It’s 1981 in suburban Long Island, New York. The mullets are long, the metal is heavy and 14-year old Douglas gets a birthday surprise that will change life forever. “1981” is a psychedelic coming-of-age story that captures the beauty and terror of teenage desire.

Multi-national rescuers in Qatar team up with a cat cafe owner from America to rescue 25 cats amidst a population crisis.

Arash is a professional wrestler with dreams of representing his country and winning gold medals. The country is in turmoil and its people are suffering. Arash must decide between using his platform to stand up to tyranny, or put his head down and remain silent.

A married man struggles to persuade his wife of his honesty and faithfulness when she discovers his best friend is an actual person and not an imaginary friend as she believed.

A busy young adult is invited to his friend’s house to watch him sleep, convinced that aliens are abducting him every night.

Maria, burdened with caregiving for her sick husband, gets invited to a party.

Two grocery store employees have a helium-fueled encounter with a late-night customer.

Jack is down on his luck and trying to mend his relationship with his estranged daughter. The night before her birthday party, he encounters a pair of creatures not from this world.

Grey, a heart-broken musician trecks along the rough streets of Seattle in search of solace from his lost love Allie.

When a mountain biker steals another’s “lucky” drying bike shorts, mistaking them for a curbside discard, a wild chase into the mountains ensues.

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After her release from prison, Nova is offered an unexpected place to land. As she reconnects with her estranged grandfather and the relationships that once defined her, she must decide what it means to accept help. BREATHE is a quiet, clear-eyed portrait of reentry, addiction and the fragile work of starting over.

Busy Bodies is a hand-drawn animation that combines inkjet and screen printing. Inspired by Rube Goldberg machines, the film explores the undisclosed production journey of easily disposable objects.

(Oscar-Nominated Short Film): Samir, a Palestinian butcher working at an Israeli supermarket, is accused of tearing down the Israeli hostage posters in the break room. Samir sets out to prove his innocence in order to keep the job he desperately needs.

COME WITH ME follows Simon, a working class man who finds his life upended after suffering a traumatic home invasion. Compounded by trouble at his job and the loss of his best friend, and fueled by a rhetoric-spewing radio host, Simon begins a deadly descent into his own mind, trying to rectify the perceived wrongs and cleanse the injustice he starts to see in the world around him.

An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.

Created by teachers, Dead Deer High follows a team of high school slam poets and their English teacher as they prepare for a national poetry competition one year after a tragedy changed their lives forever.

26 Miles, 5 Meals, 1 Wild Tradition. Learn about Seattle’s wackiest marathon and its mission to honor a friend, and give back to the outdoors.

Where did the owner of the largest and snazziest comic book store in the Pacific Northwest come from? His secret origin story might surprise you!

What begins as a nostalgic road trip for two estranged friends quickly spirals out of control when they discover they’ve been unwittingly transporting drugs, forcing old tensions in their relationship to bubble to the surface.

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An enigmatic, unhoused man spends his days giving free haircuts to the homeless, offering a lesson in love, and a window into the complex human dynamics at the center of America’s housing crisis.

Benson, the three-legged mastiff, lives alone in a quiet house. He spends his days content to watch the world pass by until one day a mysterious dog shows up at his doorstep, followed by many more. A story of friendship, loyalty and unconditional love.

A pizza delivery driver makes the wrong turn when he decides to break into homes to support himself after his mother’s death. A chance encounter with a seasoned thief turns into a partnership that delivers them into dark waters.

This documentary chronicles a father’s sacrifice that changes the trajectory of their family forever as two small girls journey from Croatia to America to live a new life.

When an encounter with her high school boyfriend, Eric, reveals life-shaking news to Callie, a woman hiding out from life by working as a desert diner manager, she must decide if she will stay in her safety bubble or change a decision she made 25 years ago.

Lee is well-poised before a life-changing job interview, but minutes into her virtual meeting, glitter begins pouring out of her inexplicably. In this moment, Lee must acknowledge the shiny, shimmering elephant in the room, or else risk being buried in a mound of unresolved issues… and glitter.

From the Academy Award winning team behind “Curfew.” Still reeling from an incredible loss, a father and daughter cling to a bedtime routine keeping them safe in a town where an unfathomable horror visits its inhabitants night after night.

Noticing her husband Ivar’s new scent, Anne lies awake at night with a nagging question: should she leave him?

A neurodivergent detective and his new partner search for a missing person, battling lies and prejudice as they sift through their life to uncover the truth of what happened to them. “KAI” is the Gaiety School of Acting’s Graduation Film for the Class of 2024.

Defying evacuation orders and denying scientific evidence, notorious lodge owner Harry R. Truman is sent cascading through memories of a life lived without regret on Spirit Lake, as mounting tremors rock his cherished world.

Dutch Lazarus is a detective who specializes in strange cases. When a new client walks into his office and stymies him at every turn, we begin to wonder what her game is, and if Dutch already knows a lot more than she’s telling.

An exploration of commercial trees.

After a messy breakup, Jess takes matters to the extreme when her ex comes begging for forgiveness.

When an empty nester loses her ability to summon her daughter back from the afterlife, she is forced to find help from the person she resents the most: her ex-husband’s mistress.

Frank Matsura, the orphaned son of a samurai, emigrates to the American West in 1901, settling in remote Washington State, where he becomes the region’s leading photographer and most beloved citizen.

After being thrown to the landfill, a gingerbread man decides to dedicate himself to studying the meaning of life, and how animals exist.

In Central Washington, a humble community theater has quietly been changing lives for 25 years. Precious Little Theater is a love letter to the performing arts, following four directors as they reflect on the moments that pulled them toward the stage.

RADIOHEART explores the life and career of DJ Kevin Cole, tracing his path from the club dance floors of Minneapolis’ First Avenue to the digital halls of Amazon.com, to the global stage of Seattle’s KEXP. Through intimate interviews, archival footage, and the music that defined his career, the film tells the story of a man who revolutionized radio, faced personal demons, and used his passion for music to create a lasting legacy of community, healing, and innovation.

A young Native woman coping with grief has to convince her family members to set her grandmother’s spirit free. Based on a Coast Salish legend, this film explores loss, family, and disrupting the status quo.

In a dystopian future, a teenage girl is accidentally abandoned by her brother trying to escape an invasion of Earth. But could the legend of the Shimmer — a mythical portal to the future — be her salvation?

A famous musician accidentally casts a spell to end the tumultuous relationship with her band mate.

This documentary follows Catia and Daphne, two visionary women in rural Brazil, as they transform a degraded landscape into a thriving agroforestry system, cultivating ancestral plant species and traditional techniques to reconnect with nature’s cycles.

Somehow Hopeful is the story of a man committed to a real-life revolution. For forty years, Jason Rutledge has been a voice for the natural world and restorative forestry methods, using a rare horse breed called the Suffolk Punch. Shot over the course of seven years, Somehow Hopeful shares the wisdom of a man whose methods are now studied around the world.

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A man secludes himself in the forest with his cat. The ghosts of his past begin to torment him, forcing him to face his fears and guilt in a try to not be consumed by madness.

Relentless Detective Lieutenant closes in on a notorious serial pedophile, but as the investigation deepens, dark secrets emerge that threaten to shatter everything.

Tailwind of Love follows a young man as he bikes across America retracing the journey his late father once took years before. Guided by old photographs, journals, and stories left behind, the journey becomes more than a physical adventure. It is an emotional search for connection, understanding, and healing.

After two months on a distant planet, John Thurston returns to his ragtag crew of criminals and thieves. He expects a heroes welcome…instead they’ve held themselves a vote.

In this dark comedy, a couple argues about a nightmare, a psychotic slasher, when to say “thank you” and if a hot dog is considered a sandwich.

A found footage documentary from a concert tour in 1995 that features live performances, candid interviews and a behind-the-scenes view of what it’s like to be on tour with Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Beck, Pavement, Rancid, The Amps and Bikini Kill.

A cheesemonger is like a sommelier, but for cheese – less pretentious and more punk rock. Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz wants to change things by coaching an underdog American team to victory at the Mondial du Fromage, the Olympics of cheese, in France.

Yahya, a young man in a wheelchair from a marginalized neighborhood in Tunisia’s capital, dreams of crossing the Mediterranean. Told through rotoscope and 3D animation, The Bird’s Placebo is a modern fable exploring migration, youth culture, and the fluidity of identity.

In this playful, cross-cultural family drama, an unexpected guest upends the lives of an Argentine mother and daughter over the course of an intimate birthday dinner one icy Chicago night.

In a world racing toward progress, what does it mean to be more human? “The Broken Tomorrow” follows Zen, a woman from a forgotten past who is suddenly thrust into the modern age. Through her eyes, the world feels unfamiliar and overwhelming, crowded yet lonely, advanced yet deeply disconnected. From the stillness of a sunlit garden to the chaos of a fractured world, Zen journeys through spaces shaped by innovation, conflict, memory, and decay. Each moment reveals a truth not through explanation, but through feeling.

The 2025 MATE ROV World Championships are set to unfold at Michigan’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, pitting the brightest young minds and their custom-built underwater robots against complex, real-world Great Lakes and ocean challenges.

A young morgue attendant working the night shift encounters an unwelcome visitor.

A young woman returns home to clean her father’s house after he has passed away. As she packs his old belongings and her past, her grief begins physically manifesting… in an unsettling way.

Two young women, out for a walk on the tundra, follow a trail of colourful stones left on the ground, but it leads them to danger, trapped in the lair of the Mangittatuarjuk, the Gnawer of Rocks.

In a world often overshadowed by hardship, Allen Klein, a self-proclaimed “Jollytologist” shows how humor, laughter, and positivity can transform lives, even in the face of adversity.

The Last Houseboat dives into the history of a unique wooden vessel, lovingly crafted by a family patriarch in 1970. Anchored on the Rhode Island coast for over 50 years, the houseboat became a landmark, a cherished family tradition, and a symbol of connection across three generations.

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater, finding long abandoned and forgotten cinemas alongside theaters that are surviving and thriving.

All is not what it seems when a father and son have a violent confrontation on Christmas Eve.

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In 1893, a fisherman’s wife becomes the first person to cure someone of tuberculosis. A doctor, intent on proving a woman’s place is in the home and not practising medicine, investigates, only to discover the source of her unearthly power.

Single mom Jen gets an unexpectedly provocative pic from her friend Steve. Through the course of a phone conversation, she tries to figure out what’s going on in this modern screwball romantic comedy.

In Santa Barbara, a group of older adults is proving that it’s never too late to make music, find community, and rediscover joy. The Prime Time Band brings together musicians who return to their instruments later in life.

On Bainbridge Island, a humble boulder transformed into a beloved landmark, and, in the process, helped shape a lifelong love story. The Story of Frog Rock reveals the 1971 creation story, when high school sweethearts Bob and Ellen Green braved the rain and darkness to paint a drab roadside rock into the now-iconic Frog Rock.

A 76-year old engineer is on a mission: to connect the United States and Russia with a 100-kilometer long train tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. THE STRAIT GUYS follows Czech-born mining engineer George and his fast-talking protege Scott as they endeavor to convince international governments, corporations, and indigenous tribes to green-light their $100 billion railway project.

Three Days is a quiet psychological drama that explores grief, guilt, and acceptance through a series of emotionally charged encounters between two strangers connected by tragedy. As unresolved pain slowly surfaces, the film examines the complexity of forgiveness and the human desire to make sense of loss.

An experimental documentary created with handmade and manufactured emulsions exploring the close and enduring connections between Inuit, caribou, lichens, and land use, filmed primarily on the land in Nunavut where caribou struggle to maintain their lifeways amidst burn events and habitat disruption.

In a karaoke bar in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an expired can of tuna fish and a fake Louis Vuitton purse encourage each other to believe in their artistic voices even if the world sees them as trash.

A half-hour documentary about Seattle’s Duwamish Tribe and its quest for federal recognition. On May 11, 2022, the Duwamish Tribe filed a renewed petition for federal recognition in Seattle. Under revised terms, the tribe is now permitted to submit new evidence, an opportunity that could reshape its long-standing case and the tribal landscape in Puget Sound. UNRECOGNIZED is about power, politics and culture, drawing on historical records, lived experience, and behind-the-scenes decisions about public art. Despite organized opposition from federally recognized tribes and ongoing federal barriers, UNRECOGNIZED shows how the Duwamish Tribe refuses to be erased.

After 55 years, The Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle’s University District moved out of its original location. In 2023, the building that housed the cinema for decades was sold for $2.3 million, and the new landlord declined to renew their lease beyond February 2025. As The Grand Illusion searches for a new home, its vibrant history and legacy will live on.

A ten-year-old boy insists his red plastic bucket contains his pet wave. Walter is a tender, imaginative portrait of a child navigating grief within a fractured family learning to find a new sense of stability.

Trapped in the middle seat, singer-songwriter Rae Isla spirals into an existential crisis that transforms airplane anxiety into a surreal question of “what if?”