncomfortable calls to his property management company to weasel his way into having his starter house sold out from under his renters, spending days jockeying his tech job from home, taking care of his young daughter, noticing gray hairs and fine lines around his eyes. It happens to the best of us, gradually and then all at once.
The dark comedy(?) Is God Is spirals down a path of gaslighting and violence
Is God Is follows twins as they navigate the nasty business of revenge. While they have every right to want it for themselves, their motivation is to right a wrong for their Mother who they haven’t seen since childhood.
SIFF 2026: Deadline
In this near-future drama children in an upper crust private school are feeling the pressures of impending final exams, but this isn’t like what we went through. The pressure is beyond ruthless with school, parents and future all looming like a monster overhead. An anonymous “suicide” note litters the school grounds and while teachers try to find its origin, students are succumbing to the stress of it all and may actually make the contents of the note a reality.