Seattle International Film Festival 2010 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2010

Relive the 36th Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 2010 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 20–June 13, 2010
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Admiral Theater, Alki Room, Benroya Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Everett Performing Arts Center, Harvard Exit Theatre, IMAX at Pacific Science Center, Juanita Beach Park, Kirkland Performance Center, Neptune Theatre, AMC Pacific Place 11, Rebar, SIFF Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall, Taberna del Alabardero, Triple Door, Uptown Cinemas

Opening Night: The Extra Man at Benaroya Hall
Closing Night: Get Low at Pacific Place
Tribute: Edward Norton
Emerging Masters: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Ana Kokkinos, Valery Todorovsky


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person

Blessed
Blessed
Hipsters
Hipsters
Get Low
Get Low
The Extra Man
The Extra Man
Farewell
Farewell
The Hedgehog
The Hedgehog
Night Catches Us
Night Catches Us
Marwencol
Marwencol

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
The Hedgehog (dir. Mona Achache, France)

Best Director
Debra Granik (Winter's Bone, USA)

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)

Best Actor
Luis Tosar (Cell 211)

Best Short
Ormie (dir. Rob Silvestri, Canada)

Best Documentary
Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life (dir. Karen Stanton, USA), Waste Land (dir. Lucy Walker, UK)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Reverse (dir. Borys Lankosz, Poland)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Night Catches Us (dir. Tanya Hamilton, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Marwencol (dir. Jeff Malmberg, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - dir. Stuart Paton, 1916, USA

25th Hour - dir. Spike Lee, 2002, USA

3Some - dir. Salvador García Ruiz, 2009, Spain

8: The Mormon Proposition - dir. Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet, 2009, USA

The Actresses - dir. E. J-Yong, 2010, South Korea

Agora - dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2009, Spain/USA

Ahead of Time - dir. Bob Richman, 2009, USA

Ahlaam - dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji, 2006, Iraq/United Kingdom/Netherlands

Air Doll - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009, Japan

Alamar - dir. Pedro González-Rubio, 2009, Mexico

All That I Love - dir. Jacek Borcuch, 2009, Poland

Altiplano - dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, 2009, Belgium/Netherlands/Germany

Amer - dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2009, Belgium/France

American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi - dir. Sebastian Doggart, 2009, USA/United Kingdom

American History X - dir. Tony Kaye, 1998, USA

American: The Bill Hicks Story - dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas, 2009, United Kingdom

Amplified Seattle - dir. John Jeffcoat, 2010, USA

Angel at Sea - dir. Frédéric Dumont, 2009, Belgium/Canada

The Army of Crime - dir. Robert Guédiguian, 2009, France

The Athlete - dir. Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew, 2009, Ethiopia/Germany/USA

At the End of Daybreak - dir. Ho Yuhang, 2009, Malaysia/South Korea

Au Revoir Taipei - dir. Arvin Chen, 2010, Taiwan/USA/Germany

Backyard - dir. Carlos Carrera, 2009, Mexico

Bakal Boys - dir. Ralston Jover, 2009, Philippines

Bass Ackwards - dir. Linas Phillips, 2010, USA

Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar - dir. James Rasin, 2010, USA

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - dir. Jessica Oreck, 2009, USA

Between Two Worlds - dir. Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2009, Sri Lanka 

Beyond Ipanema - dir. Guto Barra, 2009, Brazil

The Big Dream - dir. Michele Placido, 2009, Italy/France

Bilal’s Stand - dir. Sultan Sharrief, 2010, USA 

Blessed - dir. Ana Kokkinos, 2009, Australia

Blood Relation - dir. Noa Ben-Hagai, 2009, Israel 

Bodyguards and Assassins - dir. Teddy Chen, 2009, Hong Kong/China

Born to Suffer - dir. Miguel Albaladejo, 2010, Spain

Bran Nue Dae - dir. Rachel Perkins, 2009, Australia 

Bride Flight - dir. Ben Sombogaart, 2009, Netherlands 

Brotherhood - dir. Nicolo Donato, 2009, Denmark 

Brownstones to Red Dirt - dir. Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker, 2010, Sierra Leone/USA

Bus Palladium - dir. Christopher Thompson, 2010, France

Cairo Time - dir. Ruba Nadda, 2009, Canada 

Cane Toads: The Conquest - in 3D - dir. Mark Lewis, 2010, USA/Australia

Cargo - dir. Ivan Engler, 2009, Switzerland 

Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime - dir. Jesús Del Cerro, 2009, Spain 

Castaway on the Moon - dir. Lee Hey-jun, 2009, South Korea 

Cell 211 - dir. Daniel Monzón, 2009, Spain/France

Centurion - dir. Neil Marshall, 2010, United Kingdom 

The Chef of South Polar - dir. Shuichi Okita, 2010, Japan

Cherry - dir. Jeffrey Fine, 2010, USA 

Chihuly Fire & Light - dir. Peter West, 2010, USA 

The Children of Diyarbakir - dir. Miraz Bezar, 2009, Turkey/Germany

City of Life and Death - dir. Lu Chuan, 2009, China 

Come Undone - dir. Silvio Soldini, 2010, Italy/Switzerland

The Concert - dir. Radu Mihaileanu, 2009, France/Russia

Countdown to Zero - dir. Lucy Walker, 2010, USA

Crab Trap - dir. Oscar Ruiz Navia, 2009, Colombia/France

Crayfish - dir. Ivan Cherkelov, 2009, Bulgaria 

Crossing Hennessy - dir. Ivy Ho, 2010, Hong Kong 

Cyrus - dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, 2010, USA 

The Damned - dir. Isaki Lacuesta, 2009, Spain 

The Dancer and the Thief - dir. Fernando Trueba, 2009, Spain 

Dear Lemon Lima, - dir. Suzi Yoonessi, 2009, USA

Devil’s Town - dir. Vladimir Paskaljević, 2009, Serbia 

Diamond 13 - dir. Gilles Béat , 2009, France

Disco and Atomic War - dir. Jaak Kilmi, 2009, Estonia/Finland

Donkey - dir. Antonio Nuić, 2009, Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina/United Kingdom/Serbia

Double Take - dir. Johan Grimonprez, 2009, Belgium/Germany/Netherlands

Down Terrace - dir. Ben Wheatley, 2009, United Kingdom 

Dream Home - dir. Pang Ho-Cheung, 2010, Hong Kong 

Drifting - dir. Ventura Pons, 2010, Spain 

Drums Along the Mohawk - dir. John Ford, 1939, USA 

The Dry Land - dir. Ryan Piers Williams, 2010, USA 

The Eagle Hunter’s Son - dir. Rene Bo Hansen, 2009, Sweden/Germany/Kazakhstan

Eastern Plays - dir. Kamen Kalev, 2009, Bulgaria 

Eleanor’s Secret - dir. Dominique Monfery, 2009, France 

Every Day - dir. Richard Levine, 2010, USA 

Every Day is a Holiday - dir. Dima El-Horr, 2009, Lebanon/Germany/France

Excited - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 2009, Canada 

The Extra Man - dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, 2010, USA 

The Family Tree - dir. Vivi Friedman, 2010, USA 

Farewell - dir. Christian Carion, 2009, France 

Farsan - dir. Josef Fares, 2010, Sweden 

Father and Guns - dir. Émile Gaudreault, 2010, Canada (Québec) 

Father of My Children - dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, 2009, France 

Father’s Acre - dir. Viktor Oszkar Nagy, 2009, Hungary 

Fight Club - dir. David Fincher, 1999, USA/Germany

First of All, Felicia - dir. Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf, 2009, Romania/France/Croatia/Belgium

For the Good of Others - dir. Óskar Santos, 2010, Spain 

Foxes - dir. Mira Fornay, 2009, Slovak Republic/Ireland

The Freebie - dir. Katie Aselton, 2010, USA 

The French Kissers - dir. Riad Sattouf, 2009, France 

From Beginning to End - dir. Aluizio Abranches, 2010, Brazil 

From Time To Time - dir. Julian Fellowes, 2009, United Kingdom 

Garbo: The Spy - dir. Edmon Roch, 2009, Spain 

General Orders No. 9 - dir. Robert Persons, 2009, USA 

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - dir. Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont, 2009, Canada 

George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead - dir. George A. Romero, 2009, Canada/USA

Gerrymandering - dir. Jeff Reichert, 2010, USA 

Get Low - dir. Aaron Schneider, 2009, USA

Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life - dir. Karen Stanton, 2010, USA 

Going South - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2009, France 

Gordos - dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, 2009, Spain 

Gravity - dir. Maximilian Erlenwein, 2009, Germany

Grease Sing-along - dir. Randal Kleiser, 1978/2010, USA 

Head On - dir. Ana Kokkinos, 1998, Australia 

The Hedgehog - dir. Mona Achache, 2009, France

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno - dir. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea Annonier, 2009, France 

Henry of Navarre - dir. Jo Baier, 2009, Germany/France/Spain/Austria

Hidden Diary - dir. Julie Lopes-Curval, 2009, France/Canada

Hideaway - dir. François Ozon, 2009, France 

Hipsters - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2009, Russia 

Holy Rollers - dir. Kevin Tyler Asch, 2010, USA 

Howl - dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, 2010, USA 

Huacho - dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 2009, Chile/France

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel - dir. Brigitte Berman, 2009, Canada

I Am - dir. Igor Voloshin, 2009, Russia 

I Am Love - dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2009, Italy 

I Killed My Mother - dir. Xavier Dolan, 2009, Canada (Québec) 

I Kissed a Vampire - dir. Chris Sean Nolan, 2010, USA 

I Miss You - dir. Fabián Hofman, 2010, Mexico

Imani - dir. Caroline Kamya, 2009, Uganda/Sweden/Canada

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - dir. Tamra Davis, 2010, USA 

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - dir. Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, 2010, USA 

K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces - dir. Shimako Sato, 2009, Japan

Kanikosen - dir. Sabu, 2009, Japan 

Katalin Varga - dir. Peter Strickland, 2009, Hungary/United Kingdom/Romania

Khargosh - dir. Paresh Kamdar, 2009, India

Land of the Deaf - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 1998, Russia

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - dir. Daniel Junge, 2009, USA

Last Train Home - dir. Lixin Fan, 2009, China/Canada (Québec)

Leaves of Grass - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2009, USA 

Leaving - dir. Catherine Corsini, 2009, France 

Leo’s Room - dir. Enrique Buchichio, 2009, Uruguay/Argentina

Letters to Father Jacob - dir. Klaus Härö, 2009, Finland/Sweden

Life During Wartime - dir. Todd Solondz, 2009, USA 

Like You Know It All - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2009, South Korea 

Little Big Soldier - dir. Ding Sheng, 2010, Hong Kong/China

A Little Help - dir. Michael J. Weithorn, 2010, USA 

Loose Cannons - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2010, Italy

Love in a Puff - dir. Pang Ho-Cheung, 2010, Hong Kong 

Mao’s Last Dancer - dir. Bruce Beresford, 2009, Australia 

Marwencol - dir. Jeff Malmberg, 2010, USA

Me Too - dir. Álvaro Pastor, Antonio Naharro, 2009, Spain 

Mediterranean Diet- dir. Joaquín Oristrell, 2009, Spain 

Meet Monica Velour - dir. Keith Bearden, 2010, USA 

Micmacs - dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009, France 

The Milk of Sorrow - dir. Claudia Llosa, 2009, Peru/Spain

Miss Nobody - dir. Tim Cox, 2010, USA 

Monogamy - dir. Dana Adam Shapiro, 2010, USA 

Morning - dir. Joseph Mitacek, 2010, USA 

Mother Joan of the Angels - dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961, Poland 

Mount St. Elias - dir. Gerald Salmina, 2009, Austria/USA

Mugabe and the White African - dir. Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, 2009, Namibia/United Kingdom

Mundane History - dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2009, Thailand

Music on Hold - dir. Hernán A. Golfrid, 2009, Argentina 

My Year Without Sex - dir. Sarah Watt, 2009, Australia 

Night Catches Us - dir. Tanya Hamilton, 2010, USA 

Night Train - dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959, Poland 

Northless - dir. Rigoberto Perezcano, 2009, Mexico/Spain

Nowhere Boy - dir. Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009, United Kingdom 

The Oath - dir. Laura Poitras, 2010, USA 

Ondine - dir. Neil Jordan, 2009, Ireland/USA

On the Town - dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949, USA

On the Waterfront - dir. Elia Kazan, 1954, USA 

An Ordinary Execution - dir. Marc Dugain, 2010, France 

The Over the Hill Band - dir. Geoffrey Enthoven, 2009, Belgium 

The Owls - dir. Cheryl Dunye, 2010, USA 

Paris Return - dir. Yossi Aviram, 2009, Israel 

Patagonia - dir. Marc Evans, 2010, United Kingdom/Argentina/Wales

Peepli Live - dir. Anusha Rizvi, 2010, India 

The Penitent Man - dir. Nicholas Gyeney, 2010, USA 

Perfect 10 - dir. Lindy Boustedt, Kris Boustedt, 2010, USA 

Perrier’s Bounty - dir. Ian FitzGibbon, 2009 , Ireland 

Petya on the Way to Heaven - dir. Nikolai Dostal, 2009, Russia 

Please, Please Me! - dir. Emmanuel Mouret, 2009, France 

Plug & Pray - dir. Jens Schanze, 2009, Germany 

Prince of Tears - dir. Yonfan, 2009, Hong Kong/Taiwan

Princess Lillifee - dir. Alan Simpson, Ansgar Niebuhr, Zhijian Xu, 2009, Germany

Protektor - dir. Marek Najbrt, 2009, Czech Republic 

Queen of the Sun - dir. Taggart Siegel, 2010, USA

Rapt - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2009, France 

A Rational Solution - dir. Jörgen Bergmark, 2009, Sweden/Finland/Germany/Italy

ReGENERATION - dir. Phillip Montgomery, 2010, USA 

Rejoice and Shout - dir. Don McGlynn, 2009, USA

Restrepo - dir. Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington, 2010, USA 

The Reverse - dir. Borys Lankosz, 2009, Poland 

Reykjavik-Rotterdam - dir. Oskar Jonasson, 2009, Iceland 

Ride, Rise, Roar - dir. David Hillman Curtis, 2010, USA 

Riders of the Purple Sage - dir. Lynn F. Reynolds, 1925, USA 

The River - dir. Jean Renoir, 1951, France 

The Robber - dir. Benjamin Heisenberg, 2009, Austria/Germany

RoboGeisha - dir. Noboru Iguchi, 2009, Japan 

Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae - dir. Stascha Bader, 2010, Canada (Québec) 

Room in Rome - dir. Julio Medem, 2010, Spain 

Rouge Ciel - dir. Bruno Decharme, 2009, France 

Run If You Can - dir. Dietrich Brüggemann, 2010, Germany 

Samson & Delilah - dir. Warwick Thornton, 2009, Australia 

Saturday Night - dir. James Franco, 2010, USA

Secrets of the Tribe - dir. José Padilha, 2010, Brazil 

Senior Prom - dir. Nicholas Terry, 2010, USA 

Senso - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1954, Italy 

The Sentimental Engine Slayer - dir. Omar Rodriguez Lopez, 2010, USA 

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - dir. Mat Whitecross, 2010, United Kingdom 

Shadows - dir. John Cassavetes, 1959, USA 

Skateland - dir. Anthony Burns, 2010, USA 

Skeletons - dir. Nick Whitfield, 2009, United Kingdom 

Some Days Are Better Than Others - dir. Matt McCormick, 2010, USA 

Son of Babylon - dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji, 2010, Iraq

Soul Kitchen - dir. Fatih Akin, 2009, Germany 

Southern District - dir. Juan Carlos Valdivia, 2009, Bolivia

A Spray of Plum Blossoms - dir. Bu Wancang, 1931, China 

Stigmata - dir. Adán Aliaga, 2009, Spain 

Stolen - dir. Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw, 2009, Australia 

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields - dir. Kerthy Fix, Gail O’Hara, 2010, USA 

The String - dir. Mehdi Ben Attia, 2010, France/Belgium/Tunisia

Tehroun - dir. Nader T. Homayoun, 2009, Iran/France

This Way of Life - dir. Tom Burstyn, 2009, New Zealand 

Three Days With the Family - dir. Mar Coll, 2009, Spain 

Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives - dir. Israel Luna, 2010, USA 

The Tillman Story - dir. Amir Bar-Lev, 2009, USA 

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls - dir. Leanne Pooley, 2009, New Zealand 

The Triplets of Belleville - dir. Sylvain Chomet, 2003, France 

The Trotsky - dir. Jacob Tierney, 2009, Canada (Québec)

Tsar - dir. Pavel Lungin, 2009, Russia 

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil - dir. Eli Craig, 2010, USA 

Turistas - dir. Alicia Scherson, 2009, Chile 

Turn It Loose - dir. Alastair Siddons, 2009, United Kingdom/France

Turtle: The Incredible Journey - dir. Nick Stringer, 2009, United Kingdom/Austria/Germany

Twisted Roots - dir. Saara Saarela, 2009, Finland

The Two Horses of Genghis Khan - dir. Byambasuren Davaa, 2009, Germany 

Under the Mountain - dir. Jonathan King, 2009, New Zealand 

Undertow - dir. Javier Fuentes-León, 2010, Peru 

Upperdog - dir. Sara Johnsen, 2009, Norway 

Utopia in Four Movements - dir. Sam Green, Dave Cerf, 2010, USA 

V.O.S. - dir. Cesc Gay, 2009, Spain 

Violet Tendencies - dir. Casper Andreas, 2010, USA 

Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde Cinema - dir. Chuck Workman, 2009, USA 

Vortex - dir. Gytis Luksas, 2009, Lithuania 

Waiting for Superman - dir. Davis Guggenheim, 2010, USA 

Waste Land - dir. Lucy Walker, 2010, United Kingdom/Brazil

The Wedding Cake - dir. Denys Granier-Deferre, 2010, France 

West Side Story - dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961, USA 

Wheedle's Groove - dir. Jennifer Maas, 2009, USA

When We Leave - dir. Feo Aladag, 2009, Germany/Turkey

White Lion - dir. Michael Swan, 2009, South Africa 

White Wedding - dir. Jann Turner, 2009, South Africa 

The Wildest Dream - in IMAX - dir. Anthony Geffen, 2010, USA 

The Wild Hunt - dir. Alexandre Franchi, 2009, Canada (Québec) 

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within - dir. Yony Leyser, 2010, USA 

Winter’s Bone - dir. Debra Granik, 2010, USA 

Woman Without Piano - dir. Javier Rebollo, 2009, Spain

Special Programs & Events

3-Minute Masterpieces

Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and one shorts package

Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema - included 18 feature films and 9 short films 

Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema celebration: Cell 211 with post-film party at Taberna del Alabardero

Centerpiece Gala: Farewell at Egyptian Theatre

Digital Media Lab - included 6 filmmaking workshops 

Documentary Competition - included 8 feature films 

Edward Norton Tribute - included Leaves of Grass, 25th Hour, American History X, Fight Club

Emerging Masters: Mohamed Al-Daradji - included Son of Babylon, Ahlaam, Ana Kokkinos - included Blessed, Head On, Valery Todorovsky - included Hipsters, Land of the Deaf

Everett Opening Night: Mao’s Last Dancer at Everett Performing Arts Center 

Face the Music - included 2 events and 8 feature films

Face the Music: The Maldives Perform Riders of the Purple Sage

Face the Music: Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields Performs 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Festival Forums - included Music and Sound: Getting the Best Audio for Your Film, Character Arc: Fact and Fiction, For the Love of Money

The Film Foundation 20 Years/20 Films

Films4Families - included 6 feature films and one shorts package

FutureWave - included 9 feature films and one shorts package 

FutureWave SuperFly

Gay-La: Violet Tendencies at Egyptian Theater and party at Rebar

Golden Space Needle Awards

Kirkland Opening Night: The Over the Hill Band at Kirkland Performance Center

Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films

New American Cinema - included 19 feature films 

New American Cinema Spotlight: Cyrus

New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films

Northwest Connections - included 11 feature films

Outdoor Screening: The Triplets of Belleville 

Secret Festival 

Short Films - included 13 shorts packages

Special Presentations: Cane Toads: The Conquest–in 3D, Grease Sing-along, Howl, Little Big Soldier, Utopia in Four Movements, Waiting for Superman, The Wildest Dream–in IMAX

Talking Pictures - included Brownstones to Red Dirt, Stolen, Waiting for Superman, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner