Everett Film Festival returns Saturday with nine screenings

The Everett Film Festival, an annual event since 1997, returns Saturday with nine screenings of documentaries, narrative features and shorts.

The festival runs from 1 to 9 p.m. at the PUD Auditorium Theater, 2320 California Ave., Everett. Doors open at 12:30 p.m. Boxed meals will be provided for the first 200 ticket purchasers.

The feature film will be “Hard Shell Soft Shell,” by emerging French-Algerian director Emma Benestan, which tells a tale involving romance, feminism and the meaning of happiness.

Guest speakers will be Patricia and Kevin Paul of Swinomish, who will give a talk after the short film “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Honoring Our Stolen Sisters,” and representative from Seattle’s Kubota Garden for a Q&A following the film “Fujitaru Kubota and His Garden.”

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