Shoreline Community College is proud to be a venue for the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival, running from May 15 – May 25 with an amazing lineup of films from around the world!

It’s closing weekend for this year’s festival – take a look at the films being screened right here in the SCC Theater.

Friday 5/23 

• 3:30pm: Paul Anka: His Way (99 minutes), United States:  He faced it all, stood tall, and did it his way. Get the inside scoop on the life and career of Paul Anka, the Canadian-born son of immigrants who rocketed to the top of the charts not just as a teen heartthrob, but as the songwriter of some of America’s greatest standards. Purchase tickets for Paul Anka.
• 6:00pm: Know Her Name (80 minutes), Canada: In this amazing slice of film herstory, learn the legacy of women directors who have fought to be seen and heard and have their films preserved…and how to not let the next generation get lost in the same inequitable and homogenized system. Purchase tickets for Know Her Name.
• 8:30pm: I Am Nevenka (112 minutes), Spain: Nevenka Fernández, the town’s finance councilor, is relentlessly pursued by the mayor, a man used to always getting what he wants politically and personally. Nevenka decides to report him, turning her courageous fight into Spain’s first #MeToo case. Purchase tickets for I Am Nevenka.

Saturday 5/24 

• 12:30pm: Salsa Lives (101 minutes), Colombia: The rhythms, passion, and energy of Salsa do not recognize borders. Born in the vibrant streets of New York, it conquered and reigned in Cali. Featuring Salsa legends like Rubén Blades and Henry Fiol, this illuminating journey shows how entire generations have celebrated their common identity through music and dance. Purchase tickets for Salsa Lives.
• 3:30pm: Flamingos: Life After the Meteorite (83 minutes), Mexico: Finding the right partner, the right place, and the ideal time to create a family is the most decisive task in nature. Instinct, love, and risk are intertwined in this unforgettable journey of the Caribbean flamingo in its most delicate period of existence, a journey at once surprising, enthralling, and deeply inspiring. Purchase tickets for Flamingos.
• 6:00pm: The Botanist (96 minutes), China: In Jing Yi’s fantastical, lushly framed drama set in rural northwestern China, a lonely 13-year-old Kazakh boy in touch with the wonders of nature befriends a local Han girl, only for the call of the modern outside world to come calling. Purchase tickets for The Botanist.
• 8:30pm: To a Land Unknown (106 minutes), Greece: Chatila and Reda are Palestinian refugees stuck in Athens, trying to figure out how to get to Germany, how to stay alive in the meanwhile, and how to do it all without losing their humanity. Purchase tickets for To a Land Unknown.

Sunday 5/25 

• 1:00pm: Familiar Touch (91 minutes), United States: Ruth Goldman (Broadway legend Kathleen Chalfant) has been living with dementia for some time, and the time has come to place her in an assisted living facility. But while this may seem like the end, for her it represents something like a new beginning in this poignant, Venice Film Festival-winning drama. Purchase tickets for Familiar Touch.
• 3:30pm Little Red Sweet (92 minutes), Hong Kong: In a rapidly changing Kowloon City, one Hong Kong family struggles to keep their traditional dessert shop open in the face of illness, generational desires, and gentrification in Vincent Chow Wing’s wistful, nostalgic family drama. Purchase tickets for Little Red Sweet.
• 6:00pm: Shepherds (113 minutes), Canada (Québec): In this layered, bucolic drama from Francophone director Sophie Deraspe (Antigone) full of moments of beauty and harsh reality, a Quebeçois marketing executive gives it all up and moves to the French Alps to become a sheep herder. Purchase tickets for Shepherds.

Be sure to visit the SIFF website to see the full lineup of amazing films happening at the 2025 Seattle International Film Festival.