Alliance Française de Seattle is excited to partner with SIFF for the Seattle's 52nd International Film Festival, highlighting the diversity of Francophone cinema! This year's program includes six films featuring the French language and seven additional films co-produced by France (with no or little spoken French).
All of these films are eligible for a Member Discount! See the Member Perks page for more information.
CASE 137 (France)
When a 20-year-old protester is shot in the head by the
police, wholly unprovoked, during demonstrations in Paris, it’s up to Stéphanie, a dedicated officer in the internal affairs unit, to
deliver justice.
CUBA & ALASKA (Ukraine, France, Belgium)
Amid the carnage of war in
Ukraine, frontline medics Cuba and Alaska risk their lives to save others, forging an unbreakable bond of friendship while holding onto
dreams of a life beyond conflict.
MURDER IN THE BUILDING (France)
A crime writer and his film professor partner
become caught up in a real-life mystery of their own when they witness a crime in the apartment across the courtyard of their Paris
apartment building.
PROMISED SKY (Tunisia, France, Qatar)
A community of Ivorian women navigating
the complexities of migrant life in Tunisia are forced to make difficult decisions when they rescue an orphaned girl from a shipwreck.
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THE BIG CHEESE (USA, France, Sweden)
Adam “Mr. Moo” Moskowitz is on a mission
to make the world take American cheesemongers seriously. For over a decade, he’s led a team of eccentric misfits to the Olympics of
Cheese, where Team USA has never won. Could this be their year?
THE SONGBIRDS' SECRET (France)
A crime writer and his film professor partner
become caught up in a real-life mystery of their own when they witness a crime in the apartment across the courtyard of their Paris
apartment building.
In a Sudanese cotton village where the matriarch is rumored to have killed a British general, teenage Nafisa must decide what she owes her grandmother’s legacy and what she’s willing to burn down to claim her own.
How do you make sense of Franz Kafka? With fictional interviews with Kafka’s friends and family and thrilling plunges into his fiction, Franz does not explain, but playfully and inventively explores the man and his work.
Set amid Michoacán’s electrifying bull-riding celebrations, Jaripeo uncovers queer desire within a fiercely hypermasculine world—blending music, dance, and intimate stories into a vibrant celebration of sensuality, joy, and the freedom to live openly in one’s own skin.
Inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s nearly three decades at the Ospedale della Pietà, where orphaned girls performed from behind screens and convent walls, this dramatic story follows Cecilia—a gifted young virtuoso who refused to be silenced.
A coming-of-age story following a tomboyish 11-year-old girl whose intellectual father is dying of cancer and mother at her wits’ end. The courageous girl seeks adventures, some involving the paranormal.
In a historical moment when an “us versus them” mentality is fueling polarization around the world, director Emin Alper grapples with this issue in a timeless tale with real-world resonance.
Semi-nomadic shepherd and cheesemaker Gara raises her 13-year-old niece Nada as her own. As she fights to protect her grazing land from a NATO military expansion, Nada begins to imagine her own future.
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