Seattle International Film Festival 2002 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2002

Relive the 28th 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 2002 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 23–June 16, 2002
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Crocodile Café, Egyptian Theatre, Experience Music Project, Grand Illusion, Harvard Exit Theater, Nation, Orpheum Records, Pacific Place Cinemas, Paramount Theatre, Rendezvous, Richard Hugo House

Opening Night: Igby Goes Down at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Passionada at Cinerama
Tribute: John Waters, James Wong
Emerging Masters: Jacques Audiard, Julio Medem, Miike Takashi, Park Chan-Wook


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Happiness Of The Katakuris
Happiness Of The Katakuris
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Passionada
Passionada
Igby Goes Down
Igby Goes Down
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People
Sex And Lucia
Sex And Lucia
The Piano Teacher
The Piano Teacher

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Elling (dir. Peter Naess, Norway)

Best Director
Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia, Spain)

Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)

Best Actor
Moritz Bleibtreu (Das Experiment)

Best Short
The Host (dir. Nicolas Tomnay, Australia)

Best Documentary
Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House (dir. Deborah Dickson, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Who the Hell is Bobby Roos? (dir. John Feldman, 2002, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

101st Kilometre - dir. Leonid Maryagin, 2001, Russia

13 Conversations About One Thing - dir. Jill Sprecher, 2001, USA

13 Moons - dir. Alexandre Rockwell, 2002, USA

24 Hour Party People - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2002, Great Britain

Abandoned - dir. Arpad Sopsits, 2001, Hungary

ABC Africa - dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 2001, Iran

Afghan Alphabet - dir. Moshen Makhmalbaf, 2001, Iran

Agitator - dir. Miike Takashi, 2001, Japan

All About Lily Chou-Chou - dir. Shunji Iwai, 2001, Japan

American Gun - dir. Alan Jacobs, 2002, USA

The Anarchist Cookbook - dir. Jordan Susman, 2002, USA

Angelus - dir. Lech Majewski, 2001, Poland

Asoka - dir. Santosh Sivan, 2001, India

Badlands - dir. Terrence Malick, 1973, USA

Bang Bang You’re Dead - dir. Guy Ferland, 2002, USA

Beijing Rocks - dir. Mabel Cheung, 2001, Hong Kong

Biggie and Tupac - dir. Nick Broomfield, 2002, Great Britain

Black Picket Fence - dir. Sergio Goes, 2001, USA

Blue Gate Crossing - dir. Chih-yen Yi, 2002, Taiwan/France

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974, USA

Britney Baby, One More Time! - dir. Ludi Boeken, 2002, USA

Brother - dir. Yan Yan Mak, 2001, Hong Kong

Bungalow - dir. Ulrich Köhler, 2002, Germany

Butterfly Smile - dir. He Jianjun, 2001, China

A Cab for Three - dir. Orlando Lübbert, 2001, Chile

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - dir. Robert Wiene, 1919-20, Germany

California Split - dir. Robert Altman, 1974, USA

Camel(s) - dir. Park Ki-yong, 2001, South Korea

Catching Out - dir. Sarah George, 2002, USA

Cherish - dir. Finn Taylor, 2002, USA

Chicken Rice War - dir. Cheah Chee-Kong (”CheeK”), 2001, Singapore

Chinatown - dir. Roman Polanski, 1974, USA

Cinemania - dir. Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak, 2001, USA

The Cockettes - dir. Bill Weber, David Weissman, 2002, USA

CQ - dir. Roman Coppola, 2001, USA/Luxembourg/France/Italy

The Cuban Game - dir. Manuel Martin Cuenca, 2001, Spain

Daddy and Papa - dir. Johnny Symons, 2002, USA

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - dir. Peter Care, 2002, USA

Dark Water - dir. Hideo Nakata, 2002, Japan

David Hockney, Secret Knowledge - dir. Randall Wright, 2001, Great Britain

Days of Heaven - dir. Terrence Malick, 1978, USA

The Devil in the Holy Water - dir. Joe Balass, 2002, USA

Dog Days - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2001, Austria

Door To Door - dir. Steven Schachter, 2001, USA

A Dream in Hanoi - dir. Tom Weidlinger, 2002, USA/Vietnam

Elling - dir. Peter Næss, 2001, Norway

The Emperor’s New Clothes - dir. Alan Taylor, 2001, Great Britain/Germany

The Experiment - dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2001, Germany

Family Fundamentals - dir. Arthur Dong, 2002, USA

The Fast Runner - dir. Zacharias Kunuk, 2001, Canada

Fat City - dir. John Huston, 1972, USA

Female Trouble - dir. John Waters, 1975, USA

Firefly Dreams - dir. John Williams, 2001, Japan

Five Easy Pieces - dir. Bob Rafelson, 1970, USA

The Flats - dir. Kelly Requa, Tyler Requa, 2002, USA

Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) - dir. AJ Schnack, 2002, USA

Girls Can’t Swim - dir. Anne-Sophie Birot, 2001, France

God Is Great, I’m Not - dir. Pascale Bailly, 2001, France

Good Hands - dir. Peeter Simm, 2001, Estonia/Latvia 

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It - dir. Judith Ehrlich, 2000, USA

Gossip - dir. Colin Nutley, 2001, Sweden

Green Dragon - dir. Timothy Linh Bui, 2001, USA

The Grey Zone - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001, USA

Happiness of the Katakuris - dir. Miike Takashi, 2001, Japan

Happy Times - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2001, China

Hejar–Big Man, Small Love - dir. Handan Ipekçi, 2001, Turkey

Herencia - dir. Paula Hernández, 2001, Argentina

Her Majesty - dir. Mark J. Gordon, 2001, New Zealand

Her Mother, The Whore - dir. Brigitte Roüan, 2002, France

Hi! Dharma! - dir. Park Cheol-kwan, 2001, South Korea

The Hired Hand - dir. Peter Fonda, 1971, USA

Hi, Tereska - dir. Robert Glinski, 2001, Poland

Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay - dir. Eric Slade, 2001, USA

Hush! - dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001, Japan

Igby Goes Down - dir. Burr Steers, 2002, USA

I’m Going Home - dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 2001, France/Portugal

The Inheritance - dir. Daniel Filho, 2001, Brazil

The Inner Tour - dir. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2001, Israel

In Praise of Love - dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 2001, France

In The Mirror of Maya Deren - dir. Martina Kudlacek, 2001, Austria

Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War - dir. Julia Newman, 2001, USA

I Will Not Be Sad in This World - dir. Karina Epperlein, 2002, USA

Jiyan - dir. Jano Rosebiani, 2002, Kurdistan/Iraq

Joint Security Area - dir. Park Chan-wook, 2000, South Korea

Just a Kiss - dir. Fisher Stevens, 2001, USA

Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama of the West - dir. Kyle Carver, Ryan Purcell, 2001, USA

Khaled - dir. Asghar Massombagi, 2001, Canada

Killer Tattoo - dir. Yuthlert Sippapak, 2001, Thailand

Kira’s Reason–A Love Story - dir. Ole Christian Madsen, 2001, Denmark

Klute - dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1971, USA

Lan Yu - dir. Stanley Kwan, 2001, China/Hong Kong

La Spagnola - dir. Steve Jacobs, 2001, Australia

Last Call - dir. Henry Bromell, 2002, USA/Canada

Last Dance - dir. Mirra Bank, 2001, USA

The Last Kiss - dir. Gabriele Muccino, 2001, Italy

The Last Wedding - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 2001, Canada

La Tropical - dir. David Turnley, 2001, USA/Cuba

The Lawless Heart - dir. Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter, 2001, Great Britain

Les Enfants de l'amour - dir. Geoffrey Enthoven, 2001, Belgium

Liberty Stands Still - dir. Kari Skogland, 2002, USA

Ljubljana - dir. Igor Sterk, 2002, Slovenia

Love In the Time of Money - dir. Peter Mattei, 2002, USA

Lovely & Amazing - dir. Nicole Holofcener, 2001, USA

The Lover - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2001, Russia

Mad Love - dir. Vicente Aranda, 2001, Spain

Malunde - dir. Stefanie Sycholt, 2001, South Africa/Germany

The Mapmaker - dir. Johnny Gogan, 2001, Ireland

Map of Sex and Love - dir. Evans Chan, 2001, Hong Kong/USA

Mariages - dir. Catherine Martin, 2001, Canada

M*A*S*H - dir. Robert Altman, 1970, USA

May - dir. Lucky McKee, 2002, USA

Maya - dir. Digvijay Singh, 2001, India

McCabe and Mrs. Miller - dir. Robert Altman, 1971, USA

Mean Streets - dir. Martin Scorsese, 1973, USA

Men in Scoring Position - dir. Timothy Rhys, 1999, USA

Men With Brooms - dir. Paul Gross, 2002, Canada

Merci Pour le Chocolat - dir. Claude Chabrol, 2000, France

Me Without You - dir. Sandra Goldbacher, 2002, Great Britain

Millennium Mambo - dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001, Taiwan

Minoes - dir. Vincent Bal, 2001, Netherlands

Minor Mishaps - dir. Annette K. Olesen, 2002, Denmark

Missing Persons - dir. Dan & Matt O'Donnell, 2002, USA

Monkey Love - dir. Mark Stratton, 2002, USA

Mon-rak Transistor - dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2002, Thailand

Mostly Martha - dir. Sandra Nettelbeck, 2001, Australia/Germany/Italy/Switzerland

Murderous Maids - dir. Jean-Pierre Denis, 2001, France

My Brother Silk Road - dir. Marat Sarulu, 2001, Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan

My Voyage to Italy - dir. Martin Scorsese, 2001, Italy/USA

My Wife is an Actress - dir. Yvan Attal, 2001, France

The Navigators - dir. Ken Loach, 2001, Great Britain/Germany/Spain

No News From God - dir. Agustin Diaz-Yanes, 2001, Spain

No Regrets - dir. Benjamin Quabeck, 2002, Germany

Nynke - dir. Pieter Verhoeff, 2001, Netherlands

One Day in August - dir. Constantine Giannaris, 2000, Greece

On the Road to Emmaus - dir. Markku Pölönen, 2001, Finland

Orphan of Anyang - dir. Wang Chao, 2001, China

The Orphan - dir. Sun-fung Lee, 1960, Hong Kong

Our America - dir. Ernest Dickerson, 2002, USA

Outpatient - dir. Alec Carlin, 2002, USA

The Parallax View - dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1974, USA

Parallel Worlds - dir. Petr Václav, 2001, Czech Republic

Passionada - dir. Dan Ireland, 2002, USA

The Piano Teacher - dir. Michael Haneke, 2001, Austria/France

Picnic - dir. Joshua Logan, 1955, USA

The Pinochet Case - dir. Patricio Guzman, 2001, France/Belgium/Chile

Pipe Dream - dir. John Walsh, 2002, USA

Pistol Opera - dir. Seijun Suzuki, 2001, Japan

Pleasure and Pain - dir. Danny Clinch, 2002, USA

Princess Blade - dir. Shinsuke Sato, 2002, Japan

The Prisoner of Zenda - dir. John Cromwell, 1937, USA

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - dir. Billy Wilder, 1970, USA/Great Britain

Pumpkin - dir. Tony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, 2002, USA

Pursued - dir. Raoul Walsh, 1947, USA

Quitting - dir. Zhang Yang, 2001, China

Rain - dir. Katherine Lindberg, 2001, USA/Spain/Germany

Read My Lips - dir. Jacques Audiard, 2001, France

The Red Squirrel - dir. Julio Medem, 1993, Spain

The Reunion - dir. Måns Herngren, Hannes Holm, 2002, Sweden

Risotto - dir. Olga Malea, 2001, Greece

La Route - dir. Darezhan Omirbaev, 2001, Kazakhstan/France/Japan

The Rule of the Game - dir. Ho Ping , 2002, Taiwan

Running Out of Time 2 - dir. Johnny To, Law Wing-cheong, 2001, Hong Kong

Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House - dir. Deborah Dickson, 2002, USA

The Safety of Objects - dir. Rose Troche, 2001, USA

SASS - dir. Carlo Rola, 2001, Germany

Satin Rouge - dir. Raja Amari, 2002, Tunisia/France

A Savage Soul - dir. Raoul Ruiz, 2001, France/Chile/Belgium

Secret Ballot - dir. Babak Payami, 2001, Iran/Switzerland/Italy 

See You Off to the Edge of Town - dir. Ching C. Ip, 2002, USA/Hong Kong

A Self Made Hero - dir. Jacques Audiard, 1996, France

Sex and Lucia - dir. Julio Medem, 2001, Spain

Shag Carpet Sunset - dir. Andrew McAllister, 2002, USA

Shampoo - dir. Hal Ashby, 1975, USA

Sherpa–Unsung Heroes - dir. Win Whittaker, 2002, USA/India/Sikkim

Shopping - dir. Philippe Boon, Laurent Brandenbourger, 2002, France/Belgium/Luxembourg

Skies Satellites - dir. Lukas Nola, 2001, Croatia

Skins - dir. Chris Eyre, 2002, USA

The Smith Family - dir. Tasha Oldham, 2002, USA

Smokers Only - dir. Verónica Chen, 2001, Argentina

Soft for Digging - dir. JT Petty, 2002, USA

A Song for Martin - dir. Billie August, 2001, Denmark/Germany/Sweden

Spooky House - dir. William Sachs, 2000, Canada

Strange Fruit - dir. Joel Katz, 2002, USA

Streeters - dir. Gerardo Tort, 2001, Mexico

Sunshine State - dir. John Sayles, 2002, USA

Super 8 Stories - dir. Emir Kusturica , 2001, Germany/Italy

Supplement - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 2002, Poland

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - dir. Saso Podgorsek, 2001, Slovenia

Sweet Smell of Success - dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA

Swimming Upstream: A Year in the Life of Karen & Jenny - dir. Jennifer Freedman, 2002, USA

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - dir. Park Chan-wook, 2001, South Korea

Tadpole - dir. Gary Winick, 2002, USA

Take Care of My Cat - dir. Jeong Jae-Eun, 2001, South Korea

Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine In Daehakroh - dir. Nam Gee-Woong, 2001, South Korea

Teknolust - dir. Lynn Hershman-Leeson, 2002, USA

Temptations - dir. Zoltan Kamondi, 2001, Hungary

Tokyo Noise - dir. Kristian Petri, Jan Roed, Johan Soderberg, 2002, Sweden

The Trip - dir. Miles Swain, 2002, USA

Turning Paige - dir. Robert Cuffley, 2002, Canada

Two Lane Blacktop - dir. Monte Hellman, 1971, USA

Two Towns of Jasper - dir. Whitney Dow, Marco Williams, 2002, USA

Uzumaki - dir. Higuchinsky, 2000, Japan

Versus - dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2001, Japan/USA

Virginia’s Run - dir. Peter Markle, 2002, USA

Walking on Water - dir. Tony Ayres, 2002, Australia

War Live - dir. Darko Bajic, 2001, Serbia

The Way We Laughed - dir. Gianni Amelio, 1998, Italy

What About God? - 2002, USA

Whispering Sands - dir. Nan Triveni Achnas, 2001, Indonesia/Japan

Who The Hell Is Bobby Roos? - dir. John Feldman, 2002, USA

The Wild Bees - dir. Bohdan Sláma, 2001, Czech Republic

Wild Flowers - dir. F.A. Brabec, 2000, Czech Republic

Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control - dir. Barry Alexander Brown, 2002, USA

Written on the Body of the Night - dir. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 2001, Mexico

Yellow Asphalt - dir. Dan Verete, 2000, Israel

The Zookeeper - dir. Ralph Ziman, 2001, Denmark/Czech Republic/UK/Netherlands

Special Programs & Events

Asian Tradewinds Competition - included 10 feature films

Centerpiece Gala 24 Hour Party People

Days of Heaven - American Filmmaking in the 70’s - included Chinatown, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Days of Heaven, The Parallax View, The Hired Hand, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Emerging Masters: Miike Takashi - include Agitator, Happiness of Katakuris

Emerging Masters: Jacques Audiard - included Read My Lips, A Self Made Hero 

Emerging Masters: Julio Medem - included Sex and Lucia, The Red Squirrel 

Emerging Masters: Park Chan-wook - include Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Joint Security Area 

An Evening with John Waters Female Trouble

Exploding Cinema and the Crocodile Café present Music Video Machine and Exploding Cinema’s Online Flash Film Fest

Exploding Cinema and Nation present zero

Exploding Cinema and the Richard Hugo House present Bloomsday 

Exploding Cinema’s Bazaar at the Rendezvous

Filmmakers Forum - included Getting ‘Ben-Hur’ Production Values on an ‘I Love Lucy’ Budget, What’s the Score?, The Life of a Hyphenate: Writer-Director-Actor, Digital Delivery & the Exhibition Revolution, Behind the Curtain: A Director and Cinematographer Reveal their Process, The Workshop: A Live Scene Study, Perfect Pitch: What’s the Big Idea?

Films 4 Families - included Her Majesty, Minoes, Spooky House, Virginia’s Run

Midnight Adrenaline - included Killer Tattoo, May, Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakroh, Versus

The Golden Space Needle Awards

Grand Illusion 70’s Sidebar - included Mean Streets, Two Lane Blacktop, Five Easy Pieces, Klute, California Split, Fat City, Badlands, Shampoo, ‘70s Timecapsule: a collection of short films of the era, M*A*S*H

The Inaugural Alpha Cine Award See You Off to the Edge of Town

Local Color: Spawned in Seattle - included Spawned in Seattle: Small Fry, Catching Out, Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama, Outpatient, Shag Carpet Sunset

Low-Key Legend: A Tribute to James Wong Howe - included Picnic, The Prisoner of Zenda, Pursued, Sweet Smell of Success

The Modern Digital Cinema Award American Gun

Movie Poster Silent Auction

New American Cinema Competition - included 9 feature films 

New Directors Showcase - included 11 feature films 

Night Music - included Biggie and Tupac, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), Pleasure and Pain, Super 8 Stories, La Tropical 

Refracting Reality - included 28 feature films 

Scratch Cinema featuring DJ Spooky (Tha’ Subliminal Kid) and Spaceboat.tv, KEXP 90.3’s Expressions

Screenwriters Salon presents Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

Secret Festival

Short Takes - included Around the World in 80 Minutes, The Ploys of Sex, Head Cases, Sensation-al Animation, Shorts Stories, Boys & Boys and Girls & Girls, 9/11: A Coda

Special Archival Presentations - included The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Theramin Accompaniment by Kent Oiwa, The Orphan, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 

Talking Pictures: Education Day - included What About God?, Two Towns of Jasper, Bang Bang You’re Dead 

Talking Pictures: Elderhostel Talking Pictures - included five films and five discussions with filmmakers and/or critics

Talking Pictures: Panels - included Why America Can’t See (Or Doesn’t Want to See) Movies for Grownups - seminar guests included Michael Medved, David Ansen, John Styles, Rose Troche, Days of Heaven: American Filmmaking in the 1970s - seminar guests included David Thomson, Peter Biskind, Villas Zsigmond, Peter Fonda, Can Movies Change the World? - seminar guests included John Anderson, Alan Jacobs, James Coburn, Guy Ferland

Talking Pictures: Post-Film Conversations and Discussions - included Two Towns of Jasper, Picnic, The Hired Hand, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes