Seattle International Film Festival 2021 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2021

Relive the 47th Seattle International Film Festival (presented virtually). 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 2021 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: April 8–18, 2021
Number of Days: 11
Venue: SIFF Channel (Virtual)

Opening Night: The Dry streaming on the SIFF Channel
Closing Night: Rosa’s Wedding streaming on the SIFF Channel
Tribute: Tom Skerritt


FESTIVAL CATALOG


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Rosa's Wedding
Rosa's Wedding
The Dry
The Dry
There Is No Evil
There Is No Evil
Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism
Who We Are: A Chronicle Of Racism
This Is My Desire
This Is My Desire
Little Girl
Little Girl
The Earth Is Blue As An Orange
The Earth Is Blue As An Orange

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
There Is No Evil (dir: Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany/Czech Republic/ Iran)

Best Short
My Neighbor, Miguel (dir. Danny Navarro, USA)

Best Documentary
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (dir. Sarah Kunstler, Emily Kunstler, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Little Girl (dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, France)

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
This Is My Desire (Eyimofe) (dir. Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri, Nigeria)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Son of Monarchs (dir. Alexis Gambis, USA/Mexico)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Earth is Blue as an Orange (dir. Iryna Tsilyk, Ukraine/Lithuania)

Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Fly So Far (dir. Celina Escher, El Salvador/Sweden)

List of Feature-Length Films

200 Meters - dir. Ameen Nayfeh, 2020, Palestine/Italy/Qatar/Sweden

All Sorts - dir. J. Rick Castañeda, 2021, USA

All Those Small Things - dir. Andrew Hyatt, 2021, USA/UK

Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir - dir. James Redford, 2021, USA

Athanor – The Alchemical Furnace - dir. Adam Ol’ha, Jan Dañhel, 2020, Czech Republic/Slovakia

Bad Tales - dir. Damiano D'Innocenzo, Fabio D'Innocenzo, 2020, Italy/Switzerland

Beans - dir. Tracey Deer, (Mohawk), 2020, Canada

The Bears’ Famous Invasion - dir. Lorenzo Mattotti, 2019, France/Italy

Bebia, à mon seul désir - dir. Juja Dobrachkous, 2021, Georgia/United Kingdom

Captains of Zaatari - dir. Ali El Arabi, 2021, Egypt

Caterpillars - dir. Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, 2020, Central African Republic/Argentina

Censor - dir. Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021, UK

Charter - dir. Amanda Kernell (Sami), 2019, Sweden

Chuck Connelly: Into the Light - dir. Benjamin Schwartz, 2020, USA

Conductivity - dir. Anna-Karin Grönroos, 2020, Finland

Criollo - dir. Pablo Banchero, 2020, Uruguay

Deadly Cuts - dir. Rachel Carey, 2020, Ireland

The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet - dir. Ana Katz, 2021, Argentina

Downstream to Kinshasa - dir. Dieudo Hamadi, 2020, Democratic Republic of Congo/France/Belgium

The Dry - dir. Robert Connelly, 2021, Australia

The Earth is Blue as an Orange - dir. Iryna Tsilyk, 2020, Ukraine/Lithuania

East of the Mountains - dir. SJ Chiro, 2021, USA

Father - dir. Goran Bogdan, 2020, Serbia/France/Germany/Croatia/Slovenia/Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faya Dayi - dir. Jessica Beshir, 2021, Ethiopia/USA/Qatar

Final Exam - dir. Chen-ti Kuo, 2021, Taiwan

Fly So Far - dir. Celina Escher, 2021, El Salvador/Sweden

Fruits of Labor - dir. Emily Cohen Ibañez, 2021, USA

Get the Hell Out - dir. I-Fan Wang, 2020, Taiwan

Goddess of the Fireflies - dir. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, 2020, Canada (Québec)

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya - dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska, 2019, Macedonia/Belgium

The Heist of the Century - dir. Ariel Winograd, 2020, Argentina/USA

I’M FINE (Thanks for Asking) - dir. Kelley Kali, Angelique Molina, 2021, USA

In the Same Breath - dir. Nanfu Wang, 2021, USA

Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 - dir. KIM Do-young, 2019, South Korea

Ladies of Steel - dir. Pamela Tola, 2020, Finland

The Legend of Hei - dir. MTJJ, 2019, China

Little Girl - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2020, France

Love and Fury - dir. Sterlin Harjo, (Seminole/Muscogee Creek), 2020, USA

Love Type D - dir. Sasha Collington, 2019, United Kingdom

Ma Belle, My Beauty - dir. Marion Hill, 2021, USA/France

Mogul Mowgli - dir. Bassam Tariq, 2020, United Kingdom

Motherland - dir. Tomas Vengris, 2019, Lithuania/Latvia/Germany/Greece

Mother’s Milk - dir. Larry Powell, Adriana DeGirolami, Kameron Neal, Bianca LaVerne Jones, Shinelle Azoroh, Alex Ander, John MacDonald, Lelund Durond Thompson, 2021, USA

My Missing Valentine - dir. Yu-Hsun CHEN, 2020, Taiwan

Nahuel & the Magic Book - dir. Germán Acuña, 2020, Chile/Brazil

Nudo Mixteco - dir. Ángeles Cruz, 2021, Mexico

The Perfect Candidate - dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour, 2019, Saudi Arabia/Germany

The Pink Cloud - dir. Iuli Gerbase, 2021, Brazil

Potato Dreams of America - dir. Wes Hurley, 2021, USA

Preman - dir. Randolph Zaini, 2021, Indonesia

Rebel Objects - dir. Carolina Arias Ortiz, 2020, Costa Rica/Colombia

The Return: Life After ISIS - dir. Alba Sotorra Clua, 2021, Spain/United Kingdom

Riders of Justice - dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020, Denmark

Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It - dir. Mariem Pérez Riera, 2021, USA

Rosa’s Wedding - dir. Icíar Bollaín, 2020, Spain/France

The Salt In Our Waters - dir. Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, 2020, Bangladesh/France

Sanremo - dir. Miroslav Mandić, 2020, Slovenia/Italy

The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs - dir. Pushpendra Singh, 2020, India

Slalom - dir. Charlène Favier, 2020, France

Son of Monarchs - dir. Alexis Gambis, 2021, USA/Mexico

The Song of the Butterflies - dir. Núria Frigola Torrent, 2020, Peru

The Spy - dir. Jens Jonsson, 2019, Norway/Belgium/Sweden

Strawberry Mansion - dir. Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, 2021, USA

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street - dir. Marilyn Agrelo , 2021, USA

Summer of 85 - dir. François Ozon, 2020, France/Belgium

Summertime - dir. Carlos López Estrada, 2020, USA

Super Frenchie - dir. Chase Ogden, 2020, USA/France/Iceland

Sweat - dir. Magnus Von Horn, 2020, Poland/Sweden

The Teacher - dir. Chen Ming-lang, 2019, Taiwan

Tell Her - dir. Alexander Molochnikov, 2021, Russia

There Is No Evil - dir. Mohammad Rasoulof , 2020, Germany/Czech Republic/Iran

This Is My Desire - dir. Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri, 2020, Nigeria

This Town - dir. David White, 2020, New Zealand

Together Together - dir. Nikole Beckwith, 2021, USA

Too Far Away - dir. Sarah Winkenstette, 2019, Germany

Too Late - dir. D.W. Thomas, 2021, USA

Topside - dir. Celine Held, Logan George, 2020, USA

Tove - dir. Zaida Bergroth, 2021, Finland

The Translator - dir. Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf, 2020, Syria/France/Switzerland/Belgium/Qatar

Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation - dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2020, USA

Under the Open Sky - dir. Miwa Nishikawa, 2020, Japan

The Unknown Saint - dir. Alaa Eddine Aljem, 2019, Morocco/France

Valentina - dir. Cássio Pereira dos Santos, 2020, Brazil

Veins of the World - dir. Byambasuren Davaa, 2020, Germany/Mongolia

Waikiki - dir. Christopher Kahunahana, (Kanaka Maoli), 2020, USA

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - dir. Caroline Link, 2020, Germany/Switzerland

When I’m Done Dying - dir. Nisan Dağ, 2021, Turkey/Germany

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America - dir. Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler, 2021, USA

Wisdom Tooth - dir. Liang MING, 2019, China

Writing With Fire - dir. Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh, 2021, India/Norway/Finland

Wyrm - dir. Christopher Winterbauer, 2019, USA

Youth v Gov - dir. Christi Cooper, 2020, USA/New Zealand

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107 Mothers - dir. Peter Kerekes, 2021, Slovakia/Czech Republic/Ukraine

2551.01 - dir. Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2021, Austria

2nd Chance - dir. Ramin Bahrani, 2022, USA

7 Lakes, 7 Lives - dir. Víctor Escribano, 2021, Spain

Ahed’s Knee - dir. Nadav Lapid, 2021, Israel/France/Germany

Ali & Ava - dir. Clio Barnard, 2021, United Kingdom

Alien on Stage - dir. Danielle Kummer, Lucy Harvey, 2021, United Kingdom

Anita - dir. Longman Leung, 2021, Hong Kong

Are We Lost - dir. Jenny Gage, Tom Betterton, 2022, USA

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - dir. Simon Callow, 1991, USA/Canada

Barbarian Invasion - dir. Tan Chui Mui, 2021, Malaysia/Hong Kong/Philippines

Bernstein’s Wall - dir. Douglas Tirola, 2021, USA

Between Two Dawns - dir. Selman Nacar, 2021, Turkey/France/Romania/Spain

Between Two Worlds - dir. Emmanuel Carrère, 2021, France

Blind Ambition - dir. Warwick Ross, Robert Coe, 2021, Australia

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic - dir. Teemu Nikki, 2021, Finland/Italy

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts - dir. Dru Holley, 2022, USA

Call Jane - dir. Phyllis Nagy, 2022, USA

Cat Daddies - dir. Mye Hoang, 2021, USA

Celts - dir. Milica Tomović, 2021, Serbia

Cha Cha Real Smooth - dir. Cooper Raiff, 2022, USA

Charlotte - dir. Eric Warin, Tahir Rana, 2021, United Kingdom/France/Canada

Children of the Mist - dir. Hà Lệ Diễm, 2021, Vietnam

Coffin Homes - dir. Fruit Chan, 2021, Hong Kong

Cop Secret - dir. Hannes Thór Halldórsson, 2021, Iceland

Costa Brava, Lebanon - dir. Mounia Akl, 2021, Lebanon/France/Spain/Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Qatar

Dark Red Forest - dir. Jin Huaqing, 2021, China

Daughter of a Lost Bird - dir. Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish), 2021, USA

Day By Day - dir. Felix Herngren, 2022, Sweden/Croatia

Doula - dir. Cheryl Nichols, 2022, USA

Drunken Birds - dir. Ivan Grbovic, 2021, Canada (Québec)

Dual - dir. Riley Stearns, 2022, USA

The Duke - dir. Roger Michell, 2020, United Kingdom

An Elephant on a Spider Web - dir. Rolando Diáz, 2022, Spain

Everybody Hates Johan - dir. Hallvar Witzø, 2022, Norway

Everything Went Fine - dir. François Ozon, 2021, France

Evolution - dir. Kornél Mundruczó, 2021, Hungary/Germany

Execution in Autumn - dir. Hsing Lee, 1972, Taiwan

Feathers - dir. Omar El Zohairy, 2021, Egypt/France/Netherlands/Greece

Finlandia - dir. Horacio Alcalà, 2021, Spain/Mexico

Fire of Love - dir. Sara Dosa, 2022, USA/Canada

The First 54 Years, an Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation - dir. Avi Mograbi, 2021, Israel

Flux Gourmet - dir. Peter Strickland, 2022, United Kingdom/USA/Hungary

Framing Agnes - dir. Chase Joynt, 2022, Canada

The Ghastly Brothers - dir. Michael Van Ostade, 2022, Belgium/Netherlands

Girl Picture - dir. Alli Haapasalo, 2022, Finland

The Good Boss - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021, Spain

Hannah Ha Ha - dir. Jordan Tetewsky, Joshua Pikovsky, 2022, USA

Hatching - dir. Hanna Bergholm, 2022, Finland/Sweden

The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar - dir. Luàna Bajrami, 2021, France/Kosovo

Hinterland - dir. Stefan Ruzowitsky, 2021, Germany/Austria/Luxembourg

Hit the Road - dir. Panah Panahi, 2021, Iran/USA

Hockeyland - dir. Tommy Haines, 2021, USA

The House of the Snails - dir. Macarena Astorga, 2021, Spain/Peru/Mexico

I AM DB COOPER - dir. T.J. Regan, 2022, USA

I’ll Show You Mine - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2022, USA

I’ll Stand By You - dir. Maximilien Dejoie, Virginija Vareikyté, 2021, Lithuania/Italy/Switzerland

I Love My Dad - dir. James Morosini, 2022, USA

Inexorable - dir. Fabrice du Welz, 2021, Belgium/France

In Front of Your Face - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2021, South Korea

The Innocents - dir. Eskil Vogt, 2021, Norway

Inu-Oh - dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2021, Japan

Invisible Demons - dir. Rahul Jain, 2021, India/Finland/Germany

It’s Just a Phase, Honey - dir. Florian Gallenberger, 2021, Germany

Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story - dir. Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern, 2021, USA

Juju Stories - dir. Abba T Makama, C J ‘Fiery’ Obasi, Michael Omonua, 2021, Nigeria/France

The Justice of Bunny King - dir. Gaysorn Thavat, 2021, New Zealand

Kaepernick & America - dir. Tommy Walker, Ross Hockrow, 2022, USA

The King of Laughter - dir. Mario Martone, 2021, Italy/Spain

Klondike - dir. Maryna Er Gorbach, 2022, Ukraine/Turkey

Know Your Place - dir. Zia Mohajerjasbi, 2022, USA

The Last Film Show - dir. Pan Nalin, 2021, India

The Last Shelter - dir. Ousmane Samassekou, 2021, France/Mali/South Africa/Solomon Islands

The Legend of Molly Johnson - dir. Leah Purcell (Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri), 2021, Australia

Life of Ivanna - dir. Renato Borrayo Serrano, 2021, Russia/Estonia/Finland/Norway

The Line - dir. Ursula Meier, 2022, Switzerland/France/Belgium

Linoleum - dir. Colin West, 2022, USA

Listen Before You Sing - dir. Yang Chih-lin, 2021, Taiwan

Lonely Voices - dir. Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi, 2022, Italy

Lonesome - dir. Craig Boreham, 2022, Australia

Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter - dir. Rebecca Halpern, 2021, USA

A Love Song - dir. Max Walker-Silverman, 2022, USA

Lullaby - dir. Alauda Ruiz De Azúa, 2022, Spain

Maika - dir. Ham Tran, 2022, Vietnam

Mama Bears - dir. Daresha Kyi, 2022, USA

The Man in the Basement - dir. Philippe Le Guay, 2021, France

The Man Who Paints Water Drops - dir. Oan Kim, Brigitte Bouillot, 2021, France/South Korea

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2021, USA

Maya Nilo (Laura) - dir. Lovisa Sirén, 2022, Sweden/Finland/Belgium

Midday Black Midnight Blue - dir. Samantha Soule, Daniel Talbott, 2022, USA

Miss Viborg - dir. Marianne Blicher, 2022, Denmark

The Mole - dir. Mads Brügger, 2021, Denmark/Norway

Moneyboys - dir. C.B. Yi, 2021, Austria/France/Belgium/Taiwan

Montana Story - dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2021, USA

My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan - dir. Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi 2021, United Kingdom/Afghanistan

Navalny - dir. Daniel Roher, 2022, USA

Neptune Frost - dir. Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, 2021, Rwanda/USA

Nothing Compares - dir. Kathryn Ferguson, 2022, Ireland/United Kingdom

The Olive Trees of Justice - dir. James Blue, 1962, France

One Second - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2020, China

One Second Champion - dir. Chiu Sin-Hang, 2021, Hong Kong

Only In Theaters - dir. Raphael Sbarge, 2022, USA

Out of Sync - dir. Juanjo Giménez, 2021, Spain/Lithuania/France

Outta the Muck - dir. Bhawin Suchak, Ira Mckinley, 2022, USA

Parsley - dir. José María Cabral, 2022, Dominican Republic

The Passenger - dir. Raul Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, 2021, Spain

The Path - dir. Tobias Wiemann, 2022, Germany

Petite Maman - dir. Céline Sciamma, 2021, France

The Pez Outlaw - dir. Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel, 2022, USA/Austria

Phantom of the Open - dir. Craig Roberts, 2021, United Kingdom

Phantom Project - dir. Roberto Doveris, 2022, Chile

Piggy - dir. Carlota Pereda, 2022, Spain

The Pursuit of Perfection - dir. Toshimichi Saito, 2021, Japan

Quake - dir. Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, 2021, Iceland

Quant - dir. Sadie Frost, 2021, United Kingdom

Radiograph of a Family - dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani, 2020, Iran/Norway/Switzerland

The Red Tree - dir. Joan Gómez Endara, 2021, Colombia/Panama/France

Resurrection - dir. Andrew Semans, 2022, USA

Riotsville, USA - dir. Sierra Pettengill, 2022, USA

River - dir. Jennifer Peedom, Joseph Nizeti, 2021, Australia

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces - dir. Shengze Zhu, 2021, USA

Robust - dir. Constance Meyer, 2021, France

Run Woman Run - dir. Zoe Hopkins (Heiltsuk/Mohawk), 2021, Canada

The Sacred Spirit - dir. Chema García Ibarra, 2021, Spain

Sediments - dir. Adrián Silvestre, 2021, Spain

Skate Dreams - dir. Jessica Edwards, 2022, USA/Cambodia/Japan

Small Body - dir. Laura Samani, 2021, Italy/France/Slovenia

So Damn Easy Going - dir. Christoffer Sandler, 2022, Sweden

Softie - dir. Samuel Theis, 2021, France

Speak No Evil - dir. Christian Tafdrup, 2022, Denmark

Spin Me Round - dir. Jeff Baena, 2022, USA/Italy

The Staffroom - dir. Sonja Tarokić, 2021, Croatia

Straighten Up and Fly Right - dir. Kristen Abate, Steven Tanenbaum, 2022, USA

Sublime - dir. Mariano Biasin, 2022, Argentina

Superheroes - dir. Paolo Genovese, 2021, Italy

Sweetheart Deal - dir. Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller, 2022, USA

A Tale of Love and Desire - dir. Leyla Bouzid, 2021, Tunisia/France

Talking About the Weather - dir. Annika Pinske, 2022, Germany

The Territory - dir. Alex Pritz, 2022, Brazil/Denmark/USA

Tug of War - dir. Amil Shivji, 2021, Tanzania /South Africa/Germany/Qatar

Utama - dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022, Bolivia/Uruguay/France

Vera Dreams of the Sea - dir. Kaltrina Krasniqi, 2021, Kosovo/North Macedonia/Albania

Voice of Silence - dir. Hong Eui-jeong, 2021, South Korea

Warm Blood - dir. Rick Charnoski, 2022, USA

Watcher - dir. Chloe Okuno, 2022, USA

Whether the Weather Is Fine - dir. Carlo Francisco Manatad, 2021, Philippines/France/Singapore/Indonesia/Germany/Qatar

White Whale - dir. Tatyana Fedorovskaya, 2021, Russia

Wildhood - dir. Bretten Hannam (Mi'kmaw), 2021, Canada

Wild Men - dir. Thomas Daneskov, 2021, Denmark

Women Do Cry - dir. Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova, 2021, Bulgaria/France

Young Plato - dir. Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath, 2021, Ireland/Belgium/France/UK

Zero Fucks Given - dir. Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre, 2021, Belgium/France

Special Programs & Events

Film Forums - included Documentary Shorts Roundtable, Kin Theory: Indigenizing Film Industry Spaces, Build It & They Will Come: Virtual Film Community, Documentary As Document Roundtable, What The Femme Roundtable, Ibero-American Documentary Roundtable, Shifting Lenses Roundtable, World Building Through Production Design, Taiwan Films Roundtable, cINeDIGENOUS Roundtable, Diving into Nature Roundtable, Activism in Short Filmmaking, Igniting Our Film Industry, Breaking Traditions Roundtable, Bold Virtuosos Roundtable 

A Tribute to Tom Skerritt: East of the Mountains 

Works-In-Progress - included Walk With Me (aka Trans*Formed), Vera Dreams of the Sea