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Each year SIFF highlights the best narrative features, documentaries and short films made here in the Emerald City. Seattle is reflected in the work of our artists, and this year’s crop of 25 films includes World Premieres of the features The Standard, Urban Scarecrow, and documentaries Mom’s Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mother’s Custody Movement, and This is Gary McFarland. With 13 shorts, 7 features and 6 documentaries, the breadth and skill of the filmmakers here in our backyard is obvious.
USA, 2006, 110 min.
Aurora and Raymond are an Asian American couple on the outs. They both move on to new to relationships but Raymond has trouble letting go—to the point where he visits her apartment when she’s not there. Ultimately, Americanese explores how racism can damage even the most intimate relationship …
USA, 2006, 11 min.
On the anniversary of his wife's death, Sam recalls the past in order to decide how best to move forward. …
USA, 2005, 129 min.
A Native American road striper, a student beautician, a Vietnamese banker, his adopted American son and an elderly exhibitionist attempt to find their footing in a world of miscommunication, denial and unmet expectations. Apart from That explores the anatomy of love and vulnerability through …
USA, 2006, 77 min.
A father and son are reunited in the Canadian wilderness after nearly two decades—one adept at living off the land, the other a product of Seattle’s urban jungle. The rustic Yukon town of Old Crow (population 250) forms the stunning backdrop of this moving, vivid documentary. …
USA, 2006, 88 min.
In this sharply written gay comedy of manners, a successful male escort begins to rethink his chosen profession, spurred on by newly complex relationships with his younger gung-ho roommate and an older, unusually chivalrous client. Q. Allen Brocka’s follow-up to his hit Eating Out ... …
USA, 2005, 7 min.
A rabbi candidly shares the unspoken secrets of his trade as a grief-facilitator in this award winning animated film from Seattle filmmaker Sarah Jane Lapp. …
USA, 2005, 8 min.
A vibrant and highly animated look at the aesthetics of clouds. …
USA, 2006, 7 min.
Dayna Hanson (of 33 Fainting Spells) relates her experience of trying to convert her car to run on biodiesel fuel, and performs an impromptu dance number in the alley behind a Chinese restaurant. …
USA, 2005, 3 min.
A manipulation of time and space in the editing room gives this dance for two a unique twist. …
USA, 2006, 94 min.
In this romantic fable, Charlie Silver Cloud III (Robert A. Guthrie) is about to turn 25, the same age his father and grandfather were when they were killed by milk trucks. Convinced his own tragic fate awaits him, Charlie prepares for his date with destiny. Then he meets a girl who won’t let him di …
USA, 2006, 10 min.
As two sisters pick blackberries, the eldest turns the chore into a game of Monopoly. …
USA, 2005, 16 min.
Tired of wasting time on relationships that break up, one man decides to go for Full Disclosure on the first date. …
USA, 2005, 98 min.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS SCREENING A riveting six-year journey into the heart of Roosevelt High School’s girls’ basketball team. A maverick college tax professor takes over as coach to a struggling Seattle team with great success. He is challenged by Darnellia, an inner city tough girl with incredible skills, but her off-court difficulties threaten to sideline the team’s effort to win the state champio …
USA, 2005, 5 min.
A misfit artist proposes a film to an arts festival committee. …
USA, 2006, 57 min.
An important document of GLBT history, Mom's Apple Pie looks at Seattle-based Lesbian Mothers Defence Fund, founded in the early 1970s as a resource for mothers whose children were being legally removed from their care based solely on the fact that they were lesbians. Narrated by Kate Clinton …
USA, 2005, 1 min.
Please wait for the light to change before crossing the street. …
USA, 2005, 76 min.
After settling in Seattle in the ’80s, three Cambodian refugees were drawn into gang life and ultimately ended up in jail. In the wake of 9/11, Cambodia was pressured to change their policy against accepting deportees, so now these Cambodian Americans are faced with leaving their families and return …
USA, 2006, 75 min.
Seattle director Kristian St. Clair explores the life and times of self-taught jazz musician, composer and arranger Gary McFarland, who, before his mysterious death in 1971, collaborated with such notables as Gerry Mulligan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Clark Terry, Gabor Szabo and C …
USA, 2005, 2 min.
One man’s nightmares take physical shape in a rising tide that seems to be taking the form of each and every figure in the crowd. …
USA, 2005, 14 min.
Even in the segregated South, Tootie Pie and Claressa—two African-American girls—come from very different worlds. …
USA, 2006, 82 min.
The second feature from Seattle filmmaker Andrew McAllister (SHAG CARPET SUNSET) tells the bittersweet story of a quiet and detached teenager who, in the six years since his mother’s death, has been living with his father in a small motel amid the landscape of abandoned buildings, old signs and crac …
USA, 2006, 95 min.
Proclaimed a Film Genius by The Stranger, Linas Phillips returns to Seattle and will present Walking to Werner at SIFF Cinema for one night only! Join us for this special event on Friday, November 7, 9:30pm, at SIFF Cinema. Phillips will introduce the film and answer questions afterward. …
USA, 2006, 80 min.
Aspiring actress Kate has been sleepwalking through life. When confronted by the very inquisitive 13-year-old version of herself, she is forced to do the most difficult thing of all—live life honestly and reclaim her sense of self—in this award-winning debut feature from Seattle-based Lynn Shelton. …
Who gets to be Steve? A footrace to decide. …
USA, 2005, 9 min.
Local filmmaker/dancer Gaelen Hanson (of 33 Fainting Spells) gives a thrilling performance for and with the camera. …
