Calendar
Cine-meme - Art Walk
FREE EVENT! RSVP on Facebook Curated by Amber Cortes, videos live mixed by Edward Wolcher. With special musical guest.
Feb 11 - Mar 10, 2016
A live video mashup of the best of internet ephemera and avant-garde cinema.
Chat Room
Happy hour at 6pm in the lobby
Feb 11, 2016
Chat Room is a quarterly forum about art in the age of the Internet. Artists, thinkers, non-artists, and non-thinkers come together each edition to tackle the fundamental questions around art and its relationship to broader society. Discussion topics range from copyright law, labor, cool teens, oppression, activism, memes, authenticity, and much more.
Chocolat
New 35mm print!
Feb 12 - Feb 14, 2016
(Claire Denis, France, 1988, 35mm, 109 min)
The great French director Claire Denis’s first feature film set the stage for her incomparable career. An affluent white woman named France (Mireille Perrier) returns to her childhood home in Cameroon after many years of living in France. While there, she reflects upon her youth.
In the Shadow of Women
Seattle Premiere!
Feb 12 - Feb 14, 2016
(Philippe Garrel, France, 2014, 73 min)
The new film by the great Philippe Garrel (previously seen at the NYFF with Regular Lovers in 2005 and Jealousy in 2013) is a close look at infidelity—not merely the fact of it, but the particular, divergent ways in which it’s experienced and understood by men and women.
Never Get Tired: The Bomb the Music Industry! Story
Seattle premiere!
Feb 17, 2016
(Sara Crow, United States, 2015, 91 min)
Embodying the DIY ethos, New York punk band Bomb the Music Industry! managed to sustain nearly ten years of recording, touring, and building a worldwide fan base, all without a record label, album sales, or traditional commerce of any kind.
Ruined Heart
Seattle Premiere!
Feb 17 - Feb 24, 2016
(Khavn De La Cruz, the Philippines, 2014, 73 min)
Ruined Heart is a one-of-a-kind wordless crime-drama-musical-punk-noir-opera with an unforgettable soundtrack composed by the film's prolific director Khavn (Mondomanila). In the underworld and backstreets of Manila, a criminal and the woman he's hired to protect run away together, fleeing a kingpin in favor of life on the run.
The Anthropologist
Celebrating World Anthropology Day!
Seattle premiere!
Feb 18, 2016
(Daniel Miller, United States, 2015, 80 min)
At the core of The Anthropologist are the parallel stories of two women: Margaret Mead, who popularized cultural anthropology in America; and Susie Crate, an environmental anthropologist currently studying the impact of climate change. Uniquely revealed from their daughters’ perspectives, Mead and Crate demonstrate a fascination with how societies are forced to negotiate the disruption of their traditional ways of life, whether through encounters with the outside world or the unprecedented change wrought by melting permafrost, receding glaciers, and rising tides.
In Football We Trust (SAAFF)
Co-presented with Seattle Asian American Film Festival Tickets available here
Feb 20, 2016
(Tony Vainuku/ USA / 2015 / Documentary / 87 mins)
In Salt Lake City, Utah, four young Polynesian football players struggle to overcome gang violence, familial expectations, and near poverty as they enter the high-stakes world of college recruiting and the promise of playing in the NFL.
Co-Presented By: Northwest Film Forum, White Center Community Development Association, and YES Foundation of White Center
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.
Morphine: Journey of Dreams
Seattle premiere!
Feb 24, 2016
(Mark Shuman, United States, 2014, DCP, 91 min)
A power trio of bass, drums and saxophone, Morphine didn’t fit the formula for a successful rock and roll band, yet its talent and innovation landed the band a place in the hearts of critics and college radio fans alike. Journey of Dreams tracks the band’s ten-year career.
The Seattle Process with Brett Hamil
Happy Hour @ 7pm with DJ Erik Blood!
Feb 25, 2016
Northwest Film Forum presents The Seattle Process with Brett Hamil, a semi-monthly mudpie lobbed into the halls of power. Each live episode features interviews with high-profile politicians, activists and artists, plus standup comedy, videos and shocking revelations.
New Voices of World Cinema
Curated by Julio Ramírez
Feb 26, 2016
With the goal of introducing Seattle audiences to the work of more emerging filmmakers from Europe and other parts of the world, Northwest Film Forum presents a program of award-winning narrative short films, curated by local filmmaker Julio Ramírez.
Schellen-Ursli (The Little Mountain Boy)
Feb 27, 2016
(Xavier Koller, Switzerland, live action, 2015, 100 min)
Journey to the snowy Alps with this new film based on the most famous Swiss children’s book after Heidi. Meet a brave and determined boy who dares the impossible — to climb to his parents’ summer chalet, high in the mountains, in the deep winter snow to retrieve one of his family’s most prized possessions.
Hadwin's Judgment
Feb 27 - Feb 28, 2016
(Sasha Snow, Canada, 2015, 87 min)
‘Hadwin’s Judgment’ is a spellbinding and visually stunning account of environmentalism, obsession and myth set in Canada’s Pacific Northwest. The film chronicles the tormented transformation of Grant Hadwin from expert logger to environmental terrorist, a man who dared to challenge the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest.
K2 and the Invisible Footmen
Skype Q&A following the screening with DP/Editor, Jawad Sharif!
Feb 27, 2016
(Iara Lee, 54 min)
Bob and the Trees
Feb 27 - Feb 28, 2016
(Diego Ongaro, United States, 2015, 92 min)
Based on his award winning 2010 short of the same name, Diego Ongaro’s first feature follows small-town logger Bob Tarasuk, his family, and their farm through a cold and trying winter. Forces of nature and human failings plague hot-headed Bob’s work and relationships, and drive him to near desperation as bad luck piles up around him like the ever-deepening snow. Bob and the Trees premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and features the lensing of on-the-rise cinematographer Chris Teague (Obvious Child, Appropriate Behavior, The Mend).
Bungalow Heaven
This program is co-presented with American Bungalow Magazine and Northwest Film Forum. Tickets available here > Registration: $10 for members, $15 for general public
Feb 28, 2016
Historic Seattle is pleased to premiere the first Seattle screening of Bungalow Heaven: Preserving a Neighborhood. Bungalow Heaven is a leafy, close-knit neighborhood of historic, early 20th century bungalow homes, many built during the Arts & Crafts period in Pasadena, California. The Landmark District, the first of its kind, was created in 1989 to preserve the historic significance of these homes. Bungalow Heaven is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places and has been designated as one of the “10 great places in America” by the American Planning Association.
Local Sightings Naked City Audience Award Encore Screening
*This screening is at the Naked City Brewery & Taphouse in Greenwood* Filmmakers in attendance! Free screening!
Feb 28
Join us for an encore screening of your Audience Award picks from this year's Local Sightings Film Festival!
Drawing the Tiger
Feb 29, 2016
(Amy Benson, United States, 97 min)
Shot in Nepal over the course of multiple years, this emotionally incisive documentary focuses on the path of one rural family’s daily struggles. However, when the bright and ambitious Shanta leaps at the opportunity for a city education in Kathmandu, she suddenly feels the burden of responsibility to return to pull her family out of poverty.
Paris, Texas
Co-presented with SIFF
Mar 03, 2016
(Wim Wenders, United States, 1984, DCP, 147 min)
New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard.
Men Go to Battle
U.S. premiere!
Director Zachary Treitz and Producer Steven Schardt in attendance! After party with DJ Jermaine in the lobby on Friday!
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2016
(Zachary Treitz, 2015, United States, 98 min)
Developed in Northwest Film Forum’s Filmmaker Institutes program, Men Go to Battle earned Zachary Treitz the Best New Director award at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Tretiz’s feature debut is set in the fall of 1861. The North and The South are at war, but back in Kentucky, Henry and Francis Mellon are more concerned with bracing for another harsh winter on their crumbling farm. Conflict, however, is much closer than it seems, and soon the war will set the two brothers on separate paths, changing both their lives forever.
International Women's Day 2016
Co-presented with UW Bothell
Sponsored by Cupcake Royale
Mar 05, 2016
For the second year, Northwest Film Forum partners with multiple departments at UW-Bothell to present a day of performances, screenings and conversations in celebration of International Women’s Day (March 8th). The day-long event will include a combined film program and theatre workshop, a panel discussion to frame issues of importance to women identified individuals today, and a poetry and fiction reading.
Love Between the Covers
Seattle premiere!
Skype Q&A with director Laurie Kahn on March 6th
Mar 06 - Mar 09, 2016
(Laurie Kahn, United States, 2015, Blu-ray, 85 min)
Though scarcely acknowledged in the literary world, romance fiction is a billion-dollar-a-year industry, and it is driven almost exclusively by women. Perhaps a surprising place to find feminism, the romance novel has the potential to empower both reader and creator. In its pages some find validation, some a welcome representation of diverse notions of femininity, and to some working in the trade, romance provides a substantial, independent living.
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
Seattle premiere!
Mar 06, 2016
(Daniel Raim, United States, 2015, 101 min)
Storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian found success in both love and work in Hollywood, a place where marital and professional success can be hard to find and even harder to sustain. Often working alongside each other, Harold and Lillian Michelson contributed to some of the most beloved films from the heyday of Hollywood cinema. Told through interviews with Lillian, the couple’s old love letters and the words of some famous friends and colleagues, Harold and Lillian reveals a Hollywood love story that unfolded behind the scenes.
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 Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Co-Presented with SIFF
Mar 10, 2016
(Wim Wenders, West Germany/Austria, 1971, DCP, 100 min)
The goalkeeper Josef Bloch (Arthur Brauss) is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to completely lose his bearings. He wanders aimlessly through the unfamiliar town, spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theater (Erika Pluhar), and strangles her the next morning. But instead of turning himself in or fleeing, Bloch then goes to the country place of his ex-girlfriend (Kai Fischer) and passively waits there for the police to come and arrest him.
The State of Things
Co-presented with SIFF
Mar 10, 2016
(Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1982, DCP, 121 min)
The State of Things is a highly personal film about filmmaking in Europe and America. It is about a film crew stranded at the westernmost tip of Europe. The director, Friedrich Munro (Patrick Bauchau), his cameraman (Sam Fuller), scriptwriter, and actors have been abandoned by their producer. After shooting their last feet of film (they are working on the remake of a low-budget sci-fi thriller), there is nothing left to do but wait. Wenders’s parable on filmmaking has also been interpreted as his way of addressing the difficulties that he faced during the production of Hammett, his first film in the United States.
Puget Soundtrack: Lori Goldston presents Echoes of Silence
Live score! 16mm print!
Mar 11, 2016
(Peter Emmanuel Goldman, United States, 1967, 16mm, 76 min)
Peter Emmanuel Goldman’s poetic, ultra-lo-fi Echoes of Silence was shot on a microscopic budget in Greenwich Village and Times Square in 1964. It was awarded the special prize at the 1966 Pesaro Film Festival by a jury that included Godard, Bellocchio and Bertolucci. A series of sketches introduced by hand painted title cards, it wanders restlessly through the ferocious/wistful sexualities of New York’s early ‘60s bohemian underground.