Seattle International Film Festival 2004 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2004

Relive the 30th 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 2004 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 20–June 13, 2004
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Chop Suey, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, The Hideaway, Howard House Gallery, Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel, Neumo’s, Pacific Place Cinemas, Valley 6 Outdoor Theatres

Opening Night: The Notebook at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Intimate Strangers at Cinerama
Tribute: Stephen Fry, Patrice Leconte
Emerging Masters: Annette K. Olesen, Cedric Kahn, Ferzan Ozpetek, Pen-ek Ratanaruang


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler

SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler

Intimate Strangers
Intimate Strangers
Saved
Saved
Criminal
Criminal
Before Sunset
Before Sunset
The Notebook
The Notebook
Facing Windows
Facing Windows
Maria Full Of Grace
Maria Full Of Grace
Wild Side
Wild Side

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Facing Windows (dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy)

Best Director
Marco Tullio Giordano (The Best of Youth, Italy)

Best Actress
Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace)

Best Actor
Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes)

Best Short
Consent (dir. Jason Reitman, USA)

Best Documentary
Born into Brothels (dir. Zana Briski, Ross Kauffmann, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Wild Side (dir. Sebastien Lifshitz, France/Belgium/Great Britain)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
TIE:
Incident at Loch Ness (dir. Zak Penn, USA)
Cavedweller (dir. Lisa Cholodenko, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
TIE:
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (dir. Andrew Douglas, Great Britain/USA)
The Game of Their Lives (dir. Daniel Gordon, South Korea /Great Britain)

List of Feature-Length Films

25 Degrees in Winter - dir. Stéphane Vuillet, 2004, Belgium/France/Spain

6ixtynin9 - dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2000, Thailand

9 Souls - dir. Toshiaki Toyoda, 2003, Japan

Anatomy of Hell - dir. Catherine Breillat, 2004, France

Arimpara-A Story That Begins at the End - dir. Murali Nair, 2003, India/Japan

Asshak, Tales of the Sahara - dir. Ulrike Koch, 2004, Switzerland/Germany/Netherlands

Azumi - dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2003, Japan

BAADASSSSS! - dir. Mario Van Peebles, 2004, USA

The Basque Ball: Skin Against the Stone - dir. Julio Medem, 2003, Spain

Baytong - dir. Nonzee Nimibutr, 2004, Thailand

Before Sunrise - dir. Richard Linklater, 1995, USA

Before Sunset - dir. Richard Linklater, 2004, USA

Bereft - dir. Tim Daly, Clark Mathis, 2004, USA

The Best of Youth: Part 1 - dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003, Italy

The Best of Youth: Part 2 - dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003, Italy

B-Happy - dir. Gonzalo Justiniano, 2003, Chile/Spain/Venezuela

Big City Dick - dir. Scott Milam, Ken Harder, Todd Pottinger, 2004, USA

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2003, Japan

Bloom - dir. Sean Walsh, 2003, Ireland

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi - dir. Shemi Zarhin, 2003, Israel

Bored in Brno - dir. Vladimír Morávek, 2003, Czech Republic

Born Into Brothels - dir. Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski, 2003, India

The Boys from County Clare - dir. John Irvin, 2003, Ireland/Great Britain/Germany

Bright Future - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003, Japan

Bright Leaves - dir. Ross McElwee, 2003, USA

Bright Young Things - dir. Stephen Fry, 2003, Great Britain

Brother to Brother - dir. Rodney Evans, 2004, USA

Buddy - dir. Morten Tyldum, 2003, Norway

Buffalo Bill's Defunct–Stories from the New West - dir. Matt Wilkins, 2004, USA

Busting Out - dir. Laurel Spellman Smith, Francine Strickwerda, 2004, USA

Capone - dir. Jean Marc Brondolo, 2003, France

Captive - dir. Gastón Biraben , 2003, Argentina

Carandiru - dir. Hector Babenco, 2003, Brazil/Argentina

Cavedweller - dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 2004, USA

Checkpoint - dir. Yoav Shamir, 2003, Israel/Japan

The Coldest Day - dir. Xie Dong, 2003, China

Control Room - dir. Jehane Noujaim, 2004, Egypt/USA

The Corporation - dir. Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, 2003, Canada

Cowards Bend the Knee - dir. Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada

Criminal - dir. Gregory Jacobs, 2004 , USA

Dandelion - dir. Mark Milgard, 2004, USA

Danny Deckchair - dir. Jeff Balsmeyer, 2003, Australia

Darkness Bride - dir. William Kwok 2003, Hong Kong/Taiwan

Dear Frankie - dir. Shona Auerbach, 2004, Scotland

Death In Gaza - dir. James Miller, 2003, Great Britain

Death & Texas - dir. Kevin DiNovis, 2004, USA

The Debut - dir. Gleb Panfilov, 1970, Russia

Deep Breath - dir. Parviz Shahbazi, 2003, Iran

DIG! - dir. Ondi Timoner, 2004, USA

Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea - dir. Goran Rebic, 2003, Austria

Donnie Darko - The Director’s Cut - dir. Richard Kelly, 2004, USA

Doppelganger - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003, Japan

Down to the Bone - dir. Debra Granik, 2004, USA

Drifters - dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, 2003, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan

Eager Bodies - dir. Xavier Giannoli, 2003, France

El Alamein: In the Line of Fire - dir. Enzo Monteleone, 2003, Italy

Evergreen - dir. Enid Zentelis, 2004, USA

Everyday People - dir. Jim McKay, 2004, USA

Facing Window - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2003, Italy/Great Britain/Turkey/Portugal

Fear and Trembling - dir. Alain Corneau, 2003, France/Japan

Feathers in My Head - dir. Thomas de Thier, 2003, Belgium/France

Festival Express - dir. Bob Smeaton, 2003, Canada

The Five Obstructions - dir. Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier, 2003, Denmark/Belgium/Switzerland/France

The Forest - dir. Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek ba Kobhio, 2003, Cameroon /Gabon/Central African Republic

Frankie and Johnny Are Married - dir. Michael Pressman, 2003, USA

The Game of Their Lives - dir. Daniel Gordon, 2003, South Korea /Great Britain

Garden State - dir. Zach Braff, 2004, USA

Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence - dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2004, Japan

The Girl on the Bridge - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1999, France

The Goddess - dir. Wu Yonggang, 1934, China

Go Further - dir. Ron Mann, 2003, Canada

Goodbye Dragon Inn - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan

A Good Lawyer’s Wife - dir. Im Sang-soo, 2003, South Korea

The Graffiti Artist - dir. James Bolton, 2004, USA

The Green Butchers - dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, 2003, Denmark

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst - dir. Robert Stone, 2004, USA/Great Britain

Hanging Offense - dir. Guillaume Nicloux, 2003, France

Harry and Max - dir. Christopher Münch, 2004, USA

Haute Tension - dir. Alexandre Aja, 2003, France

Hedda Gabler - dir. Paul Willis, 2004, USA

Heir to an Execution - dir. Ivy Meeropol, 2004, USA

Hero - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2002, China/Hong Kong

I Always Wanted to Be a Saint - dir. Geneviève Mersch, 2003, Luxembourg/Belgium

Imelda - dir. Ramona S. Diaz , 2003, USA

Incident at Loch Ness - dir. Zak Penn, 2004, USA

Infernal Affairs - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak , 2002, Hong Kong

Infernal Affairs 2 - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2003, Hong Kong

Infernal Affairs 3 - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong

Inheritance - dir. Per Fly, 2003, Denmark

In the Realms of the Unreal - dir. Jessica Yu, 2003, USA

Intimate Strangers - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2004, France

In Your Hands - dir. Annette K. Olesen, 2004, Denmark

It’s Easier for a Camel… - dir. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, 2003, France

Jagged Harmonies - dir. Dominique de Rivaz, 2003, Germany/Switzerland

Jagoda in the Supermarket - dir. Dusan Milic, 2003, Serbia/Yugoslavia/Germany/Italy

Jester Till - dir. Eberhard Junkersdorf, 2003, Germany/Belgium

The Kite - dir. Randa Chahal Sabbag, 2003, Lebanon/France

La Petite Lili - dir. Claude Miller, 2003, France/Canada

Last Life in the Universe - dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2003, Thailand/Japan

The Last Train - dir. Alexei A. German, Jr., 2003, Russia

La Vie Promise - dir. Olivier Dahan, 2003, France

Learning to Lie - dir. Hendrik Handloegten, 2003, Germany

Legend of the Sacred Stone - dir. Chris Huang, 2000, Taiwan

A Letter to True - dir. Bruce Weber, 2004, USA

Little Men - dir. Nariman Turebayev, 2003, Kazakhstan/France

The Locals - dir. Greg Page, 2003, New Zealand

Los Angeles Plays Itself - dir. Thom Andersen, 2003, USA

Los Debutantes - dir. Andrés Waissbluth, 2003, Chile

Love Me If You Dare - dir. Yann Samuell, 2003, France/Belgium

The Man of the Year - dir. José Henrique Fonseca, 2003, Brazil

The Man on the Train - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2003, France

The Man Who Copied - dir. Jorge Furtado, 2003, Brazil

Maqbool - dir. Vishal Bharadwaj, 2003, India

Maria Full of Grace - dir. Joshua Marston, 2004, USA/Colombia

Max Rules - dir. Robert Burke, 2004, USA

Memories of Murder - dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2003, South Korea

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2004, USA

The Middle of the World - dir. Vicente Amorim, 2003, Brazil

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

The Miracle of Berne - dir. Sönke Wortmann, 2003, Germany

Mix - dir. Steven Lovy, 2004, Hungary/USA

Moi, César - dir. Richard Berry, 2003, France

Monsieur N - dir. Antoine de Caunes, 2003, France /Great Britain

Monster Road - dir. Brett Ingram, 2004, USA

The Mother - dir. Roger Michell, 2003, Great Britain

Moving Malcolm - dir. Benjamin Ratner, 2003, Canada

My Grandpa - dir. Yoichi Higashi, 2003, Japan

Nathalie… - dir. Anne Fontaine, 2003, France

Natural City - dir. Min Byung-chun, 2003, South Korea

Nicotina - dir. Hugo Rodriguez, 2003, Mexico/Argentina/Spain

Nina’s Tragedies - dir. Savi Gabizon , 2003, Israel

Nobody Knows How to Talk to Children - dir. George Roca, 2004, USA

Noise - dir. Tony Spiridakis, 2004, USA

The Notebook - dir. Nick Cassavetes, 2004, USA

November - dir. Achero Mañas, 2003, Spain

Off the Map - dir. Campbell Scott, 2003, USA

Open Water - dir. Chris Kentis, 2003, USA

Original Child Bomb - dir. Carey Schonegevel, 2004, USA

Orwell Rolls in His Grave - dir. Robert Kane Pappas, 2003, USA

Paper Clips - dir. Elliott Berlin, Joe Fab, 2003, USA

Pater Familias - dir. Francesco Patierno, 2003, Italy

Paternal Instinct - dir. Murray Nossel, 2004, USA

Perfect Strangers - dir. Gaylene Preston, 2003, New Zealand

Persons of Interest - dir. Alison Maclean, Tobias Perse, 2004, USA

Playtime - dir. Jacques Tati, 1967, France

Primer - dir. Shane Carruth, 2004, USA

A Problem with Fear - dir. Gary Burns, 2003, Canada

Proteus - dir. John Greyson, 2003, Canada/South Africa

Python - dir. Laila Pakalnina, 2003, Latvia

Quality of Life - dir. Benjamin Morgan, 2004, USA

Raja - dir. Jacques Doillon, 2003, France/Morocco

Ramblers - dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2003, Japan

Raspberry Reich - dir. Bruce LaBruce, 2004, Canada/Germany

Reconstruction - dir. Christoffer Boe, 2003, Denmark

Red Lights - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2004, France

A Relative Thing - dir. Garrett Bennett, 2004, USA

Remember Me, My Love - dir. Gabriele Muccino, 2003, Italy/France/Great Britain

Revolution - dir. Lorene Machado, 2004, USA

Ridicule - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1996, France

Riding Giants - dir. Stacy Peralta, 2004, USA

Roads to Koktebel - dir. Alexei Popogrebsky, Boris Khlebnikov, 2003, Russia

Roberto Succo - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2001, France

Rosenstrasse - dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 2003, Germany/Netherlands

Ruby & Quentin - dir. Francis Veber, 2003, France

Running on Karma - dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai, 2003, Hong Kong/China

The Saddest Music in the World - dir. Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada

Saved! - dir. Brian Dannelly, 2004, USA

Save the Green Planet - dir. Jang Jun-hwan, 2003, South Korea

Scent of the Lotus Pond - dir. Satyajit Maitipe, 2003, Sri Lanka

Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - dir. Andrew Douglas, 2003, Great Britain/USA

Seducing Doctor Lewis - dir. Jean-François Pouliot, 2003, Canada

Seven Days, Seven Nights - dir. Joel Cano, 2003, Cuba/France/Italy

Sex Is Comedy - dir. Catherine Breillat, 2002, France

Sexual Dependency - dir. Rodrigo Bellott, 2003, Bolivia/USA

Silent Waters - dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003, Pakistan/France/Germany

Since Otar Left - dir. Julie Bertucelli, 2003, France/Belgium/Georgia

Sky Blue - dir. Kim Moon-sang, 2003, South Korea

Slim Susie - dir. Ulf Malmros, 2003, Sweden

Snow Walker - dir. Charles Martin Smith, 2003, Canada

Somnambulance - dir. Sulev Keedus, 2003, Estonia/Finland

Spare Parts - dir. Damjan Kozole, 2003, Slovenia

Stander - dir. Bronwen Hughes, 2003, South Africa/Canada/Great Britain

Steam: The Turkish Bath - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 1997, Italy/Turkey/Spain

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65 - dir. Deirdre Fishel, 2003, USA

The Story of Marie and Julien - dir. Jacques Rivette, 2003, France

The Story of the Weeping Camel - dir. Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa, 2003, Mongolia/Germany

Straight-Jacket - dir. Richard Day, 2004, USA

Strayed - dir. André Téchiné, 2003, France/Great Britain

Take My Eyes - dir. Iciar Bollaín, 2003, Spain

A Tale of Two Sisters - dir. Kim Ji-woon, 2003, South Korea

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space - dir. t.o.L., 2003, Japan

The Tesseract - dir. Oxide Pang, 2003, Thailand/Japan/Great Britain

Thirst - dir. Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, 2004, USA

A Thousand Clouds of Peace - dir. Julián Hernández, 2003, Mexico

Tomorrow’s Weather - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 2003, Poland

Torremolinos 73 - dir. Pablo Berger, 2003, Spain/Denmark

Touch of Pink - dir. Ian Iqbal Rashid, 2003, Canada/Great Britain

Triple Agent - dir. Eric Rohmer, 2004, France/Italy/Spain/Greece/Russia

Trollywood - dir. Madeleine Farley, 2003, Great Britain/USA

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2003, Great Britain/Spain/Luxembourg/Hungary/Italy/Germany/Russia

The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 2,From Vaux to the Sea - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2003, Great Britain/Spain/Luxembourg/Hungary/Italy/Germany/Russia

Turn Left Turn Right - dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai, 2003, Hong Kong/Singapore

The Twilight Samurai - dir. Yoji Yamada, 2003, Japan

Twin Sisters - dir. Ben Sombogaart, 2003, Netherlands

Twist - dir. Jacob Tierney, 2003, Canada

Undead - dir. Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig, 2003, Australia

Uniform - dir. Diao Yinan, 2003, China/Japan

Untold Scandal - dir. E J-yong, 2003, South Korea

Up Thornton Creek - dir. Peter Vogt, 2004, USA

Vodka Lemon - dir. Hiner Saleem, 2003, Armenia/Switzerland/France/Italy

Walk on Water - dir. Eytan Fox, 2003, Israel

The Weakness of the Bolshevik - dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca, 2003, Spain

When Ruoma Was Seventeen - dir. Zhang Jiarui, 2003, China

When the Right One Comes Along - dir. Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand, 2003, Switzerland/Germany

Who Killed Bambi? - dir. Gilles Marchand, 2003, France

The Widow of Saint-Pierre - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2000, France

Wild Side - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004, France/Belgium/Great Britain

Witnesses - dir. Vinko Brešan, 2003, Croatia

Wondrous Oblivion - dir. Paul Morrison, 2003, Great Britain

Special Programs & Events

3-Minute Masterpieces

Anniversary Gala Before Sunset

Anniversary Gala Criminal 

Anniversary Gala Donnie Darko-The Director’s Cut

Anniversary Gala Saved! 

Archival Presentations - included The Goddess, Playtime, The Debut, Before Sunrise 

Asian Tradewinds - included 13 feature films 

ATMOSPHÈRE: All Things French - included 30 feature films 

Drive-In Party - included Undead, Haute Tension, The Locals 

Documentary Competition - included 13 feature films 

Emerging Masters: Annette K. Olesen - included In Your Hands, Minor Mishaps

Emerging Masters: Cédric Kahn - included Red Lights, Roberto Succo

Emerging Masters: Ferzan Ozpetek - included Facing Window, Steam: The Turkish Bath

Emerging Masters: Pen-ek Ratanaruang - included 6ixtynin9, Last Life in the Universe

Exploding Cinema: The Capillaries, Robb Benson, Sean Nelson and His Mortal Enemies Exploding Cinema: Cobra High, IQU, Sick Bees, DJ F.I.T.S.

Exploding Cinema: Elf Power, Aveo, Summer Hymns

Exploding Cinema: FCS North, Scientific American, DJs on trikeS

An Evening with Patrice Leconte

An Evening with Stephen Fry

Films4Families - included Jester Till, Max Rules, Moi,Cesar, Wondrous Oblivion 

Fly Filmmaking Challenge 

Golden Space Needle Awards 

IFP/Seattle presents PITCH SLAM: A Live Story Pitching Competition - seminar guests included Geof Miller, Megan Dunleavy, Donna Choo, Josh McGlaughlin

Master Class: Acting 

Master Class: Cinematography - seminar guests included Christopher Doyle and moderator Rachael Bosley

Midnight Adrenaline - included Azumi, Haute Tension, Legend of the Sacred Stone, The Locals, Raspberry Reich, Save the Green Planet, A Tale of Two Sisters, Undead

New American Cinema - included 11 feature films 

New Directors Showcase - included 11 feature films 

Panels - included The Sexy Spelling of the Doc, or How I Learned to Love Clowns, Spelling Bees and War in 90 Minutes or Less - seminar guests included Tom White, Ondi Timoner, Peter Vogt, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Strickwerda, Laura Spellman-Smith, Hot Tracks - seminar guests included Zak Penn, George Roca, Steven Love, Madeleine Farley

911 Media Arts presents Where’s the Money? Finding Funds for Independent Film - seminar guests included Fionn Meade, Donna James, Norma Jean Straw

NWFilm Forum presents What to do When Miramar Doesn’t Buy Your Film - seminar guests included Matt McCormick, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Andrew McAllister, Larry Estes

Poster Auction and Exhibition 

Refracting Reality - included 33 feature films 

Screenwriters Salon - seminar guests included Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor

Secret Festival

The Space of a Kiss: A Photography Exhibition by Christopher Doyle 

Seattle Summit

Short Films - included The Feminine Vision, Love’s Labours Lost & Found, Relativity, The Great Unspoken, Animato!, KAFAnime!, Strange Tales

Spawned in Seattle - included 10 feature films and one shorts package

Talking Pictures - included Anatomy of Hell, Control Room, Quality of Life

Women in Cinema - included 31 feature films and 20 short films