On Thursday, the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) will hold an opening night event at the Kirkland Performance Center, 350 Kirkland Ave.

This is the ninth year SIFF has held screenings at KPC.

This year the opening film that will be screened Thursday is “Footnotes.”

According to a SIFF press release, the film is “La La Land” meets “Norma Rae” with a pinch of Jacques Demy in this toe-tapping, working-class musical comedy with a social conscience about a young woman who gets her dream job at a luxury shoe factory, only to become enmeshed in a labor strike.

The film will begin at 8 p.m. and there will be a reception ahead of the screening beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $14 ($12 for SIFF members) and $50 for the film and party ($45 for members). The party is for guests 21 and older.

More information on the film can be found at www.siff.net/festival/footnotes.