When the executive director of the Seattle International Film Festival declared at SIFF’s opening-night gala in May 2023 that the nonprofit had purchased the historic Cinerama theater, the applause ...

SIFF — the financially strapped nonprofit that operates the annual Seattle International Film Festival and three Seattle movie theaters — announced layoffs for three positions and organizational ...

Helen Siff, the veteran actress known for her roles in films like You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Hail, Caesar!, and The Karate Kid, has died in Los Angeles from complications of surgery on Thursday, ...

Humanity may be on the fritz, but you can still trust SIFF to move the needle. On Wednesday, April 23, the Seattle International Film Festival announced its programming lineup for the 51st edition of ...

Being a movie buff in Seattle feels a little… unsettled right now. That’s because there’s been a lot of changes at SIFF, the Seattle International Film Festival, which has been the vanguard when it ...

Seeds is planting itself firmly in the hearts of critics around the country. Brittany Shyne’s documentary about Black farmers in the South won the Grand Jury Prize in Competition at the 2025 Seattle ...

In advance of the Dec. 9 groundbreaking for the Seattle International Film Festival's new Film Center, Owen Richards Architects has released a virtual tour of the space's 100-seat screening room, ...

The sun is starting to shine and the weather is getting warmer, which means a new crop of local film festivals to check out. From the Seattle International Film Festival to those spotlighting genre ...