Full index of films and screenings here. (To buy tickets, find the listing for the film you’re interested in, then click the “Buy Tickets” button at the top left and you’ll be taken to the online box office.)
For the past couple weeks, we here at The Stranger have been watching as many SIFF films as possible, for our review-packed SIFF guide that hits the streets Wed May 16. As editor of all these goddamned reviews, I can tell you that there is an impressively high density of films you will love in this year’s fest, including but not limited to Safety Not Guaranteed, Polisse, Under African Skies, Kill Me, Cousinhood, Goodbye, The Painting, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, and Cloudburst. Along with the list of recommendations, here’s a review of a film Paul Constant loved.
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Documentaries don’t get much more lively or timely than this. We Are Legion tells the story of hacking from its earliest days (everyone tries to forget this now, but Steve Jobs started out as a hacker) through its more recent, populist formulations. Everything you need to know about 4Chan, Anonymous, and LulzSec—from the internet-organized real-life protests of Scientology centers worldwide through WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring—is told in a zippy, highly visual style. Because it’s about the internet, there are plenty of interviews with self-important nerdy white guys, and important questions of privilege, race, and sexism are never really addressed, but this is still required viewing for those tuning in late. PAUL CONSTANT
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