For 18 years the Tacoma Sister City International Film Festival committee has been passionate about providing a memorable and enriching opportunity to celebrate international friendship through “film, food and fun”. It is in this same spirit of friendship, and concern for our global and local communities, that we have decided to postpone this year’s International Film Festival.
Our new 2020 dates will be August 28th through September 1st at the Blue Mouse Theater. We wish to offer our most sincere thanks to the Blue Mouse Theater for their support and partnership in making this change.
We did everything that we could to run the event as planned, but ultimately, we are following the guidance of public health officials as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Details are being settled for providing refunds or transfer of tickets to our new dates. Please keep an eye on your email inbox for announcements. If you have any questions, please contact us at: FilmFestival@tacomasistercities.org
For the most up to date information about COVID-19 please visit the following sites:
We wish you all good health and good spirits.
Mira Utz, Film Festival Chair & Clare Petrich, TSC Council Chair
December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years.
The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family, until things turn magical.
In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can’t provide for his family, and Sergei, a Soviet cosmonaut stranded in the Mir space station, share a common passion: amateur radio.
Peasants, tired of being nothing more than manual laborers, are discovered by the Guatemalan army.
In Rome, the America tourist Hayley meets the local lawyer Michelangelo on the street and soon they fall in love with each other. Hayley’s parents, the psychiatrist Phyllis and the retired music producer Jerry, travel to Rome to meet Michelangelo and his parents. When Jerry listens to Michelangelo’s father Giancarlo singing opera in the shower, he is convinced that he is a talented opera singer. But there is a problem: Giancarlo can only sing in the shower.
Mbarek is a farmer who ekes out a living on a small plot of land in a rural Moroccan village. He lives there with his pregnant wife Ayda, his sick father and his teen-aged son Ayoub who has Down’s Syndrome. This small piece of land is the family’s sole source of income, and the family is devastated when the village is hit by a severe drought. Mbarek begins to dig a well in the desperate hope of finding a new source of water, when an official letter arrives threatening the confiscation of his land.
In the northern part of Norway Tobias and many other children work as cod tongue cutters. The tongues are considered a delicacy, and they are exported around the world to countries like China and Japan. But in Northern Norway they are simply everyday food when in season. The children start from the age of 6, and can earn a lot of money during a winter season. This job has always been reserved for the children, as long as the fishing industry has existed. They even have their own cod tongue cutting championship every February. This winter city girl Ylva (9) from Oslo will spend her winter vacation up in the North. Normally she lives far away from cod heads, sharp knives, fish blood and intestines, but this winter …
