Director, Jonathan Lisecki, poses with SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Director of Programming, Beth Barrett (current Artistic Director) at the Gay-La event, which featured a screening of Lisecki's film, Gayby
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Relive the 38th 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 2012 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 17–June 10, 2012
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Egyptian Theatre, Everett Performing Arts Center, Harvard Exit Theater, Kirkland Performing Arts Center, Majestic Bay Cinemas, McCaw Hall, Mural Amphitheatre at Seattle Center, AMC Pacific Place 11, Pacific Science Center IMAX, Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, Triple Door
Opening Night: Your Sister's Sister at McCaw Hall
Closing Night: Grassroots at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tribute: Sissy Spacek, William Friedkin
Emerging Masters: Andrea Arnold, Alain Gomis
Photos
Director, Jonathan Lisecki, poses with SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, and Director of Programming, Beth Barrett (current Artistic Director) at the Gay-La event, which featured a screening of Lisecki's film, Gayby
Audiences at Opening Night gather to watch Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister at McCaw Hall
Director, Lynn Shelton, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose on the red carpet on Opening Night
Tribute guest and Actress, Sissy Spacek, walks the red carpet at SIFF Cinema Uptown before the Evening with Sissy Spacek program, which included a screening of her film, Badlands
Actor, Chris Pine, in town for his film, People Like Us, looks up from signing autographs outside SIFF Cinema Uptown
Best Film
Any Day Now (dir. Travis Fine, USA)
Best Director
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild, USA)
Best Actress
Jamie Chung (Eden)
Best Actor
Alan Cumming (Any Day Now)
Best Short
CatCam (dir. Seth Kael, USA)
Best Documentary
The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Invader (dir. Nicolas Provost, Belgium)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Welcome to Piine Hill (dir. Keith Miller, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Five Star Existance (dir. Sonja Lindén, Finland)
11 Flowers - dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, 2011, China/France
170 Hz - dir. Joost van Ginkel, 2011, Netherlands
2 Days in New York - dir. Julie Delpy, 2012, USA/France
360 - dir. Fernando Meirelles, 2011, United Kingdom/Austria/France/Brazil
38 Witnesses - dir. Lucas Belvaux, 2012, France/Belgium
419 - dir. Ned Thorne, 2012, USA/South Africa
4 Days in May - dir. Achim von Borries, 2011, Germany/Russia/Ukraine
The 5,000 Days Project: TWO BROTHERS - dir. Rick Stevenson, Kevin Klar, 2012, USA
5 Broken Cameras - dir. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, 2011, Palestine/France/Israel
6 Points About Emma - dir. Roberto Pérez Toledo, 2012, Spain
Abu, Son of Adam - dir. Salim Ahamed, 2011, India
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry - dir. Allison Klayman, 2012, USA/China
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - dir. Adam Curtis, 2011, United Kingdom
Alois Nebel - dir. Tomás Lunák, 2011, Czech Republic/Germany
The Ambassador - dir. Mads Brügger, 2011, Denmark
American Addict - dir. Sasha Knezev, 2012 , USA
Any Day Now - dir. Travis Fine, 2012, USA
The Art of Love - dir. Emmanuel Mouret, 2011, France
As Luck Would Have It - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 2011, Spain
The Atomic States of America - dir. Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce, 2012, USA
Bad Brains: A Band in DC - dir. Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan, 2012, USA/United Kingdom
Badlands - dir. Terrence Malick, 1973, USA
Beasts of the Southern Wild - dir. Benh Zeitlin, 2012, USA
The Beautiful Game - dir. Victor Buhler, 2012, USA/United Kingdom/Ghana/South Africa
Bel Ami - dir. Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, 2012, United Kingdom/France/Italy
Bestiaire - dir. Denis Côté, 2012, Canada (Québec)/France
Best Intentions - dir. Adrian Sitaru, 2011, Romania/Hungary
A Better Life - dir. Cédric Kahn, 2011, France/Canada
Beware of Mr. Baker - dir. Jay Bulger, 2012, USA
The Big Picture - dir. Eric Lartigau, 2010, France
The Blindfold - dir. Garin Nugroho, 2012, Indonesia
Bol - dir. Shoaib Mansoor, 2011, Pakistan
Bonsái - dir. Cristián Jiménez, 2011, Chile
Brave - dir. Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell, 2012, USA
Breathing - dir. Karl Markovics, 2011, Austria
The British Guide to Showing Off - dir. Jes Benstock, Dorigen Hammond, 2011, United Kingdom
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best - dir. Ryan O’Nan, 2011, USA
Bull Runners of Pamplona - dir. Aubrey Powell, 2011, United Kingdom/Spain
Bunohan: Return to Murder - dir. Dain Said, 2011 Malaysia
Camilla Dickinson - dir. Cornelia Duryée Moore, 2012, USA
Can - dir. Rasit Çelikezer, 2011, Turkey
Carrie - dir. Brian De Palma, 1976, USA
The Central Park Effect - dir. Jeffrey Kimball, 2012, USA
Chapiteau-Show - dir. Sergey Loban, 2011, Russia
Charles Bradley: Soul of America - dir. Poull Brien, 2012, USA
The Chase - dir. Arthur Ripley, 1946, USA
Chasing Ice - dir. Jeff Orlowski, 2012, USA
A Checkout Girl’s Big Adventures - dir. Pierre Rambaldi, 2011, France
The Chef - dir. Daniel Cohen, 2012, France
Choked - dir. Kim Joon-hyun, 2011, South Korea
Citadel - dir. Ciarán Foy, 2012, Ireland/Scotland
City World - dir. Brent Chesanek, 2012, USA
Cloudburst - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 2011, Canada
Coal Miner’s Daughter - dir. Michael Apted, 1980, USA
Coming Home - dir. Frédéric Videau, 2012, France
Compliance - dir. Craig Zobel, 2012, USA
The Convoy - dir. Alexey Mizgirev, 2012, Russia
Coteau Rouge - dir. André Forcier, 2011, Canada (Québec)
Countdown - dir. Huh Jong-ho, 2011, South Korea
Cousinhood - dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, 2011, Spain
Cracks in the Shell - dir. Christian Schwochow, 2011, Germany
The Crown Jewels - dir. Ella Lemhagen, 2012, Sweden/Denmark
Crulic - The Path to Beyond - dir. Anca Damian, 2011, Romania/Poland
A Cube of Sugar - dir. Reza Mirkarimi, 2011, Iran
Daas - dir. Adrian Panek, 2011, Poland
The Details - dir. Jacob Aaron Estes, 2011, USA
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel - dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frederic Tcheng, 2011, USA
Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood - dir. Daniele Vicari, 2012, Italy/Romania/France
The Do-Deca-Pentathlon - dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass, 2012, USA
Dragon - dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan, 2011, Hong Kong
Dragon Pearl - dir. Mario Andreacchio, 2011, Australia
Dreams of a Life - dir. Carol Morley, 2011, United Kingdom/Ireland
Duck Beach to Eternity - dir. Stephen Frandsen, Hadleigh Arnst, Laura Naylor, 2012, USA
Earthbound - dir. Alan Brennan, 2012, Ireland
Easton's Article - dir. Tim Connery, 2012, USA
Eden - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2012, USA
Either Way - dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, 2011, Iceland
Elena - dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev, 2011, Russia
El Gusto: The Good Mood - dir. Safinez Bousbia,, 2011, Ireland/Algeria/France/United Arab Emirates
ELIMINATE: Archie Cookson - dir. Rob Holder, 2011, United Kingdom
The Empty Home - dir. Nurbek Egen, 2012, Kyrgyzstan/Russia
Ethel - dir. Rory Kennedy, 2012, USA
Everything and Everyone - dir. Tracy D. Smith, 2011, Canada
Excision - dir. Richard Bates Jr., 2012, USA
The Exorcist - dir. William Friedkin, 1973, USA
Extraterrestrial - dir. Nacho Vigalondo, 2011, Spain
The Eye of the Storm - dir. Fred Schepisi, 2011, Australia
Family Portrait in Black and White - dir. Julia Ivanova, 2011, Ukraine/Canada
Fat Kid Rules the World - dir. Matthew Lillard, 2012, USA
Finding North - dir. Lori Silverbush, Kristi Jacobson, 2012, USA
The First on the List - dir. Roan Johnson, 2012, Italy
The First Time - dir. Jonathan Kasdan, 2012, USA
Five Star Existence - dir. Sonja Lindén, 2011, Finland/Sweden
Found Memories - dir. Julia Murat, 2011, Brazil/Argentina/France
Four Suns - dir. Bohdan Sláma, 2012, Czech Republic
The Fourth State - dir. Dennis Gansel, 2012, Germany
Free Throw - dir. Court Crandall, 2012, USA
The French Connection - dir. William Friedkin, 1971, USA
French Truly Salon: Step Up to the Plate - dir. Paul Lacoste, 2011, France
French Truly Salon: The Painting - dir. Jean-François Laguionie, 2011, France
Fuck My Wedding - dir. Nicolás López, 2011, Chile
Fugly! - dir. Alfredo de Villa, 2012, USA
Future Lasts Forever - dir. Özcan Alper, 2011, Turkey/France/Germany
Future Weather - dir. Jenny Deller, 2012, USA
Game of Werewolves - dir. Juan Martinez Moreno, 2011, Spain
Gayby - dir. Jonathan Lisecki, 2012, USA
Gimme The Loot - dir. Adam Leon, 2012, USA
The Glass Man - dir. Cristian Solimeno, 2011, United Kingdom
God Bless America - dir. Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011, USA
Golden Slumbers - dir. Davy Chou, 2011, Cambodia/France
Goodbye - dir. Mohammad Rasoulof , 2011, Iran
Grassroots - dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal, 2012, USA
The Great Bear - dir. Esben Toft Jacobsen, 2011, Denmark
Guilty - dir. Vincent Garenq, 2011, France
Hail - dir. Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2011, Australia
Headshot - dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang, 2011, Thailand
Hello I Must Be Going - dir. Todd Louiso, 2012, USA
Hemel - dir. Sacha Polak, 2012, Netherlands/Spain
High Ground - dir. Michael Brown, 2011, USA
The House - dir. Zuzana Liová, 2011, Slovak Republic/Czech Republic
How to Steal 2 Million - dir. Charlie Vundla, 2011, South Africa
How to Survive a Plague - dir. David France, 2012, USA
Hunky Dory - dir. Marc Evans, 2011, United Kingdom
I Am Not a Hipster - dir. Destin Cretton, 2012, USA
The Imposter - dir. Bart Layton, 2012, United Kingdom
Innocence - dir. Jan Hřebejk, 2011, Czech Republic
The Intouchables - dir. Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, 2011, France
The Invader - dir. Nicolas Provost, 2011, Belgium/Sweden
The Invisible War - dir. Kirby Dick, 2012, USA
Ira Finkelstein's Christmas - dir. Sue Corcoran, 2012, USA
Italy Love It or Leave It - dir. Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi, 2011, Italy/Germany
I Wish - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2011, Japan
Joan and the Voices - dir. Mikayel Vatinyan, 2011, Armenia
John Dies at the End - dir. Don Coscarelli, 2012, USA
Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean - dir. Matthew Mishory, 2012, USA
Justice For Sale - dir. Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen, 2011, Netherlands
Keep the Lights On - dir. Ira Sachs, 2012, USA
Keyhole - dir. Guy Maddin, 2011, Canada
Killer Joe - dir. William Friedkin, 2012, USA
Kill Me - dir. Emily Atef, 2012, Germany/France
King Curling - dir. Ole Endresen, 2011, Norway
Kiss Me - dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining, 2011, Sweden
Klown - dir. Mikkel Nørgaard, 2010, Denmark
Kryptonite! - dir. Ivan Cotroneo, 2011, Italy
L - dir. Babis Makridis, 2012, Greece
Là-bas: A Criminal Education - dir. Guido Lombardi, 2011, Italy
L’Afrance - dir. Alain Gomis, 2001, France
Las Acacias -Pablo Giorgelli, 2011, Argentina/Spain
The Last Christeros - dir. Matias Meyer, 2011, Mexico/Netherlands
The Last Friday - dir. Yahya Alabdallah, 2011, Jordan/United Arab Emirates
The Last Man on Earth - dir. Gian Alfonso Pacinotti, 2011, Italy
The Last Reef 3D - dir. Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas, 2012, USA
The Law In These Parts - dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, 2011, Israel
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser - dir. Davide Manuli, 2012, Italy
Legends of Valhalla: Thor - dir. Gunnar Karlsson, Toby Genkel, Oskar Jonasson, 2011, Iceland
Liberal Arts - dir. Josh Radnor, 2012, USA
Lipstikka - dir. Jonathan Sagall, 2011, Israel/United Kingdom
Little Toys - dir. Sun Yu, 1933, China
Lola Versus - dir. Daryl Wein, 2012, USA
The Long Ride Home - dir. Thomas Lee Wright, 2012, USA
Lost in Paradise - dir. Ngoc Dãng Vu, 2011, Vietnam
Lost Years - dir. Kenda Gee, Tom Radford, 2011, Canada
Love Free or Die - dir. Macky Alston, 2012, USA
Loverboy - dir. Catalin Mitulescu, 2011, Romania/Sweden/Serbia
Lucky - dir. Avie Luthra, 2011, South Africa
LUV - dir. Sheldon Candis, 2012, USA
Madrid, 1987 - dir. David Trueba, 2012, Spain
Marina Abramović The Artist is Present - dir. Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre, 2012, USA
The Mexican Suitcase - dir. Trisha Ziff, 2011, Mexico/Spain
Mirage - dir. Jung-ho Yang, 2011, South Korea
The Mirror Never Lies - dir. Kamila Andini, 2011, Indonesia
The Monk - dir. Dominik Moll, 2011, France
Moonrise Kingdom - dir. Wes Anderson, 2012, USA
Mosquita y Mari - dir. Aurora Guerrero, 2012, USA
The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On - dir. Drew Denny, 2012, USA
Mourning - dir. Morteza Farshbaf, 2011, Iran
My Brother the Devil - dir. Sally El Hosaini, 2012, United Kingdom
My Dad is Baryshnikov - dir. Dmitry Povolotski, Mark Drugoi, 2011, Russia
My Sucky Teen Romance - dir. Emily Hagins, 2011, USA
North Sea Texas - dir. Bavo Defurne, 2011, Belgium
Nosilatiaj.Beauty - dir. Daniela Seggiaro, 2012, Argentina
Old Dog - dir. Pema Tseden, 2011, Tibet/China
Only Yesterday - dir. Isao Takahata, 1991, Japan
The Orator - dir. Tusi Tamasese, 2011, New Zealand/Samoa
Oslo, August 31st - dir. Joachim Trier, 2011, Norway
Otelo Burning - dir. Sara Blecher, 2011, South Africa
The Other Dream Team - dir. Marius Markevicius, 2012, Lithuania/USA
Overheard 2 - dir. Alan Mak, Felix Chong, 2011, Hong Kong
The Painting - dir. Jean-François Laguionie, 2012, France
Paul Williams Still Alive - dir. Stephen Kessler, 2011, USA
People Like Us - dir. Alex Kurtzman, 2012, USA
Pink Ribbons, Inc. - dir. Léa Pool, 2011, Canada
Policeman - dir. Nadav Lapid, 2011, Israel/France
Polisse - dir. Maïwenn, 2011, France
Price Check - dir. Michael Walker, 2012, USA
Prime Time Soap - dir. Odilon Rocha, 2011, Brazil
Putin’s Kiss - dir. Lise Birk Pedersen, 2011, Denmark/Russia
The Queen of Versailles - dir. Lauren Greenfield, 2012, USA
Rebellion - dir. Mathieu Kassovitz, 2011, France
Recalled - dir. Michael Connors, 2012, USA
Red Road - dir. Andrea Arnold, 2006, United Kingdom/Denmark
Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings - dir. Jade Castro, 2011, Philippines
Rent-a-Cat - dir. Naoko Ogigami, 2012, Japan
The Revisionaries - dir. Scott Thurman, 2012, USA
The Revolutionary - dir. Lucy Ostrander, Don Sellers, Irv Drasnin, 2012, USA
Robot and Frank - dir. Jake Schreier, 2012, USA
Roller Town - dir. Andrew Bush, 2012, Canada
Romancing in Thin Air - dir. Johnnie To, 2012, Hong Kong/China
Rose - dir. Wojciech Smarzowski, 2011, Poland
Rouge Parole - dir. Elyes Baccar, 2011, Tunisia/Qatar/Switzerland
Sacrifice - dir. Chen Kaige, 2011, China
Safety Not Guaranteed - dir. Colin Trevorrow, 2012, USA
Salt White - dir. Keti Machavariani, 2011, Georgia
Save the Date - dir. Michael Mohan, 2012, USA
The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America - dir. Jeff Kaufman, 2012, USA
The Sex of the Angels - dir. Xavier Villaverde, 2012, Spain/Brazil
Sharqiya - dir. Ami Livne, 2012, Israel/France/Germany
Short Life - dir. Scott Levy, 2012, USA
Silence: All Roads Lead to Music - dir. Haider Rashid, 2011, Italy/Iraq/United Arab Emirates
Simon and the Oaks - dir. Lisa Ohlin, 2011, Sweden/Norway/Germany
Sin Bin - dir. Billy Federighi, 2012, USA
Six Million and One - dir. David Fisher, 2011, Israel/Austria/Germany
Sleepwalk With Me - dir. Mike Birbiglia, 2012, USA
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - dir. Robert Guédiguian, 2011, France
The Sorcerer and the White Snake - dir. Tony Siu-Tung Ching, 2011, Hong Kong/China
The Source - dir. Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos, 2012, USA
The Squad - dir. Jaime Osorio Márquez, 2011, Colombia
The Standbys - dir. Stephanie Riggs, 2012, USA
Starbuck - dir. Ken Scott, 2011, Canada (Québec)
Starry Starry Night - dir. Tom Shu-Yu Lin, 2011, Taiwan/China/Hong Kong
Step Up to the Plate - dir. Paul Lacoste, 2011, France
The Story of Film: An Odyssey - dir. Mark Cousins, 2011, United Kingdom
The Student - dir. Santiago Mitre, 2011, Argentina
The Substance: Albert Hofmann’s LSD - dir. Martin Witz, 2011, Switzerland
Sunny - dir. Kang Hyeung-chul, 2011, South Korea
Superclásico - dir. Ole Christian Madsen, 2011, Denmark
Take This Waltz - dir. Sarah Polley, 2011, Canada
The Tall Man - dir. Tony Krawitz, 2011, Australia
Tatsumi - dir. Eric Khoo, 2011, Singapore/Indonesia
Teddy Bear - dir. Mads Matthiesen, 2012, Denmark
Tey - dir. Alain Gomis, 2012, Senegal/France
Thale - dir. Aleksander Nordaas, 2012, Norway
Three Quarter Moon - dir. Christian Zübert, 2011, Germany
Toomelah - dir. Ivan Sen, 2011, Australia
Trial on the Road - dir. Alexei Guerman, 1971, Russia
Trishna - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 2011, United Kingdom
True Wolf - dir. Rob Whitehair, 2012, USA
Two For the Road - dir. Stanley Donen, 1967, United Kingdom
Under African Skies - dir. Joe Berlinger, 2012, USA/South Africa
Unforgivable - dir. André Téchiné, 2011, France/Italy
Unit 7 - dir. Alberto Rodriguez, 2012, Spain
Valley of Saints - dir. Musa Syeed, 2012, India/USA
V/H/S- dir. Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence, 2012, USA
Volcano - dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2011, Iceland/Denmark
Wake in Fright - dir. Ted Kotcheff, 1971, Australia
War of the Buttons - dir. Christophe Barratier, 2011, France
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists - dir. Brian Knappenberger, 2012, USA
Welcome To Doe Bay - dir. Nesib CB Shamah, Dan Thornton, 2012, USA
Welcome to Pine Hill - dir. Keith Miller, 2012, USA
Wetlands - dir. Guy Édoin, 2011, Canada (Québec)
White Camellias - dir. Russell Brown, 2012, USA
Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods - dir. Christian Ditter, 2011, Germany/Malta
Wiebo's War - dir. David York, 2011, Canada
Winter Nomads - dir. Manuel von Stürler, 2012, Switzerland
The Woman in the Fifth - dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 2011, United Kingdom/France
The Woman in the Septic Tank - dir. Marlon Rivera, 2011, Philippines
The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake - dir. Herman Yau, 2011, Hong Kong
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines - dir. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, 2012, USA
Wrinkles - dir. Ignacio Ferreras, 2011, Spain
Wuthering Heights - dir. Andrea Arnold, 2011, United Kingdom
Xingu - dir. Cao Hamburger, 2011, Brazil
Year of Grace - dir. Ventura Pons, 2012, Spain
Your Sister’s Sister - dir. Lynn Shelton, 2011, USA
3-Minute Masterpieces
ALT Shorts Masters: Bruce Conner and Abigail Child
Alternate Cinema - included 4 feature films and 2 shorts packages
Ambiente: New Spanish Cinema - included 20 feature films and one shorts package
An Evening with Sissy Spacek: Badlands
An Evening with William Friedkin: Killer Joe
Archival Films - included 6 feature films
Asian Crossroads - included 24 feature films
Centerpiece Gala: The Chef at Egyptian Theatre
Digital Media Lab - included 7 filmmaking workshops
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: A Professional Development Workshop for Teachers
Documentary Competition - included 12 feature films
Emerald City Visions (A Hip Hop Reinterpretation of The Wiz)
Emerging Masters: Andrea Arnold OBE - included Wuthering Heights, Fish Tank, Red Road, and 3 short films, Alain Gomis - included Tey, Andalucia, L’Afrance and 3 short films
Everett Opening Night Gala: Lola Versus at Everett Performing Arts Center
Festival Forums - included We Did It! Now What?!?!, The 5000 Days Project Family Workshop, Get Animated: Animation Workshop for Kids (ages 8-14), Short Filmmaker Happy Hour & Panel: Making the Most of Any Festival, Women in Film Seattle and Northwest Screenwriters Guild presents Navigating the Brave New World of Independent Filmmaking
Films4Families - included 7 feature films and one shorts package
Fly Filmmaking Challenge
Friday Gala: The Details at Egyptian Theatre
FutureWave - included 8 feature films and one shorts package
Gay-La: Gayby at Egyptian Theatre
Golden Space Needle Awards
Kirkland Opening Night Gala: Starbuck at Kirkland Performance Center
Midnight Adrenaline - included 8 feature films and one shorts package
New American Cinema Competition - included 12 feature films
New Directors Competition - included 12 feature films
Northwest Connections - included 15 feature films and one shorts package
Renton Opening Night Gala: Fat Kid Rules the World at Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center
SIFF Catalyst - included 6 feature films
Saturday Gala: As Luck Would Have It at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday Gala: Robot and Frank at Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center
Secret Festival
ShortsFest Weekend - included 17 shorts packages
Special Presentations: Brave, Diaz–Don't Clean Up This Blood, The Last Reef 3D, People Like Us, Trishna
SuperFly and Native Showcase Shorts
Tribute: Sissy Spacek - included 3 feature films
Tribute: William Friedkin - included 3 feature films