Seattle International Film Festival 2012 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2012

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

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

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

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

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

Audiences at Opening Night gather to watch Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister at McCaw Hall

Audiences at Opening Night gather to watch Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister at McCaw Hall

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

Director, Lynn Shelton, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose on the red carpet on Opening Night

Director, Lynn Shelton, and SIFF Artistic Director, Carl Spence, pose on the red carpet on Opening Night

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

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

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

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

Actor, Chris Pine, in town for his film, People Like Us, looks up from signing autographs outside SIFF Cinema Uptown

Actor, Chris Pine, in town for his film, People Like Us, looks up from signing autographs outside SIFF Cinema Uptown

Actor, Chris Pine, in town for his film, People Like Us, looks up from signing autographs outside SIFF Cinema Uptown

Grassroots
Grassroots
Your Sister's Sister
Your Sister's Sister
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
Trishna
Trishna
Fat Kid Rules The World
Fat Kid Rules The World
Any Day Now
Any Day Now

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

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)

Juried Competition Awards

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)

List of Feature-Length Films

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

Special Programs & Events

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