SIFF will return for its 50th year with the best in international and independent cinema à la mode from across the globe, and you know the drill—the city's most well-recognized hybrid festival, which boasts an impressive selection of films from more than 70 countries this year, will present screenings virtually and at SIFF venues citywide. Although this year's roundup hasn't been announced, Stranger staffers watched and reviewed 35 of the festival's films last year, so peep their opinions to get the gist of the type of cinema you'll see. (In 2023, I liked Art for Everybody, a surprisingly thoughtful documentary on—insert groan here—Thomas Kinkade, universal basic income doc Free Money, and 26.2 To Life, which followed a marathon race at California's oldest state prison.)