Seattle International Film Festival 2018 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2018

Relive the 44th 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 2018 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 17–June 10, 2018
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Ark Lodge Cinemas, Central Library, Dar Rainier Chapter House, Fisher Pavilion, The House Studios, Kirkland Performance Center, Lincoln Square, Majestic Bay Theatres, McCaw Hall, MOHAI, Nordic Museum, AMC Pacific Place 11, Shoreline Community College Theater, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, SIFF VR Zone at Pac Place, The Triple Door, 2 W Roy St

Opening Night: The Bookshop at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
Closing Night: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Tribute: Ethan Hawke, Melanie Lynsky


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Programmers, Dan Doody and Megan Leonard, pose with guests for ShortsFest Opening Night

Programmers, Dan Doody and Megan Leonard, pose with guests for ShortsFest Opening Night

Programmers, Dan Doody and Megan Leonard, pose with guests for ShortsFest Opening Night

Programmers, Dan Doody and Megan Leonard, pose with guests for ShortsFest Opening Night

SIFF programmer, Clinton McClung, intoducing a film during the 44th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF programmer, Clinton McClung, intoducing a film during the 44th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF programmer, Clinton McClung, intoducing a film during the 44th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF programmer, Clinton McClung, intoducing a film during the 44th Seattle International Film Festival

Filmmakers Jeff Barehand, Masahiro Sugano, Graham Bourque, Kendra Ann Sherrill, Elliat Graney-Saucke, and Myisa Plancq-Graham with SIFF Executive Director Sarah Wilke, Programmer Dustin Kaspar, and Amy Lillard of Washington Filmworks at the SIFF 2018 Fly Filmmkaing Challenge screening

Filmmakers Jeff Barehand, Masahiro Sugano, Graham Bourque, Kendra Ann Sherrill, Elliat Graney-Saucke, and Myisa Plancq-Graham with SIFF Executive Director Sarah Wilke, Programmer Dustin Kaspar, and Amy Lillard of Washington Filmworks at the SIFF 2018 Fly Filmmkaing Challenge screening

Filmmakers Jeff Barehand, Masahiro Sugano, Graham Bourque, Kendra Ann Sherrill, Elliat Graney-Saucke, and Myisa Plancq-Graham with SIFF Executive Director Sarah Wilke, Programmer Dustin Kaspar, and Amy Lillard of Washington Filmworks at the SIFF 2018 Fly Filmmkaing Challenge screening

Filmmakers Jeff Barehand, Masahiro Sugano, Graham Bourque, Kendra Ann Sherrill, Elliat Graney-Saucke, and Myisa Plancq-Graham with SIFF Executive Director Sarah Wilke, Programmer Dustin Kaspar, and Amy Lillard of Washington Filmworks at the SIFF 2018 Fly Filmmkaing Challenge screening

Audiences gather in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall for Opening Night of the festival, featuring the film, The Bookshop

Audiences gather in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall for Opening Night of the festival, featuring the film, The Bookshop

Audiences gather in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall for Opening Night of the festival, featuring the film, The Bookshop

Audiences gather in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall for Opening Night of the festival, featuring the film, The Bookshop

Director, Michael Polish, and producer, Kate Bosworth, take selfies with fans on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Nona

Director, Michael Polish, and producer, Kate Bosworth, take selfies with fans on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Nona

Director, Michael Polish, and producer, Kate Bosworth, take selfies with fans on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Nona

Director, Michael Polish, and producer, Kate Bosworth, take selfies with fans on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Nona

Cast and crew of Sadie including Actor Tee Dennard, Producer Jennessa West, Actor Sophia Mitri Schloss, Director Megan Griffiths, Producer Lacey Leavitt, and Editor Celia Beasley

Cast and crew of Sadie including Actor Tee Dennard, Producer Jennessa West, Actor Sophia Mitri Schloss, Director Megan Griffiths, Producer Lacey Leavitt, and Editor Celia Beasley

Cast and crew of Sadie including Actor Tee Dennard, Producer Jennessa West, Actor Sophia Mitri Schloss, Director Megan Griffiths, Producer Lacey Leavitt, and Editor Celia Beasley

Cast and crew of Sadie including Actor Tee Dennard, Producer Jennessa West, Actor Sophia Mitri Schloss, Director Megan Griffiths, Producer Lacey Leavitt, and Editor Celia Beasley

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot
The Bookshop
The Bookshop
The Guilty
The Guilty
First Reformed
First Reformed
The Last Suit
The Last Suit
Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade
Reports Of Sarah And Saleem
Reports Of Sarah And Saleem
Sorry To Bother You
Sorry To Bother You

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Eighth Grade (dir. Bo Burnham, USA)

Best Director
Gustav Möller (The Guilty, Denmark)

Best Actress
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)

Best Actor
Miguel Ángel Solá (The Last Suit)

Best Short
Emergency (dir. Carey Williams, USA)

Best Documentary
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem (dir. Muayad Alayan, Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/Mexico)

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Dead Pigs (dir. Cathy Yan, China/USA)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Thunder Road (dir. Jim Cummings, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Inventing Tomorrow (dir. Laura Nix, USA)

Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Rust (dir. Aly Muritiba, Brazil)

List of Feature-Length Films

- dir. Johann Lurf, 2017, Austria

1985 - dir. Yen Tan, 2018, USA

Afghan Cycles - dir. Sarah Menzies, 2018, USA/France/Afghanistan

The African Storm - dir. Sylvestre Amoussou, 2017, Benin /France

After the War - dir. Annarita Zambrano, 2017, France/Italy/Belgium/Switzerland

Amateurs - dir. Gabriela Pichler, 2018, Sweden

American Animals - dir. Bart Layton, 2018, USA

Ana, mon Amour - dir. Cãlin Peter Netzer, 2017, Romania/Germany/France

Anchor and Hope - dir. Carlos Marques-Marcet, 2017, Spain/United Kingdom

Angels Wear White - dir. Vivian Qu, 2017, China/France

Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco - dir. James Crump, 2017, USA

Automata - dir. Van Alan, 2017, USA

Ava - dir. Sadaf Foroughi, 2017, Iran/Canada/Qatar

Ballet Now - dir. Steven Cantor, 2018, USA

Beast - dir. Michael Pearce, 2017, United Kingdom

Bee Nation - dir. Lana Šlezić, 2017, Canada

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story - dir. Steve Sullivan, 2018, United Kingdom

Being There - dir. Hal Ashby, 1979, USA

Belle and Sebastian, Friends for Life - dir. Clovis Cornillac, 2018, France

Belle de Jour - dir. Luis Buñuel, 1967, France

The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales… - dir. Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner, 2017, France

Birds Are Singing in Kigali - dir. Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, 2017, Poland

Blaze - dir. Ethan Hawke, 2018, USA

The Bleeding Edge - dir. Kirby Dick, 2018, USA

The Blessed - dir. Sofia Djama, 2017, France/Belgium

Blindspotting - dir. Carlos Lopez Estrada, 2018, USA

Bloody Milk - dir. Hubert Charuel, 2017, France

Blue My Mind - dir. Lisa Brühlmann, 2017, Switzerland

Bodied - dir. Joseph Kahn, 2017, USA

The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful - dir. Yang Ya-che, 2017, Taiwan

The Bookshop - dir. Isabel Coixet, 2017, United Kingdom/Spain/Germany

The Bottomless Bag - dir. Rustam Khamdamov, 2017, Russia

Boundaries - dir. Shana Feste, 2018, USA

Breath - dir. Simon Baker, 2017, Australia

Brewmaster - dir. Douglas Tirola, 2018, USA/Czech Republic

Butterflies - dir. Tolga Karaçelik, 2018, Turkey

Cake General - dir. Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson, 2018, Sweden

The Captain - dir. Robert Schwentke, 2017, Germany/Poland/Portugal/France

Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit - dir. Michael McNamara, Aaron Hancox, 2018, Canada

C’est la vie! - dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano, 2017, France/Canada/Belgium

Champions - dir. Javier Fesser, 2018, Spain

The Changeling - dir. Peter Medak, 1980, Canada

The Charmer - dir. Milad Alami, 2017, Denmark/Sweden

Chedeng & Apple - dir. Rae Red, Fatrick Tabada, 2018, Philippines

The Children Act - dir. Richard Eyre, 2017, United Kingdom

Cinderella the Cat - dir. Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone, 2017, Italy

Constructing Albert - dir. Laura Collado, Jim Loomis, 2017, Spain

Cook Off - dir. Tomas L. Brickhill, 2017, Zimbabwe

Crime + Punishment - dir. Stephen Maing, 2018, USA

The Crime of Monsieur Lange - dir. Jean Renoir, 1936, France

Cuban Food Stories - dir. Asori Soto, 2018, Cuba/USA

Dark River - dir. Clio Barnard, 2017, United Kingdom

Dawnland - dir. Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip, 2018, USA

Dead Pigs - dir. Cathy Yan, 2018, China/USA

Death of a Poetess - dir. Dana Goldberg, Efrat Mishori, 2017, Israel

The Devil's Doorway - dir. Aislinn Clarke, 2018, United Kingdom

Disobedience - dir. Sebastián Lelio, 2017, United Kingdom/USA/Ireland

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot - dir. Gus Van Sant, 2018, USA

Doubtful - dir. Eliran Elia, 2017, Israel

The Drummer and the Keeper - dir. Nick Kelly, 2017, Ireland/USA

Edward II - dir. Derek Jarman, 1991, United Kingdom/Japan

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day - dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, Germany

Eighth Grade - dir. Bo Burnham, 2018, USA

Ellen - dir. Daryne Joshua, 2017, South Africa

The Empty Hands - dir. Chapman To, 2017, Hong Kong

Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil - dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017, Spain/France

The Eternal Road - dir. AJ Annila, 2017, Finland

Every Act of Life - dir. Jeff Kaufman, 2018, USA

The Faces of Zandra Rhodes - dir. David Wiesehan, 2018, USA

Fake Tattoos - dir. Pascal Plante, 2017, Canada (Québec)

Falling - dir. Marina Stepanska, 2017, Ukraine/Italy

The Field Guide to Evil - dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala, Peter Strickland, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Katrin Gebbe, Can Evrenol, Calvin Reeder, Ashim Ahluwalia, Yannis Veslemes, 2018, Austria/Germany/Greece/Hungary/India/Poland/Turkey/USA

First Reformed - dir. Paul Schrader, 2017, USA

Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems - dir. Joe Pickett, Nick Prueher, 2018, USA

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary - dir. Brent Hodge, 2018, USA

Garbage - dir. Q (Qaushiq Mukherjee), 2018, India

Gauguin - dir. Edouard Deluc, 2017, France

Genesis - dir. Árpád Bogdán, 2018, Hungary

Giant - dir. Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi, 2017, Spain

Girls Always Happy - dir. Yang Mingming, 2018, China

Godard Mon Amour - dir. Michel Hazanavicius, 2017, France

Going West - dir. Henrick Martin Daslsbakken, 2018, Norway

Gold Seekers - dir. Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori, 2017, Paraguay

Good Manners - dir. Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas, 2017, Brazil/France

A Good Week for Democracy - dir. Cecilia Björk, 2018, Sweden

The Gospel According to André - dir. Kate Novack, 2017, USA

Green Days by the River - dir. Michael Mooleedhar, 2017, Trinidad and Tobago

The Greenaway Alphabet - dir. Saskia Boddeke, 2017, Netherlands

The Guilty - dir. Gustav Möller, 2018, Denmark

Hagazussa - A Heathen’s Curse - dir. Lukas Feigelfeld, 2017, Germany

Hal - dir. Amy Scott, 2018, USA

Half Widow - dir. Danish Renzu, 2017, India

Happy Birthday - dir. Christos Georgiou, 2017, Greece

Hard Paint - dir. Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio Reolon, 2018, Brazil

Hearts Beat Loud - dir. Brett Haley, 2018, USA

The Heiresses - dir. Marcelo Martinessi, 2018, Paraguay/Uruguay/Germany/Brazil/Norway/France

Highlander with Live Soundtrack by DJ NicFit - dir. Russell Mulcahy, 1986, United Kingdom/USA

Hot Mess - dir. Lucy Coleman, 2017, Australia

I Am Not a Witch - dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017, Zambia/France/United Kingdom

I Miss You When I See You - dir. Simon Chung, 2018, Hong Kong

In Praise of Nothing - dir. Boris Mitic, 2017, Serbia/France/Croatia

Industrial Accident - The Story of Wax Trax! Records - dir. Julia Nash, 2018, USA/Belgium/Canada/Germany

Inventing Tomorrow - dir. Laura Nix, 2018, USA

It Will Be Chaos - dir. Lorena Luciano, Filippo Piscopo, 2018, USA

Jinn - dir. Nijla Mu’min, 2018, USA

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection - dir. Julien Faraut, 2018, France

Julia Blue - dir. Roxy Toporowych, 2018, Ukraine

A Kid Like Jake - dir. Silas Howard, 2018, USA

Killing Jesus - dir. Laura Mora Oretega, 2017, Colombia/Argentina

The King - dir. Eugene Jarecki, 2018, USA/Germany/France

Kiss & Spell - dir. Stephane Gauger, 2017, Vietnam

L’Inferno with live score by My Goodness - dir. Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Adolfo Padovan, 1911, Italy

Last Child - dir. Shin Dong-seok, 2017, South Korea

The Last Suit - dir. Pablo Solarz, 2017, Argentina/Spain

Leave No Trace - dir. Debra Granik, 2018, USA

Lemonade - dir. Ioana Uricaru, 2018, Romania/Canada/Germany/Sweden

Let The Sunshine In - dir. Claire Denis, 2017, France

Little Tito and the Aliens - dir. Paola Randi, 2017, Italy

The Long Dumb Road - dir. Hannah Fidell, 2018, USA

Looking For? - dir. Tung-yen Chou, 2017, Taiwan

Looking for Oum Kulthum - dir. Shirin Neshat, 2017, Germany/Austria/Italy/Lebanon/Qatar

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle - dir. Gustavo Salmerón, 2017, Spain

Love and Shukla - dir. Siddhartha Jatla, 2017, India

Love Education - dir. Sylvia Chang, 2017, China/Taiwan

Love, Gilda - dir. Lisa D’Apolito, 2018, USA

Luk'Luk'I - dir. Wayne Wapeemukwa, 2017, Canada

Luna - dir. Elsa Diringer, 2017, France

Mademoiselle Paradis - dir. Barbara Albert, 2017, Austria/Germany

Maki’la - dir. Machérie Ekwa Bahango, 2018, Democratic Republic of Congo/France

Making the Grade - dir. Ken Wardrop, 2017, Ireland

A Man of Integrity - dir. Mohammad Rasoulof, 2017, Iran

Marilyn - dir. Martín Rodriguez Redondo, 2018, Argentina/Chile

Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts - dir. Mouly Surya, 2017, Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand

MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. - dir. Stephen Loveridge, 2018, Sri Lanka/United Kingdom/USA 

McQueen - dir. Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, 2018, United Kingdom

Michelin Stars: Tales from the Kitchen - dir. Rasmus Dinesen, 2017, Denmark

The Miseducation of Cameron Post - dir. Desiree Akhavan, 2018, USA

Mobile Homes - dir. Vladimir de Fontenay, 2017, Canada/France

A Moment In the Reeds - dir. Mikko Makela, 2017, Finland/United Kingdom

Moomins and the Winter Wonderland - dir. Ira Carpelan, Jakub Wronski, Bartosz Wierzbieta, 2017, Finland/USA

The Most Dangerous Year - dir. Vlada Knowlton, 2018, USA

The Most Unknown - dir. Ian Cheney, 2018, Belgium/Costa Rica/Italy

Mountain - dir. Jennifer Peedom, 2017, Australia

Mutafukaz - dir. Shôjirô Nishimi, Guillaume Renard, 2017, France/Japan

My Big Gay Italian Wedding - dir. Alessandro Genovesi, 2018, Italy

My Name Is Myeisha - dir. Gus Krieger, 2018, USA

Naila and the Uprising - dir. Julia Bacha, 2017, Palestine/USA

Nancy - dir. Christina Choe, 2018, USA

Naples in Veils - dir. Ferzan Ozpetek, 2017, Italy

Nearest and Dearest - dir. Ksenia Zueva, 2017, Russia

Nervous Translation - dir. Shireen Seno, 2018, Philippines

Never Steady, Never Still - dir. Kathleen Hepburn, 2017, Canada

New Turn - dir. Doris Wong, 2017, Hong Kong/Taiwan

Nico, 1988 - dir. Susanna Nicchiarelli, 2017, Italy/USA

No Bed of Roses - dir. Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, 2017, Bangladesh/India

Noble Earth - dir. Ursula Grisham, 2017, USA

Nona - dir. Michael Polish, 2017, Guatemala/Honduras/Mexico

Number One - dir. Tonie Marshall, 2017, France/Belgium

On Borrowed Time - dir. Yasir Al Yasiri, 2018, United Arab Emirates

On Chesil Beach - dir. Dominic Cooke, 2017, United Kingdom

On Her Shoulders - dir. Alexandria Bombach, 2018, USA

One of These Days - dir. Nadim Tabet, 2017, Lebanon/Qatar

The Oslo Diaries - dir. Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan, 2018, Israel/Canada 

The Other Side of Everything - dir. Mila Turajlić, 2017, Serbia

People's Republic of Desire - dir. Hao Wu, 2018, China

Pick of the Litter - dir. Don Hardy Jr., Dana Nachman, 2017, USA

Pig - dir. Mani Haghighi, 2018, Iran

The Place - dir. Paolo Genovese, 2017, Italy

The Poet and the Boy - dir. Kim Yang-hee, 2017, South Korea

The Poetess - dir. Stefanie Brockhaus, Andreas Wolff, 2017, Germany/Saudi Arabia

Prospect - dir. Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell, 2018, USA/Canada

Pure Hearts - dir. Roberto De Paolis, 2017, Italy

Puzzle - dir. Marc Turtletaub, 2018, USA

Queerama - dir. Daisy Asquith, 2017, United Kingdom

Racer and the Jailbird - dir. Michaël R. Roskam, 2017, Belgium/France/Netherlands

Razzia - dir. Nabil Ayouch, 2017, France/Morocco/Belgium

The Reports on Sarah and Saleem - dir. Muayad Alayan, 2018, Palestine/Netherlands/Germany/Mexico

Retablo - dir. Alvaro L. Delgado-Aparicio, 2017, Peru/Germany/Norway

The Return - dir. Malene Choi, 2018, Denmark

Return to Mount Kennedy - dir. Eric Becker, 2018, USA

Revenge - dir. Coralie Fargeat, 2017, France

A Rough Draft - dir. Sergey Mokritskiy, 2018, Russia

Rubén Blades Is Not My Name - dir. Abner Benaim, 2018, Panama/Argentina/Colombia

Ruin Me - dir. Preston DeFrancis, 2017, USA

Rush Hour - dir. Luciana Kaplan, 2017, Mexico

The Russian Five - dir. Joshua Riehl, 2018, USA

Rust - dir. Aly Muritiba, 2018, Brazil

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda - dir. Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017, Japan/USA

Sadie - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2018, USA

Sansho the Bailiff - dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954, Japan

Sashinka - dir. Kristina Wagenbauer, 2017, Canada (Québec)

Scary Mother - dir. Ana Urushadze, 2017, Georgia/Estonia

Schumann’s Bar Talks - dir. Marieke Schroeder, 2017, Germany

Scotch - A Golden Dream - dir. Andrew Peat, 2017, Taiwan

See You Up There - dir. Albert Dupontel, 2017, France

Shakedown - dir. Leilah Weinraub, 2018, USA

Shuttle Life - dir. Seng Kiat Tan, 2017, Malaysia

Silas - dir. Hawa Essuman, Anjali Nayar, 2017, Canada/South Africa/Kenya

The Silk and the Flame - dir. Jordan Schiele, 2018, USA/China

Skate Kitchen - dir. Crystal Moselle, 2018, USA

A Skin So Soft - dir. Denis Côté, 2017, Canada (Québec)/Switzerland/France

Something Useful - dir. Pelin Esmer, 2017, Turkey/France/Netherlands/Germany

The Song of Scorpions - dir. Anup Singh, 2017, Switzerland/France/Singapore

Sorry to Bother You - dir. Boots Riley, 2018, USA

Soufra - dir. Thomas Morgan, 2017, USA

The Sower - dir. Marine Francen, 2017, France/Belgium

The Story of ‘72 - dir. Prabin Syangbo, 2018, Nepal/South Africa

Streaker - dir. Peter Luisi, 2017, Switzerland

Suleiman Mountain - dir. Elizaveta Stishova, 2017, Kyrgyzstan/Russia

Summer 1993 - dir. Carla Simón, 2017, Spain

Supa Modo - dir. Likarion Wainaina, 2018, Kenya/Germany

Susu - dir. Yixi Sun, 2017, China/United Kingdom

Sweet Country - dir. Warwick Thornton, 2017, Australia

The Taste of Betel Nut - dir. Hu Jia, 2017, China/Hong Kong

Team Hurricane - dir. Annika Berg, 2017, Denmark

That Summer - dir. Göran Hugo Olsson, 2017, Sweden/USA/Denmark

The Third Murder - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2017, Japan

This Is Home - dir. Alexandra Shiva, 2018, USA/Jordan

This One's For The Ladies - dir. Gene Graham, 2018, USA

Three Identical Strangers - dir. Tim Wardle, 2018, USA

Three Peaks - dir. Jan Zabeil , 2017, Germany/Italy

Thunder Road - dir. Jim Cummings, 2018, USA

Tigers Are Not Afraid - dir. Issa López, 2017, Mexico

Time Trial - dir. Finlay Pretsell, 2017, United Kingdom

Tyrel - dir. Sebastián Silva, 2018, USA

Unarmed Verses - dir. Charles Officer, 2017, Canada

Under the Tree - dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, 2017, Iceland/Denmark/Poland/Germany

Valley of Shadows - dir. Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, 2017, Norway

Village Rockstars - dir. Rima Das, 2017, India

Virus Tropical - dir. Santiago Caicedo, 2017, Colombia/Ecuador

Wajib - dir. Annemarie Jacir, 2017, Palestine/France/Germany/Colombia/Norway/Qatar/United/Arab Emirates

Warrior Women - dir. Elizabeth A. Castle, Christina D. King, 2018, USA

Waru - dir. Briar Grace-Smith, Awanui Simich-Pene, Katie Wolfe, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Chelsea Winstanley, Paula Whetu Jones, Ainsley Gardiner, 2017, New Zealand

We the Animals - dir. Jeremiah Zagar, 2018, USA

Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist - dir. Lorna Tucker, 2018, United Kingdom

What Will People Say - dir. Iram Haq, 2017, Norway/Germany/Sweden

The Widowed Witch - dir. Cai Chengjie, 2018, China

Wild Nights With Emily - dir. Madeleine Olnek, 2018, USA

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - dir. Morgan Neville, 2018, USA

Wrath of Silence - dir. Yukun Xin, 2017, China

Zombillenium - dir. Arthur de Pins, Alexis Ducord, 2017, France/Belgium

Zoo - dir. Colin McIvor, 2017, Ireland

Special Programs & Events

4th World Indigenous Media Lab Events - included Dawnland Screening and Panel, 4th World - Indigenous Media Lab

An Afternoon with Melanie Lynskey: Sadie

Centerpiece Gala: Sorry to Bother You at SIFF Cinema Egyptian

The Clark Family Legacy & Aegis Living Documentary Film Grant Program - included The Silk and the Flame, Afghan Cycles

Festival Forums - included Finding the Perfect Collaborators: Demystifying Unions In Film Production, Money Please!: Fundraising for Episodic Content, The Synergy of Editor & Director in Documentary Film, Festival Diversity: How are Festivals Serving Underrepresented Communities, #Disruption #Inclusion: The Film Industry’s ‘new’ landscape after #MeToo #TimesUp

Fly Filmmaking Challenge

Found Footage Festival: Cherished Gems

The Golden Space Needle Awards

Grand Prize Screenplay Reading: Youth Decay

Highlander with Live Soundtrack by DJ NicFit

Kirkland Opening Night: The Drummer and the Keeper at Kirkland Performance Center

L’Inferno with Live Score performed by My Goodness

New Works-In-Progress - included A Good Week For Democracy, Julia Blue, Retablo, The Silk and the Flame

SIFF VR Zone - included 360 Outer Space, 360 Out of Africa, 360 Experimental Storytelling, 360 Narrative Storytelling, 360 Documentary, 360 Art & Music, Youth 360 Showcase, Interactive VR Program

Saturday Film and Party: Cake General, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Secret Festival

ShortsFest Weekend - included 19 shorts packages

Spotlight Presentation: Eighth Grade

A Tribute to Ethan Hawke: Blaze