Shoreline Community College is proud to be a venue for the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, running from May 15 – May 25 with an amazing lineup of films from around the world!
It’s closing weekend for this year’s festival – take a look at the films being screened right here in the SCC Theater.
Friday 5/23
3:30pm: Paul Anka: His Way (99 minutes), United States: He faced it all, stood tall, and did it his way. Get the inside scoop on the life and career of Paul Anka, the Canadian-born son of immigrants who rocketed to the top of the charts not just as a teen heartthrob, but as the songwriter of some of America’s greatest standards. Purchase tickets for Paul Anka.
6:00pm: Know Her Name (80 minutes), Canada: In this amazing slice of film herstory, learn the legacy of women directors who have fought to be seen and heard and have their films preserved…and how to not let the next generation get lost in the same inequitable and homogenized system. Purchase tickets for Know Her Name.
8:30pm: I Am Nevenka (112 minutes), Spain: Nevenka Fernández, the town’s finance councilor, is relentlessly pursued by the mayor, a man used to always getting what he wants politically and personally. Nevenka decides to report him, turning her courageous fight into Spain’s first #MeToo case. Purchase tickets for I Am Nevenka.
Saturday 5/24
12:30pm: Salsa Lives (101 minutes), Colombia: The rhythms, passion, and energy of Salsa do not recognize borders. Born in the vibrant streets of New York, it conquered and reigned in Cali. Featuring Salsa legends like Rubén Blades and Henry Fiol, this illuminating journey shows how entire generations have celebrated their common identity through music and dance. Purchase tickets for Salsa Lives.
3:30pm: Flamingos: Life After the Meteorite (83 minutes), Mexico: Finding the right partner, the right place, and the ideal time to create a family is the most decisive task in nature. Instinct, love, and risk are intertwined in this unforgettable journey of the Caribbean flamingo in its most delicate period of existence, a journey at once surprising, enthralling, and deeply inspiring. Purchase tickets for Flamingos.
6:00pm: The Botanist (96 minutes), China: In Jing Yi’s fantastical, lushly framed drama set in rural northwestern China, a lonely 13-year-old Kazakh boy in touch with the wonders of nature befriends a local Han girl, only for the call of the modern outside world to come calling. Purchase tickets for The Botanist.
8:30pm: To a Land Unknown (106 minutes), Greece: Chatila and Reda are Palestinian refugees stuck in Athens, trying to figure out how to get to Germany, how to stay alive in the meanwhile, and how to do it all without losing their humanity. Purchase tickets for To a Land Unknown.
Sunday 5/25
1:00pm: Familiar Touch (91 minutes), United States: Ruth Goldman (Broadway legend Kathleen Chalfant) has been living with dementia for some time, and the time has come to place her in an assisted living facility. But while this may seem like the end, for her it represents something like a new beginning in this poignant, Venice Film Festival-winning drama. Purchase tickets for Familiar Touch.
3:30pm Little Red Sweet (92 minutes), Hong Kong: In a rapidly changing Kowloon City, one Hong Kong family struggles to keep their traditional dessert shop open in the face of illness, generational desires, and gentrification in Vincent Chow Wing’s wistful, nostalgic family drama. Purchase tickets for Little Red Sweet.
6:00pm: Shepherds (113 minutes), Canada (Québec): In this layered, bucolic drama from Francophone director Sophie Deraspe (Antigone) full of moments of beauty and harsh reality, a Quebeçois marketing executive gives it all up and moves to the French Alps to become a sheep herder. Purchase tickets for Shepherds.
Be sure to visit the SIFF website to see the full lineup of amazing films happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.
Shoreline Community College is pleased to host a screening of “Asog” in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
“Asog” is a touching tale of survival, resistance, and solidarity, as told by the real-life victims of the Super Typhoon Yolanda that devastated the Philippines in 2013. An award-winning film that premiered in 2023, the film follows the unlikely friendship between Jaya and Arnel, as they find their way to Sicogon together.
The film is 1 hr 39 mins, in Tagalog and other dialects with English captions. This screening is sponsored in partnership by SCC Gender Equity Center and WAVES Asian & Pacific Islander Student Center.
Food and drinks will be provided after the screening.
Join the talented musicians of Shoreline Community College’s Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band as they take the stage with featured faculty soloist Helena Azevedo on piano.
WHEN: Shorecrest High School Performing Arts Center
Swing by the 800 Building on Friday, May 30 at 12:30 PM for a lunchtime piano party! Our talented class pianists are ready to wow you — don’t miss the music, the vibes, and the fun!
Lunch just got a whole lot cooler! Come hang out at the Pub and enjoy live tunes from our talented student performers. Vol. 2 is bringing the fun with an upbeat band performance you won’t want to miss!
Shoreline Community College is proud to be a venue for the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, running from May 15 – May 25 with an amazing lineup of films from around the world!
See below for the films being screened this week in the SCC Theater.
Monday 5/19
5:45pm: Blue Sun Palace (116 minutes), United States: In Constance Tsang’s strikingly original, Cannes-winning social realist debut, two Queens-based Chinese immigrants find solace in their shared grief over a massage parlor worker they each loved in their own way before tragedy struck. Purchase tickets for Blue Sun Palace.
8:30pm: Fly Me to the Moon (112 minutes), Hong Kong: In Sasha Chuk’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama, young Yuen struggles to adapt to her new surroundings and social class when she and her mother emigrate from Mainland China to 1990s Hong Kong to reunite with the family patriarch. Purchase tickets for Fly Me to the Moon.
Tuesday 5/20
6:00pm: Drowned Land (86 minutes), United States: The Choctaw Nation of southeastern Oklahoma fights against cultural displacement and the developers who wish to dam and divert the Kiamichi River, one of the most ecologically diverse bodies of water in the state, in this call to action from SIFF 4th World Media Lab alum Colleen Thurston. Purchase tickets for Drowned Land.
8:30pm: Under the Volcano (102 minutes), Poland: A Ukrainian family on vacation in the Canary Islands suddenly find themselves stranded upon Russia’s invasion of their home country, sending them into fits of desperation and introspection as they wander the beaches speculating what comes next. Purchase tickets for Under the Volcano.
Wednesday 5/21
6:00pm: Sally (103 minutes), United States: Award-winning documentarian Cristina Costantini directs this peek into the personal life of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. But as Ride journeyed among the stars, she kept a nearly three-decade romance with author and tennis player Tam O’Shaughnessy a secret. Purchase tickets for Sally.
8:30pm: Waves (131 Minutes), Czech Republic: It’s 1967 Czechoslovakia, and technician Tomás has just started working at the country’s most renowned radio station. But as the Soviets crack down on any dissenting opinions, Tomás must either become an informant or protect his activist younger brother in this nerve-wracking journalism thriller. Purchase tickets for Waves.
Thursday 5/22
6:00pm The Safe House (90 minutes), Switzerland: In this sincere and impeccably art-directed Wes Anderson-esque film based on Christophe Boltanski’s memoir “La Cache,” a nine-year-old boy and his quirky, artistic family experience the turbulence of 1968 Paris from the relative safety of their multigenerational home. Purchase tickets for The Safe House.
8:30pm: Drowning Dry (88 minutes), Lithuania: In this elliptically told melodrama that was Lithuania’s submission for the 2025 Academy Awards®, two families must confront lingering resentments when tragedy strikes during a lakeside weekend summer vacation. Winner of Best Director at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. Purchase tickets for Drowning Dry.
Friday 5/23
3:30pm: Paul Anka: His Way (99 minutes), United States: He faced it all, stood tall, and did it his way. Get the inside scoop on the life and career of Paul Anka, the Canadian-born son of immigrants who rocketed to the top of the charts not just as a teen heartthrob, but as the songwriter of some of America’s greatest standards. Purchase tickets for Paul Anka.
6:00pm: Know Her Name (80 minutes), Canada: In this amazing slice of film herstory, learn the legacy of women directors who have fought to be seen and heard and have their films preserved…and how to not let the next generation get lost in the same inequitable and homogenized system. Purchase tickets for Know Her Name.
8:30pm: I Am Nevenka (112 minutes), Spain: Nevenka Fernández, the town’s finance councilor, is relentlessly pursued by the mayor, a man used to always getting what he wants politically and personally. Nevenka decides to report him, turning her courageous fight into Spain’s first #MeToo case. Purchase tickets for I Am Nevenka.
Be sure to visit the SIFF website to see the full lineup of amazing films happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.
The artwork in this exhibition represents the culmination of two years of skill development, research, and creative problem solving. Many of the student artists represented in this exhibition have completed the requirements for an Associate of Fine Arts degree, a two-year program of study and training in the visual arts.
Here at Shoreline, we have had the privilege of watching these students progress from their first realizations of their passion for art-making to developing an individual focus and personal vision. Please join us for food and music as we celebrate these diverse and innovative voices!
Shoreline Community College is proud to be a venue for the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, running from May 15 – May 25 with an amazing lineup of films from around the world!
See below for the films being screened this weekend right here in the SCC Theater.
FRIDAY, 5/16
6:30pm Dancing Queen in Hollywood (87 minutes), Norway: In the sequel to SIFF 2023 Golden Space Needle Best Film winner Dancing Queen, young hip-hop-dancing Mina and her dance partner Markus head to Los Angeles in hopes of starring in a music video, only for her to get the chance to be in a major motion picture! Purchase tickets for Dancing Queen in Hollywood.
SATURDAY, 5/17
12:30pm: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight (98 minutes), South Africa: Actress Embeth Davidtz (Schindler’s List) makes her feature directorial debut, adapting Alexandra Fuller’s bestselling memoir about a precocious eight-year-old farmgirl who witnesses Rhodesia’s tumultuous political shift in the early 1980s. Purchase tickets for Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight.
3:00pm Starman (85 minutes), United States: Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist, robotics engineer, and best-selling science fiction author Gentry Lee, who was on NASA’s Viking and Voyager teams, discusses his experiences and views on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Purchase tickets for Starman.
5:30pm Wolf Land (71 minutes), United States: Range rider and “wolf-protecting cowboy” Daniel Curry and cattle rancher Jerry Francis try to find common ground between their conflicting interests in the forests of northeastern Washington, just 20 miles from the Canadian border. Purchase tickets for Wolf Land.
8:00pm The Wailing (107 minutes), Spain: Three women separated in time and space are unknowingly connected by a threat that nobody can explain. Something is stalking them and provoking unthinkable acts of violence with one eerie thing in common: the disturbing sound of a wailing. Purchase tickets for The Wailing.
SUNDAY, 5/18
12:00pm: Into the Wonderwoods (84 minutes), France: When Angelo is accidentally separated from his family, he turns his imagination up to 11 as he journeys through the dark woods to grandmother’s house, encountering a wondrous fairy tale fantasy world along the way in this eco-conscious marvel of a family film. Ages 8+. Purchase tickets for Into the Wonderwoods.
2:30pm: Ka Whawhai Tonu: Struggle Without End (115 minutes), Aotearoa New Zealand: Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison (both of 1994’s Once Were Warriors) star in this sweeping Māori-language epic about the 1864 Battle of Ōrākau, as an Indigenous tribe defends their land from invading British forces. Purchase tickets for Ka Whawhai Tonu.
5:15pm: Auction (91 minutes), France: When a long-lost painting, stolen by the Nazis in 1939, turns up in a cottage in Eastern France, it sets in motion a story of intrigue, deceit, and surprise. Based on a remarkable true story. Purchase tickets for Auction.
7:30pm: New Jack Fury (89 minutes), United States: In this rock ’em, sock ’em, kick-’em-in-the-face-while-dancing midnighter, ex-police officer Dylan Gamble must join forces with a low-level crook to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend and take down the deadly Styles Syndicate once and for all! Purchase tickets for New Jack Fury.
Be sure to visit the SIFF website to see the full lineup of amazing films happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.
Sign up today to volunteer for the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Concessions Crew!
Students who volunteer for a shift to support SIFF on campus will receive a free 2025 SIFF movie pass for another showing at any location.
Training provided! You will be trained on the popcorn machine, serving snacks, and cash handling under the direction of the Concessions Manager and the Theater House Manager, who also assists the SIFF projectionist. No alcohol will be served.
Current students are invited to show off their creative sides and learn to tie dye on Weds. 5/7 from 2-4pm in the PUB Courtyard. Choose from a variety of colors and items to dye; supplies will be provided (while they last).
