SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person
Relive the 36th 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 2010 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 20–June 13, 2010
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Admiral Theater, Alki Room, Benroya Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Everett Performing Arts Center, Harvard Exit Theatre, IMAX at Pacific Science Center, Juanita Beach Park, Kirkland Performance Center, Neptune Theatre, AMC Pacific Place 11, Rebar, SIFF Cinema at Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall, Taberna del Alabardero, Triple Door, Uptown Cinemas
Opening Night: The Extra Man at Benaroya Hall
Closing Night: Get Low at Pacific Place
Tribute: Edward Norton
Emerging Masters: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Ana Kokkinos, Valery Todorovsky
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
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SIFF staff, including long-time programmers, Maryna Ajaja, Justine Barda, Dan Doody, and Dustin Kaspar, current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, 2010 Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Managing Director, Deborah Person
Best Film
The Hedgehog (dir. Mona Achache, France)
Best Director
Debra Granik (Winter's Bone, USA)
Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)
Best Actor
Luis Tosar (Cell 211)
Best Short
Ormie (dir. Rob Silvestri, Canada)
Best Documentary
Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life (dir. Karen Stanton, USA), Waste Land (dir. Lucy Walker, UK)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Reverse (dir. Borys Lankosz, Poland)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Night Catches Us (dir. Tanya Hamilton, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Marwencol (dir. Jeff Malmberg, USA)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - dir. Stuart Paton, 1916, USA
25th Hour - dir. Spike Lee, 2002, USA
3Some - dir. Salvador García Ruiz, 2009, Spain
8: The Mormon Proposition - dir. Reed Cowan, Steven Greenstreet, 2009, USA
The Actresses - dir. E. J-Yong, 2010, South Korea
Agora - dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2009, Spain/USA
Ahead of Time - dir. Bob Richman, 2009, USA
Ahlaam - dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji, 2006, Iraq/United Kingdom/Netherlands
Air Doll - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2009, Japan
Alamar - dir. Pedro González-Rubio, 2009, Mexico
All That I Love - dir. Jacek Borcuch, 2009, Poland
Altiplano - dir. Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, 2009, Belgium/Netherlands/Germany
Amer - dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2009, Belgium/France
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi - dir. Sebastian Doggart, 2009, USA/United Kingdom
American History X - dir. Tony Kaye, 1998, USA
American: The Bill Hicks Story - dir. Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas, 2009, United Kingdom
Amplified Seattle - dir. John Jeffcoat, 2010, USA
Angel at Sea - dir. Frédéric Dumont, 2009, Belgium/Canada
The Army of Crime - dir. Robert Guédiguian, 2009, France
The Athlete - dir. Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew, 2009, Ethiopia/Germany/USA
At the End of Daybreak - dir. Ho Yuhang, 2009, Malaysia/South Korea
Au Revoir Taipei - dir. Arvin Chen, 2010, Taiwan/USA/Germany
Backyard - dir. Carlos Carrera, 2009, Mexico
Bakal Boys - dir. Ralston Jover, 2009, Philippines
Bass Ackwards - dir. Linas Phillips, 2010, USA
Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar - dir. James Rasin, 2010, USA
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo - dir. Jessica Oreck, 2009, USA
Between Two Worlds - dir. Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2009, Sri Lanka
Beyond Ipanema - dir. Guto Barra, 2009, Brazil
The Big Dream - dir. Michele Placido, 2009, Italy/France
Bilal’s Stand - dir. Sultan Sharrief, 2010, USA
Blessed - dir. Ana Kokkinos, 2009, Australia
Blood Relation - dir. Noa Ben-Hagai, 2009, Israel
Bodyguards and Assassins - dir. Teddy Chen, 2009, Hong Kong/China
Born to Suffer - dir. Miguel Albaladejo, 2010, Spain
Bran Nue Dae - dir. Rachel Perkins, 2009, Australia
Bride Flight - dir. Ben Sombogaart, 2009, Netherlands
Brotherhood - dir. Nicolo Donato, 2009, Denmark
Brownstones to Red Dirt - dir. Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker, 2010, Sierra Leone/USA
Bus Palladium - dir. Christopher Thompson, 2010, France
Cairo Time - dir. Ruba Nadda, 2009, Canada
Cane Toads: The Conquest - in 3D - dir. Mark Lewis, 2010, USA/Australia
Cargo - dir. Ivan Engler, 2009, Switzerland
Carlitos and the Chance of a Lifetime - dir. Jesús Del Cerro, 2009, Spain
Castaway on the Moon - dir. Lee Hey-jun, 2009, South Korea
Cell 211 - dir. Daniel Monzón, 2009, Spain/France
Centurion - dir. Neil Marshall, 2010, United Kingdom
The Chef of South Polar - dir. Shuichi Okita, 2010, Japan
Cherry - dir. Jeffrey Fine, 2010, USA
Chihuly Fire & Light - dir. Peter West, 2010, USA
The Children of Diyarbakir - dir. Miraz Bezar, 2009, Turkey/Germany
City of Life and Death - dir. Lu Chuan, 2009, China
Come Undone - dir. Silvio Soldini, 2010, Italy/Switzerland
The Concert - dir. Radu Mihaileanu, 2009, France/Russia
Countdown to Zero - dir. Lucy Walker, 2010, USA
Crab Trap - dir. Oscar Ruiz Navia, 2009, Colombia/France
Crayfish - dir. Ivan Cherkelov, 2009, Bulgaria
Crossing Hennessy - dir. Ivy Ho, 2010, Hong Kong
Cyrus - dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, 2010, USA
The Damned - dir. Isaki Lacuesta, 2009, Spain
The Dancer and the Thief - dir. Fernando Trueba, 2009, Spain
Dear Lemon Lima, - dir. Suzi Yoonessi, 2009, USA
Devil’s Town - dir. Vladimir Paskaljević, 2009, Serbia
Diamond 13 - dir. Gilles Béat , 2009, France
Disco and Atomic War - dir. Jaak Kilmi, 2009, Estonia/Finland
Donkey - dir. Antonio Nuić, 2009, Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina/United Kingdom/Serbia
Double Take - dir. Johan Grimonprez, 2009, Belgium/Germany/Netherlands
Down Terrace - dir. Ben Wheatley, 2009, United Kingdom
Dream Home - dir. Pang Ho-Cheung, 2010, Hong Kong
Drifting - dir. Ventura Pons, 2010, Spain
Drums Along the Mohawk - dir. John Ford, 1939, USA
The Dry Land - dir. Ryan Piers Williams, 2010, USA
The Eagle Hunter’s Son - dir. Rene Bo Hansen, 2009, Sweden/Germany/Kazakhstan
Eastern Plays - dir. Kamen Kalev, 2009, Bulgaria
Eleanor’s Secret - dir. Dominique Monfery, 2009, France
Every Day - dir. Richard Levine, 2010, USA
Every Day is a Holiday - dir. Dima El-Horr, 2009, Lebanon/Germany/France
Excited - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 2009, Canada
The Extra Man - dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini, 2010, USA
The Family Tree - dir. Vivi Friedman, 2010, USA
Farewell - dir. Christian Carion, 2009, France
Farsan - dir. Josef Fares, 2010, Sweden
Father and Guns - dir. Émile Gaudreault, 2010, Canada (Québec)
Father of My Children - dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, 2009, France
Father’s Acre - dir. Viktor Oszkar Nagy, 2009, Hungary
Fight Club - dir. David Fincher, 1999, USA/Germany
First of All, Felicia - dir. Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf, 2009, Romania/France/Croatia/Belgium
For the Good of Others - dir. Óskar Santos, 2010, Spain
Foxes - dir. Mira Fornay, 2009, Slovak Republic/Ireland
The Freebie - dir. Katie Aselton, 2010, USA
The French Kissers - dir. Riad Sattouf, 2009, France
From Beginning to End - dir. Aluizio Abranches, 2010, Brazil
From Time To Time - dir. Julian Fellowes, 2009, United Kingdom
Garbo: The Spy - dir. Edmon Roch, 2009, Spain
General Orders No. 9 - dir. Robert Persons, 2009, USA
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould - dir. Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont, 2009, Canada
George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead - dir. George A. Romero, 2009, Canada/USA
Gerrymandering - dir. Jeff Reichert, 2010, USA
Get Low - dir. Aaron Schneider, 2009, USA
Ginny Ruffner: A Not So Still Life - dir. Karen Stanton, 2010, USA
Going South - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 2009, France
Gordos - dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, 2009, Spain
Gravity - dir. Maximilian Erlenwein, 2009, Germany
Grease Sing-along - dir. Randal Kleiser, 1978/2010, USA
Head On - dir. Ana Kokkinos, 1998, Australia
The Hedgehog - dir. Mona Achache, 2009, France
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno - dir. Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea Annonier, 2009, France
Henry of Navarre - dir. Jo Baier, 2009, Germany/France/Spain/Austria
Hidden Diary - dir. Julie Lopes-Curval, 2009, France/Canada
Hideaway - dir. François Ozon, 2009, France
Hipsters - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 2009, Russia
Holy Rollers - dir. Kevin Tyler Asch, 2010, USA
Howl - dir. Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman, 2010, USA
Huacho - dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras, 2009, Chile/France
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel - dir. Brigitte Berman, 2009, Canada
I Am - dir. Igor Voloshin, 2009, Russia
I Am Love - dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2009, Italy
I Killed My Mother - dir. Xavier Dolan, 2009, Canada (Québec)
I Kissed a Vampire - dir. Chris Sean Nolan, 2010, USA
I Miss You - dir. Fabián Hofman, 2010, Mexico
Imani - dir. Caroline Kamya, 2009, Uganda/Sweden/Canada
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - dir. Tamra Davis, 2010, USA
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - dir. Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, 2010, USA
K-20: The Fiend with 20 Faces - dir. Shimako Sato, 2009, Japan
Kanikosen - dir. Sabu, 2009, Japan
Katalin Varga - dir. Peter Strickland, 2009, Hungary/United Kingdom/Romania
Khargosh - dir. Paresh Kamdar, 2009, India
Land of the Deaf - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 1998, Russia
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - dir. Daniel Junge, 2009, USA
Last Train Home - dir. Lixin Fan, 2009, China/Canada (Québec)
Leaves of Grass - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2009, USA
Leaving - dir. Catherine Corsini, 2009, France
Leo’s Room - dir. Enrique Buchichio, 2009, Uruguay/Argentina
Letters to Father Jacob - dir. Klaus Härö, 2009, Finland/Sweden
Life During Wartime - dir. Todd Solondz, 2009, USA
Like You Know It All - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2009, South Korea
Little Big Soldier - dir. Ding Sheng, 2010, Hong Kong/China
A Little Help - dir. Michael J. Weithorn, 2010, USA
Loose Cannons - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2010, Italy
Love in a Puff - dir. Pang Ho-Cheung, 2010, Hong Kong
Mao’s Last Dancer - dir. Bruce Beresford, 2009, Australia
Marwencol - dir. Jeff Malmberg, 2010, USA
Me Too - dir. Álvaro Pastor, Antonio Naharro, 2009, Spain
Mediterranean Diet- dir. Joaquín Oristrell, 2009, Spain
Meet Monica Velour - dir. Keith Bearden, 2010, USA
Micmacs - dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2009, France
The Milk of Sorrow - dir. Claudia Llosa, 2009, Peru/Spain
Miss Nobody - dir. Tim Cox, 2010, USA
Monogamy - dir. Dana Adam Shapiro, 2010, USA
Morning - dir. Joseph Mitacek, 2010, USA
Mother Joan of the Angels - dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961, Poland
Mount St. Elias - dir. Gerald Salmina, 2009, Austria/USA
Mugabe and the White African - dir. Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, 2009, Namibia/United Kingdom
Mundane History - dir. Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2009, Thailand
Music on Hold - dir. Hernán A. Golfrid, 2009, Argentina
My Year Without Sex - dir. Sarah Watt, 2009, Australia
Night Catches Us - dir. Tanya Hamilton, 2010, USA
Night Train - dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1959, Poland
Northless - dir. Rigoberto Perezcano, 2009, Mexico/Spain
Nowhere Boy - dir. Sam Taylor-Wood, 2009, United Kingdom
The Oath - dir. Laura Poitras, 2010, USA
Ondine - dir. Neil Jordan, 2009, Ireland/USA
On the Town - dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1949, USA
On the Waterfront - dir. Elia Kazan, 1954, USA
An Ordinary Execution - dir. Marc Dugain, 2010, France
The Over the Hill Band - dir. Geoffrey Enthoven, 2009, Belgium
The Owls - dir. Cheryl Dunye, 2010, USA
Paris Return - dir. Yossi Aviram, 2009, Israel
Patagonia - dir. Marc Evans, 2010, United Kingdom/Argentina/Wales
Peepli Live - dir. Anusha Rizvi, 2010, India
The Penitent Man - dir. Nicholas Gyeney, 2010, USA
Perfect 10 - dir. Lindy Boustedt, Kris Boustedt, 2010, USA
Perrier’s Bounty - dir. Ian FitzGibbon, 2009 , Ireland
Petya on the Way to Heaven - dir. Nikolai Dostal, 2009, Russia
Please, Please Me! - dir. Emmanuel Mouret, 2009, France
Plug & Pray - dir. Jens Schanze, 2009, Germany
Prince of Tears - dir. Yonfan, 2009, Hong Kong/Taiwan
Princess Lillifee - dir. Alan Simpson, Ansgar Niebuhr, Zhijian Xu, 2009, Germany
Protektor - dir. Marek Najbrt, 2009, Czech Republic
Queen of the Sun - dir. Taggart Siegel, 2010, USA
Rapt - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2009, France
A Rational Solution - dir. Jörgen Bergmark, 2009, Sweden/Finland/Germany/Italy
ReGENERATION - dir. Phillip Montgomery, 2010, USA
Rejoice and Shout - dir. Don McGlynn, 2009, USA
Restrepo - dir. Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington, 2010, USA
The Reverse - dir. Borys Lankosz, 2009, Poland
Reykjavik-Rotterdam - dir. Oskar Jonasson, 2009, Iceland
Ride, Rise, Roar - dir. David Hillman Curtis, 2010, USA
Riders of the Purple Sage - dir. Lynn F. Reynolds, 1925, USA
The River - dir. Jean Renoir, 1951, France
The Robber - dir. Benjamin Heisenberg, 2009, Austria/Germany
RoboGeisha - dir. Noboru Iguchi, 2009, Japan
Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae - dir. Stascha Bader, 2010, Canada (Québec)
Room in Rome - dir. Julio Medem, 2010, Spain
Rouge Ciel - dir. Bruno Decharme, 2009, France
Run If You Can - dir. Dietrich Brüggemann, 2010, Germany
Samson & Delilah - dir. Warwick Thornton, 2009, Australia
Saturday Night - dir. James Franco, 2010, USA
Secrets of the Tribe - dir. José Padilha, 2010, Brazil
Senior Prom - dir. Nicholas Terry, 2010, USA
Senso - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1954, Italy
The Sentimental Engine Slayer - dir. Omar Rodriguez Lopez, 2010, USA
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll - dir. Mat Whitecross, 2010, United Kingdom
Shadows - dir. John Cassavetes, 1959, USA
Skateland - dir. Anthony Burns, 2010, USA
Skeletons - dir. Nick Whitfield, 2009, United Kingdom
Some Days Are Better Than Others - dir. Matt McCormick, 2010, USA
Son of Babylon - dir. Mohamed Al-Daradji, 2010, Iraq
Soul Kitchen - dir. Fatih Akin, 2009, Germany
Southern District - dir. Juan Carlos Valdivia, 2009, Bolivia
A Spray of Plum Blossoms - dir. Bu Wancang, 1931, China
Stigmata - dir. Adán Aliaga, 2009, Spain
Stolen - dir. Violeta Ayala, Dan Fallshaw, 2009, Australia
Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields - dir. Kerthy Fix, Gail O’Hara, 2010, USA
The String - dir. Mehdi Ben Attia, 2010, France/Belgium/Tunisia
Tehroun - dir. Nader T. Homayoun, 2009, Iran/France
This Way of Life - dir. Tom Burstyn, 2009, New Zealand
Three Days With the Family - dir. Mar Coll, 2009, Spain
Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives - dir. Israel Luna, 2010, USA
The Tillman Story - dir. Amir Bar-Lev, 2009, USA
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls - dir. Leanne Pooley, 2009, New Zealand
The Triplets of Belleville - dir. Sylvain Chomet, 2003, France
The Trotsky - dir. Jacob Tierney, 2009, Canada (Québec)
Tsar - dir. Pavel Lungin, 2009, Russia
Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil - dir. Eli Craig, 2010, USA
Turistas - dir. Alicia Scherson, 2009, Chile
Turn It Loose - dir. Alastair Siddons, 2009, United Kingdom/France
Turtle: The Incredible Journey - dir. Nick Stringer, 2009, United Kingdom/Austria/Germany
Twisted Roots - dir. Saara Saarela, 2009, Finland
The Two Horses of Genghis Khan - dir. Byambasuren Davaa, 2009, Germany
Under the Mountain - dir. Jonathan King, 2009, New Zealand
Undertow - dir. Javier Fuentes-León, 2010, Peru
Upperdog - dir. Sara Johnsen, 2009, Norway
Utopia in Four Movements - dir. Sam Green, Dave Cerf, 2010, USA
V.O.S. - dir. Cesc Gay, 2009, Spain
Violet Tendencies - dir. Casper Andreas, 2010, USA
Visionaries: Jonas Mekas and the (Mostly) American Avant-Garde Cinema - dir. Chuck Workman, 2009, USA
Vortex - dir. Gytis Luksas, 2009, Lithuania
Waiting for Superman - dir. Davis Guggenheim, 2010, USA
Waste Land - dir. Lucy Walker, 2010, United Kingdom/Brazil
The Wedding Cake - dir. Denys Granier-Deferre, 2010, France
West Side Story - dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins, 1961, USA
Wheedle's Groove - dir. Jennifer Maas, 2009, USA
When We Leave - dir. Feo Aladag, 2009, Germany/Turkey
White Lion - dir. Michael Swan, 2009, South Africa
White Wedding - dir. Jann Turner, 2009, South Africa
The Wildest Dream - in IMAX - dir. Anthony Geffen, 2010, USA
The Wild Hunt - dir. Alexandre Franchi, 2009, Canada (Québec)
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within - dir. Yony Leyser, 2010, USA
Winter’s Bone - dir. Debra Granik, 2010, USA
Woman Without Piano - dir. Javier Rebollo, 2009, Spain
3-Minute Masterpieces
Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and one shorts package
Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema - included 18 feature films and 9 short films
Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema celebration: Cell 211 with post-film party at Taberna del Alabardero
Centerpiece Gala: Farewell at Egyptian Theatre
Digital Media Lab - included 6 filmmaking workshops
Documentary Competition - included 8 feature films
Edward Norton Tribute - included Leaves of Grass, 25th Hour, American History X, Fight Club
Emerging Masters: Mohamed Al-Daradji - included Son of Babylon, Ahlaam, Ana Kokkinos - included Blessed, Head On, Valery Todorovsky - included Hipsters, Land of the Deaf
Everett Opening Night: Mao’s Last Dancer at Everett Performing Arts Center
Face the Music - included 2 events and 8 feature films
Face the Music: The Maldives Perform Riders of the Purple Sage
Face the Music: Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields Performs 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Festival Forums - included Music and Sound: Getting the Best Audio for Your Film, Character Arc: Fact and Fiction, For the Love of Money
The Film Foundation 20 Years/20 Films
Films4Families - included 6 feature films and one shorts package
FutureWave - included 9 feature films and one shorts package
FutureWave SuperFly
Gay-La: Violet Tendencies at Egyptian Theater and party at Rebar
Golden Space Needle Awards
Kirkland Opening Night: The Over the Hill Band at Kirkland Performance Center
Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films
New American Cinema - included 19 feature films
New American Cinema Spotlight: Cyrus
New Directors Showcase - included 12 feature films
Northwest Connections - included 11 feature films
Outdoor Screening: The Triplets of Belleville
Secret Festival
Short Films - included 13 shorts packages
Special Presentations: Cane Toads: The Conquest–in 3D, Grease Sing-along, Howl, Little Big Soldier, Utopia in Four Movements, Waiting for Superman, The Wildest Dream–in IMAX
Talking Pictures - included Brownstones to Red Dirt, Stolen, Waiting for Superman, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner