SIFF Cinema Monthly Guide: March 2026

MARCH 2026 HIGHLIGHTS

Project Hail Mary

OPENS MAR 19 • DOWNTOWN

Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a school-teacher-turned-astronaut, wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone...Based on Andy Weir’s ("The Martian") novel of the same name, Project Hail Mary is an exhilarating space adventure set in the near future.

MARCH 2026 FILM SCHEDULE*

Oscar-Nominated Shorts

NOW PLAYING ■ UPTOWN

For the 21st consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered — Animated, Live Action, and Documentary — this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)!

SIFF MOVIE CLUB

SLC Punk (1998)

MAR 2 ■ UPTOWN

In this lively comedy, a blue-haired punker and his best pal find their anarchist ideals at odds with life in their starched hometown: Salt Lake City.

Sirāt

OPENS MAR 5 ■ UPTOWN

A winner of this year’s Cannes Competition Jury Prize, Sirāt is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver…

A Poet

MAR 6–9 ■ FILM CENTER

An aging, obscure writer mentors a talented teen, hoping to give her what he never had. But their bond — rooted in good intentions — spirals into a web of poor decisions and the weight of unmet ambitions.

MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA

Raging Bull (1980)

MAR 11 ■ UPTOWN

A skilled boxer’s (Robert De Niro) anger serves him well in the ring, but it threatens his relations with his brother (Joe Pesci), his new wife (Cathy Moriarty) and the Mafia, which wants to control his career. Fight sequences as poetic ecstasy.

Suburban Fury

FEB 27–MAR 5 ■ FILM CENTER

Local documentarian Robinson Devor (Zoo, Pow Wow) returns to SIFF with this probing biography of Sara Jane Moore, the FBI informant and single mother who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA Taxi Driver (1976)

MAR 2 ■ UPTOWN

He’s (Robert De Niro) an alienated, lonely man in an urban snake pit, who sees himself as “an avenging angel” capable of heroic action, like saving a teen prostitute (Jodie Foster) from her sleazy pimp (Harvey Keitel). People with“bad ideas” in the city of night. 50th anniversary screening.

The Bride!

OPENS MAR 5 ■ DOWNTOWN

In 1930s Chicago, groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious brings a murdered young woman back to life to be a companion for Frankenstein's monster. What happens next is beyond what either of them could ever have imagined.

Days and Nights in the Forest

MAR 6–8 ■ UPTOWN

In this newly restored cult favorite by Indian legend Satyajit Ray, four young male urbanites decamp to the countryside for some rest and relaxation, only to have their pride and prejudices challenged by three women.

Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)

MAR 13–15 ■ FILM CENTER

One of the major achievements of twenty-firstcentury cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. 4K restoration.

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

The Fifth Step

MAR 14–16 ■ FILM CENTER

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden ("Slow Horses," Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, "The Responder") in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

Tow

MAR 20–26 ■ UPTOWN

Rose Byrne delivers an unstoppable performance as real-life unhoused hero, Seattle-ite Amanda Ogle, whose fight to regain custody of her live-in automobile becomes an unforgettable rallying cry for the little guy.

Q&A at 7pm on March 20 with film team including Producer Brent Stiefel, and real-life subjects Amanda and Avery Ogle, and lawyer Kevin Eggers.

MARTIN SCORSESE: MAESTRO OF CINEMA GoodFellas (1990)

MAR 25 ■ UPTOWN

Three mobsters (Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci) play by Mob rules, enjoying money, prestige, wine women and song “like a rollicking road movie.” But they misstep, triggering a delirious climactic fall from grace. One of the greatest of all films. 4K restoration.

The King of Comedy (1982)

MAR 18 ■ UPTOWN

Mediocre

being on the

TV show. Maybe his chances would improve if he and his friend (Sandra Bernhard) kidnapped his idol. Delightfully cringey.

COMMUNITY SCREENING Bringing Up Baby (1938)

MAR 22 ■ DOWNTOWN

Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity.