Calendar
Noma: My Perfect Storm
Introduction on Tuesday by Jonathan Sajda, Program Manager at Nordic Heritage Museum
Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2016
(Pierre Deschamps, United Kingdom, DCP, 90 min)
Named World’s Best Restaurant for the fourth time in 2014, Danish chef René Redzepi’s Noma is an unlikely success story. When the modest Copenhagen restaurant opened in 2003, its commitment to using only locally sourced ingredients required some seriously out-of-the-box thinking about cooking, and about what food should and could be.
Women Media Maker Happy Hour
FREE Event!
Jan 13, 2016
Calling all women who make film and media! Let’s get together and meet, network, talk shop and drink with other women who make moving images.
Rear Window
35mm print! Co-presented with the Photographic Center Northwest
Jan 13, 2016
(Alfred Hitchcock, United States, 1954, 35mm, 112 min)
After suffering a broken leg, professional photographer L.B. Jeffries becomes apartment-bound and unable to work. To keep himself entertained, Jeffries begins to spy on the neighbors across the courtyard through his telephoto lens. When a neighbor’s wife suddenly goes missing after an argument with her husband, Jeffries becomes consumed with discovering the truth of her disappearance.
The Seattle Process with Brett Hamil
Happy hour at 7pm!
Jan 13
Seattle’s favorite political comedy talk show continues to burrow into the psyche of a city under siege. Each live episode features interviews with local politicians, activists and artists plus performances, surprises and shocking revelations.
Sundance Native Lab Shorts
Co-presented with Longhouse Media
Jan 15, 2016
Now in its 22nd year, Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program maintains a strong commitment to supporting Native and Indigenous filmmakers. The Native program has built and sustained a unique support cycle for Indigenous artists through grants, labs, mentorships, a fellowship program at the Sundance Film Festival, and screenings for Native communities to inspire new generations of storytellers. In honor of the work produced by the Native American and Indigenous Program, Indigenous Showcase will feature a selection of shorts. Stay tuned for much more to come.
Theeb
Jan 15 - Jan 19, 2016
(Naji Abu Nowar, 2014, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, Jordan and United Kingdom, DCP, 100 min)
1916. While war rages in the Ottoman Empire, Hussein raises his younger brother Theeb ("Wolf") in a traditional Bedouin community that is isolated by the vast, unforgiving desert. The brothers' quiet existence is suddenly interrupted when a British Army officer and his guide ask Hussein to escort them to a water well located along the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. So as not to dishonor his recently deceased father, Hussein agrees to lead them on the long and treacherous journey.
Children of the Civil Rights
Seattle premiere! Filmmakers in attendance for Q&A and post-screening reception
Jan 16, 2016
(Julia Clifford, 2014, United States, 53 min)
No one knew that a group of children in Oklahoma City were heroes; not even the children themselves. For six years, a group of kids went into restaurants and asked for service. It never got violent; it never made national news; but, together, they turned around every restaurant, except one, before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Sex & Broadcasting
Seattle premiere! Fundraiser event for Hollow Earth Radio Reserve a seat by donating to HER'S Indiegogo campagin at the $15 level
Jan 17, 2016
WFMU is the longest running freeform radio station in the United States. This documentary charts the strange and colorful history of one of the most fiercely independent media institutions in the country. In addition to capturing the station’s many personalities and shows, such as Tom Scharpling’s “The Best Show,” the documentary follows a nail-biting fundraiser for a much-needed new antenna and transmitter. To support one of Seattle’s own independent radio stations and their efforts to fundraise, we present a special screening of Sex & Broadcasting with Hollow Earth Radio.
Open Script Read
Free event!
Happy Hour: 6:30pm
Readings: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Jun 29 - Apr 04, 2016
***Nov 28th Open Script Read has been canceled. Stay tuned for future dates!
Join Northwest Film Forum for a regular Open Script Read! Local screenwriters and filmmakers may submit 10 pages of their original work in order to hear a live table read, with an ensemble of professional actors, and get feedback from both actors and other participants.
Goodnight Brooklyn - The Story of Death by Audio
Seattle premiere! Featuring appearances by Future Islands, A Place to Bury Strangers, Deerhoof, Ty Seagall, Thee Oh Sees, and more.
Jan 18 - Jan 25
(Matthew Conboy, US, 2016, 83 min)
Goodnight Brooklyn brings viewers inside Death By Audio, the last underground venue for music and art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a neighborhood once defined by its cultural contributions to the city of NY. The film chronicles the origins, community-building, influence and ultimate closure of one of Brooklyn's best DIY music venues, ironically at the hands of a former champion of their efforts.
Children's Film Festival Seattle 2016
Details and Tickets available at www.childrensfilmfestivalseattle.org New partnership with Carco Theatre in Renton, Wa!
Jan 21 - Jan 31
Over the past decade, Children’s Film Festival Seattle has become the largest and most respected film festival on the West Coast dedicated to children and their families. Each year, Northwest Film Forum selects more than 165 international children’s films from 40 countries, reaching more than 10,000 people during festival screenings in Seattle and a subsequent festival tour of 15-20 U.S. cities.
Mussa
Jan 29
(Anat Goren, Israel, live action, 2015, 60 min, in Hebrew, Arabic, English, and Amharic, with English subtitles)
This documentary tells the story of 12-year-old Mussa, an African refugee living in Tel Aviv, who won't speak for reasons that no one understands. Mussa's Israeli classmates are his best friends, but he chooses to communicate with them only through gestures.
Open Screenings at the Film Forum
Feb 09 - Feb 06
* FEB. 6th OPEN SCREENING CANCELED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER *
Are you a local filmmaker looking to share your work? Seeking feedback on your film? Want to see what other people are currently working on? Come join us for our monthly opening screening! Hang out with new and established filmmakers and experience films being made right here in our community.
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Seattle premiere!
Feb 02 - Feb 03
(Brett Story, Canada / US, 2016, 87 min)
Filmmaker and geographer Brett Story explores the ecology of incarceration, traveling the States to excavate unseen aspects of how prisons are imbedded in our social, natural, political, and economic landscape. The film’s strategy of employing negative space (no prison is ever on screen) highlights the effects that the prison industry has on remote environments, and how the lives of unseen populations are implicated in our own.
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Introduction by Sean Nelson, Arts Editor for The Stranger
Feb 03, 2016
(Nicolas Roeg, 1976, United Kingdom, DCP, 139 min)
The incomparable David Bowie’s first starring film role was appropriately otherworldly: Bowie plays an extraterrestrial who finds himself on Earth while on a quest for water to take back to his home planet. It doesn’t take him long to rise among the corporate Earthling ranks as a successful businessman. But his business acumen and secret identity quickly land him in trouble with his rivals and the government.
Note to Self: Psychosexual films of Nazli Dincel
Feb 04, 2016
An evening of visceral and provocative handmade films that explore bodies, acts of the solitary, text, language, visual information and personal exposure.
Iraqi Odyssey
Switzerland's Official Submission for the 88th Academy Awards
Seattle Premiere!
Feb 05 - Feb 08, 2016
(Samir, Switzerland, 2014, DCP, 162 min)
“My father told my mother he never wanted to see his children wearing two things – a turban or a military uniform... both of them want to enslave men, one by force of arms, and the other by power of ideology.”
The Automatic Hate
Q&A with producer Lacey Leavitt, moderated by Megan Griffiths
Feb 05 - Feb 07, 2016
(Justin Lerner, United States, 2015, DCP, 97 min)
When young chef Davis Green receives a visit from a beautiful cousin he never knew he had, their meeting opens the door on a mysterious family drama that drove two brothers to disown each other three decades earlier.
Live from UB
Seattle premiere!
Feb 10, 2016
(Lauren Knapp, United States, 2014, 85 min)
Live From UB explores the current state of rock music in Ulaanbaatar (UB), Mongolia’s biggest city, through one of its most promising young bands. The film captures the spirit of Mongolian musicians and their desire to unify the music of independence with that of a long, rich tradition.
I Am A Knife With Legs
Seattle premiere!
Feb 10, 2016
(Bennett Jones, United States, 2014, 83 min)
This musical-comedy mishmash takes Euro pop to the next level. Comedian Bennett Jones’s alter ego “Bené” (think Flight of the Conchords with a smidge of Borat) himself seems more concerned with chocolate éclairs, showing off his abs without having to take his shirt off, and French ex-girlfriend “Baguette,” than any attempts on his life.