Huddle around your electronic device of choice and peruse our picks for new streaming options gracing virtual cinemas this week, from the Cannes-lauded 16mm drama Fire Will Come Past Event Like List (courtesy of Grand Illusion) to the Vancouver Turkish Film Festival Past Event Like List (courtesy of Northwest Film Forum) to the cozy Notting Hill-set comedy Love Sarah Remind Like List (courtesy of Tacoma's Grand Cinema). We've rounded up those and other options below, including picks from nationwide platforms, like the Chadwick Boseman-fronted Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Remind Like List and Tenet on VOD. Plus, if you haven't heard, The Stranger's amateur porn film festival HUMP! is accepting submissions through January 8, as is the stoner short film fest SPLIFF, through March 5! And don't forget to check out the second installment of The Stranger's Film Club, a new biweekly video series entering Black films with Stranger film experts Jasmyne Keimig and Charles Mudede.

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Streaming: Local Connection

Finding Yingying Remind Like List
After coming to the US in 2017 to study agriculture, 26-year-old Chinese student Yingying Zhang went missing and was later reported to have been abducted and murdered by a 30-year-old white man named Brendt Christensen. This documentary from Jiayan Shi chronicles the events of the case and its effects on Zhang's family and community. 
SIFF
Starting Friday

Fire Will Come Past Event Like List
A man returns home to his forested village in Galicia, a remote part of western Spain, after spending two years in prison for arson. While getting back into the swing of things (tending to cabbages and injured cows alongside his aging mother), a sprawling forest fire threatens to engulf the region. Shot on 16mm, Oliver Laxe’s third feature won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes last year.
Grand Illusion
Starting Friday

Love Sarah Remind Like List
The types of frosted and powdered British confections we've all come to recognize from a certain UK baking reality show fill this tearfully comforting story of a London family honoring their late matriarch's dream of opening a bakery on Notting Hill.
Grand Cinema
Starting Friday

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Past Event Like List
Cramming the year-long events of the Bryan Lee O'Malley comics it's based on into a single week, Scott Pilgrim follows a garage-rock bassist (played by Michael Cera in his gangly softboi prime) who falls in love with a manic pixie dream girl (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and has to fight off an army of her ex-boyfriends in a video game-style battle to the death. Queue it up on Netflix and watch along with MoPOP.
MoPOP
Thursday only

Through the Night Past Event Like List
The lives of three working mothers intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in this cinéma vérité portrait critiquing institutional racism, sexism, and capitalism in America. 
Northwest Film Forum

To The Ends of the Earth Past Event Like List
Commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Uzbekistan, this film stars former J-pop idol Atsuko Maeda as Yoko, a reality TV star whose bubbly persona on her travel show (for which she travels to Uzbekistan in the film) stands in stark contrast to her feelings of shyness and displacement off the screen. 
Grand Illusion
Starting Friday

Whip It Watch Party Past Event Like List
There's never a bad time to revisit this Drew Barrymore-directed classic starring Elliott Page as an indie-rock misfit who copes with small-town misery by joining a badass roller derby team. Pull it up on Hulu or Amazon Prime and watch along with MoPOP.
MoPOP
Sunday only

Film Festivals

Cinema Italian Style Past Event Like List
One major benefit of digitizing Cinema Italian Style, SIFF's weeklong mini-festival featuring the best in contemporary Italian cinema, is that all the films will be available on-demand at the same time, meaning you won't have to race to Queen Anne in the middle of a weekday for a matinee screening. You'll have 48 hours to watch your selections, from Salvatore Mereu's Sardinia-set detective story Assandira to Oscar-nominated director Gianfranco Rosi's Notturno, which tells the stories of those on the borders between Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Lebanon. 
SIFF
Thursday only

FROM AFAR—a film festival Past Event Like List
Roland Dahwen, the Artist-in-Residence at Reed College's Cooley Gallery, presents five recent films by his peers in a free mini-festival presented by the Northwest Film Forum. Each film—including his own 16mm debut Boruffa, about an immigrant woman in Oregon who learns that her husband has a second family—is accompanied by an essay that you can read on his website.
Northwest Film Forum
Thursday-Sunday

Mujeres Ibero y Latinoamericanas en el Cine Past Event Like List
The Seattle Latino Film Festival presents a tribute to Latinx women filmmakers around the world, from Venezuela's Alejandra Szeplaki (Candy Bar) to El Salvador's Marcela Zamora (Los Ofendidos).
Seattle Latino Film Festival

7th Vancouver Turkish Film Festival 2020 Past Event Like List
The seventh annual Vancouver Turkish Film Festival returns with four feature films, plus a short film program and filmmaker Q&As. 
Northwest Film Forum
Through Tuesday

Streaming: Nationwide

Ammonite Remind Like List
Brimming with the soothing ASMR you'd expect from a film set on a southern coast in the 1800s (think Portrait of a Lady on Fire, but in England), Francis Lee's latest film follows the love affair between a poor and brilliant fossil hunter (Kate Winslet) and a wealthy visitor's wife (Saoirse Ronan).
VOD

Blackbird Remind Like List
At peace with death, a woman (Susan Sarandon) with a terminal illness summons her star-studded friends and family (including Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska) for one last hurrah before going through with an assisted suicide. If you're drawn to beach house/cabin-set reunion dramedies, you know exactly what you're getting into with this new feature from the director of Tea With the Dames.
Amazon Prime Video

The Expanse: Season 5
The latest season of this popular science-fiction series, based on the novel by James S. A. Corey, is set in a future where humanity has colonized outer space, which doesn't feel too far from reality what with SpaceX and all—yet another case of a sci-fi scenario becoming more sci than fi in 2020. New episodes air on Wednesdays.
Amazon Prime

Greenland Past Event Like List
Curl up with the familiar righteousness you've come to love from Gerard Butler in this action flick about a man trying to reunite his family as deadly fragments of space debris fly toward the Earth. 
VOD
Starting Friday

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special Remind Like List
If you watched the new K-Stew holiday rom-com Happiest Season Remind Like List on Hulu, you've already gotten a taste of Seattle drag legends Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme's holiday special, which is available to rent on-demand on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, and Chromecast. According to press materials, it's the story of two queens who set out to create a classic Christmas TV variety show but just can’t agree on how. It also involves the spirit of DeLa's deceased grandma, who resides in a glass of eggnog, and plenty of musical numbers.
Hulu

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Remind Like List
Viola Davis stars in this George C. Wolfe adaptation of the August Wilson play, which harks to the fiery appearance of a trailblazing blues singer, Ma Rainey, at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. It also sees the late, great Chadwick Boseman in his final role as the singer's band's ambitious trumpet player. 
Netflix
Starting Friday

The Stand Past Event Like List
Like many post-apocalyptic novels, Stephen King's The Stand focuses on the aftermath of a global pandemic, and we're sure this limited-series adaptation starring Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden, and Alexander Skarsgård—filmed in the COVID era we're currently living—will have a fresh, particularly chilling prevalence. 
CBS

Tenet
In Christopher Nolan's action-packed thriller, John David Washington stars as a secret agent who manipulates time to try to save the world from World War III. It's got IMAX-worthy bangs and booms and a complicated storyline that will have you "shush"-ing your household.
VOD