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Best of SIFF 2009 - Shorts

Join us as we travel the best of the SIFF shorts - award winners, audience favorites, and programming favorites. From über-gluttons to murderous Christmas trees, the world's cutest deer, and the impossibility of some requests, these shorts will take you places. …
Black Dynamite

Winner Best Film - SIFF 2009 Golden Space Needle Audience Awards
When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the only hero willing to fight from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House, in this pitch perfect ode to Blaxploitation. …
The Cove

Winner Best Documentary - SIFF 2009 Golden Space Needle Audience Awards
The Cove is a fast-paced exposé of Japan's dolphin trade. Richard Barry, the man who trained Flipper, is now an activist who seeks to free captive dolphins. Louie Psihoyos (a National Geographic veteran) and a team of activists and divers show exactly what film can do as they proceed with anarchic vigor …
The Family Picture Show - Best of SIFF 2009

The exuberance of youth is given full display with this energetic set of shorts highlighting Shakespearean construction vehicles, knit animation, and Wallace and Gromit in their new short adventure. …
Humpday

Lynn Shelton will be in attendance. In this smart satire from Seattle’s Lynn Shelton, two college buddies test the limits of heterosexual male bonding by agreeing to take part in an amateur porn contest, based on the real-life competition held by The Stranger. …
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

A group of janitorial slackers unwittingly becomes the subject of a very bizarre biochemical engineering experiment involving self-warming cookies that may help illuminate the meaning of existence. Full of imaginative animation sequences, this visually inventive comedy from Seattle’s David Russo is really a spiritual quest in sheep’s clothing. …
Morris: A Life With Bells On

For those who think the English folk dance Morris is just an innocent pub pastime involving hanky-waving and bearded men with staffs, you have never seen its politics-laden, ultra-competitive side. Follow Millsham Morris, and its leader Derecq Twist, in their pursuit of Morris perfection. …
OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Twelve years after his adventures in Cairo, agent OSS 117 is back for another mission at the end of the world. He teams up with a sexy Mossad agent to capture a Nazi blackmailer. Lost in Rio features a jubilantly retro score and a flair for using 1960s vocabulary to revisit colonial arrogance. Recommended for ages 13+. …
The Other Bank

Winner Grand Jury Prize - SIFF 2009 New Directors Showcase Competition
A 12-year-old Georgian refugee travels back to war-torn Abkhazia to find his father and a second chance at life. His odyssey takes him across physical and emotional borders, where nationalism and revenge are the way of life. A riveting story about a boy with grownup cares who finds a path to living bravely. …
Rembrandt's J'Accuse

Part art history essay, forensic mystery, and criminal investigation, writer-director Peter Greenaway’s Rembrandt’s J’Accuse invents a new and unusual kind of cinema through an exploration of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch.” This atypical film is complex and unexpectedly amusing as it traces the murderous backstory behind the Dutch masterpiece. …
Shrink

Henry Carter is a Hollywood psychiatrist with a paranoid, alcoholic, germ-phobic, befuddled A-list clientele, but Henry’s not in such great shape himself. Writer Thomas Moffett plays on classic archetypes in this satirical study of control and our endless need for it. With an all-star cast, Shrink was the smash hit of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. …
Swimsuit Issue

In the wake of a wild bachelor party, Fredrik discovers his passion for synchronized swimming. Convincing his floorball teammates to join him as Sweden’s only all-male team, they set their sights on the world championships in this oddball, comedic tale of courage, triumph and gender role reversal. …
talhotblond

Winner Grand Jury Prize - SIFF 2009 Documentary Competition
An incredible-but-true crime story of a love triangle where the lovers never meet face to face, but one person ends up dead, another goes to prison, and the families of all three are changed forever. …

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