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SIFF 2018 Film Guide
A Guide to Every Feature and Short Playing at the 2018 Seattle International Film Festival.
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Program African Pictures Alternate Cinema Archival Presentations Asian Crossroads Award Winners 2018 Centerpiece Gala China Stars Closing Night Gala Contemporary World Cinema Culinary Cinema Documentary Competition Documentary Films Episodic Content Face the Music Face the Music- Live Event Festival Forums Films4Families FutureWave Ibero American Ibero American Competition Indigenous Stories Kirkland Opening Night Latin American Cinema Midnight Adrenaline New Addition New American Cinema New American Cinema Competition New Directors Competition New Works in Progress Northwest Connections Official Competition Opening Night Saturday Night Film and Party Short Film Packages ShortsFest Weekend Special Presentations Spotlight Screenings Tribute/Afternoon True Productions VR WTF
Genre Action / Adventure Africa African-American Animals Animation Arabic Language Archival Art/Design Asian Asian-American AVD Biopic Black Comedy Buddy Picture Chinese Language Comedy Coming of Age Crime/Mystery Cult Dance Documentary Drama Eastern Europe Environmental Epic Erotic / Sex Experimental/Avant-Garde Family Friendly Fantasy Fashion Film Noir Film Related Food French Language Gangster German Language History Horror Indian Indigenous Peoples Italian Language Japanese Japanese Language Jewish Latin America Latinx LGBTQ Literature Martial Arts Middle East Music Native American Nature North Africa Period Piece Political Religion Road Movie Romance Russian Language Scandinavian Science Fiction Seattle Seniors Social Issues Spanish Language Sports Student Short Film Teen Friendly Theatre Thriller War Western Woman Director Women
Mood Creative Streak Love Make Me Laugh! Open My Eyes Provocateurs Show Me the World! Thrill Me! WTF
Director Ahluwalia, Ashim Akhavan, Desiree Alami, Milad Alan, Van Alayan, Muayad Albert, Barbara Alijo, Paul Urkijo Amoussou, Sylvestre Annila, Antti Jussi Aparicio, Alvaro L. Arregi, Aitor Ashby, Hal Asquith, Daisy Ayouch, Nabil Bacha, Julia Bahango, Machérie Ekwa Baker, Simon Barnard, Clio Becker, Eric Benaim, Abner Berg, Annika Bjork, Cecilia Boddeke, Saskia Bogdan, Arpad Bombach, Alexandria Bonhote, Ian Brickhill, Tomas L. Brockhaus, Stefanie Bruhlmann, Lisa Bunuel, Luis Burnham, Bo Caicedo, Santiago Caldwell, Chris Cantor, Steven Cappiello, Ivan Carpelan, Ira Castle, Elizabeth A. Chang, Sylvia Charuel, Hubert Cheney, Ian Chengjie, Cai Choe, Christina Choi, Malene Chou, Tung-yen Chung, Simon Clarke, Aislinn Coixet, Isabel Coleman, Lucy Collado, Laura Cooke, Dominic Cornillac, Clovis Cote, Denis Crump, James Cummings, Jim D’Apolito, Lisa Das, Rima Daslsbakken, Henrick Martin DeFrancis, Preston Deluc, Edouard Denis, Claire Dick, Kirby Dinesen, Rasmus Diringer, Elsa Djama, Sofia Dong-seok, Shin Ducord, Alexis Dupontel, Albert Dutra, Marco Earl, Zeek Elya, Eliran Esmer, Pelin Essuman, Hawa Estrada, Carlos Lopez Ettedgui, Peter Evrenol, Can Eyre, Richard Faraut, Julien Fargeat, Coralie Farooki, Mostofa Sawar Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Feigelfeld, Lukas Fesser, Javier Feste, Shana Fiala, Severin Fidell, Hannah Fontenay, Vladimir de Foroughi, Sadaf Francen, Marine Franz, Veronika Frizzell, Augustine Garano, Jon Gardiner, Ainsley Gauger, Stephane Gebbe, Katrin Genovese, Paolo Genovesi, Alessandro Georgiou, Christos Goldberg, Dana Grace-Smith, Briar Graham, Gene Granik, Debra Griffiths, Megan Grisham, Ursula Guarnieri, Marino Gulbrandsen, Jonas Matzow Haghighi, Mani Haley, Brett Hammar, Filip Hancox, Aaron Haq, Iram Hawke, Ethan Hazanavicius, Michel Hepburn, Kathleen Hodge, Brent Howard, Silas Hu, Jia Imbert, Patrick Imtiaz, Bijon Jacir, Annemarie Jarecki, Eugene Jarman, Derek Jatla, Siddhartha Jones, Paula Whetu Joshua, Daryne Jr., Don Hardy Kaa, Casey Kahn, Joseph Kaplan, Luciana Karacelik, Tolga Kaufman, Jeff Kelly, Nick Khamdamov, Rustam Kim, Yang-hee King, Christina D. Knowlton, Vlada Kolb, Sarah Brennan Kore-eda, Hirokazu Kos-Krauze, Joanna Krauze, Krzysztof Krieger, Gus Layton, Bart Lelio, Sebastian Loomis, Jim Lopez, Issa Loushy, Mor Loveridge, Stephen Luciano, Lorena Luisi, Peter Lurf, Johann Maihi, Renae Maing, Stephen Makela, Mikko Maneglia, Juan Carlos Marques-Marcet, Carlos Marshall, Tonie Martinessi, Marcelo Matzembacher, Filipe McIvor, Colin McNamara, Michael Medak, Peter Menzies, Sarah Mishori, Efrat Mitic, Boris Mizoguchi, Kenji Mokritskiy, Sergey Moller, Gustav Mooleedhar, Michael Morgan, Thomas Moselle, Crystal Mu’min, Nijla Mukherjee), Q (Qaushiq Mulcahy, Russell Muritiba, Aly Nachman, Dana Nakache, Olivier Nash, Julia Nayar, Anjali Neshat, Shirin Netzer, Calin Peter Neville, Morgan Nicchiarelli, Susanna Nishimi, Shôjirô Nix, Laura Novack, Kate Nyoni, Rungano Officer, Charles Olnek, Madeleine Olsson, Goran Hugo Oretega, Laura Mora Ozpetek, Ferzan Paolis, Roberto De Pearce, Michael Peat, Andrew Peedom, Jennifer Pichler, Gabriela Pickett, Joe Pins, Arthur de Piscopo, Filippo Plante, Pascal Polish, Michael Pretsell, Finlay Prueher, Nick Qu, Vivian Rahman, Arifur Rak, Alessandro Randi, Paola Rasoulof, Mohammad Red, Rae Redondo, Martín Rodriguez Reeder, Calvin Renard, Guillaume Renner, Benjamin Renoir, Jean Renzu, Danish Reolon, Marcio Riehl, Joshua Riley, Boots Rojas, Juliana Roskam, Michael R. Rozenkier, Yona Salmeron, Gustavo Sansone, Dario Sant, Gus Van Sauvaire, Jean-Stéphane Schémbori, Tana Schible, Stephen Nomura Schiele, Jordan Schrader, Paul Schroeder, Marieke Schwentke, Robert Scott, Amy Seno, Shireen Shiva, Alexandra Shmila, Limor Sigurðsson, Hafsteinn Gunnar Silva, Sebastian Simich-Pene, Awanui Simón, Carla Singh, Anup Sivan, Daniel Šlezic, Lana Smoczynska, Agnieszka Solarz, Pablo Soto, Asori Stepanska, Marina Stishova, Elizaveta Strickland, Peter Sullivan, Steve Sun, Yixi Surya, Mouly Syangbo, Prabin Tabada, Fatrick Tabet, Nadim Tan, Seng-Kiat Tan, Yen Thornton, Warwick Tirola, Douglas To, Chapman Toledano, Eric Toporowych, Roxy Tucker, Lorna Turajlic, Mila Turtletaub, Marc Uricaru, Ioana Urushadze, Ana Veslemes, Yannis Wagenbauer, Kristina Wainaina, Likarion Wapeemukwa, Wayne Wardle, Tim Wardrop, Ken Weinraub, Leilah Wierzbieta, Bartosz Wiesehan, David Wikingsson, Fredrik Winstanley, Chelsea Wolfe, Katie Wolff, Andreas Wong, Doris Wronski, Jakub Wu, Hao Xin, Yukun Yan, Cathy Yang, Mingming Yang, Ya-che Yasiri, Yasir Al Zabeil, Jan Zagar, Jeremiah Zambrano, Annarita Zueva, Ksenia
Country / Region Afghanistan Algeria Argentina Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Benin Brazil Canada Canada (Québec) Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Democratic Republic of Congo Denmark Ecuador Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Guatemala Honduras/Mexico Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Malaysia Mexico Morocco Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Norway Palestine Panama Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Serbia South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay USA Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe
Venue AMC Pacific Place Ark Lodge Cinemas Kirkland Performance Center Lincoln Square Majestic Bay Marion Oliver McCaw Hall MOHAI Shoreline Community College SIFF Cinema Egyptian SIFF Cinema Uptown SIFF Film Center VR Zone at Pacific Place
Day Weekday Weekend
Time Daytime Evening
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Skate Kitchen USA | 2018 | 105 minutes | Crystal Moselle
Something Useful Turkey | 2017 | 108 minutes | Pelin Esmer
Soufra USA | 2017 | 68 minutes | Thomas Morgan
★ Austria | 2017 | 99 minutes | Johann Lurf
Streaker Switzerland | 2017 | 93 minutes | Peter Luisi
Suleiman Mountain Russia | 2017 | 102 minutes | Elizaveta Stishova
Summer 1993 Spain | 2017 | 97 minutes | Carla Simón
Supa Modo Kenya | 2018 | 74 minutes | Likarion Wainaina
Susu China | 2017 | 106 minutes | Yixi Sun
Sweet Country Australia | 2017 | 112 minutes | Warwick Thornton
The Synergy of Director & Editor in Documentary Film 90 minutes
Team Hurricane Denmark | 2017 | 96 minutes | Annika Berg
Terror Internationale 2018 | 97 minutes
That Summer Sweden | 2017 | 80 minutes | Goran Hugo Olsson
The African Storm Benin | 2017 | 89 minutes | Sylvestre Amoussou
The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales... France | 2017 | 83 minutes | Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner
The Bleeding Edge USA | 2018 | 99 minutes | Kirby Dick
The Blessed Algeria | 2017 | 102 minutes | Sofia Djama
The Bold, The Corrupt, and The Beautiful Taiwan | 2017 | 112 minutes | Ya-che Yang
The Bottomless Bag Russia | 2017 | 104 minutes | Rustam Khamdamov
The Captain Germany | 2017 | 118 minutes | Robert Schwentke
The Changeling Canada | 1980 | 107 minutes | Peter Medak
The Charmer Denmark | 2017 | 100 minutes | Milad Alami
The Children Act United Kingdom | 2017 | 105 minutes | Richard Eyre
The Crime of Monsieur Lange France | 1936 | 83 minutes | Jean Renoir
The Devil's Doorway United Kingdom | 2018 | 76 minutes | Aislinn Clarke
The Drummer and The Keeper Ireland | 2017 | 93 minutes | Nick Kelly
The Eternal Road Finland | 2017 | 103 minutes | Antti Jussi Annila
The Faces of Zandra Rhodes USA | 2018 | 81 minutes | David Wiesehan
The Family Picture Show 2018 | 83 minutes
The Gospel According to Andre USA | 2017 | 94 minutes | Kate Novack
The Greenaway Alphabet Netherlands | 2017 | 68 minutes | Saskia Boddeke
The Guilty Denmark | 2018 | 85 minutes | Gustav Moller
The Kids Are Alright? 2018 | 89 minutes
The Long Dumb Road USA | 2018 | 90 minutes | Hannah Fidell
The Most Dangerous Year USA | 2018 | 90 minutes | Vlada Knowlton
The Most Unknown Belgium | 2018 | 88 minutes | Ian Cheney
The Oslo Diaries Israel | 2018 | 94 minutes | Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
The Other Side of Everything Serbia | 2017 | 104 minutes | Mila Turajlic
The Place Italy | 2017 | 105 minutes | Paolo Genovese
The Poet and the Boy South Korea | 2017 | 110 minutes | Yang-hee Kim
The Poetess Germany | 2017 | 89 minutes | Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem Palestine | 2018 | 127 minutes | Muayad Alayan
The Return Denmark | 2018 | 85 minutes | Malene Choi
The Russian Five USA | 2018 | 99 minutes | Joshua Riehl
The Silk and The Flame USA | 2018 | 100 minutes | Jordan Schiele
The Song of Scorpions India | 2017 | 119 minutes | Anup Singh
The Sower France | 2017 | 98 minutes | Marine Francen