The Tacoma Sister Cities International Film Festival spotlights and celebrates the power of storytelling and cultural exchange. This will be our 18th International Film Festival, and we are pleased to offer it as a Virtual event from April 19th to 25th, including 9 films presented by our Sister City Committees. Proceeds will be used to support the Tacoma Sister City mission and programs. Our ticketing platform is Elevent, and all films will be streamed through their site by CineSend, accessible via web enabled mobile devices and PC and directly on your TV if you have Apple TV or Roku.
You can purchase your tickets now via our Elevent site. We are offering general admission and a discounted option for seniors and students. And if you are feeling generous, you can purchase a family ticket for a little more. Or, you can opt for our VIP pass, which includes all 9 films. Please note that a few of our films are limited to certain geographic locations, such as the USA, North America or Washington State. Be sure to check the film description on the ticketing site for full details.
Tickets in the Elevent system display the first day the film is available for viewing, which is April 19th. However, all TSCIFF tickets allow the film to be viewed at your leisure from the date of purchase until the end of the Festival, Midnight on the 25th of April.
We wish you all good health and good spirits.
Mira Utz, Film Festival Chair & Clare Petrich, TSC Council Chair
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 …
A Japanese family of small time thieves and cons take in a young child off the street but after the girl is shown on the news as missing, the family must go to even further elaborate lengths to avoid her being discovered.
An Italian Jew tries to protect his son in a Nazi concentration camp. An Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
Jesse Coliver and Jack Gunter bring you the adventure of a lifetime in the no holds barred true life caper into the wilds of the Mongolian border to rescue seventeen paintings–trapped behind the Iron Curtain for a quarter of a century.