Seattle International Film Festival 1992 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1992

Relive the 18th 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 1992 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 14–June 7, 1992
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Market Cinemas, Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Factoria Cinema, Harvard Exit Theatre, IMAX, King Cinedome, Metro Cinema, Neptune Theatre, Paramount Theatre

Opening Night: Le Bal Des Casse-Pieds at the Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Equinox at King Cinedome
Tribute: Robert Wise


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

The Paramount marquee announcing Opening Night of the 17th Seattle International Film Festival

The Paramount marquee announcing Opening Night of the 17th Seattle International Film Festival

The Paramount marquee announcing Opening Night of the 17th Seattle International Film Festival

The Paramount marquee announcing Opening Night of the 17th Seattle International Film Festival

Actress, Maribel Verdú, and producer, Pedro Costa, discuss their film, Lovers

Actress, Maribel Verdú, and producer, Pedro Costa, discuss their film, Lovers

Actress, Maribel Verdú, and producer, Pedro Costa, discuss their film, Lovers

Actress, Maribel Verdú, and producer, Pedro Costa, discuss their film, Lovers

Tribute guest, director, Robert Wise, discusses his films with festival founder, Dan Ireland

Tribute guest, director, Robert Wise, discusses his films with festival founder, Dan Ireland

Tribute guest, director, Robert Wise, discusses his films with festival founder, Dan Ireland

Tribute guest, director, Robert Wise, discusses his films with festival founder, Dan Ireland

FOURTH ROW: Nancy Kennedy, Sandy Gow, Jim Gibbs THIRD ROW: Helen du Toit, Nick Vroman, Suzie Walls, Ted Fry SECOND ROW: John Teegarden, Amy Bradburd, Deborah Binderman FIRST ROW: Jon Pray, Ruth Hayler, Darryl Macdonald, Deena Juris, Jayne Craig, Annie Wilson

FOURTH ROW: Nancy Kennedy, Sandy Gow, Jim Gibbs THIRD ROW: Helen du Toit, Nick Vroman, Suzie Walls, Ted Fry SECOND ROW: John Teegarden, Amy Bradburd, Deborah Binderman FIRST ROW: Jon Pray, Ruth Hayler, Darryl Macdonald, Deena Juris, Jayne Craig, Annie Wilson

FOURTH ROW: Nancy Kennedy, Sandy Gow, Jim Gibbs THIRD ROW: Helen du Toit, Nick Vroman, Suzie Walls, Ted Fry SECOND ROW: John Teegarden, Amy Bradburd, Deborah Binderman FIRST ROW: Jon Pray, Ruth Hayler, Darryl Macdonald, Deena Juris, Jayne Craig, Annie Wilson

FOURTH ROW: Nancy Kennedy, Sandy Gow, Jim Gibbs THIRD ROW: Helen du Toit, Nick Vroman, Suzie Walls, Ted Fry SECOND ROW: John Teegarden, Amy Bradburd, Deborah Binderman FIRST ROW: Jon Pray, Ruth Hayler, Darryl Macdonald, Deena Juris, Jayne Craig, Annie Wilson

Actor, Tom Skerritt, graced the SIFF stage at the 18th Seattle International Film Festival as part of the New Directors Showcase

Actor, Tom Skerritt, graced the SIFF stage at the 18th Seattle International Film Festival as part of the New Directors Showcase

Actor, Tom Skerritt, graced the SIFF stage at the 18th Seattle International Film Festival as part of the New Directors Showcase

Actor, Tom Skerritt, graced the SIFF stage at the 18th Seattle International Film Festival as part of the New Directors Showcase

SIFFer views the calendar of events of the 18th Seattle International Film Festival from a display window at the Neptune Theatre

SIFFer views the calendar of events of the 18th Seattle International Film Festival from a display window at the Neptune Theatre

SIFFer views the calendar of events of the 18th Seattle International Film Festival from a display window at the Neptune Theatre

SIFFer views the calendar of events of the 18th Seattle International Film Festival from a display window at the Neptune Theatre

IP5: Island of the Pachyderms
IP5: Island of the Pachyderms
Equinox
Equinox
Le Bal Des Cass-Pieds
Le Bal Des Cass-Pieds
The Adjuster
The Adjuster
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
Gas, Food. and Lodging
Gas, Food. and Lodging
Days of Being Wild
Days of Being Wild

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
IP5: L'île aux pachydermes (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, France)

Best Director
Jean-Jacques Beineix (IP5: L'île aux pachydermes, France)

Best Actress
Marianne Sagebrecht (Martha and I)

Best Actor
Dermot Mulroney (Where the Day Takes You)

Best Short
Anima Mundi (dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA)

Best Documentary
A Brief History of Time (dir. Errol Morris, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

Above the Mountains - dir. Digna Sinke, 1992, Netherlands

Adam’s Rib - dir. Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch, 1991, Russia

The Adjuster - dir. Atom Egoyan, 1991, Canada

Adorable Lies - dir. Gerardo Chijona, 1991, Cuba

Alberto Express - dir. Arthur Joffé, 1990, France

American Orpheus - dir. Rick Schmidt, 1992, USA

The Bachelor - dir. Roberto Faenza, 1991, Italy

Because You Are a Woman - dir. Kim Yu-Jin, 1990, South Korea

Betty Blue L’Integral - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986/91, France

The Bewildered King - dir. Imanol Uribe, 1991, Spain

Bix - dir. Pupi Avati, 1991, Italy

Black Harvest - dir. Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly, 1991, Australia

The Body Snatcher - dir. Robert Wise, 1945, USA

Boiling Point - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1991, Japan

A Brief History of Time - dir. Errol Morris, 1992, Great Britain

A Brighter Summer Day - dir. Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan

Brothers - dir. Bakhtiyar Khudoynazarov, 1991, Tajikistan

Brother’s Keeper - dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 1992, USA

Butterfly Wings - dir. Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1991, Spain

Cairo Station - dir. Youssef Chahine, 1958, Egypt

The Case of the Witch Who Wasn’t - dir. Jean Beaudry, 1990, Canada

Children of Nature - dir. Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 1991, Iceland

Cloud - dir. Ana Luisa Guimarães, 1991, Portugal

Cloud-Paradise - dir. Nikolai Dostal, 1991, Russia

Confessing to Laura - dir. Jaime Osorio Gomez, 1991, Colombia/Cuba/Spain

The Creation - dir. Im Kwon-Taek, 1991, South Korea

Creatures of the Seasons - Japan

Cup Final - dir. Eran Riklis, 1991, Israel

Daddy and the Muscle Academy - dir. Ilppo Pohjola, 1991, Finland

Danzon - dir. Maria Novaro, 1991, Mexico

Days of Being Wild - dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1991, Hong Kong

Days of Man - dir. Yevgeny Paskevich, 1989/1992, Latvia

The Day the Earth Stood Still - dir. Robert Wise, 1951, USA

Deadly Currents - dir. Simcha Jacobovici, 1991, Canada

The Directors Place - dir. John Boorman, Nagisa Oshima, 1991, Great Britain

Dreaming Filipinos - dir. Manny Reyes, 1990, Philippines

A Dream in the Abyss - dir. Oscal Lucien, 1991, Venezuela

Eight Ball - dir. Ray Argall, 1992, Australia

The Elementary School - dir. Jan Sverak, 1991, Czechoslovakia

Enchanted April - dir. Mike Newell, 1991, Great Britain

The End of the Golden Weather - dir. Ian Mune, 1991, New Zealand

The Enquirers - dir. Rick Barnes, 1992, USA

Equinox - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1992, USA

Events Leading Up to My Death - dir. Bill Robertson, 1991, Canada

The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish - dir. Ben Lewin, 1991, Great Britain/France

Fire - dir. Adamo Drabo, 1991, Mali

Fire and Snow - dir. Claude Pinoteau, 1992, France

Five Girls and a Rope - dir. Yeh Hung-wei, 1991, Taiwan/Hong Kong

Flirting - dir. John Duigan, 1990, Australia

Galaxies are Colliding - dir. John Ryman, 1992, USA

Gas, Food, and Lodging - dir. Allison Anders, 1992, USA

Get Thee Out! - dir. Dmitri Astrakhan, 1991, Russia

Goodbye, Boys - dir. Mikhail Kalik, 1966, Russia

The Gulf War... And After - dir. Borhane Alouie, Nouri Bouzid, Mostfa Darkaoui, Neija Ben Mabrouk, Elia Souleiman, 1991, Tunisia

The Hairdresser’s Husband - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1990, France

Happy Birthday! - dir. Doris Dorrie, 1992, Germany

The Haunting - dir. Robert Wise, 1963, USA

Highway Patrolman - dir. Alex Cox, 1992, Mexico

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - dir. Joel Hirshman, 1992, USA

Homework - dir. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1991, Mexico

The Hours and the Times - dir. Christopher Munch, 1991, USA

The Iceman Cometh - dir. Fok Yiu-leung, 1989, Hong Kong

Identification Of Desire / Lord Of Flies - dir. Tolib Khamidov, Vladimir Tyulkin, 1991, Tajikistan/Kazakhstan

Inside Monkey Zetterland - dir. Jefery Levy, 1992, USA

In the Alleys of Love - dir. Khosro Sinaie, 1991, Iran

In the Shadows of the Stars - dir. Irving Saraf, Allie Light, 1991, USA

I Was on Mars - dir. Dani Levy, 1991, Germany

Jericho - dir. Luis Alberto Lamata, 1991, Venezuela

John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991 - dir. Garret Linn, 1992, USA

Johnny Suede - dir. Tom DiCillo, 1991, USA

La Discrète - dir. Christian Vincent, 1990, France

Le Bal Des Casse-Pieds - dir. Yves Robert, 1992, France

The Legend of a Mask - dir. José Buil, 1990, Mexico

L’Elegant Criminel - dir. Francis Girod, 1990, France

Lessons in Darkness - dir. Werner Herzog, 1992, Germany

The Living End - dir. Gregg Araki, 1992, USA

Love on a Slice of Bread - dir. Garin Nugroho, 1991, Indonesia

Lovers - dir. Vicente Aranda , 1991, Spain

The Lunatic - dir. Lol Creme, 1991, Jamaica

Mad at the Moon - dir. Martin Donovan, 1992, USA

Mama - dir. Zhang Yuan, 1990, China

Martha And I - dir. Jiri Weiss, 1990, Germany/France

Mississippi One - dir. Sarah Moon, 1991, France

Monster in a Box - dir. Nick Broomfield, 1991, USA

Montreal Sextet - dir. Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jaques Leduc, Léa Pool, Patricia Rozema, 1991, Canada

Moonrise - dir. David Blyth, 1992, New Zealand

My New Gun - dir. Stacy Cochran, 1992, USA

Naked Making Lunch - dir. Chris Rodley, 1992, Great Britain

Night On Earth - dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991, USA

Noah’s Ark - dir. Michael Curtiz, 1929, USA

North of Pittsburgh - dir. Richard Martin, 1992, Canada

Not Mozart - dir. Peter Greenaway, Jeremy Newson, Pat Gavin, Barrie Gavin, Margaret Williams, Anthony Garner, Ernst Granits, 1991, Great Britain

Once Upon a Time in China - dir. Tsui Hark, 1991, Hong Kong

On Earth as in Heaven - dir. Marion Hansel, 1992, Belgium

One Full Moon - dir. Endaf Emlyn, 1991, Great Britain

Paris Awakens - dir. Olivier Assayas, 1992, France

Path of the Brave - dir. Euthana Mukdasanit, 1991, Thailand

Peter Pan - dir. Herbert Brenon, 1924, USA

A Question of Attribution - dir. John Schlesinger, 1991, Great Britain

Rampage - dir. William Friedkin, 1991, USA

Reach for the Sky - dir. Elisabeta Bostan, 1991, Romania/Canada

The Red American - dir. Alessandro D’Alatri, 1991, Italy

Revenge of Billy the Kid - dir. Jim Groom, 1991, Great Britain

Riff-Raff - dir. Ken Loach, 1991, Great Britain

The Road to the Racetrack - dir. Jang Sun-Woo, 1991, South Korea

Rocco and His Brothers - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy

Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys - dir. Thys Ockersen, 1991, Netherlands

Samantha - dir. Stephen Larocque, 1991, USA

A Scene by the Sea - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1991, Japan

The Scorpion’s Garden - dir. Oleg Kovalov, 1991, Russia

The Secret Face - dir. Omer Kavur, 1990, Turkey

Secrets - dir. Michael Pattinson, 1991, Australia/New Zealand

The Set-Up - dir. Robert Wise, 1949, USA

Sex and Zen - dir. Michael Mak, 1991, Hong Kong

Shadow on the Snow - dir. Attila Janish, 1991, Hungary

Skinless Night - dir. Rokuro Mochizuki, 1991, Japan

Somebody Up There Likes Me - dir. Robert Wise, 1956, USA

South - dir. Le Trac, Tian Zhuang Zhuang, Jean Marie Teno, Antonio Cecilio Neto, Andres Augusti Gomez, Yang Shu, Ruchir Josh, Nejia Ben Marouk, Pablo Lanvin, Pablo Basulto, Dolly Pussi, Nimal and Ranjani Mendis, Manjira Datta, Licino Azevedo, Bassek Ba Kobhio, Karen Martinez, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Felix Zurita, Andres Agusti, Nighat Said Khan, Jugnu Ramaswamy, Gaston Kabore, Heiny Srour, Kaveh Golestan, Jorge Denti, Jorge Furtado, 1991, Great Britain

Spotswood - dir. Mark Joffe, 1991, Australia

The Station - dir. Sergio Rubini, 1990, Italy

The Stranger - dir. Satyajit Ray, 1991, India

The Suspended Stride of the Stork - dir. Theo Angelopoulos, 1991, Greece/France/Switzerland/Italy

Swordsman in Double Flag Town - dir. He Ping, 1990, China

This Land is Ours - dir. Saddik Balewa, 1991, Nigeria

Three Days - dir. Sarunas Bartas, 1991, Lithuania

The Tombs - dir. Javier Torre, 1991, Argentina

The Usual - dir. Eric Tretbar, 1991, USA

Vacas - dir. Julio Medem, 1991, Spain

Vegas in Space - dir. Phillip R. Ford, 1992, USA

Vincent and Me - dir. Michael Rubbo, 1990, Canada

Virginia - dir. Srdjan Karanovic, 1991, Yugoslavia/France

Waiting - dir. Jackie McKimmie, 1991, Australia

The Waterdance - dir. Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg, 1992, USA

The Wedding - dir. Ismaet Elçi, 1991, Germany

Where the Day Take You - dir. Marc Rocco, 1992, USA

Who Killed the Baby Jesus - dir. Douglas Stefan Borghi, 1992, USA

Wisecracks - dir. Gail Singer, 1991, Canada

A Woman’s Tale - dir. Paul Cox, 1991, Australia

Zazambo - dir. Fumika Watanabe, 1991, Japan

Zebrahead - dir. Anthony Drazan, 1992, USA

Zentropa - dir. Lars von Trier, 1991, Denmark

Special Programs & Events

Actors and Directors Seminar - seminar guests included Martin Donovan, Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Hart Bochner, Sean Young, Peter Horton, Rob Morrow 

Best of the Northwest - included Best of the Northwest Shorts, American Orpheus, The Enquirers, Act Up and Out

Children’s International Film Festival (in association with the Children’s Museum) - included The Case of the Witch Who Wasn’t, Vincent and Me, Creatures of the Seasons, Reach for the Sky, The End of the Golden Weather, Moonrise, The Big Wish and Other Short Tales Documentary Controversies: A Seminar - seminar guests included Michael Moore, Bobby Rock, Amy Taubin, Jack Garner

The Fabulous Poster Auction

Golden Space Needle Awards 

Midnight Madness - included Revenge of Billy the Kid, The Iceman Cometh, Sex and Zen, Vegas in Space

New Directors Showcase - included Events Leading Up to My Death, Confessing to Laura, The Elementary School, La Discrète, Skinless Night, Butterfly Wings, The Hours and Times, Who Killed the Baby Jesus, Zebrahead, A Dream in the Abyss

Special Archival Presentations - included Peter Pan, Rocco and His Brothers, Noah’s Ark

The Secret Festival

Special Programs, Video Presentations - included Not Mozart and South

Robert Wise Tribute - included The Body Snatcher, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Haunting, The Set-Up, Somebody Up There Likes Me