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Relive the 29th 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 2003 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 22–June 15, 2003
Number of Days: 25
Venues: The Baltic Room, Barca, Broadway Performance Hall, Chop Suey, Cinerama Theatre, Consolidated Works, Egyptian Theatre, Experience Music Project, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas, Paramount Theatre, The Showbox
Opening Night: Valentin at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Jet Lag at Cinerama Theatre
Tribute: Jeff Goldblum
Emerging Masters: Thom Fitzgerald, Cedric Klapisch, Hans-Christian Schmid, Hong Sang-Soo
Photos
2003 festival merch being modeled from the hood of a car in front of the Paramount Theatre marquee, sure! Why not?
Director, Alejandro Agresti, poses under the Paramount marquee to celebrate the opening night of the 28th Seattle International Film Festival with his film, Valentin
Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, introducing the opening night film, Valentine, from the stage of the Paramount Theatre
SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Dan Doody (first year as a shorts programmer), Maryna Ajaja, and festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, not pictured is Beth Barrett, current Artistic Director, who served as copy editor in 2003
Best Film
Whale Rider (dir. Niki Caro, New Zealand)
Best Director
Niki Caro (Whale Rider, New Zealand)
Best Actress
Moon So-ri (Oasis)
Best Actor
Seol Kyung-gu (Oasis)
Best Short
Misdemeanor (dir. Jonathan Lemond, USA)
Best Documentary
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (dir. Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain, Ireland/Venezuela)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Black Ice (dir. Mikhail Brashinskiy, Russia)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Milwaukee, Minnesota (dir. Allen Mindel, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
TIE:
The Weather Underground (dir. Sam Green, Bill Siegel USA)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (dir. Kim Bartley, Donnacha O’Briain, Ireland/Venezuela)
11’09’’01 - dir. Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritú, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, 2002, France
23 - dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, 1998, Germany
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - dir. Lau Kar-Leung, 1978, Hong Kong/China
800 Bullets - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 2002, Spain
Abouna - dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2002 , Chad, France
Alone Against the Sea–The Dangers of Solo Sailing - dir. Laszlo Pal, 2003, USA
American Splendor - dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, 2003, USA
And Now...Ladies & Gentlemen - dir. Claude Lelouch, 2002, France/Great Britain
Angela - dir. Roberta Torre, 2002, Italy
The Archangel’s Feather - dir. Luis Manzo, 2002, Venezuela
Arirang: The Korean American Journey - dir. Tom Coffman, 2002, USA
L’auberge Espagnole - dir. Cédric Klapisch, 2002, France/Spain
Autumn Spring - dir. 2002 Vladimir Michálek, 2002, Czech Republic
Bad Guy - dir. Kim Ki-duk, 2001, South Korea
Belonging - dir. Tamara Gordon, 2002, Great Britain/Cambodia
The Best of Times - dir. Chang Tso-Chi, 2002, Taiwan/Japan
Big Girls Don’t Cry - dir. Maria Von Heland, 2003, Germany
Bird-Man Tale - dir. Garin Nugroho, 2002, Indonesia
Black Ice - dir. Mikhail Brashinsky, 2002, Russia
The Blessing Bell - dir. Sabu, 2002, Japan
Blind Shaft - dir. Li Yang, 2003, China/Hong Kong/Germany
Blood Brothers - dir. Zhang Che, 1973, Hong Kong/China
Blue Moon - dir. Andrea Maria Dusl, 2002, Austria
The Blues - dir. Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, 2003, USA
Bollywood/Hollywood - dir. Deepa Mehta, 2002, Canada
The Bookshop - dir. Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba, 2002, Tunisia/France
Brats - dir. Zdenek Tyc, 2002, Czech Republic
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There - dir. Rick McKay, 2002, USA
Brothers…On Holy Ground - dir. Mike Lennon, 2002, USA
Bubba Ho-Tep - dir. Don Coscarelli, 2002, USA
Buffalo Soldiers - dir. Gregor Jordan, 2001, USA
Bukowski: Born Into This - dir. John Dullaghan, 2002, USA
Burning in the Wind - dir. Silvio Soldini, 2002, Italy/Switzerland
The Butterfly - dir. Philippe Muyl, 2002, France
Cabin Fever - dir. Eli Roth, 2002, USA
Caesar - dir. Uli Edel, 2002, USA, Germany/Italy/Netherlands
Camp - dir. Todd Graff, 2003, USA
Capturing the Friedmans - dir. Andrew Jarecki, 2002, USA
The Cement Ball of Earth, Heaven and Hell - dir. Trent Harris, 2003, USA/Cambodia
Chaos - dir. Coline Serreau, 2001, France
Chicago Sing-Along - dir. Rob Marshall, 2002, USA
A Chinese Odyssey 2002 - dir. Jeff Lau, 2002, Hong Kong
Chow Yun-Fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl - dir. Nam Ki-woong, 2002, South Korea
The Cinerama Adventure - dir. David Strohmaier, 2002, USA
Come Drink With Me - dir. King Hu, 1966, Hong Kong
Crude - dir. Paxton Winters, 2003, USA/Turkey
Cry Woman - dir. Liu Bingjian, 2002, China/Canada/South Korea
The Cuckoo - dir. Alexander Rogozhkin, 2002, Russia
The Dance of Men - dir. Yusup Razykov, 2002, Uzbekistan
The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 1996, South Korea
The Day I Will Never Forget - dir. Kim Longinotto, 2002, Great Britain
The Day My God Died - dir. Andrew Levine, 2002, USA/Nepal/India
A Decade Under the Influence - dir. Richard LaGravenese, Ted Demme, 2003, USA
Demonlover - dir. Olivier Assayas, 2002, France
Devdas - dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2002, India
Direct Order - dir. Scott Miller, 2002, USA
Dirt - dir. Nancy Savoca, 2003, USA
Dirty Pretty Things - dir. Stephen Frears, 2002, Great Britain
Distant Lights - dir. Hans-Christian Schmid, 2003, Germany
Doing Time - dir. Sai Yoichi, 2002, Japan
Dominoes - dir. Cole Drumb, 2003, USA
Double Vision - dir. Chen Kuo-fu, 2002, Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA
Dream Cuisine - dir. Li Ying, 2003, China
Dummy - dir. Greg Pritikin, 2002, USA
Edi - dir. Piotr Trzaskalski, 2002, Poland
The Education of Gore Vidal - dir. Deborah Dickson, 2003, USA
El Bonaerense - dir. Pablo Trapero, 2002, Argentina/Chile
Elina - dir. Klaus Härö, 2002, Sweden/Finland
The Embalmer - dir. Matteo Garrone, 2002, Italy
The Event - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 2003, Canada
Ever Since the World Ended - dir. Calum Grant, Joshua Atesh Litle, 2002, USA
Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth - dir. Sinisa Dragin, 2002, Romania
The Eye - dir. Danny Pang, Oxide Pang, 2002, Thailand/Hong Kong
The Flute Player - dir. Jocelyn Glatzer, 2002, USA
Garage Days - dir. Alex Proyas, 2002, Australia
Gasoline - dir. Monica Lisa Stambrini, 2002, Italy
The Gift - dir. Louise Hogarth , 2002, USA
The Girl from Paris - dir. Christian Carion, 2002, France
Golden Swallow - dir. Zhang Che, 1968, Hong Kong
The Good Old Naughty Days - dir. Michel Reilhac, 2002, France
A Great Wonder - dir. Kim Shelton, 2003, USA
G-Sale - dir. Randy Nargi, 2003, USA
H - dir. Lee Jong-hyuk , 2002, South Korea
Handcuff King - dir. Arto Koskinen, 2002, Finland/Sweden
Hard Goodbyes: My Father - dir. Penny Panayotopoulou, 2002, Greece/Germany
The Hard Word - dir. Scott Roberts, 2002, Australia/Great Britain
The Heart of Me - dir. Thaddeus O’Sullivan, 2002, Great Britain/Germany
The Hebrew Hammer - dir. Jon Kesselman, 2002, USA
Hidden in Plain Sight - dir. John Smihula, 2003, USA
The Housekeeper - dir. Claude Berri, 2002, France
House of Fools - dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 2002, Russia
Hukkle - dir. György Pálfi, 2002, Hungary
The Hunter and the Hunted - dir. Izuru Narushima, 2003, Japan
I Capture the Castle - dir. Tim Fywell, 2002, Great Britain
I’m the Father - dir. Dani Levy, 2002, Germany
I Murder Seriously - dir. Antonio Urrutia, 2002, Mexico/Spain
Infernal Affairs - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak , 2002, Hong Kong
In July - dir. Fatih Akin, 2001, Germany
I Not Stupid - dir. Jack Neo, 2002, Singapore
In This World - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2002, Great Britain
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan - dir. Chu Yuan, 1972, Hong Kong
The Invisible Children - dir. Lisandro Duque Naranjo, 2001, Colombia/Venezuela
I, Taraneh, Am Fifteen - dir. Rasul Sadr-Ameli, 2002, Iran
Jail Breakers - dir. Kim Sang-jin, 2002, South Korea
Jason and the Argonauts - dir. Don Chaffey, 1963, USA
Jealousy Is My Middle Name - dir. Park Chan-ok, 2002, South Korea
Jet Lag - dir. Daniele Thompson, 2002, France
Jonny Vang - dir. Jens Lien, 2003, Norway
Julie Walking Home - dir. Agnieszka Holland, 2002, Canada/Germany/Poland
King Of the Ants - dir. Stuart Gordon, 2003, USA
Kopps - dir. Josef Fares, 2002, Sweden
The Last Great Wilderness - dir. David Mackenzie, 2002, Great Britain
Last Scene - dir. Hideo Nakata, 2003, Japan/South Korea/Hong Kong
The Last Train - dir. Diego Arsuaga, 2002, Uruguay
Le Cercle Rouge - dir. Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970, France
The Legend of Suriyothai - dir. Chatrichalerm Yukol, 2002, Thailand
Life After War - dir. Brian Knappenberger, 2003, USA
Limelight - dir. Terry Lukemire, 2003, USA
A Little Monk - dir. Ju Kyung-jun, 2002, South Korea
The Sapphires–Music from the Edge of Time - dir. Lorenzo DeStefano, 2002, USA
Love and Diane - dir. Jennifer Dworkin, 2002, USA
Love at 7-11 - dir. Teng Yung-Shing, 2002, Taiwan
Love Forbidden - dir. Rudolphe Marconi, 2002, France
The Lover - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2002, Russia
Madame Satã - dir. Karim Ainouz, 2002, Brazil/France
Magdalene Sisters - dir. Peter Mullan, 2002, Great Britain
Mama Benz and the Taste of Money - dir. Karin Junger, 2002, Netherlands
Marion Bridge - dir. Wiebke von Carolsfeld, 2002, Canada
Marooned in Iraq - dir. Bahman Ghobadi, 2002, Iran
Me and Dad - dir. Xu Jinglei, 2002, China
Meisje - dir. Dorothée van den Berghe, 2002, Netherlands/Belgium/France
Mekhong Full-Moon Party - dir. Jira Maligool, 2003, Thailand
Milwaukee, Minnesota - dir. Allan Mindel, 2002, USA
Mine Alone - dir. Javier Balaguer, 2002, Spain
Minimal Stories - dir. Carlos Sorin, 2002, Argentina
Miranda - dir. Marc Munden, 2002, Great Britain
Miss Entebbe - dir. Omri Levy, 2002, Israel
The Missing Gun - dir. Lu Chuan, 2002, China
Mondays in the Sun - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2002, Spain/France/Italy
Morning Sun - dir. Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barmé, Richard Gordon, 2003, USA
Moving Alan - dir. Chris Shelton, 2002, USA
The Mudge Boy - dir. Michael Burke, 2002, USA
Musa the Warrior - dir. Kim Sung-su , 2002, South Korea
My Architect - dir. Nathaniel Kahn, 2002, USA
My Dinner with Jimi - dir. Bill Fishman, 2003, USA
My Russia - dir. Barbara Gräftner, 2002, Austria
Mystics - dir. David Blair, 2003, Ireland
The Naked Proof - dir. Jamie Hook, 2003, USA
Nate Dogg - dir. Thomas Farone, 2003, USA
No Blood No Tears - dir. Ryoo Seung-wan, 2002, South Korea
Northfork - dir. Michael Polish, 2003, USA
Nudity Required - dir. Steven Boe, 2003, USA
Oasis - dir. Lee Chang-dong, 2002, South Korea
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands - dir. Shane Meadows, 2002, Great Britain
One-Armed Swordsman - dir. Zhang Che, 1967, Hong Kong
The Other Side of the Bed - dir. Emilio Martinez Lazaro, 2002, Spain
Overnight - dir. Mark Brian Smith, 2003, USA
Owning Mahowny - dir. Richard Kwietniowski, 2002, Canada/Great Britain
Pandemic: Facing AIDS - dir. Rory Kennedy, 2002, USA
A Peck on the Cheek - dir. Mani Ratnam, 2002, India
Ping Pong - dir. Fumihiko (Sori) Masuri, 2003, Japan
Porn Theater - dir. Jacques Nolot, 2002, France
Power Trip - dir. Paul Devlin, 2003, USA
PTU - dir. Johnny To, 2002, Hong Kong
Public Enemy - dir. Kang Woo-suk, 2002, South Korea
Radical Harmonies - dir. Dee Mosbacher, 2002, USA
Rana’s Wedding - dir. Hany Abu-Assad, 2002, Palestine/Netherlands
Respiro - dir. Emanuele Crialese, 2002, Italy/France
Return to the 36th Chamber - dir. Lau Kar-Leung, 1980, Hong Kong
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - dir. Kim Bartley, Donnacha O’Briain, 2002, Ireland/Venezuela
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary - dir. Tracy Flannigan, 2002, USA
Robert Capa: In Love & War - dir. Anne Makepeace, 2002, USA
Rustling Landscapes - dir. Janez Lapajne, 2002, Slovenia
Sayew - dir. Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Kiat Songsananta, 2002, Thailand
The Sea - dir. Baltasar Kormakur, 2002, Iceland
Seaside - dir. Julie Lopes-Curval, 2002, France
The Sea Watches - dir. Kei Kumai, 2002, Japan
The Secret Lives of Dentists - dir. Alan Rudolph, 2002, USA
Secret Things - dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2002, France
So Close - dir. Corey Yuen, 2002, Hong Kong
A Soldier’s Girl - dir. Frank Pierson, 2003, USA
Somewhere Over the Dreamland - dir. Cheng Wen Tang, 2002, Taiwan
Song for a Raggy Boy - dir. Aisling Walsh, 2002, Ireland/Great Britain/Spain/Denmark
Spring Subway - dir. Zhang Yibai, 2003, China
Springtime in a Small Town - dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, 2001, China/Hong Kong/France
Stoked–The Rise and Fall of the Gator - dir. Helen Stickler, 2003, USA
Suddenly - dir. Diego Lerman, 2002, Argentina
Sudeste - dir. Sergio Bellotti, 2002, Argentina
The Suit - dir. Alberto Rodriguez, 2002, Spain
Surplus - dir. Erik Gandini, 2002, Sweden
Sweet Sixteen - dir. Ken Loach, 2002, Great Britain/Germany/Spain
Swordswoman of Huangjiang - dir. Chen Kengran, Zheng Yisheng, Shang Guanwu, 1930, Hong Kong/China
They’ve Got Knut - dir. Stefan Krohmer, 2003, Germany
Three Marias - dir. Aluizio Abranches, 2002, Brazil/Italy
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion - dir. Tom Peosay, 2002, USA
Time of the Wolf - dir. Rod Pridy, 2003 Canada
To Be and To Have - dir. Nicolas Philibert, 2002, France
Together - dir. Chen Kaige, 2002, China/South Korea
Too Young to Die - dir. Park Jin-pyo, 2002, South Korea
Touching Wild Horses - dir. Eleanor Lindo, 2002, Canada/Germany/Great Britain
Traces of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and His Lost Family - dir. Mabel Cheung, 2002, Hong Kong
Tribal Journey: Celebrating Our Ancestors dir. Scott Macklin, 2003, USA
The Trilogy: After Life - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2002, France/Belgium
The Trilogy: On the Run - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2002, France/Belgium
The Trilogy: An Amazing Couple - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2002, France/Belgium
The Truce - dir. Alfonso Rosas Priego, 2002 , Mexico
The Turning Gate - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2002, South Korea
Under Another Sky - dir. Gaël Morel, 2002, Algeria/France
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election - dir. Richard Perez, Joan Seckler, 2002, USA
Vagabond - dir. György Szomjas, 2002, Hungary
Valentin - dir. Alejandro Agresti, 2002, Argentina/Netherlands/Spain
Vengeance! - dir. Zhang Che, 1970, Hong Kong
Vertical Frontier - dir. Kristi Denton Cohen, 2002, USA
War - dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 2002, Russia
Wattstax: 2003 Special Edition - dir. Mel Stuart, 1973, USA
The Weather Underground - dir. Sam Green, Bill Siegel, 2003, USA
Westender - dir. Brock Morse, 2003, USA
Whale Rider - dir. Niki Caro, 2002, New Zealand/Germany
When the Cat's Away - dir. Cédric Klapisch, 1996, France
The Wild Dogs - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 2002, Canada
Winged Migration - dir. Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats, 2002, France/Germany/Spain
Yes Nurse, No Nurse - dir. Pieter Kramer, 2003, Netherlands
YMCA Baseball Team - dir. Kim Hyun-seok, 2002, South Korea
Yossi & Jagger - dir. Eytan Fox, 2002, Israel
2nd Annual Asian Tradewinds Competition - Bird-Man Tale, I Not Stupid, Love at 7-11, Me and Dad, Sayew
Animatrix, an animated short film series
Chicago Sing-Along C’Mon Babe, Why Don’t We Paint The aTown? And All That Jazz
Screenings for Students - included Brats, Ever Since the World Ended, The Girl From Paris
Cloud Kingdom - included 14 South Korean feature films
Emerging Masters: Cédric Klapisch - included L’auberge Espagnol, When the Cat’s Away
Emerging Masters: Hans-Christian Schmid - included Distant Lights, 23
Emerging Masters: Hong Sang-soo - included The Turning Gate, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well
Emerging Masters: Thom Fitzgerald - included The Event, The Wild Dogs
An Evening with Jeff Goldblum
An Evening with Ray Harryhausen Jason and the Argonauts
Exploding Cinema: Cinema Remix
Exploding Cinema: Exploding Cinema Online
Exploding Cinema: Nortec Collective
Exploding Cinema: Superflatscreen
Festival Gala Caesar
Festival Gala P.T.U.
Festival Gala Together Ha Ni Zai Yi Qi
Films 4 Families - included The Invisible Children, Touching Wild Horses, The Butterfly, Time of the Wolf
First Person Singular: The Inaugural Documentary Competition - included 13 feature films
The Fly Filmmaking Challenge - included 10 5-minute shorts
Forums Panels - included First Person Singular?, The Female Paradigm, Music Masterclass with Ian Hierons and Michael Danna
Global Transmission: Music Videos from Around the World @ Experience Music Project
Golden Space Needle Awards
Heroic Grace: the chinese martial arts film - included 9 feature films
IFP @ SIFF - included The Director’s Chair, Behind the Scene: Live on the Set, Pitch Slam: A Live Story Pitching Competition, The Coffeehouse Sessions: Filmmakers Talk with IFP at Starbucks
The Late Show: Midnight Adrenaline at the Egyptian - included Bubba Ho-Tep, Cabin Fever, Chow Yun-fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl, Double Vision, The Hebrew Hammer, No Blood, No Tears, So Close, Wattstax: 2003 Special Edition
New American Cinema - included Crude, King of the Ants, Limelight, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Nate Dogg, Westender
New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films
Poster Auction and Exhibition
Screenings for Students - included Ever Since the World Ended, Brats, The Girl From Paris
Screenwriters Salon
Secret Festival
Short Films - included Animate Magnetism, Women at Work, The Hush, Camp & Circumstance, Passport Stamps, Gay as a Goose, Beyond the Twilight Zone
Spawned in Seattle - included 8 feature films and one shorts package
Special Archives Presentation Swordswoman of Huangjiang
Talking Pictures - included The Gift, The Day I Will Never Forget, Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion, In This World
Women in Cinema - included 32 feature films and 18 short films
Women in Cinema Gala Whale Rider