Excited passholders waiting in line outside the second sold-out screening of Tinā at SIFF Cinema Downtown. | May 19, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden
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
PHOTOS
Excited passholders waiting in line outside the second sold-out screening of Tinā at SIFF Cinema Downtown. | May 19, 2025 | Photo by Jesse Sieden
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
Summer's Camera director and screenwriter Divine Sung posed for photo before screening at SIFF Cinema Uptown. | May 22, 2025 | Photo by Elizabeth Crook
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
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
The Opening Night audience seated inside the historic Paramount Theatre. | May 15, 2025 | Photo by Justin Kim
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)
The Librarians (dir. Kim A. Snyder, USA)
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)
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
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