Year Round Programming
SIFF Monthly Awards Buzz Screenings
December, 17 2024
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir, I’m Still Here transports us to Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s when Brazil’s dictatorship sought to exert its authority through detentions and disappearances. The latest from Walter Salles, director of the Oscar-nominated Central Station (TIFF ’98) and the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries (TIFF ’04), focuses on Eunice Paiva, whose lived to tell the harrowing experiences that transformed her into an activist, lawyer, and hero.
ALREADY OCCUREDDecember, 10 2024
The Room Next Door is renowned Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature. It may not be in Spanish but he has included all of his acclaimed directorial flourishes: heartbreaking choices, visuals saturated with color, and the precise rendering of women’s inner lives. Tuesday, December 10 at 7pm at the Sebastiani Theatre.
ALREADY OCCUREDDecember, 10 2024
After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. She returns to the wild beauty of Scotland’s Orkney Islands — where she grew up — hoping to heal. Adapted from the bestselling memoir by Amy Liptrot. Tuesday, December 10th at 3pm at the Sebastiani Theatre
ALREADY OCCUREDNovember, 19 2024
An audience hit at the Telluride Film Festival and Venice Film Festival "September 5" unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. "September 5" provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time.
ALREADY OCCUREDOctober, 22 2024
French director Jacques Audiard’s audacious masterpiece is at once a darkly funny Mexican crime drama and a jaw-dropping musical. It is powered by a quartet of superb actors—Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz—who shared the Best Actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in addition to the film winning the festival’s Jury Prize.
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