Calendar
Windstorm 2 (Ostwind 2)
Family film! Ages 11+
Oct 08, 2016
(Katja von Garnier, Germany, 2015, 108 min, in German with English subtitles)
Teenaged Mika, disturbed by a dream about her beloved horse, Windstorm, cancels a holiday in Paris to visit her family’s stables. Upon arrival she learns that the family business is on the verge of bankruptcy, and there are unexplained scratches and cuts on Windstorm’s stomach.
Then Is It the End? (Was heißt hier Ende?)
Oct 08, 2016
(Dominik Graf, Germany, 2015, 120 min, in German with English subtitles)
Beloved critic Michael Althen contributed immeasurably to our understanding of film until his premature death at the age of 48 in 2011. In this cinematic homage, his colleagues and friends remember his life and work, celebrating his unique passion for the medium.
Exit Oerlikon (Usfahrt Oerlike)
US premiere!
Oct 08, 2016
(Paul Riniker, Switzerland, 2015, 94 min, in Swiss German with English subtitles)
Looking back on his life, Hans has to admit that it was a good one. He saw the world, and his marriage with his wife Martha was wonderful; but now that Martha has been dead for two years, Hans is losing his investment in living. Hans’s friendship with Willi feels like his last connection to the world.
Streif: One Hell of a Ride
Oct 08, 2016
(Norbert Heitker, Austria, 2014, 110 min, in English and German)
Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, the annual Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel, Austria, has produced unforgettable triumphs and heartrending tragedies. Its heritage is full of myths and legends.
Chatty Catties
Sep 09 - Oct 08, 2016
(Pablo Valencia, US, 2016, 84 min)
Chatty Catties is a comedy set in an alternate world in which cats are able to communicate with humans. Sassy tabby Leonard, dissatisfied with the care that his human owner Shelby provides, attempts to facilitate a relationship between Shelby and Nate, a kind-hearted musician, in order to bring balance to the apartment.
My Friend Raffi (Rettet Raffi!)
Family film! Ages 8+
Oct 09, 2016
(Arend Agthe, Germany, 2015, 97 min, in German with English subtitles)
Eight-year-old Samuel’s hamster Raffi has been kidnapped! This is the charming story of Samuel’s search operation for his beloved pet throughout Hamburg.
Next Generation Short Tiger 2015
Oct 09, 2016
(various directors, Germany, live action and animation, 2015, 87 min, in German with English subtitles)
The short film program Next Generation was created by German Films in 1998 to introduce young talents from Germany to international audiences. Selected from film school submissions by an independent jury, the program premieres within the framework of the Cannes Film Festival and is then presented internationally at festivals of German films. This is the 2015 series of nominees.
The Culpable (Verfehlung)
Oct 09, 2016
(Gerd Schneider, Germany, 2015, 95 min, in German with English subtitles)
The life and faith of a Catholic prison minister is shaken when his friend and colleague is taken into custody under suspicion of sexual abuse.
Puget Soundtrack: Chris Cheveyo and Garrett Moore present Mr. Blot's Academy
Co-presented with Seattle Polish Film Festival
Oct 12, 2016
(Krzysztof Gradowski, Poland, 1983)
Mr. Blot's Academy is one of the few children’s movies produced in Poland’s last decade of communism. In it, young Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairytale school of Mr. Blot, a communist Willy Wonka analogue whose lessons are endlessly entertaining, musical, and magical.
Ghosts, Spirits and Miracles on a Summer Night: Short Animated films of Joanna Polak
Filmmaker in attendance! Co-presented by Seattle Polish Film Festival
Oct 18, 2016
(Joanna Polak, Poland, 2011-2014, 46 min)
Many of the haunting and sophisticated works in this program of short films were created in multi-generational animation workshops, for which filmmaker Joanna Polak has a special genius in her work for leading. Polak is a frequent contributor to Children's Film Festival Seattle, and her work expresses a particular interest in the preservation of Lithuanian, Gypsy, Jewish, Russian and Polish folk tales.
Do Not Resist
Seattle premiere!
Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2016
(Craig Atkinson, US, 2016, DCP, 72 min)
Shot over two years and in 11 states, starting on the streets of Ferguson as the community grapples with the death of Michael Brown, Do Not Resist shows how local police forces have evolved into paramilitary organizations with an extreme amount of resources.
Indigenous Showcase: Nemo Hadeest'ii (Navajo Finding Nemo)
Oct 22, 2016
(Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, US, 2003, 100 min)
Over the past year, the Navajo Nation has been working with Pixar Animation Studios on dubbing a Navajo language version of Finding Nemo. The film, Nemo Hádéést'íí, is a unique partnership between one of the country’s most recognized animation studios and one of the country’s largest tribes. Nemo Hádéést'íí will be the first Pixar movie to be voiced entirely in a Native American language, Diné.
Roger Corman Double Feature: Ski Troop Attack & Monster from the Ocean Floor
Featuring an introduction by Professor Fred Hopkins, TV & Radio personality and SchlockMeister extraordinaire!
Oct 22, 2016
Ski Troop: (Roger Corman, US, 1960, 16mm, 63 min) Monster: (Wyatt Ordung, US, 1954, 16mm, 64 min)
Having produced or directed over 400 films in a 60 year Hollywood film career, Roger Corman turned 90 earlier this year. Join us for a 16mm double-feature screening of two of his classic, low-budget, drive-in features: Monster from the Ocean Floor and Ski Troop Attack.
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Seattle premiere!
Oct 26, 2016
(Sara Fishko, US, 2016, 87 min)
Between 1957 and 1965 in New York, dozens of jazz musicians jam night after night in a dilapidated Sixth Avenue loft, not realizing that much of what they play and say to each other is being captured on audio tape and in still pictures by the gentle and unstable genius, former LIFE Magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith, who lives in the loft space next door.
Election Cavalcade: Democracy on 16mm, 1932-1977
Presented by The Sprocket Society
Oct 27, 2016
(various directors, US, 1932-1977, 16mm, ~100 min)
Tower
Oct 28 - Nov 06, 2016
(Keith Maitland, US, 2016, DCP, 98 min)
On August 1st, 1966, a sniper rode to the top of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire, killing 16 people holding the campus hostage for 96 minutes. Fifty years after America’s first mass school shooting, director Keith Maitland’s Tower reveals the untold stories of witnesses, heroes and survivors.
Chat Room
Happy hour at 6:30pm in the lobby
Oct 29, 2016
Chat Room is a in-person forum of presentations, videos, and discussion on how the internet has changed art, with a new focus each edition. The latest installment, “Ownership and Property,” will address access to and control of both material and immaterial resources, art law, Creative Commons, cultural appropriation, art theft, and much more.
We the Voters
Nov 01, 2016
Cool Cats
Nov 03, 2016
(Janus Køster-Rasmussen, Denmark, 2015, 83 min)
Cool Cats tells the story of jazz giants Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon, who are forced by the fierce political climate of 1960s America to relocate to Denmark. Their presence in Copenhagen turns the city into a bustling jazz oasis, but the demons they hoped to leave in America are not so easily shaken.
Kate Plays Christine
Nov 03 - Nov 06, 2016
(Robert Greene, US, 2016, 112 min)
Actor Kate Lyn Sheil attempts to get "into character" as Christine Chubbuck, the newscaster who committed suicide on a Sarasota news program in 1974. Kate finds herself in a liminal zone between the personal and professional demands of her work, inheriting Christine’s demons in addition to her own; art and exploitation quickly become inextricable in Robert Greene's neatly constructed exploration of artifice, depression, media, and violence.
Saturday Morning Cartoons with Brian Edwards
16mm print program!
Nov 05, 2016
(various directors, 1936-1974, US & Japan, 16mm, ~100 min)
Join us for a fun-filled, retro Saturday morning cartoon program, featuring Johnny Quest, Popeye, Superboy and Superman, Bugs Bunny and the Star Blazers!