SBIFF's Film Center Opening November 15TH!

Things are coming along quickly as we finish installation on our temporary seating and equipment and we make plans to close in the spring for a full state-of-the-art renovation.

Click the video below to watch an update from KEYT and scroll to see the films we are opening with!

BIRD
Starts November 1512-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

DAHOMEY
Starts November 15Winner of the Golden Bear at BerlinFrom acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution.

THE PIANO LESSON
Starts November 15A brother and sister’s battle over a prized heirloom piano unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived — and who defines a family legacy.Adapted from August Wilson’s play / Directed by Malcolm Washington / Starring John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: 8 1/2
Starts November 15Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s _8½_ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: AMARCORD
Starts November 15This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s enduring treasures.

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: I VITELLONI
Starts November 15Five young men linger in a postadolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small seacoast town. They while away their time spending the lira doled out by their indulgent families on drink, women, and nights at the local pool hall. Federico Fellini’s second solo directorial effort is a semiautobiographical masterpiece of sharply drawn character sketches

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
Starts November 15Giulietta Masina plays a woman dabbling in spiritualism whose hold on reality begins to slip when she learns that her husband is having an affair, sending her on a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery in which memories, dreams, and supernatural forces merge in a kaleidoscopic gestalt.

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: LA DOLCE VITA
Starts November 15A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome’s rich and glamorous, the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist (Marcello Mastroianni) during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight.

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: LA STRADA
Starts November 15There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La Strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her mother into the employ of Zampanò, a brutal strongman in a traveling circus. When Zampanò encounters an old rival in highwire artist the Fool, his fury is provoked to its breaking point.

FELLINI RETROSPECTIVE: NIGHTS OF CABIRIA
Starts November 15In the role that won her the Best Actress award at Cannes, Giulietta Masina stars as “Cabiria,” a tough Roman streetwalker who, after a near-drowning by her pimp boyfriend, is swept off her feet by a square, but sympathetic, accountant…until a final disillusionment. Federico Fellini’s showcase for his wife won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of its year.

SBIFF FAMILY: THE WIZARD OF OZ
Starts November 15Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others’ wishes.

SBIFF FAMILY: THE PRINCESS BRIDE
Starts November 15A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other.