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Each year the Seattle International Film Festival selects four directors from around the globe who have, within the span of a decade or so, established themselves as potential cinematic masters. Past honorees have included Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run”), Miike Takashi (“Audition”), Michael Winterbottom (“Welcome to Sarajevo”), François Ozon (“8 Women”), Jacques Audiard (“Read My Lips”) and Park Chan-wook (“Old Boy”). This year SIFF fetes four of the brightest prospects on the international film scene as its latest Emerging Masters: from Argentina, Pablo Trapero (“Crane World,” “Rolling Family”); from China, Jia Zhang-ke (“Platform,” “The World”); from Denmark, Susanne Bier (“Open Hearts,” “Brothers”); and from Hungary, Attila Janisch (“The Long Twilight,” “After the Day Before”).
Hungary, 2004, 119 min.
A stranger on a bicycle roams the empty countryside looking for a house that he's supposed to inherit. He arrives in a small town on the same day a 15-year-old girl has been found murdered. This psycho thriller about the psychology of sin is enhanced by an Arvo Pärt score. Director Attila Janisch scheduled to attend both screenings …
Denmark, 2004, 113 min.
The idyllic life of a happily married couple is torn asunder when husband Michael, working with the U.N., is presumed dead after an attack in Afghanistan. In the aftermath, wife Susanne grows close to his unconventional brother Jannik, leading to unanticipated complications when Michael returns home months later. Directed by Emerging Master Susanne Bier. …
Argentina, 1999, 89 min.
The story of an aging and overweight one-time rock star who searches for work as a semi-skilled laborer. Employing the style of 1950s Italian neo-realism, Crane World is buoyed by the instinctive sense of optimism and perseverance that keeps the men and women of Argentina’s working class going. …
Hungary, 1997, 70 min.
Adapted from Shirley Jackson’s story “The Bus,” an elderly archaeologist finds herself on a journey through an eerie landscape peopled with everyday monsters, visiting places that seem to be from her past. A ravishingly beautiful tale about getting older, and about not recognizing the person you used to be. Director Attila Janisch scheduled to attend …
Denmark, 2002, 103 min.
Devastated when her fiancée is paralyzed in an accident, Cecilie turns to a hospital doctor for support. Things become complicated when she discovers the doctor’s wife was the driver in the accident. A candid and painful look at interpersonal emotional dynamics in the face of tragedy. …
China, 2000, 155 min.
SA Chinese musical comedy troupe is a metaphor for radical social change in the 1980s, as its early earnest communist stance is superceded by rock, disco and punk phases. Cool and elliptical in style, director Jia works on a large canvas and turns the world into a stage. …
Argentina, 2004, 103 min.
Four generations of an Argentinian family hit the road in Pablo Trapero's enchanting and buoyantly funny new movie. Along the way, emotional and mechanical mishaps abound while old passions and enmities are re-ignited as they pass through the landscapes and folkways of Argentina. …
China, 2004, 139 min.
Acclaimed director Jia Zhang-ke casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships, and desperate dreams of the twenty-somethings from China’s remote provinces who come to live and work at Beijing’s World Park, a bizarre cross-cultural mix of Las Vegas and Epcot Center. …
