#LocalSightings Film Festival features a nail-biting collection of shorts, ALL IN MY HEAD!
In these horror shorts, characters encounter intergalactic beings, hidden worlds, and haunted houses which make them question reality.

DATE: Saturday, Sep. 27 at 4pm
TIX: bit.ly/lsff2025horror

👏 ENCORE ALERT 👏

Back by popular demand, we are adding TWO encores to #LocalSightings Film Festival! The coming-of-age film TRASH BABY returns Wednesday, Sep 24 at 7:00pm, and the unforgettable doc NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD returns Thursday, Sep 25 at 6:30pm

🚗 BUCKLE UP 🚗

The road trip movie EVERGREENS is coming to #LocalSightings Film Festival!

👁️ WANNA BE A MEMBER? 👁️

Throughout this year's #LocalSightings Film Festival (Sep. 19-28), anyone who purchases or renews a membership at Northwest Film Forum in person or online will be automatically entered into a drawing for several spectacular prices!

🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🔥

Thanks @thestrangerseattle for the coverage of #LocalSightings Film Festival! The great @hutchthegreat calls our Opening Night film POLICE BEAT “a genuine Seattle classic…a must-see on the big screen” – and we couldn’t agree more

🐺 MIND THE WOLVES 🐺

#LocalSightings Film Festival features the fascinating doc WOLF LAND! Cascade PBS journalist Sarah Hoffman makes her feature-length debut with this film that injects nuance into a divisive issue: the conflict between ranchers and wolves in Washington State.

Commiserate over workplace woes at 9 TO 5, a bitingly satirical collection of short films playing at #LocalSightings Film Festival! With wit and verve, these documentary and narrative films tackle impostor syndrome, the pressure to perform, and unequal power dynamics in the workplace.

We’re throwing a launch party for #LocalSightings Film Festival! Come on out to the Forum this Saturday, Sep. 13 to meet the festival programmers, Northwest Film Forum staff and board members, and local filmmakers from across the region!

Local Sightings 2025 – Because I Love You (Shorts) - Northwest Film Forum ADD PROGRAM SYNOPSIS FROM ALISON HERE

Fall head over heels for BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, a shorts program at #LocalSightings Film Festival 2025 that’s all about the ups and downs of love! With humor, tenderness, and plenty of heart, these films explore meet-cutes, breakups, and everything in between

☀️ CATCH THE SUNLIGHT ☀️

On the first weekend of #LocalSightings Film Festival 2025, join us for a one-of-a-kind workshop with filmmaker Tina Jacobson and @ics_film!

Cyanotype Workshop with Interbay Cinema Society
DATES: Saturday, Sep. 20 and Sunday, Sep. 21 (10am)
REGISTER: bit.ly/lsff2025cyanotype

#LocalSightings Film Festival 2025 features a thought-provoking shorts program, HOMELANDS! These documentary and narrative shorts explore diaspora, belonging, and the search for home across the Pacific Northwest, from a gentrifying Portland neighborhood to the Blackfeet Nation’s mountain plains.

Local Sightings 2025 – Growing Pains (Shorts) - Northwest Film Forum Love, loss, and longing take on extra potency when you’re a young person navigating a confusing world.

Get ready to feel all the feels at #LocalSightings Film Fest with GROWING PAINS, a collection of coming-of-age shorts exploring the turmoil of adolescence and young adulthood with poignancy and poetry

DATE: Sunday, Sep. 21 at 3:30pm
TIX: bit.ly/lsff2025growing
FESTIVAL PASSES: bit.ly/lsff2025pass

After a world premiere at SXSW, writer-director Jacy Mairs’ beautiful TRASH BABY is coming to #LocalSightings Film Festival! Authentic and deeply rooted in place, @trashbabyfilm follows a young girl as she navigates growing up, getting out, and the art of finding beauty in the ugliest of places.

Join us on the first Saturday of #LocalSightings Film Festival for the poetic, haunting doc NOT ONE DROP OF BLOOD dir. Jackson Devereux @jack.sunflower and Lachlan Hinton @soy_lacchiato! Don’t miss this unforgettable true-crime story set in the Eastern Oregon high desert

🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY POLICE BEAT 🎂

#LocalSightings Film Festival 2025 kicks off with Charles Mudede @mudede and Robinson Devor’s Seattle-made classic, POLICE BEAT. Help us celebrate POLICE BEAT’S 20th anniversary in style with an Opening Night bash!

🎉NEW FEST TRAILER JUST DROPPED 🎉

#LocalSightings Film Fest kicks off in just three weeks! This year’s festival spotlights the “best of the Northwest” in cinema with 60+ films (including more than a dozen world premieres), plus hands-on workshops, meet-ups, and more!

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