Official Competition
With work spanning the world, the nine films in the Official Competition illustrate some of the finest filmmaking this year. Many of the films discuss themes that resonate worldwide—themes of friendship, coming of age in times of political turmoil, and the complications of family and love.
Juried by a team of international industry members, the winner of the Official Competition will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards April 24 and will receive a cash prize of $5,000.
Fire of Love
USA | 2022 | 93 min | Sara Dosa
April 14 - 24, 2022
A strange and spellbinding love story about volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft and their doomed lava-chasing obsession.
Klondike
Ukraine | 2022 | 100 min | Maryna Er Gorbach
April 14 - 24, 2022
Along the Ukraine-Russia border, a pregnant woman and her husband’s self-sufficient life is threatened by encroaching civil war.
Navalny | SIFF 2022 Opening Night Gala
USA | 2022 | 98 min. | Daniel Roher
April 14, 2022
A real-life Russian thriller about Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with a KGB-era nerve agent and lived to tell the tale.
So Damn Easy Going
Sweden | 2022 | 91 min | Christoffer Sandler
April 14 - 24, 2022
Beset by ADHD and a depressed father, life is tough for teenage Joanna until she meets the effortlessly cool Audrey.
Talking About the Weather
Germany | 2022 | 89 min | Annika Pinske
April 14 - 24, 2022
A teacher in Berlin questions her choices when she returns to her small East German hometown to visit her mother.
The Territory
Brazil | 2022 | 86 min | Alex Pritz
April 14 - 24, 2022
As their rainforest home is decimated by illegal settlers, a Brazilian tribe fights for their land, culture, and right to exist.
Wildhood
Canada | 2021 | 108 min | Bretten Hannam (Mi'kmaw)
April 14 - 24, 2022
A Mi'kmaw teenager treks across maritime Canada in search of his birth mother and his own Indigenous heritage.
Flux Gourmet
United Kingdom | 2022 | 111 min | Peter Strickland
April 18 - 21, 2022
A delectably vulgar provocation about an institution-based arts collective devoted to culinary and alimentary performance.
Invisible Demons
India | 2021 | 70 min | Rahul Jain
April 18 - 21, 2022
Director Rahul Jain focuses on the city of Delhi to tell of the devastation climate change is wreaking right now in India.