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SpIFF 26
Opens This Weekend!!
Films Screening at Magic Lantern Theatre
Saturday (3/7) & Sunday (3/8)
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SpIFF 26
Screening
Saturday, March 8th - Sunday, March 9th
at Magic Lantern Theatre
The Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) is an intimate festival where filmmakers and audiences engage the art of cinema, featuring a small, selective offering of world-class films. These are the very best features, documentaries, and shorts that have been made around the world during the past year but have not yet been commercially released. SpIFF hosts screenings, parties, and other events that are open to the public and encourage lively and educational interactions between filmmakers and our audiences.
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SpIFF screenings and events, beginning Thursday, March 6th, take place at multiple locations across Spokane:
Martin Woldson Performing Arts Center (The Fox), Garland Theater & MAGIC LANTERN THEATRE.
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The festival is overseen by its parent, the Contemporary Arts Alliance of Spokane, with an active Board of Directors and generous financial support from a variety of local and regional underwriters.
Saturday, March 8th 2025
at Magic Lantern Theatre
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Sunday, March 9th 2025
at Magic Lantern Theatre
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WORLDS OF ANIMATION
March 8th, 11 am
A showcase of animation from around the world, featuring cut-out, computer, drawn, and stop-motion animation.
Kacey Morrow and Dustin Morrow, makers of Jet Lag, are scheduled to attend.
Recommended for 13 years and above for brief animated nudity, peculiar events, and cartoonish violence. Program contains flickering imagery.
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A GOOD WOLF
March 9th, 11 am (1h 33m)
Armed with thorough data, biologists and activists bring a new proposal to state authorities, hoping to regain protections for wolves near the park boundary. A volatile struggle between state and federal authorities, fur trappers and wildlife advocates, and competing human interests on public lands, A Good Wolf examines the 40-year conflict over a single tract of land adjacent to Denali National Park.​
FISH WAR
March 8th, 11:15 am (1h 20m)
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When the state of Washington started arresting Indigenous tribal fishers, it was a declaration of war. Scores of legal battles culminated in a landmark Supreme Court case that was meant to put an end to the violent Fish Wars. Fifty years later, the fight for salmon continues.
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Also includes,
THE DEER DIVIDE
March 8th, 12:35 am (15m)
The Catalina Island Conservancy has proposed a plan to partner with White Buffalo Inc. to eliminate all 2,000 deer on the island by shooting them with sharpshooters from helicopters. This film explores themes of scientific integrity, community engagement through protest and other methods of direct action, and differing wildlife conservation philosophies.
WORLD SHORTS II
March 9th, 11:15 am
(With English subtitles.)
A program of short films about growing up from China, Egypt, Poland South Korea, and the United Kingdom.
Recommended for 13 years and older for mature themes.
THROUGH INDIGENOUS EYES
March 9th, 1:30 pm
A showcase of Indigenous and Native American short films. Tribes include Lakota Sioux, Nez Perce, Salish, and Ute.
Filmmakers are scheduled to attend.
Recommended for Everyone.​
PNW MAKERS
March 8th, 1:30 pm
A showcase of short films from the Pacific Northwest, with documentary, horror, comedy, and science fiction.
Filmmakers are scheduled to attend.
Recommended for 13 years and older for horror imagery.
THE STAR I LOST
(LA ESTRELLA QUE PERDI)
March 8th, 1:45 pm (1h 40m)
(In Spanish with English subtitles)
Throughout her life, the great actress Norma Reyes (76) accepted to play all kinds of roles, except the one of being the perfect mother.
THE BIRDS WHO FEAR DEATH
March 8th, 3:45 pm (1h 42m)
Two brothers, disinherited and desperate for cash, journey into the Canadian wilds to find themselves, their people and their fortune.
WORLD SHORTS I
March 8th, 4 pm
(With English subtitles.)
A showcase of short films from Chile, Iran, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Recommended for 13 years and older for mature themes.
BATTERSEA
March 9th, 1:45 pm (1h 30m)​
Estranged siblings reconvene at their childhood home, where they spend a precarious weekend drinking and talking–uncovering the narratives and secrets that have shaped their lives.
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Also includes,
MY LAST MARTINI
March 9th, 3:15 pm (14m)
One evening at an elegant cocktail lounge, a frustrated writer impulsively breaks a self-imposed rule and decides to have a third martini.
QUEER SHORTS
March 9th, 3:45 pm
(With English subtitles.)
A showcase of Queer films from Belgium, India, Iran, South Korea, and the United States.
Recommended for 13 years and older for themes involving self-harm.
ULTIMATE CITIZENS
March 9th, 4 pm (52m)
Mr. Jamshid is the charismatic, fiery, funny human with a Frisbee in hand, who is the first to show that “love wins” on the field, off the field, at home with family, or boldly forging a new community, in a new country – one kid, chicken, extreme mile and friend at a time. In Ultimate Citizens, Jamshid is an Iranian who came to study in 1970’s America, and due to the Revolution, never went “home.”
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Also includes,
UNITED STATES
March 9th, 4:52 pm (14m)
Every day, 22 veterans commit suicide in the United States. Mission Outdoors is an organization dedicated to reconnecting veterans back into their community to inspire hope back into their lives.
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Also includes,
JAN BEAUBOEUF:The Creative Spirit
March 9th, 5:06 pm (24m)
A contemplative journey of the life, challenges, and creative process of an 88 year old artist from central Louisiana as she completes her latest project. Learn how she has drawn inspiration from the life and death around her, using a mix of locally sourced materials.
Special Screening Event
Latinos En Spokane
Present
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THE IMMIGRATION RESIDENT
NR | 60min
Friday, March 14th, 6 pm
at Magic Lantern Theatre
Tickets $20
When a father is separated from his 5-year-old child by Border Patrol, when a mother journeys across three countries to seek cancer treatment for her daughter, and when a city allows Border Patrol to racially profile people of color, the consequences are devastating to our community and future generations.
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On The Horizon Films captures the realities Latinos live through to overcome the unjust immigration system, a global pandemic, the Trump era, and systemic community barriers to justice.
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THE IMMIGRATION RESIDENT commemorates Latino immigrant history, their labor and contribution to our state, and the collective struggle faced by community organizations.
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Latinos En Spokane invites you to an exclusive screening of our documentary, The Immigration Resident. This film commemorates Latino migration history, their economic contributions to our state, our organization’s advocacy work, and local Latino immigrant stories.
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The title "The Immigration Resident" refers to those who come to the US undocumented from other countries. It carries hidden meanings, such as a “dent” in the ratio or census of the residents in a specific community, suggesting that some Immigrants are not being accounted for in population numbers. It also implies that immigrants are present and positively impacting communities.
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Latinos En Spokane is a non-profit organization centered on supporting citizen participation, culturally-led community development, and empowerment of the Latino and immigrant population in Spokane County. We have centered our efforts on going to the community, listening to needs, building trust, and providing technical support and wrap-around services directly to families navigating the complexities of immigration, education, healthcare, housing, and city resources.
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Our Vision is to be a transformative force for systemic change, racial justice, health and wealth, to empower Latinos, immigrants and marginalized communities of Eastern Washington. Our Mission is to lead our work by providing wrap-around services, building cultural landscapes, supporting entrepreneurs, organizing our community, and creating policies for justice and inclusion.
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Original Title: Ainda Estou Aqui
Oscar winner
Best International Feature!
A mother (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971. The film is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
(In Portuguese, with English subtitles)
PG-13 | 2h 15m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/im_still_here_2024
Oscar Winner Best Documentary!
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his fight.
(In English, Arabic & Hebrew,
with English subtitles.)
NR | 1h 36m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/no_other_land
Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.
(In English & Italian, with English subtitles)
R | 2h 16m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/parthenope
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Dates subject to change.
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Opens 3/14
Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
PG-13 | 2h 1m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/becoming_led_zeppelin
In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.
(In Farsi & French, with English subtitles.)
PG-13 | 1h 29m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/universal_language_2024
Opens 3/21
THE ASSESSMENT follows Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel), a successful couple who hope to become parents in a near future where resources are extremely limited and the government keeps firm control over reproduction. They are assigned an assessor named Virginia (Alicia Vikander), who moves into their home for seven days to evaluate whether they deserve to move forward in their parenting journey. What Mia and Aaryan are hoping is a routine test quickly unravels into a psychological nightmare, forcing them to question the very foundations of their society and what it truly means to be human.
R | 1h 54m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_assessment
Opens 3/28
A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature's miraculous curative properties.
R | 1h 44m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_of_a_unicorn
Opens 4/4
Writer and teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) dies suddenly and bequeaths her his beloved 150 lb. Great Dane. The regal yet intractable beast, named Apollo, immediately creates practical problems for Iris, from furniture destruction to eviction notices, as well as more existential ones, his looming presence constantly reminding her of her friend's problematic choices in both life and death. Yet as Iris finds herself unexpectedly bonding with the animal, she begins to come to terms with her past, her lost friend, and her own creative inner life.
R | 2h 3m
Reviews:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_friend_2024
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