SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler
Relive the 30th 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 2004 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 20–June 13, 2004
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Performance Hall, Chop Suey, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, The Hideaway, Howard House Gallery, Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel, Neumo’s, Pacific Place Cinemas, Valley 6 Outdoor Theatres
Opening Night: The Notebook at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Intimate Strangers at Cinerama
Tribute: Stephen Fry, Patrice Leconte
Emerging Masters: Annette K. Olesen, Cedric Kahn, Ferzan Ozpetek, Pen-ek Ratanaruang
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
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SIFF staff, including current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett (top row, right) and long-time programmers, Dan Doody, Andy Spletzer, Maryna Ajaja, and Ruth Hayler
Best Film
Facing Windows (dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy)
Best Director
Marco Tullio Giordano (The Best of Youth, Italy)
Best Actress
Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace)
Best Actor
Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes)
Best Short
Consent (dir. Jason Reitman, USA)
Best Documentary
Born into Brothels (dir. Zana Briski, Ross Kauffmann, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Wild Side (dir. Sebastien Lifshitz, France/Belgium/Great Britain)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
TIE:
Incident at Loch Ness (dir. Zak Penn, USA)
Cavedweller (dir. Lisa Cholodenko, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
TIE:
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (dir. Andrew Douglas, Great Britain/USA)
The Game of Their Lives (dir. Daniel Gordon, South Korea /Great Britain)
25 Degrees in Winter - dir. Stéphane Vuillet, 2004, Belgium/France/Spain
6ixtynin9 - dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2000, Thailand
9 Souls - dir. Toshiaki Toyoda, 2003, Japan
Anatomy of Hell - dir. Catherine Breillat, 2004, France
Arimpara-A Story That Begins at the End - dir. Murali Nair, 2003, India/Japan
Asshak, Tales of the Sahara - dir. Ulrike Koch, 2004, Switzerland/Germany/Netherlands
Azumi - dir. Ryuhei Kitamura, 2003, Japan
BAADASSSSS! - dir. Mario Van Peebles, 2004, USA
The Basque Ball: Skin Against the Stone - dir. Julio Medem, 2003, Spain
Baytong - dir. Nonzee Nimibutr, 2004, Thailand
Before Sunrise - dir. Richard Linklater, 1995, USA
Before Sunset - dir. Richard Linklater, 2004, USA
Bereft - dir. Tim Daly, Clark Mathis, 2004, USA
The Best of Youth: Part 1 - dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003, Italy
The Best of Youth: Part 2 - dir. Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003, Italy
B-Happy - dir. Gonzalo Justiniano, 2003, Chile/Spain/Venezuela
Big City Dick - dir. Scott Milam, Ken Harder, Todd Pottinger, 2004, USA
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 2003, Japan
Bloom - dir. Sean Walsh, 2003, Ireland
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi - dir. Shemi Zarhin, 2003, Israel
Bored in Brno - dir. Vladimír Morávek, 2003, Czech Republic
Born Into Brothels - dir. Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski, 2003, India
The Boys from County Clare - dir. John Irvin, 2003, Ireland/Great Britain/Germany
Bright Future - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003, Japan
Bright Leaves - dir. Ross McElwee, 2003, USA
Bright Young Things - dir. Stephen Fry, 2003, Great Britain
Brother to Brother - dir. Rodney Evans, 2004, USA
Buddy - dir. Morten Tyldum, 2003, Norway
Buffalo Bill's Defunct–Stories from the New West - dir. Matt Wilkins, 2004, USA
Busting Out - dir. Laurel Spellman Smith, Francine Strickwerda, 2004, USA
Capone - dir. Jean Marc Brondolo, 2003, France
Captive - dir. Gastón Biraben , 2003, Argentina
Carandiru - dir. Hector Babenco, 2003, Brazil/Argentina
Cavedweller - dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 2004, USA
Checkpoint - dir. Yoav Shamir, 2003, Israel/Japan
The Coldest Day - dir. Xie Dong, 2003, China
Control Room - dir. Jehane Noujaim, 2004, Egypt/USA
The Corporation - dir. Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, 2003, Canada
Cowards Bend the Knee - dir. Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada
Criminal - dir. Gregory Jacobs, 2004 , USA
Dandelion - dir. Mark Milgard, 2004, USA
Danny Deckchair - dir. Jeff Balsmeyer, 2003, Australia
Darkness Bride - dir. William Kwok 2003, Hong Kong/Taiwan
Dear Frankie - dir. Shona Auerbach, 2004, Scotland
Death In Gaza - dir. James Miller, 2003, Great Britain
Death & Texas - dir. Kevin DiNovis, 2004, USA
The Debut - dir. Gleb Panfilov, 1970, Russia
Deep Breath - dir. Parviz Shahbazi, 2003, Iran
DIG! - dir. Ondi Timoner, 2004, USA
Donau, Duna, Dunaj, Dunav, Dunarea - dir. Goran Rebic, 2003, Austria
Donnie Darko - The Director’s Cut - dir. Richard Kelly, 2004, USA
Doppelganger - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2003, Japan
Down to the Bone - dir. Debra Granik, 2004, USA
Drifters - dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, 2003, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
Eager Bodies - dir. Xavier Giannoli, 2003, France
El Alamein: In the Line of Fire - dir. Enzo Monteleone, 2003, Italy
Evergreen - dir. Enid Zentelis, 2004, USA
Everyday People - dir. Jim McKay, 2004, USA
Facing Window - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2003, Italy/Great Britain/Turkey/Portugal
Fear and Trembling - dir. Alain Corneau, 2003, France/Japan
Feathers in My Head - dir. Thomas de Thier, 2003, Belgium/France
Festival Express - dir. Bob Smeaton, 2003, Canada
The Five Obstructions - dir. Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier, 2003, Denmark/Belgium/Switzerland/France
The Forest - dir. Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek ba Kobhio, 2003, Cameroon /Gabon/Central African Republic
Frankie and Johnny Are Married - dir. Michael Pressman, 2003, USA
The Game of Their Lives - dir. Daniel Gordon, 2003, South Korea /Great Britain
Garden State - dir. Zach Braff, 2004, USA
Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence - dir. Mamoru Oshii, 2004, Japan
The Girl on the Bridge - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1999, France
The Goddess - dir. Wu Yonggang, 1934, China
Go Further - dir. Ron Mann, 2003, Canada
Goodbye Dragon Inn - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 2003, Taiwan
A Good Lawyer’s Wife - dir. Im Sang-soo, 2003, South Korea
The Graffiti Artist - dir. James Bolton, 2004, USA
The Green Butchers - dir. Anders Thomas Jensen, 2003, Denmark
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst - dir. Robert Stone, 2004, USA/Great Britain
Hanging Offense - dir. Guillaume Nicloux, 2003, France
Harry and Max - dir. Christopher Münch, 2004, USA
Haute Tension - dir. Alexandre Aja, 2003, France
Hedda Gabler - dir. Paul Willis, 2004, USA
Heir to an Execution - dir. Ivy Meeropol, 2004, USA
Hero - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2002, China/Hong Kong
I Always Wanted to Be a Saint - dir. Geneviève Mersch, 2003, Luxembourg/Belgium
Imelda - dir. Ramona S. Diaz , 2003, USA
Incident at Loch Ness - dir. Zak Penn, 2004, USA
Infernal Affairs - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak , 2002, Hong Kong
Infernal Affairs 2 - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2003, Hong Kong
Infernal Affairs 3 - dir. Andrew Lau, Alan Mak, 2004, Hong Kong
Inheritance - dir. Per Fly, 2003, Denmark
In the Realms of the Unreal - dir. Jessica Yu, 2003, USA
Intimate Strangers - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2004, France
In Your Hands - dir. Annette K. Olesen, 2004, Denmark
It’s Easier for a Camel… - dir. Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, 2003, France
Jagged Harmonies - dir. Dominique de Rivaz, 2003, Germany/Switzerland
Jagoda in the Supermarket - dir. Dusan Milic, 2003, Serbia/Yugoslavia/Germany/Italy
Jester Till - dir. Eberhard Junkersdorf, 2003, Germany/Belgium
The Kite - dir. Randa Chahal Sabbag, 2003, Lebanon/France
La Petite Lili - dir. Claude Miller, 2003, France/Canada
Last Life in the Universe - dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2003, Thailand/Japan
The Last Train - dir. Alexei A. German, Jr., 2003, Russia
La Vie Promise - dir. Olivier Dahan, 2003, France
Learning to Lie - dir. Hendrik Handloegten, 2003, Germany
Legend of the Sacred Stone - dir. Chris Huang, 2000, Taiwan
A Letter to True - dir. Bruce Weber, 2004, USA
Little Men - dir. Nariman Turebayev, 2003, Kazakhstan/France
The Locals - dir. Greg Page, 2003, New Zealand
Los Angeles Plays Itself - dir. Thom Andersen, 2003, USA
Los Debutantes - dir. Andrés Waissbluth, 2003, Chile
Love Me If You Dare - dir. Yann Samuell, 2003, France/Belgium
The Man of the Year - dir. José Henrique Fonseca, 2003, Brazil
The Man on the Train - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2003, France
The Man Who Copied - dir. Jorge Furtado, 2003, Brazil
Maqbool - dir. Vishal Bharadwaj, 2003, India
Maria Full of Grace - dir. Joshua Marston, 2004, USA/Colombia
Max Rules - dir. Robert Burke, 2004, USA
Memories of Murder - dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2003, South Korea
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster - dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 2004, USA
The Middle of the World - dir. Vicente Amorim, 2003, Brazil
Minor Mishaps - dir. Annette K. Olesen, 2002, Denmark
The Miracle of Berne - dir. Sönke Wortmann, 2003, Germany
Mix - dir. Steven Lovy, 2004, Hungary/USA
Moi, César - dir. Richard Berry, 2003, France
Monsieur N - dir. Antoine de Caunes, 2003, France /Great Britain
Monster Road - dir. Brett Ingram, 2004, USA
The Mother - dir. Roger Michell, 2003, Great Britain
Moving Malcolm - dir. Benjamin Ratner, 2003, Canada
My Grandpa - dir. Yoichi Higashi, 2003, Japan
Nathalie… - dir. Anne Fontaine, 2003, France
Natural City - dir. Min Byung-chun, 2003, South Korea
Nicotina - dir. Hugo Rodriguez, 2003, Mexico/Argentina/Spain
Nina’s Tragedies - dir. Savi Gabizon , 2003, Israel
Nobody Knows How to Talk to Children - dir. George Roca, 2004, USA
Noise - dir. Tony Spiridakis, 2004, USA
The Notebook - dir. Nick Cassavetes, 2004, USA
November - dir. Achero Mañas, 2003, Spain
Off the Map - dir. Campbell Scott, 2003, USA
Open Water - dir. Chris Kentis, 2003, USA
Original Child Bomb - dir. Carey Schonegevel, 2004, USA
Orwell Rolls in His Grave - dir. Robert Kane Pappas, 2003, USA
Paper Clips - dir. Elliott Berlin, Joe Fab, 2003, USA
Pater Familias - dir. Francesco Patierno, 2003, Italy
Paternal Instinct - dir. Murray Nossel, 2004, USA
Perfect Strangers - dir. Gaylene Preston, 2003, New Zealand
Persons of Interest - dir. Alison Maclean, Tobias Perse, 2004, USA
Playtime - dir. Jacques Tati, 1967, France
Primer - dir. Shane Carruth, 2004, USA
A Problem with Fear - dir. Gary Burns, 2003, Canada
Proteus - dir. John Greyson, 2003, Canada/South Africa
Python - dir. Laila Pakalnina, 2003, Latvia
Quality of Life - dir. Benjamin Morgan, 2004, USA
Raja - dir. Jacques Doillon, 2003, France/Morocco
Ramblers - dir. Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2003, Japan
Raspberry Reich - dir. Bruce LaBruce, 2004, Canada/Germany
Reconstruction - dir. Christoffer Boe, 2003, Denmark
Red Lights - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2004, France
A Relative Thing - dir. Garrett Bennett, 2004, USA
Remember Me, My Love - dir. Gabriele Muccino, 2003, Italy/France/Great Britain
Revolution - dir. Lorene Machado, 2004, USA
Ridicule - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1996, France
Riding Giants - dir. Stacy Peralta, 2004, USA
Roads to Koktebel - dir. Alexei Popogrebsky, Boris Khlebnikov, 2003, Russia
Roberto Succo - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2001, France
Rosenstrasse - dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 2003, Germany/Netherlands
Ruby & Quentin - dir. Francis Veber, 2003, France
Running on Karma - dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai, 2003, Hong Kong/China
The Saddest Music in the World - dir. Guy Maddin, 2003, Canada
Saved! - dir. Brian Dannelly, 2004, USA
Save the Green Planet - dir. Jang Jun-hwan, 2003, South Korea
Scent of the Lotus Pond - dir. Satyajit Maitipe, 2003, Sri Lanka
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - dir. Andrew Douglas, 2003, Great Britain/USA
Seducing Doctor Lewis - dir. Jean-François Pouliot, 2003, Canada
Seven Days, Seven Nights - dir. Joel Cano, 2003, Cuba/France/Italy
Sex Is Comedy - dir. Catherine Breillat, 2002, France
Sexual Dependency - dir. Rodrigo Bellott, 2003, Bolivia/USA
Silent Waters - dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003, Pakistan/France/Germany
Since Otar Left - dir. Julie Bertucelli, 2003, France/Belgium/Georgia
Sky Blue - dir. Kim Moon-sang, 2003, South Korea
Slim Susie - dir. Ulf Malmros, 2003, Sweden
Snow Walker - dir. Charles Martin Smith, 2003, Canada
Somnambulance - dir. Sulev Keedus, 2003, Estonia/Finland
Spare Parts - dir. Damjan Kozole, 2003, Slovenia
Stander - dir. Bronwen Hughes, 2003, South Africa/Canada/Great Britain
Steam: The Turkish Bath - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 1997, Italy/Turkey/Spain
Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women Over 65 - dir. Deirdre Fishel, 2003, USA
The Story of Marie and Julien - dir. Jacques Rivette, 2003, France
The Story of the Weeping Camel - dir. Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa, 2003, Mongolia/Germany
Straight-Jacket - dir. Richard Day, 2004, USA
Strayed - dir. André Téchiné, 2003, France/Great Britain
Take My Eyes - dir. Iciar Bollaín, 2003, Spain
A Tale of Two Sisters - dir. Kim Ji-woon, 2003, South Korea
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space - dir. t.o.L., 2003, Japan
The Tesseract - dir. Oxide Pang, 2003, Thailand/Japan/Great Britain
Thirst - dir. Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, 2004, USA
A Thousand Clouds of Peace - dir. Julián Hernández, 2003, Mexico
Tomorrow’s Weather - dir. Jerzy Stuhr, 2003, Poland
Torremolinos 73 - dir. Pablo Berger, 2003, Spain/Denmark
Touch of Pink - dir. Ian Iqbal Rashid, 2003, Canada/Great Britain
Triple Agent - dir. Eric Rohmer, 2004, France/Italy/Spain/Greece/Russia
Trollywood - dir. Madeleine Farley, 2003, Great Britain/USA
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1, The Moab Story - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2003, Great Britain/Spain/Luxembourg/Hungary/Italy/Germany/Russia
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 2,From Vaux to the Sea - dir. Peter Greenaway, 2003, Great Britain/Spain/Luxembourg/Hungary/Italy/Germany/Russia
Turn Left Turn Right - dir. Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai, 2003, Hong Kong/Singapore
The Twilight Samurai - dir. Yoji Yamada, 2003, Japan
Twin Sisters - dir. Ben Sombogaart, 2003, Netherlands
Twist - dir. Jacob Tierney, 2003, Canada
Undead - dir. Peter Spierig, Michael Spierig, 2003, Australia
Uniform - dir. Diao Yinan, 2003, China/Japan
Untold Scandal - dir. E J-yong, 2003, South Korea
Up Thornton Creek - dir. Peter Vogt, 2004, USA
Vodka Lemon - dir. Hiner Saleem, 2003, Armenia/Switzerland/France/Italy
Walk on Water - dir. Eytan Fox, 2003, Israel
The Weakness of the Bolshevik - dir. Manuel Martín Cuenca, 2003, Spain
When Ruoma Was Seventeen - dir. Zhang Jiarui, 2003, China
When the Right One Comes Along - dir. Oliver Paulus, Stefan Hillebrand, 2003, Switzerland/Germany
Who Killed Bambi? - dir. Gilles Marchand, 2003, France
The Widow of Saint-Pierre - dir. Patrice Leconte, 2000, France
Wild Side - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004, France/Belgium/Great Britain
Witnesses - dir. Vinko Brešan, 2003, Croatia
Wondrous Oblivion - dir. Paul Morrison, 2003, Great Britain
3-Minute Masterpieces
Anniversary Gala Before Sunset
Anniversary Gala Criminal
Anniversary Gala Donnie Darko-The Director’s Cut
Anniversary Gala Saved!
Archival Presentations - included The Goddess, Playtime, The Debut, Before Sunrise
Asian Tradewinds - included 13 feature films
ATMOSPHÈRE: All Things French - included 30 feature films
Drive-In Party - included Undead, Haute Tension, The Locals
Documentary Competition - included 13 feature films
Emerging Masters: Annette K. Olesen - included In Your Hands, Minor Mishaps
Emerging Masters: Cédric Kahn - included Red Lights, Roberto Succo
Emerging Masters: Ferzan Ozpetek - included Facing Window, Steam: The Turkish Bath
Emerging Masters: Pen-ek Ratanaruang - included 6ixtynin9, Last Life in the Universe
Exploding Cinema: The Capillaries, Robb Benson, Sean Nelson and His Mortal Enemies Exploding Cinema: Cobra High, IQU, Sick Bees, DJ F.I.T.S.
Exploding Cinema: Elf Power, Aveo, Summer Hymns
Exploding Cinema: FCS North, Scientific American, DJs on trikeS
An Evening with Patrice Leconte
An Evening with Stephen Fry
Films4Families - included Jester Till, Max Rules, Moi,Cesar, Wondrous Oblivion
Fly Filmmaking Challenge
Golden Space Needle Awards
IFP/Seattle presents PITCH SLAM: A Live Story Pitching Competition - seminar guests included Geof Miller, Megan Dunleavy, Donna Choo, Josh McGlaughlin
Master Class: Acting
Master Class: Cinematography - seminar guests included Christopher Doyle and moderator Rachael Bosley
Midnight Adrenaline - included Azumi, Haute Tension, Legend of the Sacred Stone, The Locals, Raspberry Reich, Save the Green Planet, A Tale of Two Sisters, Undead
New American Cinema - included 11 feature films
New Directors Showcase - included 11 feature films
Panels - included The Sexy Spelling of the Doc, or How I Learned to Love Clowns, Spelling Bees and War in 90 Minutes or Less - seminar guests included Tom White, Ondi Timoner, Peter Vogt, Ivy Meeropol, Francine Strickwerda, Laura Spellman-Smith, Hot Tracks - seminar guests included Zak Penn, George Roca, Steven Love, Madeleine Farley
911 Media Arts presents Where’s the Money? Finding Funds for Independent Film - seminar guests included Fionn Meade, Donna James, Norma Jean Straw
NWFilm Forum presents What to do When Miramar Doesn’t Buy Your Film - seminar guests included Matt McCormick, Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Andrew McAllister, Larry Estes
Poster Auction and Exhibition
Refracting Reality - included 33 feature films
Screenwriters Salon - seminar guests included Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Secret Festival
The Space of a Kiss: A Photography Exhibition by Christopher Doyle
Seattle Summit
Short Films - included The Feminine Vision, Love’s Labours Lost & Found, Relativity, The Great Unspoken, Animato!, KAFAnime!, Strange Tales
Spawned in Seattle - included 10 feature films and one shorts package
Talking Pictures - included Anatomy of Hell, Control Room, Quality of Life
Women in Cinema - included 31 feature films and 20 short films