Seattle International Film Festival 2024 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 2024

Relive the 50th 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 2024 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 9–19 & streaming May 20–27
Number of Days: 19
Venues: AMC Pacific Place 11, Majestic Bay, Paramount Theatre, Shoreline Community College Theater, SIFF Cinema Downtown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Film Center, SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Channel (virtual), SIFF Lounge

Opening Night: Thelma at The Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Sing Sing at SIFF Cinema Downtown


FESTIVAL CATALOG


TRAILER

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Thelma
Thelma
Sing Sing
Sing Sing
Gloria!
Gloria!
Sugarcane
Sugarcane
Dìdi (弟弟)
Dìdi (弟弟)
City of Wind
City of Wind
Porcelain War
Porcelain War
Aggro Dr1ft
Aggro Dr1ft

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Sing Sing (dir. Greg Kwedar, USA)

Best Director
Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson (Ghostlight, USA)

Best Performance
Keith Kupferer (Ghostlight, USA)

Best Short
Jellyfish and Lobster (dir. Yasmin Afifi, United Kingdom)

Best Documentary
Porcelain War (dir. Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Ukraine/USA/Australia)

Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision, presented by Women in Film Seattle

Black Box Diaries (dir. Shiori Ito, Japan/USA/United Kingdom)

Juried Competition Awards

Official Competition Grand Jury Prize
Gloria! (dir. Margherita Vicario, Italy)

Official Competition Special Jury Prize
Sugarcane (dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie, USA)

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
City of Wind (dir. Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, Mongolia)

New Directors Competition Special Jury Prize
Young Hearts (dir. Anthony Schatteman, Belgium)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
We Strangers (dir. Anu Valia, USA)

Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize
A New Kind of Wilderness (dir. Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Norway)

Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize
The Ride Ahead (dir. Dan Habib, Samuel Habib, USA)

Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize
Through Rocks and Clouds (dir. Franco Garcia Becerra, Peru)

Ibero-American Special Jury Prize
The Major Tones (dir. Ingrid Pokropek, Argentina)

Wavemaker Award: Best Futurewave Feature
Empire Waist (dir. Claire Ayoub, USA)

Prodigy Camp Scholarship Prize
Newman's Block (dir. Hudson Hillin, USA)

Narrative Short Grand Jury Prize
The Shell Covered Ox (dir. Daniel Barosa, Brazil)

Narrative Short Special Jury Prize
Essex Girls (dir. Yero Timi-Biu, United Kingdom)

Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize
The Waiting (dir. Volker Schlecht, Germany)

Animated Short Grand Jury Prize
Madeleine (dir. Raquel Sancinetti, Canada, Québec)