SpIFF Social Hour
The Garland Theater 924 West Garland Avenue, Spokane, United StatesJoin us as we gather to celebrate the Spokane International Film Festival’s 22nd year! Rub elbows with fellow film aficionados and visiting filmmakers! This SpIFFy soirée will have food, drink, a no-host bar, and the artwork of Posterize! Admission to the SpIFF Social Hour is included with your ticket to Opening Night.
Opening Night – Best of the Northwest + Quiet Explosions: Healing the Brain
The Garland Theater 924 West Garland Avenue, Spokane, United StatesJoin us on February 28 for the opening night of SpIFF 2020 at the Garland Theater as we kick off with a SpIFF social hour at 6:00pm, followed by the Best of the Northwest Shorts, a 93-minute program featuring 11 short films inspired by the Pacific Northwest. Then stick around for an intermission and desserts…
Bamboo and Barbed Wire
The Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesUSA / 2019 / 83 min. Directed by Karen Day Sponsored by SFCC Student Activities Watch trailer Bamboo and Barbed Wire chronicles U.S. justice system from internment in WWII to the Muslim travel ban enacted in 2017. With appearances by Ruth Bader Ginsberg and George Takei.
World Shorts
The Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesWorld / 90 min. / Short Films Various languages with English subtitles A selection of the finest short films from around the world. With English subtitles. Anna Ukraine / 15 min. / Ukrainian/English Directed by Dekel Berenson Living in war-torn Eastern Ukraine, Anna is an aging single mother who is desperate for a change. Lured…
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes
The Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesCanada / 2019 / 83 min. Directed by Alison Reid Sponsored by EWU Watch trailer The Woman Who Loves Giraffes profiles Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, who started studying giraffes in the wild in South Africa in 1956, and provides an intimate look at her career and the animals she has always loved.
Eagle Boy + Shorts
The Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesEagle Boy USA / 2018 / 59 min. Directed by Ruth Eddy and Samuel Wilson Watch trailer Eagle Boy follows a team competing in a treacherous horse competition, "The Suicide Race". Horses and jockeys dash down steep hills and hurtle across the Okanogan River on the Colville Reservation. The meditative pace of film looks beyond…
The Wolf House
The Magic Lantern Theater 25 W. Main Ave, Spokane, WA, United StatesChile/Germany / 2018 / 74 min. Directed by Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León Watch trailer The Wolf House tells the story of Maria, a young woman who has recently excaped from a sect of German religious fanatics. But The Wolf House is inhabited only by animals, and nightmarish situations unfold.