Director, Lulu Wang, answers questions from SIFF's Beth Barrett and Amy Fulford after the screening of her film, The Farewell, on Closing Night
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Relive the 45th 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 2019 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 16–June 9, 2019
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Ark Lodge Cinemas, Dar Rainier Chapter House, Fisher Pavilion, The House Studios, Hyatt Regency, 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, Seattle Central Library, SIFF Lounge at 8 W Roy St
Opening Night: Sword of Trust at McCaw Hall
Closing Night: The Farewell at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Tribute: Regina Hall
Photos
Director, Lulu Wang, answers questions from SIFF's Beth Barrett and Amy Fulford after the screening of her film, The Farewell, on Closing Night
Director, Lynn Shelton, and actor, Marc Maron, at the SIFF Opening Night Red Carpet for their film, Sword of Trust
The party crowd inside Fisher Pavilion during the SIFF 2019 Opening Party
Fisher Pavilion under The Space Needle in Seattle Center, the location of the SIFF 2019 Opening Party
SIFF programmer, Dan Doody, in a celebratory stance on ShortsFest Closing Night
Tribute guest and actress, Regina Hall, signs autographs from the red carpet at Egyptian during her tribute event
Best Film
Tel Aviv on Fire (dir. Sameh Zoabi, Luxembourg/France/Israel/Belgium)
Best Director
Ulaa Salim (Sons of Denmark, Denmark)
Best Actress
Damla Sönmez (Sibel)
Best Actor
Julius Weckauf (All About Me)
Best Short
Stepdaddy (dir. Lisa Steen, USA)
Best Documentary
We Are the Radical Monarchs (dir. Linda Goldstein Knowlton, USA)
Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
House of Hummingbird (dir. Bora Kim, South Korea/USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia (dir. Arturo Infante, Cuba/Germany)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
International Falls (dir. Amber McGinnis, USA)
Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
The Awakening of the Ants (dir. Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, Costa Rica/Spain)
2040 - dir. Damon Gameau, 2019, Australia
3 Faces - dir. Jafar Panahi, 2018, Iran
An Affair - dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, 2018, Norway
Afterlife - dir. Willem Bosch, 2019, Netherlands
Alice - dir. Josephine Mackerras, 2019, Australia/France
All About Me - dir. Caroline Link, 2019, Germany
All My Loving - dir. Edward Berger, 2019, Germany
An Almost Ordinary Summer - dir. Simone Godano, 2019, Italy
American Factory - dir. Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, 2019, USA
The Announcement - dir. Mahmut Fazil Coşkun, 2018, Turkey/Bulgaria
Another Day of Life - dir. Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018, Poland/Spain/Benelux/Germany/Hungary
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch - dir. Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky, 2018, Canada
The Apollo - dir. Roger Ross Williams, 2019, USA
Artifishal - dir. Josh Murphy, 2019, USA
The Art of Self-Defense - dir. Riley Stearns, 2019, USA
As the Earth Turns - dir. Richard Lyford, 1938/2018, USA
Aurora - dir. Miia Tervo, 2019, Finland
The Awakening of the Ants - dir. Antonella Sudasassi Furniss, 2019, Costa Rica/Spain
Ayka - dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy, 2018, Kazakhstan/Russia/Germany/Poland/China
Baby - dir. Liu Jie, 2018, China
Banana Split - dir. Benjamin Kasulke, 2018, USA
Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground - dir. Chuck Smith, 2018, USA/France/Israel
Before the Vows - dir. Nicole Amarteifio, 2018, Ghana
Between the Lines - dir. Joan Micklin Silver, 1977, USA
The Bigamist - dir. Ida Lupino, 1953, USA
Blinded by the Light - dir. Gurinder Chadha, 2019, United Kingdom
Botero - dir. Don Millar, 2018, Canada
Brittany Runs a Marathon - dir. Paul Downs Colaizzo, 2019, USA
Burning Cane - dir. Phillip Youmans, 2019, USA
Carmen & Lola - dir. Arantxa Echevarría, 2018, Spain
Celebration - dir. Olivier Meyrou, 2018, France
Chef’s Diaries: Scotland - dir. Laura Otálora, 2019, United Kingdom/Spain
Cities of Last Things - dir. Ho Wi Ding, 2018, Taiwan/China/France/USA
Clemency - dir. Chinonye Chukwu, 2019, USA
Cold Case Hammarskjöld - dir. Mads Brügger, 2019, Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Belgium
Cold Sweat - dir. Soheil Beiraghi, 2018, Iran
A Colony - dir. Geneviève Dulude-De Celles, 2018, Canada (Québec)
Conviction - dir. Antoine Raimbault, 2018, France
Crystal Swan - dir. Darya Zhuk, 2018, Belarus/Russia/Germany/USA
David Crosby: Remember My Name - dir. A.J. Eaton, 2019, USA
The Days to Come - dir. Carlos Marqués-Marcet, 2019, Spain
The Dead Don’t Die - dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2019, USA
Deadtectives - dir. Tony West, 2018, USA
The Death of Dick Long - dir. Daniel Scheinert, 2019, USA
Distinction - dir. Jevons Au, 2018, Hong Kong
The Dive - dir. Yona Rozenkier, 2018, Israel
A Dog Called Money - dir. Seamus Murphy, 2019, Ireland/United Kingdom
Driveways - dir. Andrew Ahn, 2019, USA
Eastern Memories - dir. Niklas Kullström, Martti Kaartinen, 2018, Finland
El Ángel - dir. Luis Ortega, 2018, Argentina/Spain
Emma Peeters - dir. Nicole Palo, 2018, Belgium/Canada
Enamorada - dir. Emilio Fernández, 1946, Mexico
Engineering with Nature - An Ode to Water, Wood, and Stone - dir. Shelly Solomon, 2019, USA
Enormous: The Gorge Story - dir. Nic Davis, 2019, USA
EXT. Night - dir. Ahmad Abdalla, 2018, Egypt/United Arab Emirates
The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia - dir. Arturo Infante, 2018, Cuba/Germany
A Faithful Man - dir. Louis Garrel, 2018, France
The Fall of the American Empire - dir. Denys Arcand, 2018, Canada (Québec)
A Family Tour - dir. Ying Liang, 2018, Hong Kong/Taiwan/Singapore/Malaysia
Fantastic Planet - dir. René Laloux, 1973, France/Czechoslovakia
The Farewell - dir. Lulu Wang, 2019, USA/China
Farinelli - dir. Gérard Corbiau, 1994, France/Italy/Belgium
#Female Pleasure - dir. Barbara Miller, 2018, Switzerland/Germany
Fight Fam - dir. Ruben Rodriguez Perez, 2019, USA
Fig Tree - dir. Aäläm-Wärqe Davidian, 2018, Ethiopia/Israel/Germany/France
Firecrackers - dir. Jasmin Mozaffari, 2018, Canada
Fly Rocket Fly - dir. Oliver Schwehm, 2018, Germany/Belgium
The Footballest - dir. Miguel Ángel Lamata, 2018, Spain
For My Father’s Kingdom - dir. Vea Mafile’o, Jeremiah Tauamiti , 2019, New Zealand
For Sama - dir. Waad al-Kateab, Edward Watts, 2019, United Kingdom
Frances Ferguson - dir. Bob Byington, 2019, USA
Funke - dir. Gab Taraboulsy, 2018, USA
Gatao 2: Rise of the King - dir. Yen Cheng-Kuo, 2018, Taiwan
Ghost Fleet - dir. Shannon Service, Jeffrey Waldron, 2018, USA
Ghost Town Anthology - dir. Denis Côté, 2019, Canada (Québec)
Go Back to China - dir. Emily Ting, 2019, China/Hong Kong/USA
The Good Girls - dir. Alejandra Márquez Abella, 2018, Mexico
Good Kisser - dir. Wendy Jo Carlton, 2019, USA
Greener Grass - dir. Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, 2019, USA
The Ground Beneath My Feet - dir. Marie Kreutzer, 2019, Austria
Hala - dir. Minhal Baig, 2019, USA
Halston - dir. Frédéric Tcheng, 2019, USA
Hat-Trick - dir. Ramtin Lavafi, 2018, Iran
Here Comes Hell - dir. Jack McHenry, 2018, United Kingdom
The Hitch-Hiker - dir. Ida Lupino, 1953, USA
Honeyland - dir. Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, 2019, Macedonia
House of Hummingbird - dir. Bora Kim, 2018, South Korea/USA
House of My Fathers - dir. Suba Sivakumaran, 2018, Sri Lanka/United Kingdom
Human Nature - dir. Adam Bolt, 2019, USA/Spain/Turkey/Australia
I Am Cuba - dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964, Cuba/Soviet Union
I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians - dir. Radu Jude, 2018, Romania/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria/Germany
In Fabric - dir. Peter Strickland, 2018, United Kingdom
The Innocent - dir. Simon Jaquemet, 2018, Switzerland/Germany
International Falls - dir. Amber McGinnis, 2019, USA
In the Aisles - dir. Thomas Stuber, 2018, Germany
Invest in Failure (Notes on Film 06-C, Monologue 03) - dir. Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2018, Austria
Invisibles - dir. Louis-Julien Petit, 2018, France
The Invisible Witness - dir. Stefano Mordini, 2018, Italy
Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic - dir. Yann L’Hénoret, 2019, France
Jim Allison: Breakthrough - dir. Bill Haney, 2019, USA
Kifaru - dir. David Hambridge, 2019, USA/Kenya
Knife+Heart - dir. Yann Gonzalez, 2018, France/Switzerland/Mexico
Koko-di Koko-da - dir. Johannes Nyholm, 2019, Sweden/Denmark
Late Night - dir. Nisha Ganatra, 2019, USA
Le Chocolat de H - dir. Takashi Watanabe, 2019, Japan
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers - dir. Macoto Tezka, 1985, Japan
Lest We Forget - dir. Luigi Toscano, 2019, Germany
Little Tickles - dir. Andréa Bescond, Eric Métayer, 2018, France
Lives with Flavor: Monica Patiño & Carlos Gaytán - dir. Ruth Zachs Babani, Pablo Gasca Gollás, 2019, Mexico
The Long Haul: The Story of the Buckaroos - dir. Amy Enser, 2019, USA
Long Time No Sea - dir. Heather Tsui, 2018, Taiwan
Lynch: A History - dir. David Shields, 2019, USA
Maiden - dir. Alex Holmes, 2018, United Kingdom
Making Coco: The Grant Fuhr Story - dir. Don Metz, 2018, Canada
The Man Who Bought the Moon - dir. Paolo Zucca, 2018, Italy/Argentina/Albania
The Man Who Surprised Everyone - dir. Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, 2018, Russia/Estonia/France
Marighella - dir. Wagner Moura, 2019, Brazil
Meeting Gorbachev - dir. Werner Herzog, André Singer, 2018, United Kingdom/USA/Germany
MEMORY - The Origins of Alien - dir. Alexandre O. Philippe, 2019, USA
The Mercy of the Jungle - dir. Joël Karekezi, 2018, Belgium/France
Metal Heart - dir. Hugh O'Conor, 2018, Ireland
Mickey and the Bear - dir. Annabelle Attanasio, 2019, USA
Midnight Family - dir. Luke Lorentzen, 2019, Mexico/USA
Midnight Traveler - dir. Hassan Fazili, 2019, USA/Qatar/United Kingdom/Canada
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool - dir. Stanley Nelson, 2019, USA/United Kingdom
Minuscule - Mandibles From Far Away - dir. Thomas Szabo, Hélène Giraud, 2018, France
Miriam Lies - dir. Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada, 2018, Dominican Republic/Spain
Monos - dir. Alejandro Landes, 2019, Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/Uruguay
Mouthpiece - dir. Patricia Rozema, 2018, Canada
Ms. Purple - dir. Justin Chon, 2019, USA
The Nightingale - dir. Jennifer Kent, 2018, Australia
Nightmare Cinema - dir. Joe Dante, Alejandro Brugués, Mick Garris, Ryûhei Kitamura, David Slade, 2018, USA
No. 1 Chung Ying Street - dir. Derek Chiu, 2018, Hong Kong
Non-Fiction - dir. Olivier Assayas, 2018, France
Official Secrets - dir. Gavin Hood, 2019, USA/United Kingdom
Olympic Dreams - dir. Jeremy Teicher, 2019, USA/South Korea
One Child Nation - dir. Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, 2019, China/USA
One Day - dir. Zsófia Szilágyi , 2018, Hungary
One Last Deal - dir. Klaus Härö, 2018, Finland
One, Two, Three - dir. Billy Wilder, 1961, USA
Orange Days - dir. Arash Lahooti, 2018, Iran
Oray - dir. Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, 2019, Germany
Our Bodies Our Doctors - dir. Jan Haaken, 2019, USA
Pachamama - dir. Juan Antin, 2019, France
Palace for the People - dir. Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov, 2018, Bulgaria/Germany/Romania
Patrinell: The Total Experience - dir. Andrew Elizaga, Tia Young, 2019, USA
Pause - dir. Tonia Mishiali, 2018, Cyprus/Greece
Pavarotti - dir. Ron Howard, 2019, USA/United Kingdom
The Peanut Butter Falcon - dir. Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz, 2019, USA
The Phantom of the Opera with live soundtrack by The Invincible Czars - dir. Rupert Julian, 1925, USA
Piazzolla, The Years of the Shark - dir. Daniel Rosenfeld, 2018, Argentina/France
Pigeon Kings - dir. Milena Pastreich, 2019, USA
Piranhas - dir. Claudio Giovannesi, 2019, Italy
Pity the Lovers - dir. Maximilian Hult, 2019, Sweden/Iceland
Premature - dir. Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2019, USA
Putin’s Witnesses - dir. Vitaly Mansky, 2018, Latvia/Switzerland/Czech Republic
Q Ball - dir. Michael Tolajian, 2019, USA
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins - dir. Janice Engel, 2019, USA
The Realm - dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2018, Spain/France
Redemption - dir. Boaz Yehonaton Yacov, Joseph Madmony, 2018, Israel
Rémi, Nobody’s Boy - dir. Antoine Blossier, 2018, France
Retrospekt - dir. Esther Rots, 2018, Netherlands/Belgium
Roll Red Roll - dir. Nancy Schwartzman, 2018, USA
Running with Beto - dir. David Modigliani, 2019, USA
Saf - dir. Ali Vatansever, 2018, Turkey/Germany/Romania
Sakawa - dir. Ben Asamoah, 2018, Belgium/Netherlands
Sauvage/Wild - dir. Camille Vidal-Naquet, 2018, France
Sew the Winter to My Skin - dir. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, 2018, South Africa/Germany
Sgaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife) - dir. Gwaai Edenshaw (Haida), Helen Haig-Brown (Tsilhqot'in Nation), 2018, Canada
The Sharks - dir. Lucía Garibaldi, 2019, Uruguay/Argentina/Spain
Shut Up and Play the Piano - dir. Philipp Jedicke, 2018, Germany
Sibel - dir. Çağla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti, 2018, Turkey/France/Germany/Luxembourg
Sink or Swim - dir. Gilles Lellouche, 2018, France/Belgium
Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story - dir. Patrick Creadon, 2019, USA
Socrates - dir. Alexandre Moratto, 2018, Brazil
Sonja - The White Swan - dir. Anne Sewitsky, 2019, Norway
Sons of Denmark - dir. Ulaa Salim, 2019, Denmark
The Sound of Silence - dir. Michael Tyburski, 2019, USA
Spies - dir. Fritz Lang, 1928, Germany
Sprinter - dir. Storm Saulter, 2018, Jamaica/USA
Stories of Us: Camp Second Chance - dir. Melinda Raebyne, 2019, USA
Storm in My Heart - dir. Mark Cousins, 2018, USA/Scotland
Stray Dolls - dir. Sonejuhi Sinha, 2019, USA
Stuffed - dir. Erin Derham, 2019, Canada/USA
Sune vs. Sune - dir. Jon Holmberg, 2018, Sweden/Denmark
Support the Girls - dir. Andrew Bujalski, 2018, USA
The Sweet Requiem - dir. Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam, 2018, India/USA
Swinging Safari - dir. Stephan Elliott, 2018, Australia/USA
Sword of Trust - dir. Lynn Shelton, 2019, USA
Take It or Leave It - dir. Liina Trišhkina-Vanhatalo, 2018, Estonia
Tel Aviv on Fire - dir. Sameh Zoabi, 2018, Luxembourg/France/Israel/Belgium
Temblores - dir. Jayro Bustamante, 2019, Guatemala/France/Luxembourg
Ten Years Thailand - dir. Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2018, Hong Kong/Thailand/Japan
Them That Follow - dir. Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage, 2019, USA
Thin Skin Event - dir. Charles Mudede, 2019, USA
The Third Wife - dir. Ash Mayfair, 2018, Vietnam
This Is Not Berlin - dir. Hari Sama, 2019, Mexico
A Thousand Girls Like Me - dir. Sahra Mosawi-Mani, 2018, Afghanistan/France
Timeless Beauty - dir. Deyan Parouchev, 2018, France/China
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am - dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, 2019, USA
Top End Wedding - dir. Wayne Blair, (Batjala Mununjali Wakkawakka), 2019, Australia
To the Stars - dir. Martha Stephens, 2019, USA
Touch Me Not - dir. Adina Pintilie, 2018, Romania/Germany/Czech Republic/France/Bulgaria
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts - dir. Nick Zeig-Owens, 2019, USA
Troop Zero - dir. Bert & Bertie, 2019, USA
Twin Flower - dir. Laura Luchetti, 2018, Italy
Urgent - dir. Mohcine Besri, 2018, Switzerland/Morocco
Vai - dir. Nicole Whippy, ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Matasila Freshwater, Amberley Jo Aumua, Miria George, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Dianna Fuemana, Becs Arahanga, 2019, New Zealand
Van Goghs - dir. Sergey Livnev, 2018, Russia/Latvia/United Kingdom
Virgin & Extra: The Land of the Olive Oil - dir. José Luis López Linares, 2018, Spain
Volcano - dir. Roman Bondarchuk, 2018, Ukraine/Germany
Watch List (Maria) - dir. Ben Rekhi, 2019, Philippines/USA
We Are the Radical Monarchs - dir. Linda Goldstein Knowlton, 2019, USA
We Take the Low Road - dir. Domenic Barbero, Jerry Spears, 2019, USA
What Doesn’t Kill Us - dir. Sandra Nettelbeck, 2018, Germany
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael - dir. Rob Garver, 2018, USA
What Walaa Wants - dir. Christy Garland, 2018, Canada/Denmark
Who Let the Dogs Out - dir. Brent Hodge, 2019, Canada
Widow of Silence - dir. Praveen Morchhale, 2018, India
The Wild - dir. Mark Titus, 2019, USA
Wild Rose - dir. Tom Harper, 2018, United Kingdom
Wine Calling - dir. Bruno Sauvard, 2018, France
Winter Flies - dir. Olmo Omerzu, 2018, Czech Republic
The Woman Who Loves Giraffes - dir. Alison Reid, 2018, Canada/USA/Kenya/South Africa
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation - dir. Barak Goodman, Jamila Ephron, 2019, USA
X - The eXploited - dir. Károly Ujj Mészáros, 2018, Hungary
X&Y - dir. Anna Odell, 2018, Sweden/Denmark
Yesterday - dir. Danny Boyle, 2019, United Kingdom
Yomeddine - dir. A.B. Shawky, 2018, Egypt/USA/Austria
Your Turn - dir. Eliza Capai, 2019, Brazil
Yuli - dir. Icíar Bollaín, 2018, Spain/Cuba/United Kingdom/Germany
4th World - Indigenous Media Lab Events - included Indigenous Kickoff at Discovery Center, N.Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear Screening and Panel, 4th World - Indigenous Media Lab
Centerpiece Gala: Late Night at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
DJ NicFit Presents Fantastic Planet
Film Forums - included The Art of the Short, How Any Artist Can Hustle on Social Media, Behind the Music: Composing for Film, Racial Cinequity: Seattle’s Film Cultures, Bigfoot Northwest Script Challenge Live Table Read
Golden Space Needle Awards
Kirkland Opening Night: Non-Fiction at Kirkland Performance Center
New Works-In-Progress Forum - included The Paths of My Father, A Loss of Something Ever Felt, Hope’s Journey, Lina From Lima
Saturday Film and Party: Pity the Lovers, Top End Wedding
ShortsFest Weekend - included 20 shorts packages
The Phantom of the Opera with live soundtrack by The Invincible Czars
The Secret Festival
Thin Skin Event
A Tribute to Regina Hall: Support the Girls