SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
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Relive the 28th 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 2002 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 23–June 16, 2002
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Crocodile Café, Egyptian Theatre, Experience Music Project, Grand Illusion, Harvard Exit Theater, Nation, Orpheum Records, Pacific Place Cinemas, Paramount Theatre, Rendezvous, Richard Hugo House
Opening Night: Igby Goes Down at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Passionada at Cinerama
Tribute: John Waters, James Wong
Emerging Masters: Jacques Audiard, Julio Medem, Miike Takashi, Park Chan-Wook
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SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (and a 2002 Print Traffic Manager), Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
Best Film
Elling (dir. Peter Naess, Norway)
Best Director
Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia, Spain)
Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)
Best Actor
Moritz Bleibtreu (Das Experiment)
Best Short
The Host (dir. Nicolas Tomnay, Australia)
Best Documentary
Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House (dir. Deborah Dickson, USA)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Who the Hell is Bobby Roos? (dir. John Feldman, 2002, USA)
101st Kilometre - dir. Leonid Maryagin, 2001, Russia
13 Conversations About One Thing - dir. Jill Sprecher, 2001, USA
13 Moons - dir. Alexandre Rockwell, 2002, USA
24 Hour Party People - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2002, Great Britain
Abandoned - dir. Arpad Sopsits, 2001, Hungary
ABC Africa - dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 2001, Iran
Afghan Alphabet - dir. Moshen Makhmalbaf, 2001, Iran
Agitator - dir. Miike Takashi, 2001, Japan
All About Lily Chou-Chou - dir. Shunji Iwai, 2001, Japan
American Gun - dir. Alan Jacobs, 2002, USA
The Anarchist Cookbook - dir. Jordan Susman, 2002, USA
Angelus - dir. Lech Majewski, 2001, Poland
Asoka - dir. Santosh Sivan, 2001, India
Badlands - dir. Terrence Malick, 1973, USA
Bang Bang You’re Dead - dir. Guy Ferland, 2002, USA
Beijing Rocks - dir. Mabel Cheung, 2001, Hong Kong
Biggie and Tupac - dir. Nick Broomfield, 2002, Great Britain
Black Picket Fence - dir. Sergio Goes, 2001, USA
Blue Gate Crossing - dir. Chih-yen Yi, 2002, Taiwan/France
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia - dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974, USA
Britney Baby, One More Time! - dir. Ludi Boeken, 2002, USA
Brother - dir. Yan Yan Mak, 2001, Hong Kong
Bungalow - dir. Ulrich Köhler, 2002, Germany
Butterfly Smile - dir. He Jianjun, 2001, China
A Cab for Three - dir. Orlando Lübbert, 2001, Chile
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - dir. Robert Wiene, 1919-20, Germany
California Split - dir. Robert Altman, 1974, USA
Camel(s) - dir. Park Ki-yong, 2001, South Korea
Catching Out - dir. Sarah George, 2002, USA
Cherish - dir. Finn Taylor, 2002, USA
Chicken Rice War - dir. Cheah Chee-Kong (”CheeK”), 2001, Singapore
Chinatown - dir. Roman Polanski, 1974, USA
Cinemania - dir. Angela Christlieb, Stephen Kijak, 2001, USA
The Cockettes - dir. Bill Weber, David Weissman, 2002, USA
CQ - dir. Roman Coppola, 2001, USA/Luxembourg/France/Italy
The Cuban Game - dir. Manuel Martin Cuenca, 2001, Spain
Daddy and Papa - dir. Johnny Symons, 2002, USA
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys - dir. Peter Care, 2002, USA
Dark Water - dir. Hideo Nakata, 2002, Japan
David Hockney, Secret Knowledge - dir. Randall Wright, 2001, Great Britain
Days of Heaven - dir. Terrence Malick, 1978, USA
The Devil in the Holy Water - dir. Joe Balass, 2002, USA
Dog Days - dir. Ulrich Seidl, 2001, Austria
Door To Door - dir. Steven Schachter, 2001, USA
A Dream in Hanoi - dir. Tom Weidlinger, 2002, USA/Vietnam
Elling - dir. Peter Næss, 2001, Norway
The Emperor’s New Clothes - dir. Alan Taylor, 2001, Great Britain/Germany
The Experiment - dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2001, Germany
Family Fundamentals - dir. Arthur Dong, 2002, USA
The Fast Runner - dir. Zacharias Kunuk, 2001, Canada
Fat City - dir. John Huston, 1972, USA
Female Trouble - dir. John Waters, 1975, USA
Firefly Dreams - dir. John Williams, 2001, Japan
Five Easy Pieces - dir. Bob Rafelson, 1970, USA
The Flats - dir. Kelly Requa, Tyler Requa, 2002, USA
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) - dir. AJ Schnack, 2002, USA
Girls Can’t Swim - dir. Anne-Sophie Birot, 2001, France
God Is Great, I’m Not - dir. Pascale Bailly, 2001, France
Good Hands - dir. Peeter Simm, 2001, Estonia/Latvia
The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It - dir. Judith Ehrlich, 2000, USA
Gossip - dir. Colin Nutley, 2001, Sweden
Green Dragon - dir. Timothy Linh Bui, 2001, USA
The Grey Zone - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001, USA
Happiness of the Katakuris - dir. Miike Takashi, 2001, Japan
Happy Times - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2001, China
Hejar–Big Man, Small Love - dir. Handan Ipekçi, 2001, Turkey
Herencia - dir. Paula Hernández, 2001, Argentina
Her Majesty - dir. Mark J. Gordon, 2001, New Zealand
Her Mother, The Whore - dir. Brigitte Roüan, 2002, France
Hi! Dharma! - dir. Park Cheol-kwan, 2001, South Korea
The Hired Hand - dir. Peter Fonda, 1971, USA
Hi, Tereska - dir. Robert Glinski, 2001, Poland
Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay - dir. Eric Slade, 2001, USA
Hush! - dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 2001, Japan
Igby Goes Down - dir. Burr Steers, 2002, USA
I’m Going Home - dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 2001, France/Portugal
The Inheritance - dir. Daniel Filho, 2001, Brazil
The Inner Tour - dir. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, 2001, Israel
In Praise of Love - dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 2001, France
In The Mirror of Maya Deren - dir. Martina Kudlacek, 2001, Austria
Into the Fire: American Women in the Spanish Civil War - dir. Julia Newman, 2001, USA
I Will Not Be Sad in This World - dir. Karina Epperlein, 2002, USA
Jiyan - dir. Jano Rosebiani, 2002, Kurdistan/Iraq
Joint Security Area - dir. Park Chan-wook, 2000, South Korea
Just a Kiss - dir. Fisher Stevens, 2001, USA
Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama of the West - dir. Kyle Carver, Ryan Purcell, 2001, USA
Khaled - dir. Asghar Massombagi, 2001, Canada
Killer Tattoo - dir. Yuthlert Sippapak, 2001, Thailand
Kira’s Reason–A Love Story - dir. Ole Christian Madsen, 2001, Denmark
Klute - dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1971, USA
Lan Yu - dir. Stanley Kwan, 2001, China/Hong Kong
La Spagnola - dir. Steve Jacobs, 2001, Australia
Last Call - dir. Henry Bromell, 2002, USA/Canada
Last Dance - dir. Mirra Bank, 2001, USA
The Last Kiss - dir. Gabriele Muccino, 2001, Italy
The Last Wedding - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 2001, Canada
La Tropical - dir. David Turnley, 2001, USA/Cuba
The Lawless Heart - dir. Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter, 2001, Great Britain
Les Enfants de l'amour - dir. Geoffrey Enthoven, 2001, Belgium
Liberty Stands Still - dir. Kari Skogland, 2002, USA
Ljubljana - dir. Igor Sterk, 2002, Slovenia
Love In the Time of Money - dir. Peter Mattei, 2002, USA
Lovely & Amazing - dir. Nicole Holofcener, 2001, USA
The Lover - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2001, Russia
Mad Love - dir. Vicente Aranda, 2001, Spain
Malunde - dir. Stefanie Sycholt, 2001, South Africa/Germany
The Mapmaker - dir. Johnny Gogan, 2001, Ireland
Map of Sex and Love - dir. Evans Chan, 2001, Hong Kong/USA
Mariages - dir. Catherine Martin, 2001, Canada
M*A*S*H - dir. Robert Altman, 1970, USA
May - dir. Lucky McKee, 2002, USA
Maya - dir. Digvijay Singh, 2001, India
McCabe and Mrs. Miller - dir. Robert Altman, 1971, USA
Mean Streets - dir. Martin Scorsese, 1973, USA
Men in Scoring Position - dir. Timothy Rhys, 1999, USA
Men With Brooms - dir. Paul Gross, 2002, Canada
Merci Pour le Chocolat - dir. Claude Chabrol, 2000, France
Me Without You - dir. Sandra Goldbacher, 2002, Great Britain
Millennium Mambo - dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001, Taiwan
Minoes - dir. Vincent Bal, 2001, Netherlands
Minor Mishaps - dir. Annette K. Olesen, 2002, Denmark
Missing Persons - dir. Dan & Matt O'Donnell, 2002, USA
Monkey Love - dir. Mark Stratton, 2002, USA
Mon-rak Transistor - dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, 2002, Thailand
Mostly Martha - dir. Sandra Nettelbeck, 2001, Australia/Germany/Italy/Switzerland
Murderous Maids - dir. Jean-Pierre Denis, 2001, France
My Brother Silk Road - dir. Marat Sarulu, 2001, Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan
My Voyage to Italy - dir. Martin Scorsese, 2001, Italy/USA
My Wife is an Actress - dir. Yvan Attal, 2001, France
The Navigators - dir. Ken Loach, 2001, Great Britain/Germany/Spain
No News From God - dir. Agustin Diaz-Yanes, 2001, Spain
No Regrets - dir. Benjamin Quabeck, 2002, Germany
Nynke - dir. Pieter Verhoeff, 2001, Netherlands
One Day in August - dir. Constantine Giannaris, 2000, Greece
On the Road to Emmaus - dir. Markku Pölönen, 2001, Finland
Orphan of Anyang - dir. Wang Chao, 2001, China
The Orphan - dir. Sun-fung Lee, 1960, Hong Kong
Our America - dir. Ernest Dickerson, 2002, USA
Outpatient - dir. Alec Carlin, 2002, USA
The Parallax View - dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1974, USA
Parallel Worlds - dir. Petr Václav, 2001, Czech Republic
Passionada - dir. Dan Ireland, 2002, USA
The Piano Teacher - dir. Michael Haneke, 2001, Austria/France
Picnic - dir. Joshua Logan, 1955, USA
The Pinochet Case - dir. Patricio Guzman, 2001, France/Belgium/Chile
Pipe Dream - dir. John Walsh, 2002, USA
Pistol Opera - dir. Seijun Suzuki, 2001, Japan
Pleasure and Pain - dir. Danny Clinch, 2002, USA
Princess Blade - dir. Shinsuke Sato, 2002, Japan
The Prisoner of Zenda - dir. John Cromwell, 1937, USA
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes - dir. Billy Wilder, 1970, USA/Great Britain
Pumpkin - dir. Tony Abrams, Adam Larson Broder, 2002, USA
Pursued - dir. Raoul Walsh, 1947, USA
Quitting - dir. Zhang Yang, 2001, China
Rain - dir. Katherine Lindberg, 2001, USA/Spain/Germany
Read My Lips - dir. Jacques Audiard, 2001, France
The Red Squirrel - dir. Julio Medem, 1993, Spain
The Reunion - dir. Måns Herngren, Hannes Holm, 2002, Sweden
Risotto - dir. Olga Malea, 2001, Greece
La Route - dir. Darezhan Omirbaev, 2001, Kazakhstan/France/Japan
The Rule of the Game - dir. Ho Ping , 2002, Taiwan
Running Out of Time 2 - dir. Johnny To, Law Wing-cheong, 2001, Hong Kong
Ruthie & Connie: Every Room in the House - dir. Deborah Dickson, 2002, USA
The Safety of Objects - dir. Rose Troche, 2001, USA
SASS - dir. Carlo Rola, 2001, Germany
Satin Rouge - dir. Raja Amari, 2002, Tunisia/France
A Savage Soul - dir. Raoul Ruiz, 2001, France/Chile/Belgium
Secret Ballot - dir. Babak Payami, 2001, Iran/Switzerland/Italy
See You Off to the Edge of Town - dir. Ching C. Ip, 2002, USA/Hong Kong
A Self Made Hero - dir. Jacques Audiard, 1996, France
Sex and Lucia - dir. Julio Medem, 2001, Spain
Shag Carpet Sunset - dir. Andrew McAllister, 2002, USA
Shampoo - dir. Hal Ashby, 1975, USA
Sherpa–Unsung Heroes - dir. Win Whittaker, 2002, USA/India/Sikkim
Shopping - dir. Philippe Boon, Laurent Brandenbourger, 2002, France/Belgium/Luxembourg
Skies Satellites - dir. Lukas Nola, 2001, Croatia
Skins - dir. Chris Eyre, 2002, USA
The Smith Family - dir. Tasha Oldham, 2002, USA
Smokers Only - dir. Verónica Chen, 2001, Argentina
Soft for Digging - dir. JT Petty, 2002, USA
A Song for Martin - dir. Billie August, 2001, Denmark/Germany/Sweden
Spooky House - dir. William Sachs, 2000, Canada
Strange Fruit - dir. Joel Katz, 2002, USA
Streeters - dir. Gerardo Tort, 2001, Mexico
Sunshine State - dir. John Sayles, 2002, USA
Super 8 Stories - dir. Emir Kusturica , 2001, Germany/Italy
Supplement - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 2002, Poland
Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - dir. Saso Podgorsek, 2001, Slovenia
Sweet Smell of Success - dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1957, USA
Swimming Upstream: A Year in the Life of Karen & Jenny - dir. Jennifer Freedman, 2002, USA
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - dir. Park Chan-wook, 2001, South Korea
Tadpole - dir. Gary Winick, 2002, USA
Take Care of My Cat - dir. Jeong Jae-Eun, 2001, South Korea
Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine In Daehakroh - dir. Nam Gee-Woong, 2001, South Korea
Teknolust - dir. Lynn Hershman-Leeson, 2002, USA
Temptations - dir. Zoltan Kamondi, 2001, Hungary
Tokyo Noise - dir. Kristian Petri, Jan Roed, Johan Soderberg, 2002, Sweden
The Trip - dir. Miles Swain, 2002, USA
Turning Paige - dir. Robert Cuffley, 2002, Canada
Two Lane Blacktop - dir. Monte Hellman, 1971, USA
Two Towns of Jasper - dir. Whitney Dow, Marco Williams, 2002, USA
Uzumaki - dir. Higuchinsky, 2000, Japan
Versus - dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2001, Japan/USA
Virginia’s Run - dir. Peter Markle, 2002, USA
Walking on Water - dir. Tony Ayres, 2002, Australia
War Live - dir. Darko Bajic, 2001, Serbia
The Way We Laughed - dir. Gianni Amelio, 1998, Italy
What About God? - 2002, USA
Whispering Sands - dir. Nan Triveni Achnas, 2001, Indonesia/Japan
Who The Hell Is Bobby Roos? - dir. John Feldman, 2002, USA
The Wild Bees - dir. Bohdan Sláma, 2001, Czech Republic
Wild Flowers - dir. F.A. Brabec, 2000, Czech Republic
Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control - dir. Barry Alexander Brown, 2002, USA
Written on the Body of the Night - dir. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 2001, Mexico
Yellow Asphalt - dir. Dan Verete, 2000, Israel
The Zookeeper - dir. Ralph Ziman, 2001, Denmark/Czech Republic/UK/Netherlands
Asian Tradewinds Competition - included 10 feature films
Centerpiece Gala 24 Hour Party People
Days of Heaven - American Filmmaking in the 70’s - included Chinatown, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Days of Heaven, The Parallax View, The Hired Hand, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Emerging Masters: Miike Takashi - include Agitator, Happiness of Katakuris
Emerging Masters: Jacques Audiard - included Read My Lips, A Self Made Hero
Emerging Masters: Julio Medem - included Sex and Lucia, The Red Squirrel
Emerging Masters: Park Chan-wook - include Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Joint Security Area
An Evening with John Waters Female Trouble
Exploding Cinema and the Crocodile Café present Music Video Machine and Exploding Cinema’s Online Flash Film Fest
Exploding Cinema and Nation present zero
Exploding Cinema and the Richard Hugo House present Bloomsday
Exploding Cinema’s Bazaar at the Rendezvous
Filmmakers Forum - included Getting ‘Ben-Hur’ Production Values on an ‘I Love Lucy’ Budget, What’s the Score?, The Life of a Hyphenate: Writer-Director-Actor, Digital Delivery & the Exhibition Revolution, Behind the Curtain: A Director and Cinematographer Reveal their Process, The Workshop: A Live Scene Study, Perfect Pitch: What’s the Big Idea?
Films 4 Families - included Her Majesty, Minoes, Spooky House, Virginia’s Run
Midnight Adrenaline - included Killer Tattoo, May, Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakroh, Versus
The Golden Space Needle Awards
Grand Illusion 70’s Sidebar - included Mean Streets, Two Lane Blacktop, Five Easy Pieces, Klute, California Split, Fat City, Badlands, Shampoo, ‘70s Timecapsule: a collection of short films of the era, M*A*S*H
The Inaugural Alpha Cine Award See You Off to the Edge of Town
Local Color: Spawned in Seattle - included Spawned in Seattle: Small Fry, Catching Out, Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama, Outpatient, Shag Carpet Sunset
Low-Key Legend: A Tribute to James Wong Howe - included Picnic, The Prisoner of Zenda, Pursued, Sweet Smell of Success
The Modern Digital Cinema Award American Gun
Movie Poster Silent Auction
New American Cinema Competition - included 9 feature films
New Directors Showcase - included 11 feature films
Night Music - included Biggie and Tupac, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns), Pleasure and Pain, Super 8 Stories, La Tropical
Refracting Reality - included 28 feature films
Scratch Cinema featuring DJ Spooky (Tha’ Subliminal Kid) and Spaceboat.tv, KEXP 90.3’s Expressions
Screenwriters Salon presents Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer
Secret Festival
Short Takes - included Around the World in 80 Minutes, The Ploys of Sex, Head Cases, Sensation-al Animation, Shorts Stories, Boys & Boys and Girls & Girls, 9/11: A Coda
Special Archival Presentations - included The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Theramin Accompaniment by Kent Oiwa, The Orphan, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Talking Pictures: Education Day - included What About God?, Two Towns of Jasper, Bang Bang You’re Dead
Talking Pictures: Elderhostel Talking Pictures - included five films and five discussions with filmmakers and/or critics
Talking Pictures: Panels - included Why America Can’t See (Or Doesn’t Want to See) Movies for Grownups - seminar guests included Michael Medved, David Ansen, John Styles, Rose Troche, Days of Heaven: American Filmmaking in the 1970s - seminar guests included David Thomson, Peter Biskind, Villas Zsigmond, Peter Fonda, Can Movies Change the World? - seminar guests included John Anderson, Alan Jacobs, James Coburn, Guy Ferland
Talking Pictures: Post-Film Conversations and Discussions - included Two Towns of Jasper, Picnic, The Hired Hand, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes