Seattle International Film Festival 2025 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2025

Relive the 51st 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 2025 Seattle International Film Festival. You can also see the full lineup in our Letterboxd list.

Dates: May 15–2, 2025 & streaming May 26–June 1, 2025
Number of Days: 18
Venues: AMC Pacific Place 11, Paramount Theatre, Shoreline Community College Theater, SIFF Cinema Downtown, SIFF Film Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Channel (virtual)

Opening Night: Four Mothers at The Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Sorry, Baby at SIFF Cinema Downtown


FESTIVAL CATALOG

Excited passholders waiting in line outside the second sold-out screening of Tinā at SIFF Cinema Downtown. | May 19, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden

Excited passholders waiting in line outside the second sold-out screening of Tinā at SIFF Cinema Downtown. | May 19, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden

Outside SIFF Cinema Uptown

Audience gathered outside SIFF Cinema Uptown before a sold-out screening of the short film program Sound Visions. | May 22, 2025 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook

Divine Sung

Summer's Camera director and screenwriter Divine Sung posed for photo before screening at SIFF Cinema Uptown. | May 22, 2025 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook

Divine Sung

Summer's Camera director and screenwriter Divine Sung posed for photo before screening at SIFF Cinema Uptown. | May 22, 2025 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook

SIFF Cinema Downtown exterior

Moviegoers lined up around SIFF Downtown awaiting entrance to Come See Me in the Good Light, featuring a special Q&A and introduction from executive producers Catherine and Brandi Carlile. | May 17, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden

SIFF Cinema Downtown exterior

Moviegoers lined up around SIFF Downtown awaiting entrance to Come See Me in the Good Light, featuring a special Q&A and introduction from executive producers Catherine and Brandi Carlile. | May 17, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden

Eva Victor

Sorry, Baby director, writer, and star Eva Victor being interviewed for a Tiny Mic at SIFF Cinema Downtown before the Closing Night screening. | May 24, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden

Opening Night audience

The Opening Night audience seated inside the historic Paramount Theatre. | May 15, 2025 | Photo by Justin Kim

Tinā
Tinā
Souleymane’s Story
Souleymane’s Story
Sorry, Baby
Sorry, Baby
DJ Ahmet
DJ Ahmet
Cloud
Cloud
Fucktoys
Fucktoys
Salsa Lives
Salsa Lives
Deaf
Deaf

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Tinā (dir. Miki Magasiva (Samoan), Aotearoa New Zealand)

Best Documentary
Come See Me in the Good Light (dir. Ryan White, USA)

Best Director
James Sweeney (Twinless, USA)

Best Performance
Abou Sangaré (Souleymane’s Story)

Best Short Film
Five Star (dir. Kai Hasson, USA)

Lena Sharpe Award For Persistence Of Vision, presented By Women In Film Seattle

The Librarians (dir. Kim A. Snyder, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Seeds (dir. Brittany Shyne, USA)

Official Competition Special Jury Mention
The New Year that Never Came (dir. Bogdan Mureșanu, Romania/Serbia)

Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Deaf (dir. Eva Libertad, Spain)

Ibero-American Competition Special Jury Mention
Transfers (dir. Nicolás Gil Lavedra, Argentina/Uruguay)

Ibero-American Competition Special Jury Mention
The Nature of Invisible Things (dir. Rafaela Camelo, Brazil/Chile)

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Priz
The Crowd (dir. Sahand Kabiri, Iran)

New Directors Competition Special Jury Mention
DJ Ahmet (dir. Georgi M. Unkovski, North Macedonia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Invention (dir. Courtney Stephens, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Suburban Fury (dir. Robinson Devor, USA)

Documentary Competition Special Jury Mention
Billy (dir. Lawrence Côté-Collins, Canada (Québec)/Finland)

Wavemaker Award: Best FutureWave Feature
Summer’s Camera (dir. Divine Sung, South Korea)

Live Action Short Grand Jury Prize
Medusa (dir. Sarah Meyohas, USA)

Live Action Short Special Jury Mention
Majonezë (dir. Giulia Grandinetti, Italy)

Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize
Rat Rod (dir. Jared Jakins, Carly Jakins, USA)

Documentary Short Special Jury Mention
Style: A Seattle Basketball Story (dir. Bryan Tucker, USA)

Animated Short Grand Jury Prize
The Eating of an Orange (dir. May Kindred-Boothby, United Kingdom)

Animated Short Special Jury Mention
View From the Floor (dir. Megan Griffiths & Mindie Lind, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

1-800-ON-HER-OWN - dir. Dana Flor, 2024, USA

40 Acres - dir. R.T. Thorne, 2024, Canada/USA

April - dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2024, Georgia/France/Italy

Auction - dir. Pascal Bonitzer, 2024, France

Baby Doe - dir. Jessica Earnshaw, 2025, USA

The Balconettes - dir. Noémie Merlant, 2024, France

BAR - dir. Don Hardy, 2025, USA

Beef - dir. Ingride Santos, 2025, Spain/Mexico

Beginnings - dir. Jeanette Nordahl, 2025, Denmar/Sweden/Belgium

Between Goodbyes - dir. Jota Mun, 2024, USA/South Korea

Billy - dir. Lawrence Côté-Collins, 2024, Canada (Québec)/Finland

Bitter Gold - dir. Juan Olea, 2024, Chile/Mexico/Uruguay/Germany

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions - dir. Kahlil Joseph, 2025, USA

Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story - dir. Sinéad O'Shea, 2024, Ireland/United Kingdom

Blue Sun Palace - dir. Constance Tsang, 2024, USA

Boong - dir. Lakshmipriya Devi, 2024, India/France

The Botanist - dir. Jing Yi, 2025, China

By Design - dir. Amanda Kramer, 2025, USA

By the Stream - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2024, South Korea/USA

Cat Town, USA - dir. Jonathan Napolitano, 2025, USA

Chain Reactions - dir. Alexandre O. Philippe, 2024, USA

The Chef & The Daruma - dir. Mads K. Baekkevold, 2024, Canada/Japan

Cloud - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2024, Japan

Coexistence, My Ass! - dir. Amber Fares, 2025, USA/France

Color Book - dir. David Fortune, 2024, USA

Come Closer - dir. Tom Nesher, 2024, Israel/Italy

Come See Me in the Good Light - dir. Ryan White, 2025, USA

The Crowd - dir. Sahand Kabiri, 2025, Iran

Dancing Queen in Hollywood - dir. Aurora Gossé, 2025, Norway

Dead Lover - dir. Grace Glowicki, 2025, Canada

Deaf - dir. Eva Libertad, 2025, Spain

Diamonds - dir. Ferzan Özpetek, 2024, Italy

Diciannove - dir. Giovanni Tortorici, 2024, Italy/United Kingdom

DJ Ahmet - dir. Georgi M. Unkovski, 2025, North Macedonia/Czech Republic/Serbia/Croatia

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight - dir. Embeth Davidtz, 2024, South Africa

Drowned Land - dir. Colleen Thurston (Choctaw Nation), 2025, USA

Drowning Dry - dir. Laurynas Bareiša, 2024, Lithuania/Latvia

Evergreens - dir. Jared Briley, 2025, USA

Everybody Loves Touda - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2024, France/Morocco/Belgium/Denmark/Netherlands

Familiar Touch - dir. Sarah Friedland, 2024, USA

Fucktoys - dir. Annapurna Sriram, 2025, USA

Flamingos: Life After the Meteorite - dir. Lorenzo Hagerman, 2024, Mexico

Fly Me to the Moon - dir. Sasha Chuk, 2023, Hong Kong

Four Mothers - dir. Darren Thornton, 2024, Ireland/United Kingdom

Freeing Juanita - dir. Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers, 2024, USA/Mexico/Guatemala

Free Leonard Peltier - dir. Jesse Short Bull (Oglala Sioux), David France, 2025, USA

The Glass Web in 3-D - dir. Jack Arnold, 1953, USA

The Gloria of your Imagination - dir. Jennifer Reeves, 2024, USA

Good Boy - dir. Ben Leonberg, 2025, USA

Hanami - dir. Denise Fernandes, 2024, Switzerland/Portugal/Cape Verde

Happyend - dir. Neo Sora, 2024, Japan/USA

Happy Holidays - dir. Scandar Copti, 2024, Palestine/Germany/France/Italy/Qatar

Heightened Scrutiny - dir. Sam Feder, 2025, USA

Home Sweet Home - dir. Frelle Petersen, 2025, Denmark

How to Build a Library - dir. Maia Lekow, Christopher King, 2025, Kenya

I Am Nevenka - dir. Icíar Bollaín, 2024, Spain/Italy

Idyllic - dir. Aaron Rookus, 2025, Netherlands/Denmark/Belgium/Estonia

Into the Wonderwoods - dir. Alexis Ducord, Vincent Paronnaud, 2024, France/Luxembourg

Invention - dir. Courtney Stephens, 2024, USA

Jean Cocteau - dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2024, USA

John Cranko - dir. Joachim Lang, 2024, Germany

Joqtau - dir. Aruan Anartay, 2024, Kazakhstan/.China

Ka Whawhai Tonu: Struggle Without End - dir. Michael Jonathan (Māori), 2024, Aotearoa New Zealand/Great Britain

Khartoum - dir. Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Brahim Snoopy, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Phil Cox, 2025, Sudan/United Kingdom/Germany/Qatar

The Kingdom - dir. Julien Colonna, 2024, France

Know Her Name - dir. Zainab Muse, 2024, Canada

The Librarians - dir. Kim A. Snyder, 2025, USA

Little Red Sweet - dir. Vincent Chow, 2024, Hong Kong

Luz - dir. Flora Lau, 2025, Hong Kong

Manas - dir. Marianna Brennand, 2024, Brazil/Portugal

Meeting with Pol Pot - dir. Rithy Panh, 2024, France/Cambodia/Taiwan/Qatar/Turkey

Monarch City - dir. Titus Richard, 2025, USA

Mongrels - dir. Jerome Yoo, 2024, Canada

Monk in Pieces - dir. Billy Shebar, David Roberts, 2025, USA/Germany/France

Moon - dir. Kurdwin Ayub, 2024, Austria

The Nature of Invisible Things - dir. Rafaela Camelo, 2025, Brazil/Chile

New Jack Fury - dir. Lanfia Wal, 2025, USA

The New Year That Never Came - dir. Bogdan Mureşanu, 2024, Romania/Serbia

Odd Fish - dir. Snævar Sölvason, 2024, Iceland/Finland/Germany

Paul Anka: His Way - dir. John Maggio, 2024, USA

Paying For It - dir. Sook-Yin Lee, 2024, Canada/USA

Raptures - dir. Jon Blåhed, 2025, Sweden/Finland

Ready or Not - dir. Claire Frances Byrne, 2025, Ireland

Rebuilding - dir. Max Walker-Silverman, 2025, USA

Remaining Native - dir. Paige Bethmann (Haudenosaunee), 2025, USA

Riefenstahl - dir. Andres Veiel, 2024, Germany

The Safe House - dir. Lionel Baier, 2025, Switzerland/Luxembourg/France

Sally - dir. Cristina Costantini, 2025, USA

Salsa Lives - dir. Juan Carvajal, 2025, Colombia

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - dir. Quay Brothers, 2024, United Kingdom/Poland/Germany

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers - dir. Robert J. Kaplan, 1972, USA

Seeds - dir. Brittany Shyne, 2025, USA

Shepherds - dir. Sophie Deraspe, 2024, Canada (Québec)/France

She’s The He - dir. Siobhan McCarthy, 2025, USA

Slanted - dir. Amy Wang, 2025, USA

Sons - dir. Gustav Möller, 2024, Denmark/Sweden

Sorry, Baby - dir. Eva Victor, 2025, USA

Souleymane’s Story - dir. Boris Lojkine, 2024, France

Spermageddon - dir. Tommy Wirkola, Rasmus A. Sivertsen, 2024, Norway

Starman - dir. Robert Stone, 2025, USA

Suburban Fury - dir. Robinson Devor, 2024, USA

Sudden Outbursts of Emotions - dir. Paula Korva, 2024, Finland/Denmark

Summer's Camera - dir. Divine Sung, 2025, South Korea

Tales From the Magic Garden - dir. David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec, 2025, Czech Republic/Slovakia/Slovenia/France

The Things You Kill - dir. Alireza Khatami, 2025, Canada/Belgium

Time Travel Is Dangerous - dir. Chris Reading, 2024, United Kingdom

Tinā - dir. Miki Magasiva (Samoan), 2024, Aotearoa New Zealand

To a Land Unknown - dir. Mahdi Fleifel, 2024, Greece/Denmark/United Kingdom/Netherlands

To Kill a Mongolian Horse - dir. Xiaoxuan Jiang, 2024, Malaysia/Hong Kong/South Korea/Japan/Saudi Arabia/Thailand/USA

Transfers - dir. Nicolás Gil Lavedra, 2024, Argentina/Uruguay

Twinless - dir. James Sweeney, 2025, USA

U Are the Universe - dir. Pavlo Ostrikov, 2024, Ukraine/Belgium

Unclickable - dir. Babis Makridis, 2024, Greece/Cyprus/USA

Undercover - dir. Arantxa Echevarría, 2024, Spain

Under the Volcano - dir. Damian Kocur, 2024, Poland

Viktor - dir. Olivier Sarbil, 2024, Denmark/Ukraine/France/USA

The Village Next to Paradise - dir. Mo Harawe, 2024, Somalia/Austria/France/Germany

The Wailing - dir. Pedro Martín-Calero, 2024, Spain/France/Argentina

Waves - dir. Jiří Mádl, 2024, Czech Republic/Slovakia

Wolf Land - dir. Sarah Hoffman, 2025, USA

Special Programs & Events

4th World Media Lab

The Glass Web in 3-D

Golden Space Needle Awards

SIFF & CFC Present The Dark Crystal with DJ NicFit

Secret Fest - 2 screenings at SIFF Cinema Downtown