Seattle International Film Festival 2003 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2003

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

2003 festival merch being modeled from the hood of a car in front of the Paramount Theatre marquee, sure! Why not?

2003 festival merch being modeled from the hood of a car in front of the Paramount Theatre marquee, sure! Why not?

2003 festival merch being modeled from the hood of a car in front of the Paramount Theatre marquee, sure! Why not?

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

Director, Alejandro Agresti, poses under the Paramount marquee to celebrate the opening night of the 28th Seattle International Film Festival with his film, Valentin

Director, Alejandro Agresti, poses under the Paramount marquee to celebrate the opening night of the 28th Seattle International Film Festival with his film, Valentin

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

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, introducing the opening night film, Valentine, from the stage of the Paramount Theatre

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, introducing the opening night film, Valentine, from the stage of the Paramount Theatre

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

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

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

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

Jet Lag
Jet Lag
Valentin
Valentin
Whale Rider
Whale Rider
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs
Oasis
Oasis
The Weather Underground
The Weather Underground

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

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)

Juried Competition Awards

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)

List of Feature-Length Films

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

Special Programs & Events

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