Below, we’ve rounded up the biggest and best film openings and events you need to know about this season, including festivals like Local Sightings and the Seattle Queer Film Festival, series like an Abbas Kiarostami retrospective, and exciting new releases like Terminator: Dark Fate, Parasite, and Knives Out. Check out movie times and more film events on our EverOut Things To Do calendar, or check out the rest of our critics’ picks from Seattle Art and Performance.
FILM FESTIVALS & SERIES
Sept 20–29
Local Sightings Film Festival 2019 This year, the regional film festival will get even more local, partnering with homegrown nonprofits and media production companies like Indigenous Showcase, Sustainable Seattle, Langston, Pr0n 4 Freakz, NFFTY, and more. Once again, the city will become a hub for indie filmmakers who eschew New York or LA for the earnest and eccentric Northwest. Local Sightings acts as a showcase and watering hole for regional filmmakers, VR artists, and others who range from emotional storytellers to nature documentarists to political essayists. Many of them will attend, which makes for an opportunity for local professional and aspiring moviemakers to meet at the screenings, workshops, and parties. JZ (Northwest Film Forum)
