Violent fate brings two couples together in the Austrian countryside in Academy Award nominated and Berlin Film Festival winning thrillerRevanche. Directed by Gotz Spielmann, Revanche transforms what could be just another cops and robbers tale into a thoughtful treatise on love, violence, obsession, revenge and even redemption, asking, “Whose fault is it if life doesn’t go your way?” At SIFF Cinema

Also at SIFF this weekend: First, Films4Families series selection Chicken Run, Saturday morning at 10 – an endearing animated action flick about a group of clever chickens anxious to escape the cruel fate waiting for them on the farm and the rooster who isn’t quite the hero they want him to be.

Second, ITVS Community Cinema Seattle and SIFF present at noon a free screening of Crips and Bloods: Made in America, Stacy Peralta’s thoughtful documentary about the history and present tense of one of the world’s bloodiest hot spots – South Central LA.

Three friends from Washington, DC, ponder the meaning of family and identity as they move aimlessly through Mexico on a journey of self-discovery with the ashes of their dead friend in El Camino starting Friday at the Grand Illusion.

Late Night at the Grand Illusion: Dead Heat in which a pair of cops played by Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo follow a trail of unkillable killers to the nefarious labs of Vincent Price and must use his Resurrection Device to solve their own murder.

NWFF continues their ’69 series with two very different but equally amusing films. Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run, his first as writer/director/actor is an early “mockumentary” about Virgil Starkweather, a would-be bank robber who isn’t exactly a criminal mastermind. As well as being Allen’s first film, it remains one of his funniest.

Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? is every bit as odd as the title might lead you to believe. An X-rated semi-autobiographical musical comedy written, directed by and starring Anthony Newley and featuring Joan Collins as “Polyester Poontang” and Milton Berle as “Goodtime Eddie Filth”.

Central Cinema screens Carrie, the 1970s horror movie that gave novelist Stephen King (from whose book the movie was adapted) a permanent place on the pop culture map.

Midnight at the Egyptian: The Terminator, the eerie sci-fi thriller that launched an ever-expanding franchise and gave star Arnold Schwarzenegger a permanent place on the pop culture.