The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) run at Shoreline comes to an end this Sat., June 3, but there is still time to see some amazing films! Remember to get $2 off the ticket price of screenings at Shoreline when you use promo code: SHORELINE2017 while ordering at www.siff.net
There are some fantastic films still scheduled here at the main campus theater including WOODPECKERS, a hard-hitting but compassionate prison story from Santo Domingo. Shot on location with real inmates, WOODPECKERS tells the love story between two prisoners in neighboring institutions who communicate through an elaborate sign language known as woodpecking. The director, Jose Maria Cabral, is scheduled to attend the screening on Sat., June 3 at 1 p.m.
Check out the lineup of Shoreline’s films and order tickets online here: http://bit.ly/ShorelineSIFF2017
Fri., June 2
4 p.m. – GHOLAM
Shahab Hosseini, star of 2016 Oscar®-winner THE SALESMAN, gives a mesmerizing performance as an enigmatic Iranian cab driver in London who strives to live a quiet life on his own terms until his mysterious past threatens to overtake him.
6:30 p.m. – THE HIPPOPOTAMUS
Adapted from the deliciously witty novel by Stephen Fry, Roger Allam gives a wonderfully cantankerous performance as a profane, drunken writer who takes a job investigating a series of unexplained miracle healings at a friend’s country manor.
8:45 p.m. – IN THE RADIANT CITY
Rachel Lambert’s incisive first feature, co-produced by Jeff Nichols (MIDNIGHT SPECIAL), is an intimate drama about a man who testified against his brother for committing a horrendous crime. Twenty years later he returns to his rural Kentucky hometown to face his fractured family.
Sat., June 3
1 p.m. – WOODPECKERS – Director scheduled to attend
This hard-hitting but compassionate prison story from Santo Domingo, shot on location with real inmates, tells the love story between two prisoners in neighboring institutions who communicate through an elaborate sign language known as woodpecking.
4 p.m. – INVERSION
After her mother’s illness worsens due to the air pollution in Tehran, an unmarried female shop owner comes to the suffocating realization that her selfish relatives are trying to control her life, leading to a personal mutiny against male domination.
6:30 p.m. – WINNIE
The absorbing life story of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who fought on the front lines for South African human rights during her husband’s 27-year imprisonment, in focus through archival footage and interviews with both her closest friends and those who hoped to silence her.
9 p.m. – AMERICAN FOLK
Folk singers Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth deliver elegant, naturalistic performances as two strangers who take an impromptu cross-country road trip in the days after 9/11, rediscovering the power of music to heal in the wake of an unthinkable national tragedy.
