SIFF Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, takes part in the photo booth at the Closing Night Party at MOHAI
Relive the 48th 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 2022 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: April 14–24, 2022
Number of Days: 11
Venues: Ark Lodge Cinemas, Majestic Bay Theatres, AMC Pacific Place 11, Paramount Theatre, Shoreline Community College Theater, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Film Center, SIFF Channel (virtual)
Opening Night: Navalny at The Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Call Jane at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
SIFF Artistic Director, Beth Barrett, takes part in the photo booth at the Closing Night Party at MOHAI
Director, Brooke Pepion Swaney, subjects, Kendra Mylnechuk and Lhaq'temish, the Lummi People, pose on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Daughter of a Lost Bird
The Paramount marquee announcing Opening Night of the 48th Seattle International Film Festival with the film, Navalny
Opening Night attendees, including SIFF staffer, Andrew Montana pose for the camera at the post-film party
Director, Jeff Baena, and actress, Alison Brie, strike an (unpredictable) pose on the red carpet before the screening of their film, Spin Me Round
Cast and crew from the film, Are We Lost, celebrate the 48th Seattle International Film Festival under the SIFF Cinema Egyptian marquee
Best Film
Know Your Place (dir. Zia Mohajerjasbi, USA)
Best Documentary
The Territory (dir. Alex Pritz, Brazil/Denmark/USA)
Best Director
Horacio Gomez Alcalà (Finlandia, Spain/Mexico)
Best Performance
Dale Dickey (A Love Song)
Best Short
Long Line of Ladies (dir. Reyka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome, USA)
Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Klondike (dir. Maryna Er Gorbac, Ukraine/Turkey)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Lonely Voices (dir. Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi, Italy)
Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision - presented by Women in Film Seattle
Sweetheart Deal (dir. Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller USA)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Know Your Place (dir. Zia Mohajerjasbi, USA)
Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
Radiograph of a Family (dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iran/Norway/Switzerland)
Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Sublime (dir. Mariano Biasin, Argentina)
FutureWave Shorts Wavemaker Award
She (dir. Eva Li)
Short Film Live Action Grand Jury Prize
Rachels Don't Run (dir. Joanny Causse)
Short Film Live Action Special Jury Prize
El Carrito (dir. Zahida Pirani)
Short Film Live Action Special Jury Prize
Tank Fairy (dir. Erich Rettstadt)
Short Film Documentary Grand Jury Prize
Long Line of Ladies (dir. Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome)
Short Film Animation Grand Jury Prize
Love, Dad (dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen)
Short Film Animation Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Directing
Wet (dir. Marianne Bergeonneau, Lauriane Montppert, Mélina Mandon, Cloé Peyrebrune, Elvira Taussac)
107 Mothers - dir. Peter Kerekes, 2021, Slovakia/Czech Republic/Ukraine
2551.01 - dir. Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2021, Austria
2nd Chance - dir. Ramin Bahrani, 2022, USA
7 Lakes, 7 Lives - dir. Víctor Escribano, 2021, Spain
Ahed’s Knee - dir. Nadav Lapid, 2021, Israel/France/Germany
Ali & Ava - dir. Clio Barnard, 2021, United Kingdom
Alien on Stage - dir. Danielle Kummer, Lucy Harvey, 2021, United Kingdom
Anita - dir. Longman Leung, 2021, Hong Kong
Are We Lost - dir. Jenny Gage, Tom Betterton, 2022, USA
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - dir. Simon Callow, 1991, USA/Canada
Barbarian Invasion - dir. Tan Chui Mui, 2021, Malaysia/Hong Kong/Philippines
Bernstein’s Wall - dir. Douglas Tirola, 2021, USA
Between Two Dawns - dir. Selman Nacar, 2021, Turkey/France/Romania/Spain
Between Two Worlds - dir. Emmanuel Carrère, 2021, France
Blind Ambition - dir. Warwick Ross, Robert Coe, 2021, Australia
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic - dir. Teemu Nikki, 2021, Finland/Italy
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts - dir. Dru Holley, 2022, USA
Call Jane - dir. Phyllis Nagy, 2022, USA
Cat Daddies - dir. Mye Hoang, 2021, USA
Celts - dir. Milica Tomović, 2021, Serbia
Cha Cha Real Smooth - dir. Cooper Raiff, 2022, USA
Charlotte - dir. Eric Warin, Tahir Rana, 2021, United Kingdom/France/Canada
Children of the Mist - dir. Hà Lệ Diễm, 2021, Vietnam
Coffin Homes - dir. Fruit Chan, 2021, Hong Kong
Cop Secret - dir. Hannes Thór Halldórsson, 2021, Iceland
Costa Brava, Lebanon - dir. Mounia Akl, 2021, Lebanon/France/Spain/Sweden/Denmark/Norway/Qatar
Dark Red Forest - dir. Jin Huaqing, 2021, China
Daughter of a Lost Bird - dir. Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish), 2021, USA
Day By Day - dir. Felix Herngren, 2022, Sweden/Croatia
Doula - dir. Cheryl Nichols, 2022, USA
Drunken Birds - dir. Ivan Grbovic, 2021, Canada (Québec)
Dual - dir. Riley Stearns, 2022, USA
The Duke - dir. Roger Michell, 2020, United Kingdom
An Elephant on a Spider Web - dir. Rolando Diáz, 2022, Spain
Everybody Hates Johan - dir. Hallvar Witzø, 2022, Norway
Everything Went Fine - dir. François Ozon, 2021, France
Evolution - dir. Kornél Mundruczó, 2021, Hungary/Germany
Execution in Autumn - dir. Hsing Lee, 1972, Taiwan
Feathers - dir. Omar El Zohairy, 2021, Egypt/France/Netherlands/Greece
Finlandia - dir. Horacio Alcalà, 2021, Spain/Mexico
Fire of Love - dir. Sara Dosa, 2022, USA/Canada
The First 54 Years, an Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation - dir. Avi Mograbi, 2021, Israel
Flux Gourmet - dir. Peter Strickland, 2022, United Kingdom/USA/Hungary
Framing Agnes - dir. Chase Joynt, 2022, Canada
The Ghastly Brothers - dir. Michael Van Ostade, 2022, Belgium/Netherlands
Girl Picture - dir. Alli Haapasalo, 2022, Finland
The Good Boss - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 2021, Spain
Hannah Ha Ha - dir. Jordan Tetewsky, Joshua Pikovsky, 2022, USA
Hatching - dir. Hanna Bergholm, 2022, Finland/Sweden
The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar - dir. Luàna Bajrami, 2021, France/Kosovo
Hinterland - dir. Stefan Ruzowitsky, 2021, Germany/Austria/Luxembourg
Hit the Road - dir. Panah Panahi, 2021, Iran/USA
Hockeyland - dir. Tommy Haines, 2021, USA
The House of the Snails - dir. Macarena Astorga, 2021, Spain/Peru/Mexico
I AM DB COOPER - dir. T.J. Regan, 2022, USA
I’ll Show You Mine - dir. Megan Griffiths, 2022, USA
I’ll Stand By You - dir. Maximilien Dejoie, Virginija Vareikyté, 2021, Lithuania/Italy/Switzerland
I Love My Dad - dir. James Morosini, 2022, USA
Inexorable - dir. Fabrice du Welz, 2021, Belgium/France
In Front of Your Face - dir. Hong Sang-soo, 2021, South Korea
The Innocents - dir. Eskil Vogt, 2021, Norway
Inu-Oh - dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2021, Japan
Invisible Demons - dir. Rahul Jain, 2021, India/Finland/Germany
It’s Just a Phase, Honey - dir. Florian Gallenberger, 2021, Germany
Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story - dir. Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern, 2021, USA
Juju Stories - dir. Abba T Makama, C J ‘Fiery’ Obasi, Michael Omonua, 2021, Nigeria/France
The Justice of Bunny King - dir. Gaysorn Thavat, 2021, New Zealand
Kaepernick & America - dir. Tommy Walker, Ross Hockrow, 2022, USA
The King of Laughter - dir. Mario Martone, 2021, Italy/Spain
Klondike - dir. Maryna Er Gorbach, 2022, Ukraine/Turkey
Know Your Place - dir. Zia Mohajerjasbi, 2022, USA
The Last Film Show - dir. Pan Nalin, 2021, India
The Last Shelter - dir. Ousmane Samassekou, 2021, France/Mali/South Africa/Solomon Islands
The Legend of Molly Johnson - dir. Leah Purcell (Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri), 2021, Australia
Life of Ivanna - dir. Renato Borrayo Serrano, 2021, Russia/Estonia/Finland/Norway
The Line - dir. Ursula Meier, 2022, Switzerland/France/Belgium
Linoleum - dir. Colin West, 2022, USA
Listen Before You Sing - dir. Yang Chih-lin, 2021, Taiwan
Lonely Voices - dir. Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi, 2022, Italy
Lonesome - dir. Craig Boreham, 2022, Australia
Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter - dir. Rebecca Halpern, 2021, USA
A Love Song - dir. Max Walker-Silverman, 2022, USA
Lullaby - dir. Alauda Ruiz De Azúa, 2022, Spain
Maika - dir. Ham Tran, 2022, Vietnam
Mama Bears - dir. Daresha Kyi, 2022, USA
The Man in the Basement - dir. Philippe Le Guay, 2021, France
The Man Who Paints Water Drops - dir. Oan Kim, Brigitte Bouillot, 2021, France/South Korea
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On - dir. Dean Fleischer-Camp, 2021, USA
Maya Nilo (Laura) - dir. Lovisa Sirén, 2022, Sweden/Finland/Belgium
Midday Black Midnight Blue - dir. Samantha Soule, Daniel Talbott, 2022, USA
Miss Viborg - dir. Marianne Blicher, 2022, Denmark
The Mole - dir. Mads Brügger, 2021, Denmark/Norway
Moneyboys - dir. C.B. Yi, 2021, Austria/France/Belgium/Taiwan
Montana Story - dir. Scott McGehee, David Siegel, 2021, USA
My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan - dir. Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi 2021, United Kingdom/Afghanistan
Navalny - dir. Daniel Roher, 2022, USA
Neptune Frost - dir. Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman, 2021, Rwanda/USA
Nothing Compares - dir. Kathryn Ferguson, 2022, Ireland/United Kingdom
The Olive Trees of Justice - dir. James Blue, 1962, France
One Second - dir. Zhang Yimou, 2020, China
One Second Champion - dir. Chiu Sin-Hang, 2021, Hong Kong
Only In Theaters - dir. Raphael Sbarge, 2022, USA
Out of Sync - dir. Juanjo Giménez, 2021, Spain/Lithuania/France
Outta the Muck - dir. Bhawin Suchak, Ira Mckinley, 2022, USA
Parsley - dir. José María Cabral, 2022, Dominican Republic
The Passenger - dir. Raul Cerezo, Fernando González Gómez, 2021, Spain
The Path - dir. Tobias Wiemann, 2022, Germany
Petite Maman - dir. Céline Sciamma, 2021, France
The Pez Outlaw - dir. Amy Bandlien Storkel, Bryan Storkel, 2022, USA/Austria
Phantom of the Open - dir. Craig Roberts, 2021, United Kingdom
Phantom Project - dir. Roberto Doveris, 2022, Chile
Piggy - dir. Carlota Pereda, 2022, Spain
The Pursuit of Perfection - dir. Toshimichi Saito, 2021, Japan
Quake - dir. Tinna Hrafnsdóttir, 2021, Iceland
Quant - dir. Sadie Frost, 2021, United Kingdom
Radiograph of a Family - dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani, 2020, Iran/Norway/Switzerland
The Red Tree - dir. Joan Gómez Endara, 2021, Colombia/Panama/France
Resurrection - dir. Andrew Semans, 2022, USA
Riotsville, USA - dir. Sierra Pettengill, 2022, USA
River - dir. Jennifer Peedom, Joseph Nizeti, 2021, Australia
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces - dir. Shengze Zhu, 2021, USA
Robust - dir. Constance Meyer, 2021, France
Run Woman Run - dir. Zoe Hopkins (Heiltsuk/Mohawk), 2021, Canada
The Sacred Spirit - dir. Chema García Ibarra, 2021, Spain
Sediments - dir. Adrián Silvestre, 2021, Spain
Skate Dreams - dir. Jessica Edwards, 2022, USA/Cambodia/Japan
Small Body - dir. Laura Samani, 2021, Italy/France/Slovenia
So Damn Easy Going - dir. Christoffer Sandler, 2022, Sweden
Softie - dir. Samuel Theis, 2021, France
Speak No Evil - dir. Christian Tafdrup, 2022, Denmark
Spin Me Round - dir. Jeff Baena, 2022, USA/Italy
The Staffroom - dir. Sonja Tarokić, 2021, Croatia
Straighten Up and Fly Right - dir. Kristen Abate, Steven Tanenbaum, 2022, USA
Sublime - dir. Mariano Biasin, 2022, Argentina
Superheroes - dir. Paolo Genovese, 2021, Italy
Sweetheart Deal - dir. Elisa Levine, Gabriel Miller, 2022, USA
A Tale of Love and Desire - dir. Leyla Bouzid, 2021, Tunisia/France
Talking About the Weather - dir. Annika Pinske, 2022, Germany
The Territory - dir. Alex Pritz, 2022, Brazil/Denmark/USA
Tug of War - dir. Amil Shivji, 2021, Tanzania /South Africa/Germany/Qatar
Utama - dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi, 2022, Bolivia/Uruguay/France
Vera Dreams of the Sea - dir. Kaltrina Krasniqi, 2021, Kosovo/North Macedonia/Albania
Voice of Silence - dir. Hong Eui-jeong, 2021, South Korea
Warm Blood - dir. Rick Charnoski, 2022, USA
Watcher - dir. Chloe Okuno, 2022, USA
Whether the Weather Is Fine - dir. Carlo Francisco Manatad, 2021, Philippines/France/Singapore/Indonesia/Germany/Qatar
White Whale - dir. Tatyana Fedorovskaya, 2021, Russia
Wildhood - dir. Bretten Hannam (Mi'kmaw), 2021, Canada
Wild Men - dir. Thomas Daneskov, 2021, Denmark
Women Do Cry - dir. Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova, 2021, Bulgaria/France
Young Plato - dir. Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath, 2021, Ireland/Belgium/France/UK
Zero Fucks Given - dir. Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre, 2021, Belgium/France
Bigfoot Screenwriting Competition & Table Read
Festival Spotlights - included The Duke, Inu-Oh, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Nothing Compares, Spin Me Round, The Territory
New Works-in-Progress: Session One - Motherland - dir. Hanna Badziaka, Alexander Mihalkovich, Sweden/Ukraine/Belarus
New Works-in-Progress: Session Two - Broadcast (currently “Untitled”) - dir. Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, 2022, Sweden
Secret Festival