The Persian and Iranian Studies Program in the NELC department is happy to again partner with the Iranian Film Initiative to bring new films to the Seattle area. The Seattle International Film Festival of 2019 is showing four films on Iran during the festival. In addition, there are many films from all over the Middle East and Central Asian regions to enjoy in the following month. Please find a full list of the films below.
Make sure to purchase your tickets in advance, as the films do fill up.
To celebrate the fifth year of collaboration NELC-PISP invites Shahram Mokri for a lecture at the University of Washington on May 19th. Shahram Mokri (شهرام مکری) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. His film, Fish & Cat was shown at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and won the special orizzonti award for innovative content. He was nominated for the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Achievement in Directing for Fish & Cat. For his short film The Dragonfly Storm, Mokri won Best Director at the 2007 Noor Iranian Film Festival.
Here are the films and screening times:
Iranian Film Festival 2019:
3 Faces (Jafar Panahi)
Sat 5/18 Lincoln Square
Sun 5/19 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Orange Days (Arash Lahooti)
Mon 5/20 Lincoln Square
Wed 5/22 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Fri 5/24 Pac Place 11:00am
Hat-Trick (Ramin Lavafipour)
Fri 5/24 Lincoln Square
Fri 5/31 SIFF Cinema Uptown 6:00pm
Cold Sweat (Soheil Beiraghi)
Tue 5/21 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun 5/26 Lincoln Square
Other movies from the region
Afghanistan:
A Thousand Girls Like Me ( Sahra Mosawi-Mani)
Tus 5/21 Lincoln Square
Mon 6/3 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Fri 6/7 AMC Pacific Place 11:00am
Egypt:
EXT. Night ( Ahmad Abdalla)
Sat 5/25 Lincoln Square
Mon 5/27 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tue 5/28 AMC Pacific Place
Yomeddine ( A.B. Shawky)
Fri 5/17 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Mon 5/20 AMC Pacific Place 4:30pm
Israel:
Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground ( Chuck Smith)
Tue 5/21 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Wed 6/5 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Fig Tree ( Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian)
Sun 5/19 Ark Lodge Cinemas
Tue 5/21 AMC Pacific Place 7:15
Redemption ( Boaz
Sun 5/19 Ark Lodge Cinemas
Wed 5/22 AMC Pacific Place 7:00pm
Tel Aviv On Fire ( Sameh Zoabi)
Thur 5/30 AMC Pacific Place 7:00pm
Fri 5/31 SIFF Cinema Uptown
The Dive ( Yona Rozenkier)
Mon 5/27 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tue 5/28 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Fri 5/31 AMC Pacific Place 1:30pm
Kazakhstan:
Ayka ( Sergey Dvortsevoy)
Sun 5/19 Lincoln Square
Fri 6/7 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sat 6/8 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Morocco:
Urgent ( Mohcine Besri)
Sat 5/18 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun 5/19 AMC Pacific Place 8:30pm
Wed 5/29 Lincoln Square
Qatar:
Midnight Traveler ( Hassan Fazili)
Mon 5/27 AMC Pacific Place 11:00am
Wed 5/29 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Turkey:
Human Nature (Adam Bolt)
Fri 5/17 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sat 5/25 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Mon 5/27 SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Saf ( Ali Vatansever)
Sat 5/18 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun 5/26 Lincoln Square
Sibel ( Cagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti)
Sat 5/18 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun 5/19 SIFF Cinema Uptown 12:00pm
The Announcement ( Mahmut Fazil Coskun)
Tue 5/21 Lincoln Square
Sat 6/8 SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun 6/9 AMC Pacific Place 4:00pm