Director, Steven Soderbergh, engaged in discussion as a panelist for the festival forums of the 22nd Seattle International Film Festival
Relive the 22nd 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 1996 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 16–June 9, 1996
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Alibi Room, Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Guild 45th Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Neptune Theatre, Paramount Theatre
Opening Night: The Whole Wide World at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Emma at Egyptian Theatre
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Director, Steven Soderbergh, engaged in discussion as a panelist for the festival forums of the 22nd Seattle International Film Festival
Director, Todd Solondz, in town for his film, Welcome to the Dollhouse
A group of festival filmmakers unwind from the festivities of the day
The Guild 45th Theatre, a new SIFF venue in 1997, announces the 22nd Seattle International Film Festival
Best Film
Trainspotting (dir. Danny Boyle, UK)
Best Director
Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, UK)
Best Actress
Lili Taylor (Girls Town, USA)
Best Actor
Vincent D'Onofrio (The Whole Wide World, USA)
Best Short
That Night (dir. John Keister, USA)
Best Documentary
Hype! (dir. Doug Pray, USA)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Whole Wide World (dir. Dan Ireland, USA)
Agnes - dir. Egill Edvardsson, 1996, Iceland
Alchemy - dir. Suzanne Myers, 1995, USA
All Things Fair - dir. Bo Widerberg, 1995, Sweden
An Almost Perfect Affair - dir. Reinhard Schwabenitzky, 1996, Austria
Anatomy of Desire - dir. Jean-Francois Monette, Peter T. Boullata, 1995, Canada
And the Moon Dances - dir. Garin Nugroho, 1995, Indonesia
Angel Baby - dir. Michael Rymer, 1995, Australia
Back to Back - dir. Roger Nygard, 1996, USA
Belly Talkers - dir. Sandara Luckow, 1995, USA
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - dir. Marion Hansel, 1995, Belgium
The Big Squeeze - dir. Marcus DeLeon, 1996, USA
The Boy From Mercury - dir. Martin Duffy, 1996, Ireland/France/Great Britain
Brother of Sleep - dir. Joseph Vilsmaier, 1995, Germany
Brothers in Trouble - dir. Udayan Prasad, 1995, Great Britain
Butterfly Kiss - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1995, Great Britain
Bye-Bye - dir. Karim Dridi, 1995, France
Cadillac Ranch - dir. Lisa Gottlieb, 1995, USA
Celestial Clockwork - dir. Fina Torres, 1995, France
Celluloid - dir. Carlo Lizzani, 1995, Italy
Cold Fever - dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, 1994, Iceland/USA/Germany/Switzerland
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day - dir. Christopher Munch, 1995 , USA
The Confessional - dir. Robert Lepage, 1995, Canada/Great Britain/France
Cradle Song - dir. Jose Luis Garci, 1995, Spain
Crocodile Tears - dir. Ann Coppel, Work in Progress (Finished 1997) , USA
Crows - dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, 1994, Poland
Cyclo - dir. Tran Anh Hung, 1995, Vietnam/France
Dadetown - dir. Russ Hexter, 1995, USA
Dead Man - dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1996, USA
The Delegation - dir. Alexander Galin, 1995 , Italy/Russia
Die Mediocren - dir. Matthias Glasner, 1995 , Germany
Drunks - dir. Peter Cohn, 1995, USA
Eden - dir. Howard Goldberg, 1996, USA
Edie & Pen - dir. Matthew Irmas, 1996, USA
Ed’s Next Move - dir. John Walsh, 1995, USA
Emma - dir. Douglas McGrath, 1995, Great Britain
Epsilon - dir. Rolf de Heer, 1996, Australia
A Feast at Midnight - dir. Justin Hardy, 1995, Great Britain
Flirt - dir. Hal Hartley, 1995, USA/Germany/Japan
Foreign Land - dir. Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, 1995, Brazil/Portugal
Full Throttle - dir. Derek Yee, 1995, Hong Kong
Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe - dir. Shusuke Kaneko, 1995, Japan
The Garden - dir. Martin Sulik, 1995, Slovakia
The Gate of Heavenly Peace - dir. Richard Gordon, Carma Hinton, 1995, USA
Girls Town - dir. Jim McKay, 1995, USA
Gonin - dir. Ishii Takashi, 1995, Japan
Gravesend - dir. Sal Stabile, 1995, USA
Guiltrip - dir. Gerard Stembridge, 1995, Ireland
Guimba - dir. Cheich Oumar Sissoko, 1995, Mali, Burkina Faso/Germany
Gypsy Soul - dir. Chus Gutierrez, 1996, Spain
Haiti, Untitled - dir. Jørgen Leth, 1996, Denmark
Haramuya - dir. Drissa Toure, 1995, Burkina Faso/France
Harvest Home - dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, 1996, The Philippines
Hearts and Minds - dir. Ralph Ziman, 1995, South Africa
Hitting the Ground - dir. David P. Moore, 1996, USA
The Horseman on the Roof - dir. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1996, France
A Hot Roof - dir. Lee Min-Yong, 1995, South Korea
Hype! - dir. Doug Pray, 1995, USA
I Can't Sleep - dir. Claire Denis, 1995, France
The Innocent Sleep - dir. Scott Michell, 1995, Great Britain
The Interview - dir. Monique Gardenberg, 1996, Brazil
Intimate Relations - dir. Philip Goodhew, 1996, Great Britain/Canada
I Shot Andy Warhol - dir. Mary Harron, 1996, USA
I Thank You for Each New Morning - dir. Milan Steindler, 1995, Czech Republic
Jane: An Abortion Service - dir. Kate Kirtz, Nell Lundy, 1995, USA
Jim Loves Jack: The James Egan Story - dir. David Adkin, 1995, Canada
Joint Adventure - dir. John Foran, 1995, USA
Jonah and the Pink Whale - dir. Juan Carlos Valdivia, 1995, Bolivia/Mexico
Just A Girl - dir. Peter Schroder, 1995, Denmark
Kansas City - dir. Robert Altman, 1996, USA
Killer: A Journal of Murder - dir. Tim Metcalfe, 1996, USA
The King of the Masks - dir. Wu Tianming, 1996, China/Hong Kong
Lamerica - dir. Gianni Amelio, 1994, Italy
L’Amore Molesto - dir. Mario Martone, 1995, Italy
The Land is White, the Seed is Black - dir. Koto Bolofo, 1995, France
The Last Stop - dir. Wanda Jakubowska, 1948, Poland
Late Bloomers - dir. Julia Dyer, Gretchen Dyer, 1995, USA
A Leap of Faith - dir. Jenifer McShane, Tricia Regan, 1996, USA
The Leopard Son - dir. Hugo van Lawick, 1996, Great Britain
Little Sister - dir. Robert Jan Westdijk, 1995, The Netherlands
Live Bait - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 1995, Canada
Lone Star - dir. John Sayles, 1996, USA
Losing Chase - dir. Kevin Bacon, 1995, USA
The Lost Garden - dir. Marquise Lepage, 1995, Canada
Loved Up - dir. Peter Cattaneo, 1995, Great Britain
Love Me and You Will See… - dir. Daniel Diaz Torres, 1994, Cuba
Lumiere and Company - dir. Sarah Moon, 1995, France/Spain/Sweden
Maborosi - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1995, Japan
Madagascar - dir. Fernando Perez, 1994, Cuba
Madame Butterfly - dir. Frederic Mitterrand, 1995, France
Mahjong - dir. Edward Yang, 1996, Taiwan
Manneken Pis - dir. Frank Van Passel, 1994, Belgium
Manny & Lo - dir. Lisa Krueger, 1995, USA
Man of the Year - dir. Dirk Shafer, 1995, USA
The Man With the Movie Camera - dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929, USSR
Margaret’s Museum - dir. Mort Ransen, 1995, Canada
Matter of Faith - dir. Marcos Loayza, 1995, Bolivia
A Mongolian Tale - dir. Xie Fei, 1995, China
Mother Dao, the Turtlelike - dir. Vincent Monnikendam, 1995, The Netherlands
Mouth to Mouth - dir. Manuel Gomez Pereira, 1996, Spain
My Friend Joe - dir. Chris Bould, 1995, Ireland
My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports - dir. Melissa Hacker, 1995, USA
Nervous Energy - dir. Jean Stewart, 1995, Great Britain
Next Year ... We’ll have to Go to Bed by Ten - dir. Angelo Orlando, 1995, Italy
No Sender - dir. Carlos Carrera, 1994, Mexico
Notes From Underground - dir. Gary Walkow, 1995, USA
Nothing But the Sun - dir. Mark Gordon, 1996, USA
Nothing to Lose - dir. Eric Bross, 1995, USA
Other Voices Other Rooms - dir. David Rock Savage, 1995, USA
The Ox and the Eye - dir. Richard LaBrie, 1996, USA
Palookaville - dir. Alan Taylor, 1995, USA
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills - dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 1995, USA
Paris was a Woman - dir. Greta Schiller, 1995, Great Britain
A Perfect Candidate R.J. Cutler, David Van Taylor, 1995, USA
Phenomenon - dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1996, USA
Premeditated Murder - dir. Gorcin Stojanovic, 1995, Serbia
Purple Noon - dir. René Clément, 1960, France
Red Rose, White Rose - dir. Stanley Kwan, 1995, Hong Kong
The Reggae Movie - dir. Randy Rovins, 1995, USA
The River Chao Phraya - dir. Sampson Williams, 1996, Thailand
Saint Clara - dir. Ori Sivan, Ari Folman, 1996, Israel
Scorpion Spring - dir. Brian Cox, 1995, USA
Sebastian - dir. Svend Wam, 1995, Sweden/Norway
Shadow of the Pepper Tree - dir. Francesca Fisher, Taggart Siegel, 1995 , Mexico
Siao Yu - dir. Sylvia Chang, 1995, Taiwan
A Single Girl - dir. Benoit Jacquot, 1995, France
Sister Island - dir. Avery Crounse, 1996, USA
Small Faces - dir. Gillies MacKinnon, 1995, Scotland
Someone Else’s America - dir. Goran Paskaljevic, 1994, Great Britain/France/Germany
Stonewall - dir. Nigel Finch, 1995, Great Britain
Streetlife - dir. Karl Francis, 1995, Wales
Sudden Manhattan - dir. Adrienne Shelly, 1996, USA
The Summer of Bobby Charlton - dir. Massimo Guglielmi, 1995, Italy
The Sun Has Ears - dir. Yim Ho, 1996, China
Switchblade Sisters - dir. Jack Hill, 1975, USA
Synthetic Pleasures - dir. Iara Lee, 1995, USA
Tale of the Three Jewels - dir. Michel Khleifi, 1995, Palestine/Belgium/Great Britain
Talk of the Town - dir. Rainer Kaufmann, 1995, Germany
Target - dir. Sandip Ray, 1995, India
Tattoo Boy - dir. Larry Turner, 1995, USA
Tears Of Stone - dir. Hilmar Oddsson, 1995, Iceland
Thesis - dir. Alejandro Amenabar, 1995, Spain
TheYoung Poisoner’s Handbook - dir. Benjamin Ross, 1994, Great Britain/Germany/France
Throwing Down - dir. Lawrence O’Neil, 1995, USA
Tokyo Drifter - dir. Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan
Trainspotting - dir. Danny Boyle, 1996, Great Britain
The Trigger Effect - dir. David Koepp, 1996, USA
Trinity and Beyond - dir. Peter Kuran, 1995, USA
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern - dir. Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher, 1995, USA
Turkish Passion - dir. Vincente Aranda, 1994, Spain
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - dir. Jacques Demy, 1964, France
Under the Domim Tree - dir. Eli Cohen, 1995, Israel
Underworld - dir. Roger Christian, 1996, USA
Village of Dreams - dir. Yoichi Higashi, 1996, Japan
Vite Strozzate - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 1995, Italy
Vive L’Amour - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1994, Taiwan
Walking and Talking - dir. Nicole Holofcener, 1996, USA
Welcome to the Dollhouse - dir. Todd Solondz, 1995, USA
Who Killed Pasolini? - dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, 1995, Italy/France
Who Killed Teddy Bear? - dir. Joseph Cates, 1965, USA
The Whole Wide World - dir. Dan Ireland, 1996, USA
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick - dir. Todd Robinson, 1995, USA
The Wind in the Willows - dir. Dave Unwin, 1995, Great Britain
Without Evidence - dir. Gill Dennis, 1996, USA
Work - dir. Rachel Reichman, 1996, USA
Year Number Ten - dir. Kathe Kratz, 1995, Austria
Zero Degrees Kelvin - dir. Hans Petter Moland, 1995, Norway
Archival Presentations - included The Last Stop, The Lost Garden, Politically Incorrect Cartoondaze Program 1 and 2, Purple Noon, Tokyo Drifter, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Bedtime Stories: The Midnight Series - included Back to Back, The Reggae Movie, Full Throttle, Gamera: The Guardian of the Universe, Hype!, Scorpion Spring, Switchblade Sisters, Who Killed Teddy Bear?
Benefit Screening Crocodile Tears, Work in progress
Child’s Play - included The Boy From Mercury, A Feast at Midnight, My Friend Joe, The River Chao Phraya, The Wind in the Willows
Closing Night Special Presentation Kansas City
Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 19 feature films and 3 short films
Filmmakers’ Forum: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: U.S. Distribution and International Sales - seminar guests included Mingham Ray, Michael Barker, Adam Rogers, Bill Stephens, Charlotte Mickie, Wouter Barendrecht
Filmmakers’ Forum: Critical Perspectives
Filmmakers' Forum: The Director’s Chair: Independent Directors Speak Out! - seminar guests included Danny Boyle, Lisa Kreuger, Todd Solondz, Jim McKay, Dan Ireland
Filmmakers’ Forum: Fade In: The Writer–Director Relationship - seminar guests included David Koepp, Rolf de Heer, Buck Henry, and moderator John Pierson
Filmmakers’ Forum: How to Negotiate a Distribution Deal: A Master Class with Mark Litwak
Filmmakers’ Forum: North by Northwest: The Washington Filmmaking Experience - seminar guests included Lisanne Dutton, Ted Sod, John Keister, Suzy Kellett
Filmmakers’ Forum: The Pros and Cons of 16mm film Stock with Richard Bax of Eastman Kodak
Filmmakers’ Forum: TBA Master Class
Golden Space Needle Awards
New Directors Showcase - included 14 feature films
Poster Auction
Pyramid Ales American Independent Award
Seattle Symphony Goes to the Movies with Michael Kamen
Secret Festival
Shorts Programs - included The Best of British Shorts, Boys’ Night Out, A Date with Fate, Girls’ Night Out, Live! From the Other End of the Universe, North by Northwest, True Romance, Women in Shorts
Special Presentation The Man with the Movie Camera with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra
The WGA-West and SIFF present the first annual Screenwriters Salon