🎞️ The *Zion International Film Festival (ZIFF), *now in its third year and hosted at The Blue Mouse Theatre, is a celebration of cinematic creativity from around the world. As we're wrapping up our weekend of creative, fun, and thought-provoking screenings, we're looking forward to more weekday screenings through Thursday! 📍 *Location:* The Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma (+ many films available to stream online from anywhere!) 📅 *Dates: *Now-July 3rd, 2025 *Daily Highlights:* **Monday, June 30th: Shakespeare's The Tempest <https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule/shakespeare-s-the-tempest-6831024e316f1f7bd2628a21> at 8:15PM Prospero, a betrayed spaceship captain is marooned on a desert planet with his daughter Miranda. Prospero uses his mastery of magic and science to create a stellar storm that shipwrecks the very crew that betrayed him. Prospero's enemies are trapped on the planet and Prospero orchestrates a series of events to confront them. Dir. Garret Replogle* **Tuesday, July 1st: Three Infallible Rules <https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule/three-infallible-rules-683102db8faa4a9f2d6dab6f> at 8:45PM: **Bruno, 13, is in a panic: he has discovered that Flavia reciprocates his love, but he has no idea how to start a relationship. He needs someone to teach him, and Luca, whom he despises, is the only man who has made his stonehearted mother, Claudia, fall in love. Bruno will be forced to put aside any contrast and follow the advice of his worst enemy. Bruno doesn’t know that Luca and his mother live a fragile, undermined, and not at all exemplary relationship.* **Wedesday, July 2nd: The House <https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule/the-house-68310374ca61516c98dfc0ba> at 6PM* *Tenino, WA, a rural town of 2,000, becomes a flashpoint for national conversations on private prisons, sex offender recidivism, and community notification. When an adult group home CEO buys up local property with the intent of housing McNeil Island's 'worst of the worst' sexually violent predators in a $1 million cash cow scheme, residents and county law enforcement are alarmed as she shrugs off their security concerns. The plan is backed by state officials, who evade community notifications, ignore third-party contract conflicts of interest, resort to the fabrication of death threats, create false court reports, or simply walk out of public meetings to avoid accountability.The town's residents fight back in a public media battle against the greedy CEO and state officials while trying to protect those around them from becoming future victims. *Local film w/ filmmaker in attendance** **Thursday, July 3rd: I Voted <https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule/i-voted-6831046f0b6cce7e717e8325> at 7:50PM **A polling location goes under lockdown during a tense presidential election, forever changing the lives of a group of strangers as they inevitably do what most do not recommend… talk politics.* **Thursday, July 3rd: Resistance is Futile Shorts <https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule/resistance-is-futile-shorts-683104965d6b07022a725e40> at 10PM A selection of 6 short films that dive into an exploration of science fiction, AI, and dystopian themes that'll make you think "What if...?" *Includes a Tacoma local short film** 📄 *View Festival Schedule: *https://2025ziff.eventive.org/schedule See you at the movies! Marlee Myers Board Member/Festival Operations *Join us June 27th-July 3rd, 2025 at the Blue Mouse Theatre!* Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/zionfilmfest> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/zionfilmfest/> | Website <https://www.zionfilmfest.com/>