Thelma cast, including star June Squibb (center), and crew outside the Paramount Theatre on Opening Night | May 9, 2024 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
Relive the 50th Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list below of feature-length films presented at the 2024 Seattle International Film Festival. You can also see the full lineup in our Letterboxd list.
Dates: May 9–19 & streaming May 20–27
Number of Days: 19
Venues: AMC Pacific Place 11, Majestic Bay, Paramount Theatre, Shoreline Community College Theater, SIFF Cinema Downtown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Film Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Channel (virtual), SIFF Lounge
Opening Night: Thelma at The Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Sing Sing at SIFF Cinema Downtown
PHOTOS
Thelma cast, including star June Squibb (center), and crew outside the Paramount Theatre on Opening Night | May 9, 2024 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
Artistic Director Beth Barrett kicks off the Festival on stage at the Paramount Theatre after popping out of a life-sized, wooden "SIFFTY" cake celebrating SIFF's "50 years of surprising cinema." | May 9, 2024 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
Artistic Director Beth Barrett kicks off the Festival on stage at the Paramount Theatre after popping out of a life-sized, wooden "SIFFTY" cake celebrating SIFF's "50 years of surprising cinema." | May 9, 2024 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
Dìdi (弟弟) director Sean Wang takes a photo of the audience before his Q&A with Programmer Megan Leonard at SIFF Cinema Egyptian | May 18, 2024 | Photo by Eric Luck
Actor Clarence Maclin at the Closing Night presentation of Sing Sing, where the cast was presented with a Golden Space Needle Award for excellence in Ensemble Acting. | May 18, 2024 | Photo by Kyle Fuhrmann
Jean Smart poses at SIFF Cinema Downtown before receiving The Hollywood Reporter's Trailblazer Award at this special Tribute Event and screening of a yet-to-be-aired episode of "Hacks"| May 18, 2024 | Photo by Kyle Fuhrmann
Filmmakers pose below the SIFF Cinema Uptown marquee, which reads "50 years of surprising cinema" | May 18, 2024 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
Best Film
Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar, USA)
Best Director
Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson (Ghostlight, USA)
Best Performance
Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight, USA)
Best Short
Jellyfish and Lobster (dir. Yasmin Afifi, United Kingdom)
Best Documentary
Porcelain War (dir. Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Ukraine/USA/Australia)
Black Box Diaries (dir. Shiori Ito, Japan/USA/United Kingdom)
Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Gloria! (dir. Margherita Vicario, Italy)
Official Competition Special Jury Prize
Sugarcane (dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
City of Wind (dir. Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Mongolia)
New Directors Competition Special Jury Prize
Young Hearts (dir. Anthony Schatteman, Belgium)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
We Strangers (dir. Anu Valia, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
A New Kind of Wilderness (dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Norway)
Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize
The Ride Ahead (dir. Dan Habib, Samuel Habib, USA)
Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Through Rocks and Clouds (dir. Franco Garcia Becerra, Peru)
Ibero-American Special Jury Prize
The Major Tones (dir. Ingrid Pokropek, Argentina)
Wavemaker Award: Best Futurewave Feature
Empire Waist (dir. Claire Ayoub, USA)
Prodigy Camp Scholarship Prize
Newman's Block (dir. Hudson Hillin, USA)
Narrative Short Grand Jury Prize
The Shell Covered Ox (dir. Daniel Barosa, Brazil)
Narrative Short Special Jury Prize
Essex Girls (dir. Yero Timi-Biu, United Kingdom)
Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize
The Waiting (dir. Volker Schlecht, Germany)
Animated Short Grand Jury Prize
Madeleine (dir. Raquel Sancinetti, Canada, Québec)
399: Queen of the Tetons - dir. Elizabeth Leiter, 2024, USA
Admissions Granted - dir. Hao Wu, Miao Wang, 2024, USA
After the Fire - dir. Mehdi Fikri, 2023, France
Agent of Happiness - dir. Dorottya Zurbó, Arun Bhattarai, 2024, Bhutan/Hungary
Aggro Dr1ft - dir. Harmony Korine, 2023, USA
Agra - dir. Kanu Behl, 2023, India/France
All Shall Be Well - dir. Ray Yeung, 2024, Hong Kong/China
All We Carry - dir. Cady Voge, 2024, USA/Mexico
All Your Faces - dir. Jeanne Herry, 2023, France
Àma Gloria - dir. Marie Amachoukeli, 2023, France
Babes - dir. Pamela Adlon, 2024, USA
Banel & Adama - dir. Ramata-Toulaye Sy, 2023, Mali/Senegal/France
The Battle for Laikipia - dir. Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi (Kuria), 2024, Kenya/USA/Greece
Before It Ends - dir. Anders Walter, 2023, Denmark
Black Box Diaries - dir. Shiori Ito, 2024, Japan/USA/United Kingdom
The Black Sea - dir. Crystal Moselle, Derrick B. Harden, 2024, Bulgaria/United States
Bob Trevino Likes It - dir. Tracie Laymon, 2024, USA
Bonjour Switzerland - dir. Peter Luisi, 2023, Switzerland/Italy
The Box Man - dir. Gakuryû Ishii, 2024, Japan
Bring Them Home - dir. Ivan MacDonald (Blackfoot), Ivy MacDonald (Blackfoot), Daniel Glick, 2024, USA/Canada
The Burdened - dir. Amr Gamal, 2023, Yemen/Sudan/Saudi Arabia
Chasing Ice - dir. Jeff Orlowski, 2012, USA
Chuck Chuck Baby - dir. Janis Pugh, 2023, United Kingdom
City of Wind - dir. Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, 2023, Mongolia/France/Germany/Netherlands/Portugal/Qatar
Close Your Eyes - dir. Victor Erice, 2023, Spain/Argentina
Critical Zone - dir. Ali Ahmadzadeh, 2023, Iran/Germany
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano - dir. Cyril Aris, 2023, Lebanon/Germany
Dìdi (弟弟) - dir. Sean Wang, 2024, USA
Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story - dir. Luck Razanajaona, 2023, Madagascar/France/ Madagascar/Germany/Mauritius/South Africa/Qatar
Dragon Superman - dir. Satoru Kobayashi, Shao Lo-hui, 1968, Taiwan
Empire Waist - dir. Claire Ayoub, 2021, USA
Eternal - dir. Ulaa Salim, 2024, Denmark/Iceland/Norway
The Etilaat Roz - dir. Abbas Rezaie, 2022, Afghanistan
Evil Does Not Exist - dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2023, Japan
Excursion - dir. Una Gunjak, 2023, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Croatia/Serbia/France/Norway/Qatar
The Extortion - dir. Martino Zaidelis, 2023, Argentina/USA
Familiar - dir. Călin Peter Netzer, 2023, Romania
Fish War - dir. Jeff Ostenson, Charles Atkinson, Skylar Wagner, 2024, USA
Food Roots - dir. Michele Josue, 2023, USA/Philippines
Fragments of a Life Loved - dir. Chloé Barreau, 2023, Italy
Ghostlight - dir. Kelly O’Sullivan, Alex Thompson, 2024, USA
Girls Will Be Girls - dir. Shuchi Galati, 2024, India/France/United States/Norway
Gloria! - dir. Margherita Vicario, 2024, Italy/Switzerland
Good One - dir. India Donaldson, 2024, USA
Grandpa Guru - dir. Silvio Mirošničenko, 2023, Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina
Grasshopper Republic - dir.Daniel McCabe, 2023, USA
Green Border - dir. Agnieszka Holland, 2023, Poland/USA/France/Czech Republic/Belgium/Germany/Turkey
Hajjan - dir. Abu Bakr Shawky, 2023, Saudi Arabia/Egypt/Jordan
Hammarskjöld – Fight For Peace - dir. Per Fly, 2023, Sweden/Norway/Denmark
Hesitation Wound - dir. Selman Nacar, 2023, Turkey/France/Romania/Spain
High & Low - John Galliano - dir. Kevin Macdonald, 2023, France/USA/United Kingdom
Hitchcock’s Pro-Nazi Film - dir. Daphné Baiwir, 2023, France
Hollywoodgate - dir. Ibrahim Nash’at, 2023, Germany/USA
Holy Mother - dir. Antonio Chavarrías, 2024, Spain/Belgium
Igualada - dir. Juan Mejía Botero, 2024, Colombia/USA/Mexico
I’m Just Here for the Riot - dir. Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman (Cree-Métis), 2023, Canada
In A Violent Nature - dir. Chris Nash, 2024, Canada
In Flames - dir. Zarrar Kahn, 2023, Pakistan/Canada
In Our Day - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2023, South Korea
Iron Mask - dir. Kim Sung Hwan, 2023, South Korea
I Saw the TV Glow - dir. Jane Schoenbrun, 2024, USA
I Told You So - dir .Ginevra Elkann, 2023, Italy
Janet Planet - dir. Annie Baker, 2023, USA/United Kingdom
A Journey in Spring - dir. Wang Ping-Wen, Peng Tzu-Hui, 2023, Taiwan
July Rhapsody - dir .Ann Hui, 2002, Hong Kong
Killing Romance - dir. Lee Won-suk, 2023, South Korea
The Lavender Hill Mob - dir. Charles Crichton, 1951, United Kingdom
Lies We Tell - dir. Lisa Mulcahy, 2023, Ireland
Love Machina - dir. Peter Sillen, 2024, USA
Luther: Never Too Much - dir. Dawn Porter, 2024, USA
The Major Tones - dir. Ingrid Pokropek, 2023, Argentina/Spain
Making Of - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2023, France
Memories of a Burning Body - dir. Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, 2024, Costa Rica/Spain
Merchant Ivory - dir. Stephen Soucy, 2023, USA
The Missile - dir. Miia Tervo, 2024, Finland/Estonia
The Missing - dir. Carl Joseph E. Papa, 2023, Philippines
Molokaʻi Bound - dir. Alika Tengan (Kanaka Maoli), 2024, USA
The Mother of All Lies - dir. Asmae El Moudir, 2023, Morocco/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Qatar
Mountains - dir. Monica Sorelle, 2023, USA
Música! - dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, 2023, USA
My Sextortion Diary - dir. Patricia Franquesa, 2024, Spain
The New Boy - dir. Warwick Thornton (Kaytej), 2023, Australia
A New Kind of Wilderness - dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, 2024, Norway
Oddity - dir. Damian McCarthy, 2024, Ireland
Pigsy - dir. Li Wei Chiu, 2023, Taiwan/Netherlands
Porcelain War - dir. Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, 2024, Ukraine/USA/Australia
The Primevals - dir. David Allen, 2023, USA
The Queen of My Dreams - dir. Fawzia Mirza, 2023, Canada
The Quiet Maid - dir. Miguel Faus, 2023, Spain
Rainier: A Beer Odyssey - dir. Isaac Olsen, 2024, USA
RATS! - dir. Maxwell Nalevansky, Carl Fry, 2023, USA
Red Rooms - dir. Pascal Plante, 2023, Canada (Québec)
Red, White & Brass - dir. Damon Fepulea’i (Samoan), 2023, New Zealand
Resynator - dir. Alison Tavel, 2024, USA
The Ride Ahead - dir. Dan Habib, Samuel Habib, 2024, USA
Rioja: The Land of a Thousand Wines - dir. José Luis Lopez-Linares, 2023, Spain
Rising Up at Night - dir. Nelson Makengo, 2024, Belgium/Democratic Republic of the Congo/Germany/Burkina Faso/Qatar
Saturn Return - dir. Isaki Lacuesta, Pol Rodríguez, 2024, Spain/France
Scala!!! - dir. Jane Giles, Ali Catterall, 2023, United Kingdom
Scorched Earth - dir. Thomas Arslan, 2024, Germany
Seagrass - dir. Meredith Hama-Brown, 2023, Canada
Sebastian - dir. Mikko Mäkelä, 2024, United Kingdom/Finland/Belgium
Sing Sing - dir. Greg Kwedar, 2023, USA
Slow - dir. Marija Kavtaradze, 2023, Lithuania/Spain/Sweden
Solitude - dir. Ninna Pálmadóttir, 2023, Iceland/Slovakia/France
Solo - dir. Sophie Dupuis, 2023, Canada (Québec)
Songs of Earth - dir. Margreth Olin, 2023, Norway
Sono Lino - dir. Jacob Patrick, 2023, USA/Italy/France
So This Is Christmas - dir. Ken Wardrop, 2023, Ireland
Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat - dir. Johan Grimonprez, 2024, Belgium/France/Netherlands
So Unreal - dir. Amanda Kramer, 2023, USA
Standing Above the Clouds - dir. Jalena Keane-Lee, 2024, Hawaiian Kingdom/USA
Stress Positions - dir. Theda Hammel, 2024, USA
Subterranean - dir. François-Xavier De Ruydts, 2023, Canada (Québec)
Sugarcane - dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat (Secwepemc Nation), Emily Kassie, 2024, USA/Canada
Sujo - dir. Astrid Rondero, Fernanda Valadez, 2024, Mexico/France/USA
The Summer With Carmen - dir. Zacharias Mavroeidis, 2023, Greece
Susan Feniger. Forked - dir. Liz Lachman, 2023, USA/China/Vietnam
Tenement - dir. Sokyou Chea, Inrasothythep Neth, 2024, Cambodia
Terrestrial Verses - dir. Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami, 2023, Iran/USA
Thelma - dir. Josh Margolin, 2024, USA
Three Promises - dir. Yusef Srouji, 2023, Palestine/United States/Lebanon
Through Rocks and Clouds - dir. Franco Garcia Becerra, 2024, Peru/Chile
Tiger Stripes - dir. Amanda Nell Eu, 2023, Malaysia/Taiwan/France/Germany/Netherlands/Singapore/Qatar/Indonesia
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox - dir. Stimson Snead, 2024, USA
Tony, Shelly and The Magic Light - dir. Filip Pošivač, 2023, Czech Republic/Hungary/Slovakia
The Tundra Within Me - dir. Sara Margrethe Oskal (Sámi), 2023, Norway
Ultimate Citizens - dir. Francine Strickwerda, 2023, USA
Un Amor - dir. Isabel Coixet, 2023, Spain
The Uncertain Detective - dir. Gregg Lachow, 2024, USA
Valentina or the Serenity - dir. Ángeles Cruz, 2023, Mexico
The Vanishing Soldier - dir. Dani Rosenberg, 2023, Israel/Italy
Voy! Voy! Voy! - dir. Omar Hilal, 2023, Egypt/United Arab Emirates
We Can Be Heroes - dir. Carina Mia Wong, Alex Simmons, 2024, USA
We Have Never Been Modern - dir. Matěj Chlupáček, 2023, Czech Republic/Slovakia
We Strangers - dir. Anu Valia, 2024, USA
Where Is Anne Frank - dir. Ari Folman, 2021, Israel/Switzerland/Belgium/Germany/the Netherlands
WHY DINOSAURS? - dir. James Pinto, Tony Pinto, 2024, USA/Canada/United Kingdom/Morocco/China
Wings of Desire - dir. Wim Wenders, 1987, Germany
Woman Of... - dir. Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert, 2023, Poland/Sweden
Woodland - dir. Elisabeth Scharang, 2023, Austria
Young Hearts - dir. Anthony Schatteman, 2024, Belgium/Netherlands