📅 Friday, Nov. 21-Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025
📍 SIFF Film Center: 167 Republican St., Seattle
💰 $15-$20
The Pacific Northwest has had its ups and downs of funding feature films — how many times have we seen Vancouver stand in for Seattle? — But thanks to such organizations as Washington Filmworks and Oregon Film, there’s a current heap of incentives and support for filmmakers who wish to shoot in our corner of the world. So, let’s celebrate a selection of them with the third annual Seattle Film Critics Society’s Pacific Northwest Awards. One film, the Sundance sensation and current Netflix Oscar push “Train Dreams,” will have already screened at the SIFF Cinema Downtown by the time you read this, but you can catch the remaining five nominees over one weekend at the SIFF Film Center, plus appearances from special guests.
“Twinless”
Nov. 21 @ 6:30 p.m.
James Sweeney’s irresistibly thorny, Portland-set dark comedy about two men who trauma-bond at a support group for people who have lost their twin won Best Director at SIFF, plus both the Audience and Grand Jury U.S. Dramatic prizes at Sundance. Go in as cold as possible.
“Wolf Land”
Nov. 22 @ 5 p.m.
The controversial operation of reintroducing wolves into Washington state as seen through the eyes of range rider Daniel Curry, who goes up against class divisions and cattle ranchers in Sarah Hoffman’s conservation doc.
🎥 Director Sarah Hoffman, Editor David Wulzen, Director of Photography Bryce Yukio Adolphson and Executive Producer Sarah Menzies scheduled to attend.
“To Kill a Wolf”
Nov. 22 @ 7:15 p.m.
Writer-director Kelsey Taylor sets her remix of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale in the Oregon Cascades, as an off-the-grid woodsman takes in a freezing teenager in this grounded psychodrama about the sins of our past.
🎥 Director Kelsey Taylor and Cinematographer Adam Lee scheduled to attend.
“WTO/99”
Nov. 23 @ 3 p.m.
Seattle’s infamous World Trade Organization protests took the world by storm in 1999, and the ripples are still being felt both locally and internationally. Look back with a clarity lost upon many of us 26 years ago in this immersive doc created from over a thousand hours of archival footage.
🎥 Director Ian Bell scheduled to attend.
“Not One Drop of Blood”
Nov. 23 @ 5:45 p.m.Set in Eastern Oregon’s Harney County, this non-fiction western concerns a mystery 50 years in the making — who is mutilating all the cattle and what effect does it have on the local agricultural population?
🎥 Film team scheduled to attend for introduction.
