Calendar
'Til Madness Do Us Part
Seattle premiere!
Aug 17 - Aug 25, 2016
(Wang Bing, China, 2015, DCP, 227 min)
Master director Wang Bing documents the inmates of an isolated mental institution in rural Zhaotong, in southwest China's Yunnan province, in 'Til Madness Do Us Part. Within the facility's gates, the patients are confined to one floor of a single building. Once locked on that floor and cut off from the outside world, they all share the same constricted life in isolation, seeking comfort and human warmth wherever they can find it.
Wedding Doll
Seattle premiere!
Aug 24, 2016
(Nitzan Gilady, Israel, 2016, DCP, 82 min)
Nitzan Gilady’s first feature spins a story of love, independence and... toilet paper. Although Hagit (the luminous Moran Rosenblatt) has mild mental disabilities, she yearns for love and harbors dreams of becoming a wedding dress designer. Her overprotective mother keeps her close, but Hagit finds freedom through her employment at a toilet paper factory, where she falls in love with the factory owner’s son.
Breaking a Monster
Seattle premiere!
Aug 26 - Aug 28, 2016
(Luke Meyer, US, 2015, 93 min)
Breaking a Monster follows the meteoric rise of Unlocking the Truth, a heavy metal band of three African-American middle schoolers in Brooklyn. With the help of manager Alan Sacks, a 70-year-old industry veteran, they’re on their way to a 1.8 million dollar record deal and a precarious initiation into the music industry.
Holy Hell
Seattle premiere!
Aug 26 - Aug 31, 2016
(Will Allen, US, 2016, DCP, 100 min)
Holy Hell is a mesmerizing and traumatic insider document of Buddhafield, the Los Angeles cult led by narcissistic sociopath Michel Rostand. Director Will Allen's comprehensive coverage of the group's activities is culled from footage shot at Buddhafield during his engagement as documentarian of the group.
A Quiet Place in the Country
Aug 27 - Aug 28, 2016
(Elio Petri, Italy & France, 1968, 35mm, 105 min)
Sex, death, madness, and a stringent critique of art and commerce define Elio Petri’s A Quiet Place In the Country. Abstract painter Leonardo Ferri (Franco Nero) moves to a quiet country villa to escape the distractions of city life and regain artistic inspiration. His idyll turns out to be haunted by a ghostly presence, whose increasing encroachment on Ferri’s restorative getaway slowly begins to erode his mental state to the point of insanity.
Seemed Caveats: New Videos from Dakota Gearhart
Local artist's video works on loop at the Film Forum!
Aug 01 - Aug 31, 2016
Now looped in the front window of the Film Forum for the entire month of August: New video works from local artist Dakota Gearhart examining connections between the environment, femininity, and digital futures.
Made in Venice
Sep 01, 2016
(Jonathan Pension, US, 2016, 76 min)
Jonathan Pension's Made in Venice covers the crusade of original "Dogtown" skateboarders to provide a permanent, maintained skatepark for the future pro skaters of Venice Beach.
Miss Sharon Jones!
Seattle premiere!
Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2016
(Barbara Kopple, US, 2015, 94 min)
Just as her career is taking off, iconic soul diva Sharon Jones faces her greatest challenge yet. This triumphant crowd-pleaser captures Sharon Jones during the most intense and courageous year of her life, as she battles back from a life-threatening illness to get back to where she belongs – center stage.
Los Sures
Seattle premiere! Introduction by Charles Mudede on Saturday at 8pm
Sep 02 - Sep 04, 2016
(Diego Echeverria, US, 1984, 57 min)
Diego Echeverria’s Los Sures skillfully represents the challenges residents of New York City's Southside faced in 1984 - poverty, drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources - while also celebrating the vitality, strength, and resiliency of Williamsburg's largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community.
Branching Paths
Seattle premiere!
Sep 03, 2016
(Anne Ferrero, 2016, 83 min)
Branching Paths is a mosaic of the developers, publishers and people who gravitate to indie games in Japan.
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.
Cosmos
Seattle premiere!
Free happy hour with the Seattle Polish Film Festival at 6:30pm on 9/7!
Sep 07 - Sep 11, 2016
(Andrzej Zulawski, France-Poland, 2015, 103 min)
This final film from cult director Andrzej Zulawski explores the labyrinths of symbolism, significance, and the human quest for deeper meaning. A young law student wandering in the woods encounters a sparrow hung by a string and loses himself in an obsessive contemplation of what it (and all things) might mean.