Once a month we will feature a one night only screening of a film that every cinephile should see. Before each showing, SBIFF’s Executive Director Roger Durling will give an introduction on why this film is vital.
February 23, 2026
The Night Of The Hunter One Night Only – Wednesday, April 15 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he’d stolen in a robbery. Directed by Charles Laughton Written by James Agee Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish 1h 32m 1955
February 23, 2026
Cleo from 5 to 7 One Night Only – Wednesday, May 20 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor. Directed by Agnès Varda Written by Agnès Varda Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blank, Michel Legrand 1h 29m 1962
April 9, 2026
THE RED SHOES One Night Only – Wednesday, June 17 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center Two-time Academy Award winner including Best Art Direction and Score; nominated for a total of 5 Oscars. A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Written by Hans Christian Andersen, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter Starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring 2h 15m 1948
April 9, 2026
BEING THERE One Night Only – Wednesday, July 22 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center Academy Award winner for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Nominated for 2 Oscars. After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he’s ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. Directed by Hal Ashby Written by Jerzy Kosinski & Robert C. Jones Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, […]
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December 11, 2025
The Seventh Seal One Night Only – Wednesday, March 18 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. Written and Directed by Ingmar Bergman Starring Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson and Bengt Ekerot 1957 1h 37m
December 11, 2025
Wings of Desire 4K Restoration One Night Only – Wednesday, February 25 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Film Center An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin’s residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal. Directed by Wim Wenders Written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois and Otto Sander 1987 2h 8m
November 3, 2025
The Apartment 65th Anniversary 4K Restoration One Night Only – Wednesday, January 14 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre C.C. Baxter is an office clerk who courts favour with the executives in his office by giving them the key to his small apartment for their extramarital flings. Among them is his callous boss, J.D. Sheldrake, who Baxter eventually learns is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik, the sweet elevator operator the clerk has loved from afar. When Sheldrake coldly […]
August 25, 2025
ALL THAT JAZZ 4K Restoration One Night Only – Wednesday, December 17 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. Directed by Bob Fosse Written by Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse Starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman 2h 3m 1979
August 12, 2025
Barry Lyndon 4K Restoration 50th Anniversary One Night Only – Wednesday, November 19 – 6:00pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre Seven-time Academy Award nominee including Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay; Winner of Best Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design and Music Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick’s lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.. Forced to leave Ireland after killing […]
August 7, 2025
Gaslight One Night Only – Wednesday, October 15 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre Academy Award winner for Best Actress (Bergman) and Art Direction, also nominated for Best Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Writing and Cinematography Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. Directed by George […]
July 31, 2025
Diva 4K Restoration One Night Only – Tuesday, September 23rd – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre France’s Submission to the Academy Awards César Award winner for Best First Film, Cinematography, Music, and Sound Jules (Frédéric Andréi) goes on the run from every conceivable pursuer – from drug dealers and music pirates to the cops – after obtaining a recording of the woman of his dreams, the never-recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez) Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix Written by Jean-Jacques […]
July 21, 2025
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) One Night Only – Wednesday, August 20 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright […]
June 25, 2025
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) One Night Only – Wednesday, July 23 – 5:30pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With […]
June 25, 2025
Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis) One Night Only – Wednesday, June 25 – 6:00pm SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War II, follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault, […]