SIFF press screenings for Monday May 28 through Thursday May 30
Seattle International Film Festival press screenings
Welcome to the 45th Seattle International Film Festival press screenings email. This email is scheduled to be sent out on Friday mornings now until the end of the festival.
Please find below the films press screening the week of Tuesday, May 28 through Thursday, May 30, 2019.
Press screenings for SIFF 2019 usually take place at AMC Pacific Place (600 Pine Street), Monday through Thursday at 10 am, 12 noon, and 2 pm (unless otherwise noted).
Your credentials can be picked up May 6 through June 9 from 10 am to 7 pm at the SIFF Film Center.
When attending press screenings, please bring your SIFF-issued credentials and check in with SIFF staff before entering the theater. Screenings are open to all passholders on a first-come, first served basis.
Theater doors will be locked promptly at showtimes. Late seating is not available.
Please Note: There will be no Press Screenings held on Monday, May 27, 2019.
Press Screening Summary
Monday, May 27th None
Tuesday, May 28th
10 am - Piranhas
12 noon - Them That Follow
2 pm - The Days to Come
Wednesday, May 29th
10 am - Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
12 noon - Greener Grass
2 pm - Midnight Family
Thursday, May 30th
10 am - Watch List (Maria)
12 noon - Ghost Fleet
2 pm - Socrates
Tuesday, May 28
10 am
Piranhas
Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 1 at 9 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tuesday, June 4 at 4 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Italy | 2019 (110 min)
Director: Claudio Giovannesi, Dan Madison Savage
Cast/featuring: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Baldo, Ciro Vecchione, Ciro Pellecchia
A harrowing tale of gang violence, based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (GOMORRAH), that tracks a naïve group of teens as they enter the ferocious and unforgiving world of Neapolitan organized crime.
12 noon
Them That Follow
Festival Screenings:
Friday, May 31 at 9:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 1 at 1 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (98 min)
Director: Britt Poulton
Cast/featuring: Alice Englert, Lewis Pullman, Jim Gaffigan, Kaitlyn Dever, Olivia Colman, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann
A young woman who belongs to an Appalachian snake-handling cult must hide her pregnancy and forbidden relationship from her community and preacher father.
2 pm
The Days to Come
Festival Screenings:
Sunday, June 2 at 6 pm at Kirkland Performance Hall
Friday, June 7 at 6 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 8 at 4:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Spain | 2019 (95 min)
Director: Director Carlos Marqués-Marcet
Cast/featuring: David Verdaguer, María Rodríguez Soto
Writer/director Carlos Marqués-Marcet (10.000 KM, Anchor and Hope) completes his loose trilogy about the complications of cohabitation with this drama about a couple grappling with an unexpected pregnancy that will change the dynamics of their relationship.
Wednesday, May 29
10 am
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
Festival Screenings:
Friday, May 31 at 7 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 1 at 12:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (91 min)
Director: Janice Engel
Cast/featuring: Cecile Richards, Dan Rather, Rachel Maddow, Anne Lamott, Jim Hightower
With a personality as big as her native Texas, political columnist Molly Ivins skewered both right and left (but mostly right) with ferocious wit and equally ferocious devotion to the powerless and to the First Amendment.
12 noon
Greener Grass
Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 8 at 9:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Sunday, June 9 at 3 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (101 min)
Director: Joycelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Cast/featuring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Janicza Bravo, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden, Jim Cummings
Welcome to a bright, shiny, Skittles-colored suburbia where every resident covets their neighbor's everything in this absurdist, perkily unsettling satire of upward mobility and political correctness from two Upright Citizens' Brigade alumni.
2 pm
Midnight Family
Festival Screenings:
Tuesday, June 4 at 8:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Friday, June 7 at 1:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Mexico | 2019 (81 min)
Director: Luke Lorentzen
Hop in an ambulance with Mexico City's Ochoa family, a group of civilians who run a private EMT service in a bustling city sorely underserved by the government's limited medical resources.
Thursday, May 30
10 am
Watch List (Maria)
Festival Screenings:
Friday, June 7 at 8:45 pm at AMC Pacific Place
Saturday, June 8 at 3 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Phillippines/USA | 2019 (94 min)
Director: Ben Rekhi
Cast/featuring: Alessandra de Rossi, Jake Macapagal, Arthur Acuna, Jess Mendoza, Angeli Bayani
In this crime thriller out of the Philippines, a widowed mother is forced to enter Manila's dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs after her husband is murdered in an extrajudicial killing.
12 noon
Ghost Fleet
Festival Screenings:
Sunday, June 2 at 6 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Monday, June 3 at 4:30 pm at AMC Pacific Place
USA | 2018 (90 min)
Director: Shannon Service, Jeffery Waldron
Cast/featuring: Patima Tungpuchayakul, Tun Lin, Chutima "Oi" Sidasathian, Bustar Maitar
An engrossing and impactful documentary about Thai human-rights activist Patima Tungpuchayakul as she and her team attempt to rescue the enslaved fishermen forced to work the southeast Asian seas.
2 pm
Socrates
Festival Screenings:
Monday, June 3 at 8:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Wednesday, June 5 at 4:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Brazil | 2018 (71 min)
Director: Alexandre Moratto
Cast/featuring: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Rosane Paulo
At-risk Brazilian youth collaborated with director Alexandre Moratto on this no-punches-pulled drama about a homeless, family-less teen struggling to get by in São Paulo's ghetto.
Copyright © Seattle International Film Festival, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is: 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109
Welcome to the 45th Seattle International Film Festival press screenings email. This email is scheduled to be sent out on Friday mornings now until the end of the festival.
Please find below the films press screening the week of Tuesday, May 28 through Thursday, May 30, 2019.
Press screenings for SIFF 2019 usually take place at AMC Pacific Place (600 Pine Street), Monday through Thursday at 10 am, 12 noon, and 2 pm (unless otherwise noted).
Your credentials can be picked up May 6 through June 9 from 10 am to 7 pm at the SIFF Film Center.
When attending press screenings, please bring your SIFF-issued credentials and check in with SIFF staff before entering the theater. Screenings are open to all passholders on a first-come, first served basis.
Theater doors will be locked promptly at showtimes. Late seating is not available.
Please Note: There will be no Press Screenings held on Monday, May 27, 2019.
Press Screening Summary
Monday, May 27th None
Tuesday, May 28th
10 am - Piranhas
12 noon - Them That Follow
2 pm - The Days to Come
Wednesday, May 29th
10 am - Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
12 noon - Greener Grass
2 pm - Midnight Family
Thursday, May 30th
10 am - Watch List (Maria)
12 noon - Ghost Fleet
2 pm - Socrates
Tuesday, May 28
10 am
Piranhas
Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 1 at 9 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tuesday, June 4 at 4 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Italy | 2019 (110 min)
Director: Claudio Giovannesi, Dan Madison Savage
Cast/featuring: Francesco Di Napoli, Viviana Aprea, Mattia Piano Del Baldo, Ciro Vecchione, Ciro Pellecchia
A harrowing tale of gang violence, based on the novel by Roberto Saviano (GOMORRAH), that tracks a naïve group of teens as they enter the ferocious and unforgiving world of Neapolitan organized crime.
12 noon
Them That Follow
Festival Screenings:
Friday, May 31 at 9:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 1 at 1 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (98 min)
Director: Britt Poulton
Cast/featuring: Alice Englert, Lewis Pullman, Jim Gaffigan, Kaitlyn Dever, Olivia Colman, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann
A young woman who belongs to an Appalachian snake-handling cult must hide her pregnancy and forbidden relationship from her community and preacher father.
2 pm
The Days to Come
Festival Screenings:
Sunday, June 2 at 6 pm at Kirkland Performance Hall
Friday, June 7 at 6 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 8 at 4:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Spain | 2019 (95 min)
Director: Director Carlos Marqués-Marcet
Cast/featuring: David Verdaguer, María Rodríguez Soto
Writer/director Carlos Marqués-Marcet (10.000 KM, Anchor and Hope) completes his loose trilogy about the complications of cohabitation with this drama about a couple grappling with an unexpected pregnancy that will change the dynamics of their relationship.
Wednesday, May 29
10 am
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
Festival Screenings:
Friday, May 31 at 7 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 1 at 12:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (91 min)
Director: Janice Engel
Cast/featuring: Cecile Richards, Dan Rather, Rachel Maddow, Anne Lamott, Jim Hightower
With a personality as big as her native Texas, political columnist Molly Ivins skewered both right and left (but mostly right) with ferocious wit and equally ferocious devotion to the powerless and to the First Amendment.
12 noon
Greener Grass
Festival Screenings:
Saturday, June 8 at 9:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Sunday, June 9 at 3 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
USA | 2019 (101 min)
Director: Joycelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe
Cast/featuring: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Janicza Bravo, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D'Arcy Carden, Jim Cummings
Welcome to a bright, shiny, Skittles-colored suburbia where every resident covets their neighbor's everything in this absurdist, perkily unsettling satire of upward mobility and political correctness from two Upright Citizens' Brigade alumni.
2 pm
Midnight Family
Festival Screenings:
Tuesday, June 4 at 8:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Friday, June 7 at 1:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Mexico | 2019 (81 min)
Director: Luke Lorentzen
Hop in an ambulance with Mexico City's Ochoa family, a group of civilians who run a private EMT service in a bustling city sorely underserved by the government's limited medical resources.
Thursday, May 30
10 am
Watch List (Maria)
Festival Screenings:
Friday, June 7 at 8:45 pm at AMC Pacific Place
Saturday, June 8 at 3 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Phillippines/USA | 2019 (94 min)
Director: Ben Rekhi
Cast/featuring: Alessandra de Rossi, Jake Macapagal, Arthur Acuna, Jess Mendoza, Angeli Bayani
In this crime thriller out of the Philippines, a widowed mother is forced to enter Manila's dark underworld of cops, criminals, and drugs after her husband is murdered in an extrajudicial killing.
12 noon
Ghost Fleet
Festival Screenings:
Sunday, June 2 at 6 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Monday, June 3 at 4:30 pm at AMC Pacific Place
USA | 2018 (90 min)
Director: Shannon Service, Jeffery Waldron
Cast/featuring: Patima Tungpuchayakul, Tun Lin, Chutima "Oi" Sidasathian, Bustar Maitar
An engrossing and impactful documentary about Thai human-rights activist Patima Tungpuchayakul as she and her team attempt to rescue the enslaved fishermen forced to work the southeast Asian seas.
2 pm
Socrates
Festival Screenings:
Monday, June 3 at 8:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Wednesday, June 5 at 4:30 pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Brazil | 2018 (71 min)
Director: Alexandre Moratto
Cast/featuring: Christian Malheiros, Tales Ordakji, Rosane Paulo
At-risk Brazilian youth collaborated with director Alexandre Moratto on this no-punches-pulled drama about a homeless, family-less teen struggling to get by in São Paulo's ghetto.
Copyright © Seattle International Film Festival, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is: 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109