Stars of the 2016 film, Chicken People, grace the red carpet at the 42nd Seattle International Film Festival
Relive the 42nd 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 2016 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 19–June 12, 2016
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Ark Lodge, Benroya Hall, Pacific Place Cinemas, Kirkland Performance Center, Lincoln Square Cinemas, Majestic Bay, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Neptune Theatre, Pacific Science Center Laser Dome, Renton Ikea Performing Arts Center, Shoreline CC, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center
Opening Night: Café Society at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
Closing Night: The Dressmaker at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Tribute: Viggo Mortensen, Molly Shannon
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
Stars of the 2016 film, Chicken People, grace the red carpet at the 42nd Seattle International Film Festival
SIFF's current Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, interviews director, Florian Cossen, following the screening of his film, Coconut Hero
Guests of the Gay-La celebration, which included a screening of the film, Being 17
SIFFers pose outside SIFF Cinema Uptown before the screening of shorts package, Growing Up Gay
Tribute guest and actor, Viggo Mortensen, poses with his award on the red carpet of Egyptian before a screening of his film, Captain Fantastic
Best Film
Captain Fantastic (dir. Matt Ross, USA)
Best Director
Javier Ruiz Caldera (Spy Time, Spain)
Best Actress
Vicky Hernandez (Between Sea and Land)
Best Actor
Rolf Lassgard (A Man Called Ove)
Best Short
Alive & Kicking: The Soccer Grannies of South Africa (dir. Lara-Ann de Wet, USA/South Africa)
Best Documentary
Gleason (dir. Clay Tweel, USA)
Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Girl Asleep (dir. Rosemary Myers, Australia)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Sand Storm (dir. Elite Zexer, Israel)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Middle Man (dir. Ned Crowley, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Death By a Thousand Cuts (dir. Juan Mejia Botero, Jake Kheel, Dominican Republic/Haiti/USA)
Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
You'll Never Be Alone (dir. Alex Anwandter, Chile)
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin - dir. Yves Montmayeur, 2015, France
11:55 - dir. Ari Issler, Ben Snyder, 2016, USA
13 Minutes - dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2016, Germany
3000 Nights - dir. Mai Masri, 2015, Palestine/France/Switzerland
The Academy of Muses - dir. José Luis Guerín, 2015, Spain
Action Comandante - dir. Nadine Angel Cloete, 2016, South Africa/Lesotho
Aisha - dir. Chande Omar, 2015, Tanzania
All the Birds Have Flown South - dir. Joshua H. Miller, Miles B. Miller, 2016, USA
Alone - dir. Park Hong-min, 2015, South Korea
AMAMA: When a Tree Falls - dir. Asier Altuna, 2015, Spain
Americana - dir. Zachary Shedd, 2016, USA
Angry Indian Goddesses - dir. Pan Nalin, 2015, India
Another Evil - dir. Carson D. Mell, 2016, USA
Antonia - dir. Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, 2015, Italy/Greece
Ants on a Shrimp - dir. Maurice Dekkers, 2016, Netherlands
The Architect - dir. Jonathan Parker, 2016, USA
Arianna - dir. Carlo Lavagna, 2015, Italy
As I Open My Eyes - dir. Leyla Bouzid, 2015, Tunisia/France/Belgium/United Arab Emirates
As You Are - dir. Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, 2016, USA
Atlantic Heart - dir. Robbie McCallum, 2016, Cape Verde/United Kingdom
Author: The JT LeRoy Story - dir. Jeff Feuerzeig, 2016, USA
Awaiting - dir. Daniela Fejerman, 2015, Spain/Lithuania
The Bacchus Lady - dir. E J-yong, 2016, South Korea
BANG! The Bert Berns Story - dir. Brett Berns, Bob Sarles, 2016, USA
Battledream Chronicle - dir. Alain Bidard, 2015, Martinique
Battle of Sevastopol - dir. Sergey Mokritskiy, 2015, Ukraine/Russia
Before the Streets - dir. Chloé Leriche, 2016, Canada (Québec)
Being 17 - dir. André Téchiné, 2016, France
Belle and Sebastian, the Adventure Continues - dir. Christian Duguay, 2015, France
Between Sea and Land - dir. Carlos del Castillo, 2016, Colombia
Beware the Slenderman - dir. Irene Taylor Brodsky, 2016, USA
Beyond My Grandfather Allende - dir. Marcia Tambutti Allende, 2015, Chile/Mexico
The Big Road - dir. Sun Yu, 1935, China
Big Sonia - dir. Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday, 2016, USA
The Bitter Stems - dir. Fernando Ayala, 1956, Argentina
The Blackcoat’s Daughter - dir. Osgood Perkins, 2015, USA/Canada
The Black Hen - dir. Min Bahadur Bham, 2015, Nepal/Germany/France
B-Movie Bingo presents Rambu: The Intruder - dir. Jopi Burnama, 1986, Indonesia
Body - dir. Małgorzata Szumowska, 2015, Poland
The Bodyguard - dir. Sammo Hung, 2016, Hong Kong/China
The Brand New Testament - dir. Jaco Van Dormael, 2015, Belgium/France/Luxembourg
The Bride - dir. Paula Ortiz, 2015, Spain/Turkey/Germany
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle - dir. Shunji Iwai, 2016, Japan
Bugs - dir. Andreas Johnsen, 2016, Denmark
Burn Burn Burn - dir. Chanya Button, 2015, United Kingdom
Café Society - dir. Woody Allen, 2016, USA
Cameraperson - dir. Kirsten Johnson, 2016, USA
Captain Fantastic - dir. Matt Ross, 2016, USA
Carnage Park - dir. Mickey Keating, 2016, USA
Ceviche’s DNA - dir. Orlando Arriagada, 2015, Canada/Peru
Checks and Balances - dir. Malek Bensmaïl, 2015, Algeria/France
Chevalier - dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015, Greece
Chicken People - dir. Nicole Lucas Haimes, 2016, USA
Chimes at Midnight - dir. Orson Welles, 1966, Spain
Chucks - dir. Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, 2015, Austria
Claire in Motion - dir. Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell, 2016, USA
Closet Monster - dir. Stephen Dunn, 2015, Canada
Coconut Hero - dir. Florian Cossen, 2015, Germany/Canada
Come What May - dir. Christian Carion, 2015, France
Complete Unknown - dir. Joshua Marston, 2016, USA
The Complexity of Happiness - dir. Gianni Zanasi, 2015, Italy
Concerto - A Beethoven Journey - dir. Phil Grabsky, 2015, United Kingdom
Contemporary Color - dir. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, 2016, USA
The Coop - dir. Ufuk Bayraktar, 2016, Turkey
A Copy of My Mind - dir. Joko Anwar, 2015, Indonesia/South Korea
Creepy - dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016, Japan
The Curve - dir. Rifqi Assaf, 2015, Jordan/France/Egypt/United Arab Emirates
Dawn - dir. Laila Pakalnina, 2015, Latvia/Poland/Estonia
Dead Slow Ahead - dir. Mauro Herce, 2015, Spain/France
Death By a Thousand Cuts - dir. Juan Mejia Botero, Jake Kheel, 2016, Dominican Republic/Haiti/USA
Death by Design - dir. Sue Williams, 2016, China/Ireland
Deconstructing Dani García - dir. Iñigo Ruiz, Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, 2015, Spain
Demon - dir. Marcin Wrona, 2015, Poland/Israel
Disorder - dir. Alice Winocour, 2015, France/Belgium
Don’t Think Twice - dir. Mike Birbiglia, 2016, USA
Dragon Inn - dir. King Hu, 1967, Taiwan
The Dressmaker - dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015, Australia
Eastern Promises - dir. David Cronenberg, 2007, Canada
Equals - dir. Drake Doremus, 2015, USA
Eternal Summer - dir. Andreas Öhman, 2015, Sweden
Evolution - dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015, France/Spain/Belgium
Eye of the Storm - dir. Sékou Traoré, 2015, Burkina Faso/France
The Eyes of My Mother - dir. Nicolas Pesce, 2016, USA
Family Film - dir. Olmo Omerzu, 2015, Czech Republic/Germany/Slovenia/France/Slovakia
The Final Master - dir. Xu Haofeng, 2015, China
Finding Babel - dir. David Novack, 2015, USA/Ukraine/Russia/France
Finding Kim - dir. Aaron Bear, 2016, USA
Finding October - dir. Nick Terry, 2016, USA
First Girl I Loved - dir. Kerem Sanga, 2016, USA
The Fits - dir. Anna Rose Holmer, 2015, USA
Folk Hero & Funny Guy - dir. Jeff Grace, 2016, USA
foreveryone.net - dir. Jessica Yu, 2016, USA/United Kingdom
Frank & Lola - dir. Matthew Ross, 2016, USA
Free in Deed - dir. Jake Mahaffy, 2015, USA/New Zealand
The Free World - dir. Jason Lew, 2016, USA
Being 17 - dir. André Téchiné, 2016, France
From Afar - dir. Lorenzo Vigas, 2015, Venezuela/Mexico
Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story - dir. Martin Spirit, 2016, USA
The General - dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, 1926, USA
Girl Asleep - dir. Rosemary Myers, 2016, Australia
The Girl Who Saved My Life - dir. Hogir Hirori, 2016, Sweden
Gleason - dir. Clay Tweel, 2016, USA
Goat - dir. Andrew Neel, 2016, USA
Gold Balls - dir. Kate Dandel, 2016, USA
The Greasy Strangler - dir. Jim Hosking, 2016, USA
Heaven Can Wait - dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1943, USA
The High Sun - dir. Dalibor Matanić, 2015, Croatia/Slovenia/Serbia
Holding the Man - dir. Neil Armfield, 2015, Australia
Home Care - dir. Slávek Horák, 2015, Czech Republic/Slovakia
Honor Thy Father - dir. Erik Matti, 2015, Philippines
Horizons - dir. Eileen Hofer, 2015, Switzerland/Cuba
How Most Things Work - dir. Fernando Salem, 2015, Argentina
Hummus - dir. Oren Rosenfeld, 2016, Israel
Hunt for the Wilderpeople - dir. Taika Waititi, 2016, New Zealand
I am Belfast - dir. Mark Cousins, 2015, United Kingdom
Ice and the Sky - dir. Luc Jacquet, 2015, France
The IF Project - dir. Kathlyn Horan, 2016, USA
If There's a Hell Below - dir. Nathan Williams, 2016, USA
Illegitimate - dir. Adrian Sitaru, 2016 , Romania/Poland/France
Immortal - dir. Hadi Mohaghegh, 2015, Iran
In a Valley of Violence - dir. Ti West, 2015, USA
Indignation - dir. James Schamus, 2016, USA
The Innocents - dir. Anne Fontaine, 2016, France/Poland
Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story - dir. Brett A. Schwartz, 2016, USA
The Intervention - dir. Clea DuVall, 2016, USA
The Island Funeral - dir. Pimpaka Towira, 2015, Thailand
Kedi - dir. Ceyda Torun, 2016, Turkey/USA/Germany
Kilo Two Bravo - dir. Paul Katis, 2015, United Kingdom
Kingdom of Clay Subjects - dir. Bijon, 2016, Bangladesh/USA
Lamb - dir. Yared Zeleke, 2015, Ethiopia/France/Germany/Norway/Qatar
The Land - dir. Steven Caple Jr., 2016, USA
Last Cab to Darwin - dir. Jeremy Sims, 2015, Australia
The Last King - dir. Nils Gaup, 2015, Norway
Les Cowboys - dir. Thomas Bidegain, 2015, France/Belgium
Life, Animated - dir. Roger Ross Williams, 2016, USA
Lily Lane - dir. Bence Fliegauf, 2016 , Hungary
Little Men - dir. Ira Sachs, 2016, USA
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - dir. Werner Herzog, 2016, USA
Long Way North - dir. Rémi Chayé, 2015, France/Denmark
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - dir. Peter Jackson, 2003, USA
Love & Friendship - dir. Whit Stillman, 2016, Ireland/France/Netherlands
The Lovers and the Despot - dir. Robert Cannan, Ross Adam, 2016, United Kingdom
The Love Witch - dir. Anna Biller, 2016, USA
The Lure - dir. Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015, Poland
The Mads are Back: Glen or Glenda - dir. Ed Wood Jr., 1953, USA
Ma Ma - dir. Julio Medem, 2015, Spain/France
A Man Called Ove - dir. Hannes Holm, 2015, Sweden/Norway
Marzia, My Friend - dir. Kirsi Mattila, 2015, Finland/Afghanistan
Maya Angelou and Still I Rise - dir. Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack, 2016, USA
Mekko - dir. Sterlin Harjo, 2015, USA
The Memory of Fish - dir. Jennifer Galvin, Sachi Cunningham, 2016, USA
Microbe and Gasoline - dir. Michel Gondry, 2015, France
Middle Man - dir. Ned Crowley, 2016, USA
Midsummer in Newtown - dir. Lloyd Kramer, 2016, USA
Miles - dir. Nathan Adloff, 2016, USA
The Mobfathers - dir. Herman Yau, 2016, Hong Kong
A Monster With a Thousand Heads - dir. Rodrigo Plá, 2015, Mexico
Moon in the 12th House - dir. Dorit Hakim, 2016, Israel
Morris From America - dir. Chad Hartigan, 2016, USA/Germany
Motherland - dir. Senem Tüzen, 2015, Turkey/Greece
Mountain - dir. Yaelle Kayam, 2015, Israel/Denmark
Mountains May Depart - dir. Jia Zhangke, 2015, China/Japan/France
Mr. Gaga - dir. Tomer Heymann, 2015, Israel/Sweden/Germany/Netherlands
Much Loved - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2015, Morocco/France
Murmur of the Hearts - dir. Sylvia Chang, 2015, Hong Kong/Taiwan
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble - dir. Morgan Neville, 2015, USA
My Blind Brother - dir. Sophie Goodhart, 2016, USA
Nakom - dir. Kelly Daniela Norris, TW Pittman, 2016, Ghana/USA
Naledi: A Baby Elephant's Tale - dir. Ben Bowie, Geoff Luck, 2016, USA/Botswana
A New High - dir. Samuel Miron, Stephen Scott Scarpulla, 2015, USA
News From Planet Mars - dir. Dominik Moll, 2016, France/Belgium
The Night Stalker - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2016, USA
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You - dir. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, 2016, USA
Nueva Venecia - dir. Emiliano Mazza de Luca, 2016, Uruguay/Colombia/Mexico
NUTS! - dir. Penny Lane, 2016, USA
Oddball - dir. Stuart McDonald, 2015, Australia
The Olive Tree - dir. Icíar Bollaín, 2016, Spain/Germany
One Kiss - dir. Ivan Cotroneo, 2016, Italy
Other Girls - dir. Esa Illi, 2015, Finland
Other People - dir. Chris Kelly, 2016, USA
Our Kind of Traitor - dir. Susanna White, 2016, United Kingdom
Our Little Sister - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015, Japan
Our Loved Ones - dir. Anne Émond, 2015, Canada (Québec)
Ovarian Psycos - dir. Kate Trumbull-LaValle, Joanna Sokolowski, 2016, USA
The Paradise Suite - dir. Joost van Ginkel, 2015, Netherlands/Sweden/Bulgaria
Paralytic - dir. Joey Johnson, 2016, USA
Paths of the Soul - dir. Zhang Yang, 2015, China
The Patriarch - dir. Lee Tamahori, 2016, New Zealand
Paul à Québec - dir. François Bouvier, 2015, Canada (Québec)
The People vs. Fritz Bauer - dir. Lars Kraume, 2015, Germany
Phantom Boy - dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol, 2015, France/Belgium
The Pistol Shrimps - dir. Brent Hodge, 2016, Canada/USA
Presenting Princess Shaw - dir. Ido Haar, 2015, Israel
The Pretty Ones - dir. Melisa Liebenthal, 2016, Argentina
The Queen of Ireland - dir. Conor Horgan, 2015, Ireland
Radio Dreams - dir. Babak Jalali, 2016, Iran/USA
Rainbow - dir. Nagesh Kukunoor, 2015, India
Rainbow Time - dir. Linas Phillips, 2016, USA
Rara - dir. Pepa San Martín, 2016, Chile/Argentina
Red Gringo - dir. Miguel Ángel Vidaurre, 2016, Chile
Resilience - dir. James Redford, 2016, USA
The Revolution Won’t Be Televised - dir. Rama Thiaw, 2016, Senegal
Rosita - dir. Frederikke Aspöck, 2015, Denmark
Sam Choy's Poké to the Max - dir. Terrence Santos, 2016, USA
Sand Storm - dir. Elite Zexer, 2016, Israel
A Scandal in Paris - dir. Douglas Sirk, 1946, United Kingdom
The Scent of Mandarin - dir. Gilles Legrand, 2015, France
Searchdog - dir. Mary Healey Jamiel, 2016, USA
Seasons - dir. Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, 2015, France/Germany
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger - dir. Colin MacCabe, Tilda Swinton, Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz, 2016, United Kingdom
SEED: The Untold Story - dir. Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel, 2016, USA
Slash - dir. Clay Liford, 2016, USA
Sleeping Giant - dir. Andrew Cividino, 2015, Canada
A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story - dir. Keith Maitland, 2016, USA
Sonita - dir. Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, 2015, Iran/Germany/Switzerland
The Sound of Trees - dir. François Péloquin, 2015, Canada (Québec)
Southside with You - dir. Richard Tanne, 2016, USA
Spa Night - dir. Andrew Ahn, 2015, USA
Sparrows - dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson, 2015, Iceland/Denmark/Croatia
Spy Time - dir. Javier Ruiz Caldera, 2015, Spain
Stranger - dir. Yermek Tursunov, 2015, Kazakhstan
Summer of ’92 - dir. Kasper Barfoed, 2016, Denmark/United Kingdom
Summertime - dir. Catherine Corsini, 2015, France
Sunset Song - dir. Terence Davies, 2015, United Kingdom
Sustainable - dir. Matt Wechsler, 2016, USA
Tag - dir. Sion Sono, 2015, Japan
Tanna - dir. Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, 2015, Australia/Vanuatu
The Tenth Man - dir. Daniel Burman, 2016, Argentina
Therapy for a Vampire - dir. David Ruehm, 2014, Austria
They Call Me Jeeg Robot - dir. Gabriele Mainetti, 2015, Italy
Thithi - dir. Raam Reddy, 2015, India/USA/Canada
Tickled - dir. David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, 2016, New Zealand
Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell - dir. Martin Bell, 2016, USA
Tower - dir. Keith Maitland, 2016, USA
Transpecos - dir. Greg Kwedar, 2016, USA
Trivisa - dir. Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong, 2016, Hong Kong/China
Truman - dir. Cesc Gay, 2015, Spain/Argentina
Tsukiji Wonderland - dir. Naotaro Endo, 2016, Japan
Uncle Howard - dir. Aaron Brookner, 2016, USA/United Kingdom
Under the Shadow - dir. Babak Anvari, 2016, United Kingdom/Jordan
Under the Sun - dir. Vitaly Mansky, 2015, Russia/Latvia/Germany/Czech Republic/North Korea
Up For Love - dir. Laurent Tirard, 2016, France
Vanity - dir. Lionel Baier, 2015, Switzerland/France
Vintage Tomorrows - dir. Byrd McDonald, 2015, USA/Canada/Czech Republic
The Violators - dir. Helen Walsh, 2015, United Kingdom
The Violin Teacher - dir. Sérgio Machado, 2015, Brazil
A Walk on the Moon - dir. Tony Goldwyn, 1999, USA
Warehoused - dir. Jack Zagha, 2015, Mexico
We Are X - dir. Stephen Kijak, 2016, USA/Japan/United Kingdom
The Weekend Sailor - dir. Bernardo Arsuaga, 2016, Mexico/Canada
Weiner - dir. Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, 2016, USA
Welcome To Norway! - dir. Rune Denstad Langlo, 2016, Norway
We the People 2.0 - dir. Leila Conners, 2016, USA
Where Have All the Good Men Gone - dir. René Frelle Petersen, 2016, Denmark
While the Women Are Sleeping - dir. Wayne Wang, 2016, Japan
Whistleblower - dir. Adolfo B. Alix Jr., 2016, Philippines
Wiener-Dog - dir. Todd Solondz, 2016, USA
Women He’s Undressed - dir. Gillian Armstrong, 2015, Australia
The Wounded Angel - dir. Emir Baigazin, 2016, Kazakhstan/France/Germany
You’ll Never Be Alone - dir. Alex Anwandter, 2016, Chile
Zoom - dir. Pedro Morelli, 2015, Canada/Brazil
Zud - dir. Marta Minorowicz, 2016, Germany/Poland/Mongolia
10th Annual 3-Minute Masterpieces
4th World Program–Indigenous Media Lab - included Virtual Reality Filmmakers’ Training, Folklife Festival - Flag Pavilion Gallery, SIFFX, Indigenous Film Party, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Mekko, Before the Streets
African Pictures - included 11 feature films
Alternate Cinema - included 3 feature films and one shorts package
An Afternoon with Molly Shannon: Other People
Archival Films - included 7 feature films
Asian Crossroads - included 30 feature films
Catalyst - included 5 feature films
Centerpiece Gala: Gleason at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
China Stars - included 5 feature films
Culinary Cinema - included 9 feature films
Documentary Competition - included 12 feature films
Emoción Pura: Cinema from Spain - included 10 feature films and one shorts package
Face the Music - included 10 feature films
Festival Forums - included 14 seminars
Films4Families - included 7 feature films and one shorts package
FutureWave - included 11 feature films and one shorts package
Gay-La: Being 17
Golden Space Needle & Jury Awards
Ibero-American Competition - included 8 feature films
Kirkland Opening Night: Paul à Québec at Kirkland Performance Center
Latin-American Cinema - included 18 feature films
New American Cinema Competition - included 10 feature films
New Directors Competition - included 12 feature films
Northwest Connections - included 15 feature films and 2 shorts packages
Official Competition - included 12 feature films
Renton Opening Night: My Blind Brother at Ikea Performing Arts Center
SIFF + True Productions Documentary Filmmakers Grant Program - included Big Sonia, Gold Balls
SIFF–X - included Opening Night Screening at Pacific Science Center Laser Dome, Pluto in the Dome, Keynote Speaker: Nanny de la Peña, X Academy, X Gallery
Saturday Film and Party: Indignation, The Intervention, Frank & Lola
Short Films
Short Films - included 17 shorts packages
Special Presentations: The Final Master, The Night Stalker, Our Kind of Traitor, Truman, Sonic Evolution: This Is Indie!, Oh, You Pretty Things!: A David Bowie and Glam Rock dance party, The Prince Sing Along
A Tribute to Viggo Mortensen: Captain Fantastic
Wild, Titillating, Fantastic Late Nights! - included 9 feature films