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The French animated feature Big Bad Fox, which screens at the Spokane International Film Festival on Feb. 2.
The Spokane International Film Festival has announced its upcoming lineup of features and shorts, and it includes a diverse collection of narrative and nonfiction movies from around the globe.
SpIFF kicks off Feb. 1 with its annual
Best of the Northwest program, which showcases shorts from regional filmmakers. The fest offers several packages of both live action and animated shorts.
Amongst the festival's narrative features are
Rosalie, a French-Canadian comedy about a woman recovering from a bad breakup; the Belgian emotional thriller
You Go to My Head; the animated anthology feature
Big Bad Fox, by the filmmakers behind the Oscar-nominated
Ernest and Celestine; and
Shadow, the latest from Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou (
Hero,
House of Flying Daggers).
The documentary docket includes
Enormous: The Gorge Story, about how George, Washington, became an unlikely musical oasis; and
Time for Ihlan, which follows Ilhan Omar's journey to the House of Representatives in Minnesota.
Full festival passes are $115 (you can buy them
here), while tickets for individual screenings run $10 or $12. You can see the full schedule
here.