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SIFF Cinema Monthly Guide: May 2025

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MAY/JUNE 2025 HIGHLIGHTS

Sinners

CLOSES MAY 11 • DOWNTOWN Get ready for Ryan Coogler’s (Black Panther) highly anticipated and wildly ambitious vampire take on the Jim Crow South in Sinners, featuring Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers. Critics are calling it ‘gory, horny, relevant,’ so you’ll want to be sure to see it on our 97-foot screen in immersive Dolby Atmos sound.

The Phoenician Scheme

Ran (1985)

Rashomon (1950)

Akira Kurosawa’s Academy Award-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

A horrible crime is told and retold from multiple— and vastly divergent perspectives—in the classic film that brought Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa to the global stage.

MAY 30–JUN 4 • DOWNTOWN

MAY 30–JUN 1 • DOWNTOWN

OPENS JUN 5 • DOWNTOWN

MAY 2–11 • UPTOWN

No Other Land

The Wedding Banquet

Wes Anderson’s newest film is the story of a family and a family business. Benicio del Toro plays tycoon Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton is Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera is Bjorn Lund, an entomologist.

A devastatingly personal story about the decades-long forced demolition of Masafer Yatta, a rural West Bank community. 2025 Academy Award Winner: Best Documentary Feature.

Frustrated with his boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee’s expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.

The Shrouds

Metropolitan (1990)

Björk: Cornucopia

Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Due to the death of his wife, he invents gravetech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves are desecrated, so Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

An ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene, Metropolitan chronicles the rise and ultimate decline of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor, and the impending demise of their class.

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences worldwide for five years.

CLOSES MAY 11 • UPTOWN

MAY 4 • UPTOWN

Director Whit Stillman is scheduled to attend.

THANK YOU TO OUR SIFF CINEMA SPONSORS

CLOSES MAY 11 • UPTOWN

MAY 7 & 10 • UPTOWN


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