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Opening FRIDAY, Feb 20th 2026
The 2026 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS
Animated | Documentary | Live Action
The 98th Oscar® Nominated Shorts is distributed by Roadside Attractions and presented by acclaimed filmmaker, writer, and actor Taika Waititi. The program features three feature-length theatrical presentations, one for each Academy Award® Short Film category -- Animated, Documentary, and Live Action -- showcasing outstanding short films from around the world and honoring short films as a distinct art form.
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BEST ANIMATED SHORT | NR | 1h 28m
Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes | Reeling Reviews
"PAPILLION (Butterfly)" Directed by Florence Miailhe & Ron Dyens
As a man swims in the sea, memories come to the surface. The recollections are from his early childhood to his maturity all of which are linked to water. 2024, France (In French, Arabic & German, with English subtitles), 15 min.
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"FOREVERGREEN" Directed by Nathan Engelhardt & Jeremy Spears
An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger. 2025, US, 13 min.
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"THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS (La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles)"
Directed by Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds. 2025, Canada, (In English & French, with English subtitles), 17 min.
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"RETIREMENT PLAN" Directed by John Kelly & Andrew Freedman
In the throes of his overstimulated, energy poor midlife, Ray fantasizes about everything he’d love to do in retirement, once he finally has the “time.” 2024, Ireland, 7 min.
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"THE THREE SISTERS" Directed by Konstantin Bronzit
​Three sisters living on an isolated island must rent out one of their houses. 2024, Israel/Cyprus/Russia, 14 min.
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BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT​ | NR | 2h 37m
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"ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS" Directed by Joshua Seftel & Connall Jones
Follows correspondent Steve Hartmand and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. 2025, US, 34 min.
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"ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud"
Directed by Craig Renaud & Juan Arredondo
An intimate chronicle about documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed while reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian War. 2025, US, (In English, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic & Somali, with English subtitles) 37 min.
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"CHILDREN NO MORE: Were and Are Gone" Directed by Hilla Medalia & Sheila Nevins
Israeli peace activists hold silent vigils in Tel Aviv, displaying photos of Gaza’s young victims. Despite facing public backlash, their wordless demonstrations powerfully highlight war’s human cost. 2025, US/Israel/UK, (In Hebrew, with English subtitles) 36 min.
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"THE DEVIL IS BUSY" Directed by Geeta Gandbhir & Christalyn Hampton
At an Atlanta abortion clinic besieged by protesters, the director of operations takes necessary risks to safeguard staff and patients. 2024, US, 31 min.
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"PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS" Directed by Alison McAlpine
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be. 2024, Canada/Chile, 15 min.
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BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT | NR | 2h 0m
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"BUTCHER'S STAIN" Directed by Meyer Levinson-Blount & Oron Caspi
Samir, an Arab Israeli working in a supermarket in Tel Aviv, is accused of tearing down hostage posters in the break room. He sets out to prove his innocence to keep this job that he desperately needs. 2025, Israel, (In Hebrew & Arabic, with English subtitles), 26 min.
"A FRIEND OF DOROTHY" Directed by Lee Knight & James Dean
A lonely widow’s (Miriam Margolyes) quiet life is upended when a teenage boy accidentally kicks his football into her garden. 2025, UK, 21 min.
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"JANE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA" Directed by Julia Aks & Steve Pinder
Set in England in 1813, in the middle of a long-awaited marriage proposal, Miss Estrogenia Talbot gets her period. Her suitor, Mr. Dickley, mistakes the blood for an injury, and it soon becomes clear that his expensive education has missed as spot. 2024, US, 13 min.
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"THE SINGERS" Directed by Sam A. Davis & Jack Piatt
An impromptu sing-off will decide the best singer in the bar tonight. 2025, US, 18 min.
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"TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA" Directed by Alexandre Singh & Natalie Musteata​​
In a society where kissing is punishable by death and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angeline, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store where she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague. 2024, France/US, (In French, with English subtitles), 36 min.
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Playing ONLY thru TUESDAY, Feb 24th 2026
Oscar Nominee for
Best International Film
January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A six-year-old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.
Drama/War | NR | 1h 30m
(In Palestinian Arabic, with English subtitles)
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Playing ONLY thru WEDNESDAY, Feb 25th 2026
Playing thru THURSDAY, Feb 26th 2026
At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) navigated a fleet of ships to Southeast Asia, attempting the first voyage across the vast Pacific Ocean. On reaching the Malay Archipelago, the crew pushed to the brink of madness in the harshness of the high seas and overwhelming natural beauty of the islands, Magellan's obsession leads to a rebellion and reckoning with the consequences of power. A vast, globe-spanning epic from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz (NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY), MAGELLAN presents the colonization of the Philippines as a primal, shocking encounter with the unknown and a radical retelling of European narratives of discovery and exploration.
Biography/Drama/History | NR | 2h 36m
(In Portuguese, Cebuano, Spanish & French, with English subtitles)
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Golden Globe Nominee
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
When a man is abruptly laid off by the paper company where he has worked tirelessly for many years, he grows increasingly desperate and devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. From masterful director Park Chan-Wook
Dark Comedy/Crime/Drama | NR | 2h 19m
(In Korean, with English subtitles)
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Friday, March 6th - Sunday, March 8th
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The Spokane International Film Festival (SpIFF) is an intimate festival where filmmakers and audiences engage the art of cinema. We offer a small, selective offering of world-class films. These are the very best features, documentaries, and shorts that have been made around the world during the past year but have not yet been commercially released.
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The festival is overseen by its parent, the Contemporary Arts Alliance of Spokane, with an active Board of Directors and generous financial support from a variety of local and regional underwriters.
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“From the amazing selection of films … to the wonderful audiences that came out, I could not have asked for a better time. I’m honored to have been a guest at such a cool festival…”
Howard Ng, Director of The Inquisitive Snail​
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Opens FRIDAY, Feb 27th
Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to this gorgeous, intimate, and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.
(In Icelandic, with English subtitles)
Drama | NR | 1h 49m
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Opens FRIDAY, Mar 6th
Playing EXCLUSIVELY at Magic Lantern Theatre!!
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground.
Crime/Drama/History | R | 1h 52m
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