Seattle International Film Festival 2013 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2013

Relive the 39th 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 2013 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 16–June 9, 2013
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, KCTS Digital Media Lab, Kirkland Performing Arts Center, McCaw Hall, Pacific Place Cinemas, Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, Triple Door, Vera Project

Opening Night: Much Ado About Nothing at McCaw Hall
Closing Night: The Bling Ring at Cinerama
Tribute: Kyle MacLachlan, Peter Greenaway


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom

Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom

Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom

Gospel singer, Merry Clayton, graces the stage of the Egyptian at the Centerpiece Film and Gala before a screening of her film, Twenty Feet from Stardom

SIFF staff behind-the-scenes at the Centerpiece Film & Gala, likely sending all those emails that make the magic happen

SIFF staff behind-the-scenes at the Centerpiece Film & Gala, likely sending all those emails that make the magic happen

SIFF staff behind-the-scenes at the Centerpiece Film & Gala, likely sending all those emails that make the magic happen

SIFF staff behind-the-scenes at the Centerpiece Film & Gala, likely sending all those emails that make the magic happen

Opening Night at McCaw Hall, featuring actor, Clark Gregg, director, Joss Whedon, actor, Amy Acker, SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and actor, Nathan Fillion from the red carpet, before a screening of their film, Much Ado About Nothing

Opening Night at McCaw Hall, featuring actor, Clark Gregg, director, Joss Whedon, actor, Amy Acker, SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and actor, Nathan Fillion from the red carpet, before a screening of their film, Much Ado About Nothing

Opening Night at McCaw Hall, featuring actor, Clark Gregg, director, Joss Whedon, actor, Amy Acker, SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and actor, Nathan Fillion from the red carpet, before a screening of their film, Much Ado About Nothing

Opening Night at McCaw Hall, featuring actor, Clark Gregg, director, Joss Whedon, actor, Amy Acker, SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and actor, Nathan Fillion from the red carpet, before a screening of their film, Much Ado About Nothing

SIFF volunteer, Kelly Lyles, arriving at Opening Night of the 39th Seattle International Film Festival in style

SIFF volunteer, Kelly Lyles, arriving at Opening Night of the 39th Seattle International Film Festival in style

SIFF volunteer, Kelly Lyles, arriving at Opening Night of the 39th Seattle International Film Festival in style

SIFF volunteer, Kelly Lyles, arriving at Opening Night of the 39th Seattle International Film Festival in style

Twenty Feet From Stardom
Twenty Feet From Stardom
The Bling Ring
The Bling Ring
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
The Act Of Killing
The Act Of Killing
Blackfish
Blackfish
Ernest & Celestine
Ernest & Celestine
Frances Ha
Frances Ha
 Fanie Fourie's Lobola
Fanie Fourie's Lobola

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Fanie Fourie's Lobola (dir. Henk Pretorius, South Africa)

Best Director
Nabil Ayouch (Horses of God, Morocco)

Best Actress
Samantha Morton (Decoding Annie Parker)

Best Actor
James Cromwell (Still Mine)

Best Short
Spooners (dir. Bryan Horch, USA)

Best Documentary
20 Feet From Stardom (dir. Morgan Neville, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Harmony Lessons (dir. Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
C.O.G. (dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Our Nixon (dir. Penny Lane, 2013)

List of Feature-Length Films

100 Bloody Acres - dir. Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes, 2012, Australia

2+2 - dir. Diego Kaplan, 2013, Argentina

36 - dir. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit , 2012, Thailand

7 Boxes - dir. Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori, 2012, Paraguay

9 Full Moons - dir. Tomer Almagor, 2013, USA

Aayna Ka Bayna - dir. Samit Kakkad, 2012, India

About 111 Girls - dir. Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zmanpira, 2012, Iraq

The Act of Killing - dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous, 2012, Denmark/Norway/United Kingdom

The African Cypher - dir. Bryan Little, 2012, South Africa

After Lucia - dir. Michel Franco, 2012, Mexico

Afternoon Delight - dir. Jill Soloway, 2013, USA

After the Battle - dir. Yousry Nasrallah, 2012, France/Egypt

After Tiller - dir. Martha Shane, Lana Wilson, 2013, USA

After Winter, Spring - dir. Judith Lit, 2012, France/USA

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints - dir. David Lowery, 2013, USA

Ali - dir. Paco R. Baños, 2012, Spain

Ali Blue Eyes - dir. Claudio Giovannesi, 2012, Italy

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth - dir. Pratibha Parmar, 2013, USA

Alive and Well - dir. Josh Taft, 2013, USA/United Kingdom/Kenya/Canada

All the Boys Love Mandy Lane - dir. Jonathan Levine, 2006, USA

The Almost Man - dir. Martin Lund, 2012, Norway

Anita - dir. Freida Mock, 2013, USA

Another Woman’s Face - dir. Pappi Corsicato, 2012, Italy

The Artist and the Pervert - dir. Fernando Trueba, 2012, Spain

At Middleton - dir. Adam Rodgers, 2013, USA

¡Atraco! - dir. Eduard Cortés, 2012, Spain, Argentina

The Attack - dir. Ziad Doueiri , 2012, Lebanon/France/Qatar/Egypt/Belgium

Augustine - dir. Alice Winocour, 2012, France

A Band Called Death - dir. Jeff Howlett, Mark Covino, 2012, USA

Barzan - dir. Alex Stonehill, Bradley Hutchinson, 2013, USA

Before Snowfall - dir. Hisham Zaman, 2012, Norway/Germany

Belleville Baby - dir. Mia Engberg, 2013, Sweden

Between Valleys - dir. Philippe Barcinski, 2012, Brazil/Germany/Uruguay

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton - dir. Eric Slade, Stephen Silha, 2013, USA

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me - dir. Drew DeNicola, 2012, USA

Bitch Hug - dir. Andreas Öhman, 2012, Sweden

Blackbird - dir. Jason Buxton, 2012, Canada

Blackfish - dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013, USA/Canada/Spain

The Bling Ring - dir. Sofia Coppola, 2013, USA

Breach in the Silence - dir. Andrés Rodríguez, Luis Rodríguez, 2012, Venezuela

Breathing Earth - dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2012, Germany/Scotland

The Broken Circle Breakdown - dir. Felix van Groeningen, 2013, Netherlands/Belgium

Bwakaw - dir. Jun Robles Lana, 2012, Philippines

Bypass - dir. Patxo Telleria, Aitor Mazo, 2012, Spain

Byzantium - dir. Neil Jordan, 2012, United Kingdom/Ireland

Camion - dir. Rafaël Ouellet, 2012, Canada (Québec)

Capturing Dad - dir. Ryota Nakano, 2012,Japan

Celestial Wives of Meadow Mari - dir. Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2012, Russia

Celluloid Man - dir. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, 2012, India

Cheap Thrills - dir. E.L. Katz, 2013, USA

Children of Sarajevo - dir. Aida Begic, 2012, Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/France/Turkey

Circles - dir. Srdan Golubovic, 2013, Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/Slovenia 

The Cleaner - dir. Adrian Saba, 2012, Peru

Closed Curtain - dir. Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi, 2013, Iran

Clutter - dir. Diane Crespo, 2013, USA

Cockneys vs. Zombies - dir. Matthias Hoene, 2012, United Kingdom

C.O.G. - dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez, 2013, USA

Cold War - dir. Longman Leung, Sunny Luk, 2012, Hong Kong

Coming Forth by Day - dir. Hala Lotfy, 2012, Egypt/United Arab Emirates

Computer Chess - dir. Andrew Bujalski, 2013, USA

Comrade Kim Goes Flying - dir. Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Gwang Hun Kim, 2012, Belgium/United Kingdom/North Korea

Comrade President - dir. Mosco Kamwendo, 2012, Zimbabwe

Concussion - dir. Stacie Passon, 2013, USA

The Crash Reel - dir. Lucy Walker, 2013, USA

Crystal Fairy - dir. Sebastián Silva, 2013, Chile

Cutie and the Boxer - dir. Zachary Heinzerling, 2013, USA

Dead Meat Walking - A Zombie Walk Documentary - dir. Omar J. Pineda, 2013, USA

Decoding Annie Parker - dir. Steven Bernstein, 2013, USA

The Deep - dir. Baltasar Kormákur, 2012, Iceland/Norway

Die Welt - dir. Alex Pitstra, 2012, Netherlands/Tunisia/Qatar

Dirty Wars - dir. Richard Rowley, 2013, USA

Doch (The Daughter) - dir. Alexander Kasatkin, Natalia Nazarova , 2012, Russia

Dog Flesh - dir. Fernando Guzzoni, 2012, Chile/France/Germany

Drinking Buddies - dir. Joe Swanberg, 2013, USA

Drug War - dir. Johnnie To, 2012, Hong Kong

Dune - dir. David Lynch, 1984, USA

The East - dir. Zal Batmanglij, 2013, USA

Éden - dir. Bruno Safadi, 2012, Brazil

Epic - dir. Chris Wedge, 2013, USA

Ernest & Celestine - dir. Benjamin Renner, Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar, 2012, France/Luxembourg/Belgium

Evergreen: The Road to Legalization in Washington - dir. Riley Morton, 2013, USA

Every Blessed Day - dir. Paolo Virzi, 2012, Italy

Fanie Fourie’s Lobola - dir. Henk Pretorius, 2013, South Africa

Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story - dir. Brad Bernstein , 2012, USA

Fatal - dir. Lee Don-ku, 2012, South Korea

Fateful Findings - dir. Neil Breen, 2013, USA

The Fifth Season - dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth, 2012, Belgium/Netherlands/France

Filmistaan - dir. Nitin Kakkar, 2012, India

The Final Member - dir. Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math, 2012, Canada, Iceland/Italy/USA

Finding Hillywood - dir. Leah Warshawski, Chris Towey, 2013, USA/Rwanda

Five Dances - dir. Alan Brown, 2013, USA

Flicker - dir. Patrik Eklund, 2012, Sweden

Flight of the Storks - dir. Jan Kounen, 2012, France/Germany/South Africa

Forbidden Voices - dir. Barbara Miller, 2012, Switzerland

The Forgotten Kingdom - dir. Andrew Mudge, 2013, USA/South Africa

Frances Ha - dir. Noah Baumbach, 2012, USA

Free Fall - dir. Stephan Lacant, 2013, Germany

The Fruit Hunters - dir. Yung Chang , 2012, Canada

F**k Up - dir. Øystein Karlsen, 2012, Norway

Full Circle (2012) - dir. Zhang Yang, 2012, China

Furever - dir. Amy Finkel, 2013, USA

Garibaldi’s Lovers - dir. Silvio Soldini, 2012 , Italy/Switzerland/France

G.B.F. - dir. Darren Stein, 2013, USA

Geography Club - dir. Gary Entin, 2013, USA

The Girl With Nine Wigs - dir. Marc Rothemund, 2013, Germany/Belgium

Go Grandriders - dir. Tien-hau Hua, 2012, Taiwan

Goltzius and the Pelican Company - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2012, United Kingdom/Netherlands/France/Croatia

The Great Passage - dir. Yûya Ishii, 2013, Japan

The Guillotines - dir. Andrew Lau, 2012, Hong Kong

A Gun in Each Hand - dir. Cesc Gay, 2012, Spain

Halima’s Path - dir. Arsen Anton Ostojic, 2012, Croatia

Harana - dir. Benito Bautista, 2012, Philippines

Harmony Lessons - dir. Emir Baigazin, 2013, Kazakhstan/Germany/France

Haute Cuisine - dir. Christian Vincent, 2012, France

Her Aim Is True - dir. Karen Whitehead, 2013, USA

Here Comes the Devil - dir. Adrián García Bogliano, 2012, Mexico/USA

A Hijacking - dir. Tobias Lindholm, 2012, Denmark/Kenya

The Horde - dir. Andrei Proshkin, 2012, Russia

Horses of God - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2012, Morocco/France/Belgium

House With a Turret - dir. Eva Neymann, 2012, Ukraine

The Human Scale - dir. Andreas M. Dalsgaard, 2012, Denmark

The Hunt - dir. Thomas Vinterberg, 2012, Denmark

I Declare War - dir. Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson, 2012, USA

I Kori (The Daughter) - dir. Thanos Anastopoulos, 2012, Greece/Italy

Imagine - dir. Andrzej Jakimowski, 2012, Poland/France/Portugal

Improvement Club - dir. Dayna Hanson, 2013, USA

In a World... - dir. Lake Bell, 2013, USA

Inch’Allah - dir. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, 2012, Canada (Québec)

Inequality for All - dir. Jacob Kornbluth, 2013, USA

Interior. Leather Bar. - dir. Travis Mathews, James Franco , 2013, USA

In the Fog - dir. Sergei Loznitsa, 2012, Germany/Russia/Belarus/Netherlands/Latvia

In the Name Of - dir. Małgośka Szumowska, 2013, Poland

In the Shadow - dir. David Ondříček, 2012, Czech Republic/Poland/Slovakia

Invader - dir. Daniel Calparsoro, 2012, Spain

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - dir. Elio Petri, 1970, Italy

It’s All So Quiet - dir. Nanouk Leopold, 2013, Netherlands/Germany

I Used to Be Darker - dir. Matthew Porterfield, 2013, USA

Jin - dir. Reha Erdem, 2012, Turkey

Jump - dir. Kieron J. Walsh, 2012, Ireland/United Kingdom

Just Like a Woman - dir. Rachid Bouchareb, 2012, United Kingdom/USA /France

Just the Wind - dir. Bence Fliegauf, 2012, Hungary /Germany/France

Kalpana - dir. Uday Shankar, 1948, India

The Kampala Story - dir. Donald Mugisha, Kasper Bisgaard, 2012, Uganda

Key of Life - dir. Kenji Uchida, 2012, Japan

The Kings of Summer - dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts, 2013, USA

Kink - dir. Christina Voros, 2013, USA

A Lady in Paris - dir. Ilmar Raag, 2012, Estonia/Belgium/France

The Land of Eb - dir. Andrew Williamson, 2012, Marshall Islands/USA

The Land of Hope - dir. Sion Sono, 2012, Japan

La Playa D.C. - dir. Juan Andrés Arango, 2012, Colombia/Brazil/France

Last Flight to Abuja - dir. Obi Emelonye, 2012, Nigeria/United Kingdom

Last I Heard - dir. David Rodriguez, 2013, USA

Lasting - dir. Jacek Borcuch, 2013, Poland/Spain

The Last Ocean - dir. Peter Young, 2012, New Zealand

The Last Sentence - dir. Jan Troell, 2012, Sweden

The Last Shepherd - dir. Marco Bonfanti, 2012, Italy

Laurence Anyways - dir. Xavier Dolan, 2012, Canada (Québec)/France

Lil Bub & Friendz - dir. Andy Capper, Juliette Eisner, 2013, USA

Little Lion - dir. Samuel Collardey, 2012, France

The Little Tin Man - dir. Matthew Perkins, 2013, USA

Love Is in the Air - dir. Alexandre Castagnetti, 2013, France

Low Profile - dir. Cécilia Rouaud, 2012, France

Ludwig II - dir. Peter Sehr, Marie Noëlle, 2012, Germany/Austria

A Man Vanishes - dir. Shôhei Imamura, 1967, Japan

Marie Krøyer - dir. Bille August, 2012, Denmark

Mercy - dir. Matthias Glasner, 2012, Germany, Norway

Middleton - dir. Adam Rogers, 2013, USA

Mistaken for Strangers - dir. Tom Berninger, 2013, USA

The Moment - dir. Jane Weinstock, 2013, USA

Monsters University - dir. Dan Scanlon, 2013, USA

Moon Man - dir. Stephan Schesch, 2012, Germany/France/United Kingdom

More Than Honey - dir. Markus Imhoof, 2012, Germany/Austria/Switzerland

Mother of George - dir. Andrew Dosunmu, 2013, USA

Much Ado About Nothing - dir. Joss Whedon, 2012, USA

Muscle Shoals - dir. Greg Camalier, 2013, USA

Mussels in Love - dir. W.J.A. Kluijfhout, 2012, Netherlands

Mutual Friends - dir. Matthew Watts, 2013, USA

My Dog Killer - dir. Mira Fornay, 2013, Slovakia/Czech Republic

Naked Harbour - dir. Aku Louhimies, 2012, Finland/Austria/Germany

Nightfall - dir. Roy Chow, 2012, Hong Kong

Nishan (Medal of Honor) - dir. Yidnekachew Shumete Desalegn, 2013, Ethiopia

Northwest - dir. Michael Noer, 2013, Denmark

Orange Honey - dir. Imanol Uribe, 2012, Spain/Portugal

The Otherside - dir. Daniel Torok, 2013, USA

Our Children - dir. Joachim Lafosse, 2012, Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Switzerland

Our Nixon - dir. Penny Lane,2013,USA  

Out in the Dark - dir. Michael Mayer, 2012, Israel/USA

Out of Print - dir. Vivienne Roumani, 2012, USA

Papadopoulos & Sons - dir. Marcus Markou, 2012, United Kingdom

Paradise: Faith - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Austria/Germany/France

Paradise: Hope - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2013, Austria/Germany/France

Paradise: Love - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2012, Austria/Germany/France

The Pardon - dir. Joel Karekezi, 2013, Rwanda

Peaches Does Herself - dir. Peaches, 2012, Germany

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology - dir. Sophie Fiennes, 2012, United Kingdom, Ireland

Phase IV - dir. Saul Bass,1974, USA/United Kingdom

Pieta - dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2012, South Korea

Pit Stop - dir. Yen Tan, 2013, USA

The Plague - dir. Neus Ballús, 2013, Spain

Populaire - dir. Régis Roinsard, 2012, France

Port of Shadows - dir. Marcel Carné, 1938, France

Prince Avalanche - dir. David Gordon Green, 2013, USA

The Punk Singer - dir. Sini Anderson, 2013, USA

Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer - dir. Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2013, Russia/ United Kingdom

Putzel - dir. Jason Chaet, 2012, USA

Redemption Street - dir. Miroslav Terzić, 2012, Serbia

Red Obsession - dir. Warwick Ross, David Roach, 2012, Australia/China/France/United Kingdom

Remote Area Medical - dir. Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman, 2013, USA

The Repentant - dir. Merzak Allouache, 2012, Algeria/France

A Respectable Family - dir. Massoud Bakhshi, 2012, Iran/France

Richard III - dir. Laurence Olivier, 1955, United Kingdom

Ripples of Desire - dir. Zero Chou, 2012, Taiwan

A River Changes Course - dir. Kalyanee Mam, 2013, Cambodia/USA

The Rocket - dir. Kim Mordaunt, 2013, Australia/Laos/Thailand

Sadourni’s Butterflies - dir. Dario Nardi, 2012, Argentina

Safety Last! - dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1923, USA

Salma - dir. Kim Longinotto, 2013, United Kingdom/India

Sand Fishers - dir. Samouté Andrey Diarra , 2012, Mali/France

Scrapper - dir. Brady Hall, 2013, USA

Shadowed - dir. Joey Johnson, 2012, USA

A Shape of Error - dir. Abigail Child, 2012, USA

Short Stories - dir. Mikhail Segal, 2012, Russia

Short Term 12 - dir. Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013, USA

Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You - A Concert for Kate McGarrigle - dir. Lian Lunson, 2012, USA

SOMM - dir. Jason Wise, 2012, USA

A Song Still Inside - dir. Gregory Collins,2013,USA

Spark: A Burning Man Story - dir. Jessie Deeter, Steve Brown, 2013, USA

The Spectacular Now - dir. James Ponsoldt, 2013, USA

Spud 2: The Madness Continues - dir. Donovan Marsh, 2013, South Africa

Still Mine - dir. Michael McGowan, 2012, Canada

Stories We Tell - dir. Sarah Polley, 2012, Canada

Storm Surfers 3D - dir. Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius, 2012, Australia

Stuck in Love - dir. Josh Boone, 2012, USA

The Summit - dir. Nick Ryan, 2012, Ireland/United Kingdom

Tai Chi Hero - dir. Stephen Fung, 2012, China

A Teacher - dir. Hannah Fidell, 2013, USA

Teddy Bears - dir. Thomas Beatty, Rebecca Fishman, 2013, USA

Television - dir. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, 2012, Bangladesh/Germany

Terms and Conditions May Apply - dir. Cullen Hoback, 2013, USA/United Kingdom/Austria

Test - dir. Chris Mason Johnson,2013, USA

Thérèse - dir. Claude Miller, 2012, France

These Birds Walk - dir. Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq, 2012, Pakistan/USA

This Is Martin Bonner - dir. Chad Hartigan, 2013, USA

Tito on Ice - dir. Max Andersson, Helena Ahonen, 2012, Germany/Sweden

Together - dir. Hsu Chao-Jen , 2012, Taiwan

Touchy Feely - dir. Lynn Shelton, 2013, USA

Town Hall - dir. Jamila Wignot, Sierra Pettengill, 2013, USA

The Trials of Muhammad Ali - dir. Bill Siegel, 2013, USA

Twenty Feet from Stardom - dir. Morgan Neville, 2013, USA

Twin Peaks Pilot - dir. David Lynch,1990,USA

Two Lives - dir. Georg Maas, 2012, Germany/Norway

Two Mothers - dir. Anne Fontaine, 2013, Australia/France

Two Weddings and a Funeral - dir. Kimjho Gwan-soo, 2012, South Korea

Una Noche - dir. Lucy Mulloy, 2012, Cuba/United Kingdom/USA

Unfinished Song - dir. Paul Andrew Williams, 2012, United Kingdom

Unhung Hero - dir. Brian Spitz, 2013, USA

Valentine Road - dir. Marta Cunningham, 2013, USA

V/H/S/2 - dir. Gareth Evans, Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Eduardo Sanchez, Gregg Hale, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard, 2012, USA/Indonesia

The Wall - dir. Julian Roman Pölsler, 2012,Austria/Germany

Watchtower - dir. Pelin Esmer, 2012, Turkey/Germany/France

The Way, Way Back - dir. Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, 2013, USA

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks - dir. Alex Gibney, 2013, USA

What Maisie Knew - dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2012, USA

When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep - dir. Hou Chi-Jan, 2012, Taiwan

When I Saw You - dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2012, Palestine/Jordan/United Arab/Emirates

The Wind - dir. Victor Sjöström, 1928, USA

Wish You Were Here - dir. Kieran Darcy-Smith, 2012, Australia

Wolf Children - dir. Mamoru Hosoda, 2012, Japan

A World Not Ours - dir. Mahdi Fleifel 2012, Lebanon/United Kingdom/Denmark

Worm - dir. Andrew Bowser,2013,USA

Yellow - dir. Nick Cassavetes, 2012, USA

Yesterday Never Ends - dir. Isabel Coixet, 2013, Spain

Youth - dir. Justine Malle, 2012, France

You Will Be My Son - dir. Gilles Legrand, 2012, France

Zaytoun - dir. Eran Riklis, 2012, United Kingdom/Israel/France

Special Programs & Events

3-Minute Masterpieces

African Pictures - included 18 feature films

African Pictures Fim and Party: Fanie Fourie’s Lobola at Pacific Place Cinemas

Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and one shorts package

Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema - included 17 feature films and one shorts package

An Afternoon with Peter Greenaway: Goltzius and the Pelican Company

An Evening with Kyle MacLachlan: Twin Peaks Pilot

Archival Films - included 8 feature films

Asian Crossroads - included 33 feature films

Celebrating Native American Cinema and the 15th Anniversary of Smoke Signals

Centerpiece Gala: Twenty Feet from Stardom at Egyptian Theatre

Digital Media Lab - included 6 filmmaking workshops

Documentary Competition - included 12 feature films

Face the Music - included 12 feature films and 2 special events

Face the Music: A Tribute to the Music of Muscle Shoals with Patterson and David Hood

Face the Music: The Maldives and The Wind

Festival Forums - included Panel: Transition from Stage to Screen, New Queer Cinema with B. Ruby Rich, Inside Stunts: Meet the Men and Women that Pack the Punch into our Movies, Get Animated: Animation Workshop for Kids (ages 8-14), Short Filmmakers Happy Hour & Panel: Making the Most of Any Festival, Rule the World of Independent Filmmaking–From Indie Distribution to Smartphone Productions, Sheroes in Media: From Guerrilla Girls to Women in Film, The Alchemy of Film Scoring, Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, SIFF Catalyst Panels, Behind the Curtain of Documentary Filmmaking, Resources for the Modern Filmmaker, First Draft, Getting the Most out of the Media, Acting for the Camera with Story Town Studios, What’s Your Style: High School Filmmakers Scene Workshop, The Explosion of African Cinema, State of the Industry with Amy Lillard

Films4Families - included 6 feature films, one shorts package, and one filmmaking workshop

Fly Filmmaking Challenge

FutureWave - included 8 feature films, one shorts package, and one filmmaking workshop

Gay-La: G.B.F. at Egyptian Theatre

Golden Space Needle Award

Kirkland Opening Night: Papadopoulos & Sons at Kirkland Performance Center

Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films

New American Cinema Competition - included 12 feature films

New Directors Competition - included 12 feature films

Northwest Connections - included 14 feature films and two shorts packages

Renton Opening Night: Touchy Feely at Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center

SIFF Catalyst - included 6 feature films

Saturday Film and Party: Populaire at Pacific Place Cinemas, The Way, Way Back at SIFF Cinema Uptown, Drinking Buddies at Egyptian Theatre

Secret Festival

Short Films - included 17 shorts packages

Special Presentations: Decoding Annie Parker, Inequality For All, SOMM

SuperFly and Native Shorts Showcase