Film

The Tacoma Film Festival kicked off in downtown Tacoma Thursday. The festival will show 17 feature films and more than 150 short films by filmmakers from all over the world, including dozens from across the Pacific Northwest.

Northwest Film Forum’s Local Sightings Film Festival kicks off Sept. 16, featuring films from throughout the Northwest – as far north as Vancouver B.C., as far south as Oregon and as far east as Montana. KNKX’s Kevin Kniestedt talked with Northwest Film Forum executive director Vivian Hua about some of the screenings that she’s excited to feature this year.

They’re known as "the lost birds" – Native children who were adopted out of their tribal communities and placed with white families. Nearly 400 of these…

2020 was a challenging year for a lot of us, and the film industry was no exception. But some local filmmakers were able to get their work completed and…

A new film based on an award-winning novel by a Portland author is playing across the country this summer. It’s star hails from Yakima, Washington.

Filmmaker Derek McNeill started with a question: What circumstances lead people to the roving Seattle homeless camp known as Nickelsville?In mid-2015, he…

What you think of the film director John Waters might depend on how you came to know him. Maybe you first saw his work “Hairspray,” a 1988 film with Ricki…

Comedian Mike Birbiglia is in Seattle Friday Aug. 5 for screenings of his new film “Don’t Think Twice” at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Birbiglia wrote, directed…

The director, a young man from Tajikistan, says he wanted to show a day in the life of an ant. But there may be more to it than that.

Sean Penn's new movie set in Africa got booed at Cannes. Critics said its African characters were "bleeding wallpaper." Here are 4 films that give African characters (and actors) their due.