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Tacoma Film Festival

Tacoma, WA · Arts & Culture

When

October 22–25, 2026

Where

The Grand Cinema · Tacoma · WA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The South Sound's marquee independent film festival, run by the nonprofit Grand Cinema for two decades. The 2026 edition marks its 20th year screening features, shorts, and documentaries with visiting filmmakers in attendance.

The history within reach

• Tacoma Film Festivalsame spot

  The South Sound's marquee independent film festival, run by the nonprofit Grand Cinema for two decades.

• The Spanish Steps, a staircase copied from Rome and used as a fire escape0.1 mi

  Tacoma built these stairs in 1916 to get pedestrians down the bluff between Broadway and Commerce Street, modelled on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome.

• The Pantages Theater, built for the vaudeville circuit that carried the name0.2 mi

  Alexander Pantages commissioned this house in 1916 for his vaudeville chain and it opened in January 1918.

• Old City Hall, the Italianate clocktower Tacoma kept losing tenants for0.2 mi

  Tacoma put up its city hall in 1893 in a northern Italian style, with masonry walls eight feet thick at the base tapering to six at street level and a ten story clocktower on the corner of Pacific Avenue.

• 10 Things I Hate About You0.3 mi

  A castle of a high school, turrets and all, originally built as a luxury hotel, that stood in for the film's Padua High.