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Northwest Film Forum

Seattle

Northwest Film Forum is Seattle's premier film arts organization, screening over 200 independently made and classic films annually, offering a year-round schedule of filmmaking classes for all ages, and supporting filmmakers at all stages of their careers. Click here to sign up for the NWFF Newsletter!

Events

Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958 to 1989

November 01, 2025 1:00 PM - November 02, 2025 2:30 PM
Israel Palestine on Swedish Television 19581989 is the definitive cinematic account of the background to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through unique and immersive footage

Recollections of The Yellow House

November 01, 2025 2:00 PM - November 09, 2025 7:00 PM
In this iconic first appearance of his tramp-like alter ego, João César Monteiro directs himself as a penniless flâneur living in a decaying boarding house.

Palestine Cinema Days: Divine Intervention

November 02, 2025 7:00 PM
A love story takes place between a Palestinian man living in Jerusalem and a Palestinian woman from Ramallah.

Engauge 2025 History/Memory/Archive

November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
These filmmakers mine the past in all its richnessusing found footage, recovered audio, source footage, movement, re-creations, documentary evidenceto convey senses of beauty, sorrow, solace and resilience.

Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Full Festival Pass

November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð

Truth To Fiction: WTO/99 [In-Person Only]

November 06, 2025 7:00 PM
An archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the WTO and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest them.

Engauge 2025  Embodied Landscapes

November 07, 2025 4:30 PM
Filmmakers in this program work with landscape, broadly defined, using it as a prism for their concerns and passions and to speak truth to power.  

Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Friday Day Pass

November 07, 2025 4:30 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð

Engauge 2025  Bodies in Space and Time

November 07, 2025 7:30 PM
The body, our most intimate landscape, is a site for detailed examinations of the aging, changing, meditative, playful, remembered, non-conforming, and contested self in the world.

Engauge 2025  A Panoply of Techniques

November 08, 2025 3:30 PM
One of the great things about experimental filmmaking is that there are really no rules for how to make a film.  Like 2-D artists or poets, experimental filmmakers explore the possibilities, often starting there.   In this program, the filmmakers employ a mind-boggling array of techniques: direct animation, hand painting and drawing, collage, cyanotypes, scratch animation, emulsion manipulation, laser jet printing, cameraless filmmaking and more.  Come see what is possible.  

Engauge Experimental Film Festival 2025 - Saturday Day Pass

November 08, 2025 3:30 PM
ð Celebrating sprocket-driven, artist-made experimental film. ð

Engauge 2025  In Situ

November 08, 2025 5:30 PM
This collection of site-specific films beautifully document, gesture toward and find meaning in urban and rural locations around the globe, demonstrating once again that the constraints of place can be artistically liberating.

Engauge 2025  Sound/Light/Movement: Solo Cello + Handmade Film featuring Lori Goldston

November 08, 2025 7:30 PM
Cellist Lori Goldson returns to Engauge with a new program, featuring original scores to silent films from the Engauge archive + a newly digitized copy of one of Engauge founder Jon Behrens rarely screened films.

Happyend

November 09, 2025 4:00 PM - November 21, 2025 7:00 PM
In a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school.

Twin Peaks: The Return (Ep. 1-2)

November 13, 2025 7:00 PM
David Lynch's final work graces the screens of Seattle's movie theaters in November and December!

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives with Henry Art Gallery

November 14, 2025 6:00 PM
Afflicted with kidney disease, Uncle Boonmee is preparing himself for death. He has assembled his relatives in the countryside, convinced he will soon die.

The Last Dive

November 14, 2025 6:30 PM - November 23, 2025 7:30 PM
Eloi, a paunchy middle-aged man, finds Samuel, a young sad sack, about to kill himself by plunging into the sea.

These Sacred Hills

November 17, 2025 6:30 PM
THESE SACRED HILLS is a powerful collaboration between filmmakers and the Rock Creek Band of the Yakama Nation.

Seattle Film Critics Society Presents: PNW Shorts

November 19, 2025 7:00 PM
The Seattle Film Critics Societys PNW Short Film Award Nominee program boasts stories that celebrate the creativity, community, and spirit of our region

Seattle Film Society Presents Locals Only: 2025 Rewind

November 20, 2025 7:00 PM
Locals Only is a monthly screening event put on by the Seattle Film Society.

Twin Peaks: The Return (Ep. 5-6)

November 20, 2025 7:00 PM
David Lynch's final work graces the screens of Seattle's movie theaters in November and December!

All That Heaven Allows

November 29, 2025 4:00 PM - November 30, 2025 7:00 PM
This beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener.

DOUBLE FEATURE: All That Heaven Allows & Ali: Fear Eats The Soul

November 29, 2025 4:00 PM - November 30, 2025 4:00 PM
Kick off the holiday season with a classic double feature that'll give you more than your fair share of melodrama, love, and pesky children.

Ali: Fear Eats The Soul

November 29, 2025 4:30 PM - November 30, 2025 7:30 PM
A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the shock of their families.

Twin Peaks: The Return (Ep. 11-12)

December 03, 2025 6:30 PM - December 04, 2025 6:30 PM
David Lynch's final work graces the screens of Seattle's movie theaters in November and December!

Three Dollar Bill Cinema Presents: Parting Glances

December 03, 2025 7:00 PM
Parting Glances, a pioneering film of gay cinema, is about the loyalties of friendship and the vicissitudes of romantic love.

Truth To Fiction: Blue

December 04, 2025 7:00 PM
In his finaland most daringcinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen.

The Disabled List Presents: Live Comedy (Dec. 2025)

December 06, 2025 7:00 PM
The Disabled List, produced and hosted by local comedians Dan Hurwitz and Kayla Brown, takes place bimonthly at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA.

Twin Peaks: The Return (Ep. 15-16)

December 11, 2025 7:00 PM
David Lynch's final work graces the screens of Seattle's movie theaters in November and December!

Female Misbehavior

December 13, 2025 4:30 PM
Monika Treut presents four short documentaries about individuals who live and act outside of societys expectations of womanhood.

[Series Pass] WHAT IF WE CHANGED THE HUMAN: Three films by Monika Treut

December 13, 2025 4:30 PM
In these three documentaries by Monika Treut, four individuals' journey with gender are documented across 30 years.

Gendernauts

December 13, 2025 7:30 PM
Made at the height of the tech boom of the late 1990s, Monika Treuts Teddy Award-winning Gendernauts is a portrait of a group of trans artists, activists, and academics living in San Francisco

Genderation

December 14, 2025 7:30 PM
Twenty years after the making of her groundbreaking trans documentary Gendernauts, Monika Treut returns to San Francisco to catch up with her subjects.

MOURNING SICKNESS VOL. 4: Showgirls *Annual Screening*

January 17, 2026 8:00 PM - January 18, 2026 8:00 PM
The cornerstone of cult cinema makes its GRAND RETURN to Mourning Sickness for its ANNUAL SCREENINGS! You read that right, multiple screenings!

Contact

Northwest Film Forum
Northwest Film Forum

Address
1515 12th Ave
Seattle 98122


Website
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/

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