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| Opening film | Thelma[1] |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Sing Sing[2] |
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Hosted by | Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) |
| Festival date |
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| Language | English |
| Website | Seattle International Film Festival 2024 (archive) |
The 2024 Seattle International Film Festival (also referred to as SIFFty for this year) took place in theaters from May 20 to 27, 2024 and streaming May 20 to 27, 2024. SIFF announced an initial six films on March 14[4] and the full lineup on April 17, 2024.[5][6] This year's festival had 261 films[7] from 84 countries and regions.[3] The selections included 92 new and five archival features, 47 documentaries, and 115 short films.[2]
The festival took place at various locations, including the SIFF Cinema Uptown (3 screens), the SIFF Cinema Downtown, the SIFF Cinema Egyptian, the SIFF Film Center (a venue at Seattle Center), the AMC Theatres at Pacific Place, Majestic Bay Theatres, and Shoreline Community College Theater. The opening, Thelma, occurred at the Paramount Theatre.[2] The closing was Sing Sing at the SIFF Cinema Downtown followed by a gala party at MOHAI.[8]
The festival sold nearly 95,000 tickets, and SIFF venues sold 18,000 pounds of popcorn.[9] Selected films from the festival[10] were online from May 20–27, 2024.[11] on the SIFF Channel.[3]
SIFFty name
[edit]Althought the first festival was in 1976 and the occurence in 2024 would seem to have indicated the 49th festival, in 1988 the festival organizers yielded to triskaidekaphobia, so that the "14th" festival occurred in its 13th year.[12][13] SIFF chose the term SIFFty to mark the 50th edition of the film festival.[3]
Films
[edit]Narrative features
[edit]Documentary features
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | Premiere? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 399: Queen of the Tetons | Elizabeth Leiter | USA | ||
| A New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway | ||
| Admissions Granted | Hao Wu, Miao Wang | USA | ||
| Agent of Happiness | Dorottya Zurbó, Arun Bhattarai | Bhutan, Hungary | ||
| All We Carry | Spanish: Lo Que Llevamos | Cady Voge | USA, Mexico | |
| Black Box Diaries | Shiori Ito | Japan, USA, United Kingdom | ||
| Bring Them Home | Blackfoot: Aiskótáhkapiyaaya | Ivan MacDonald, Ivy MacDonald, Daniel Glick | USA, Canada | |
| Chasing Ice | Jeff Orlowski | USA | ||
| Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano | Cyril Aris | Lebanon, Germany | ||
| Fish War | Jeff Ostenson, Charles Atkinson, Skylar Wagner | USA | World | |
| Food Roots | Michele Josue | USA, Philippines | ||
| Fragments of a Life Loved | Italian: Frammenti di un Percorso Amoroso | Chloé Barreau | Italy | U.S. |
| Grandpa Guru | Silvio Mirošničenko | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina | U.S. | |
| Grasshopper Republic | Daniel McCabe | USA | ||
| High & Low - John Galliano | Kevin Macdonald | France, USA, United Kingdom | ||
| Hitchcock’s Pro-Nazi Film | Le Film pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock | Daphné Baiwir | France | North American |
| Hollywoodgate | Ibrahim Nash’at | Germany, USA | ||
| I’m Just Here for the Riot | Kathleen Jayme, Asia Youngman (Cree-Métis) | Canada | ||
| Igualada | Juan Mejía Botero | Colombia, USA, Mexico | ||
| Love Machina | Peter Sillen | USA | ||
| Luther: Never Too Much | Dawn Porter | USA | ||
| Merchant Ivory | Stephen Soucy | USA | ||
| Música! | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | USA | ||
| My Sextortion Diary | Diario de Mi Sextorsión | Patricia Franquesa | Spain | |
| Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev | Ukraine, USA, Australia | ||
| Rainier: A Beer Odyssey | Isaac Olsen | USA | World | |
| Resynator | Alison Tavel | USA | ||
| Rioja: The Land of a Thousand Wines | Rioja: la tierra de los mil vinos | José Luis Lopez-Linares | Spain | U.S. |
| Rising Up at Night | Tongo Saa | Nelson Makengo | Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar | |
| Scala!!! | Jane Giles, Ali Catterall | United Kingdom | ||
| So This Is Christmas | Ken Wardrop | Ireland | U.S. | |
| So Unreal | Amanda Kramer | USA | ||
| Songs of Earth | Margreth Olin | Norway | ||
| Sono Lino | Jacob Patrick | USA, Italy, France | ||
| Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez | Belgium, France, Netherlands | ||
| Standing Above the Clouds | Jalena Keane-Lee | Hawaiian Kingdom, USA | U.S. | |
| Subterranean | François-Xavier De Ruydts | Canada (Québec) | ||
| Sugarcane | Julian Brave NoiseCat (Secwepemc Nation), Emily Kassie | USA, Canada | ||
| Susan Feniger. Forked | Liz Lachman | USA, China, Vietnam | ||
| The Battle for Laikipia | Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi (Kuria) | Kenya, USA, Greece | ||
| The Etilaat Roz | Etilaat roz | Abbas Rezaie | Afghanistan | |
| The Mother of All Lies | Kadib Abyad | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar | |
| The Ride Ahead | Dan Habib, Samuel Habib | USA | ||
| Three Promises | Yusef Srouji | Palestine, United States, Lebanon | ||
| Ultimate Citizens | Francine Strickwerda | USA | ||
| We Can Be Heroes | Carina Mia Wong, Alex Simmons | USA | ||
| WHY DINOSAURS? | James Pinto, Tony Pinto | USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Morocco, China | World | |
Narrative shorts
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | Premiere? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | Flóra Anna Buda | France, Hungary | ||
| A.A. | Auden Bui | USA | World | |
| Áhkuin | Radio-Jus Sunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (Sámi), Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen (Sámi) | Finland | North American | |
| Ashes of Roses | Sasha Waters Freyer | USA | ||
| Baggage | Tim Hendrix | USA | ||
| Baigal Nuur - Lake Baikal | Alisi Telengut (Buryat) | Germany | ||
| Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia | ||
| Black Silk | Patrick Michael | USA | ||
| Blow! | Neus Ballús | Spain | North American | |
| Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines | ||
| Broken Art | Ryan Powers | USA | ||
| Buffer Zone | Savvas Stavrou | Cyprus, Greece | ||
| Bug Diner | Phoebe Jane Hart | USA | ||
| Callus | Ciarán Hickey | Ireland | ||
| Camille | Denise Roldán | Mexico | ||
| Can | Kailee McGee | USA | ||
| Canard | Elie Chapuis | Switzerland, Belgium | ||
| Cantata | Dave Fox | Ireland | ||
| Carnívora | Felipe Vargas | USA | ||
| Cetology | Catherine Bisley (Ngāpuhi) | New Zealand, St. Kitts | North American | |
| CHOMP | Cricket Arrison, Suki-Rose | USA | ||
| Corpus and the Wandering | Jo Roy | Canada | U.S. | |
| Cycles | Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald | USA | ||
| Dark Mommy | Courtney Eck | USA | ||
| Demi-Goddesses | Martin Gerigk | Germany | ||
| Detox | Alex Hanno | USA | ||
| Donut Boy | Bunthoeun Real | USA | ||
| Dream Creep | Carlos A.F. Lopez | USA | ||
| Eileithyia | Dan Fromhart | USA | World | |
| Electra | Daria Kashcheeva | Czech Republic | ||
| Embers of Retribution | Sienna Stiefel | USA | ||
| Enchukunoto (The Return) | Laissa Malih (Maasai) | Kenya | North American | |
| Essex Girls | Yero Timi-Biu | United Kingdom | ||
| Female Captive | Brit Crawshaw, Josh Hayward | USA | World | |
| Gath & K'iyh: Listen to Heal | Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neet'saii Gwich'in) | USA | ||
| Golden Child | Hannah Levin | USA | ||
| Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska | Netherlands, Poland | ||
| Hair Universe | 머리카락 우주 | Jinuk Choi | South Korea | |
| Happiness in the Palm of Her Hand | Ella Janes | USA | ||
| Her First Time | Mikaela Isabel Brown-Cestero, Malia Aniston | USA | World | |
| I am the nature | Taliesin Black-Brown | Ecuador, Brazil | ||
| I Think I'd Like to Stay | Brianna B Murphy | USA | World | |
| I’ll Take Porn for $200 | Mischa Jakupcak | USA | World | |
| I'm Thinking About Becoming a Plant. | Orson Ford | USA | ||
| Imogene | Katie Blair | USA | ||
| In the Garden of Tulips | Julia Elihu | USA | ||
| Is This Now the Time I Should Let You Go? | 現在是不是時候該將你放下了呢？ | Yi-Chin Tsai | Taiwan, Finland, Belgium, Portugal | North American |
| Janelle Niles: Inconvenient | Cass Gardiner (Anishinaabe/Algonquin), Kelly Aija Zemnickis | Canada | ||
| Jellyfish and Lobster | Yasmin Afifi | United Kingdom | ||
| Lady Parts | Ariel McCleese | USA | ||
| Last Dawn of the 6th | Stephan Gray | USA | World | |
| Let | Alyssa Loh | USA | ||
| Llamas at the Laundromat | Martha Grant | Canada, USA | ||
| Loop me in | Bernd Oppl | Austria | North American | |
| Loving in Between | Jyoti Mistry | Austria, South Africa | ||
| Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti | Canada (Québec) | ||
| Magic Candies | Amedama | Daisuke Nishio | Japan | |
| Make Me a Pizza | Talia Shea Levin | USA | ||
| Meet Me at the Creek | ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ | Loren Waters (Cherokee Nation/Kiowa) | USA | |
| Might Not Wanna Wake Up | Lxandra | Finland | North American | |
| Mog's Christmas | Robin Shaw | United Kingdom | ||
| My Dark Angels | Azza Brummer | USA | ||
| My Heart and Other Black Holes | Samiksha Thakur | USA | World | |
| Newman's Block | Hudson Hillin | USA | ||
| No Silence | Gina Crow | United Kingdom, USA | World | |
| NYC RGB | Viktoria Schmid | Austria, USA | ||
| Of Silence and Song | Leyi Dai | USA | ||
| One Date | Andrew 'King Bach' Bachelor | USA | ||
| Peeping Mom | Le sexe de ma mère | Francis Canitrot | France | |
| Pickles by Elenore | Priya Aracely | USA | ||
| Pipe Dreams | Christina Woo | USA | ||
| Pisko the Crab Child is in Love | Kani kara umareta Pisko no koi | "Makoto\\r\\n Nagahisa" | Japan | |
| Play Again | Zen Pace | USA, Brazil | World | |
| Primetime Mother | Sonny Calvento | Philippines, Singapore | ||
| Pure Evil | Edward Brown | USA | ||
| Quasi Perfetto | Federico Frefel | Italy, Switzerland | North American | |
| Qulleq | Aka Hansen (Inuk) | Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) | North American | |
| Rabid Love | Noah Lazar Abraham | USA | ||
| Recollect | Eli Williams | USA | ||
| Relationship to Patient | Caroline Creaghead | USA | ||
| Room Tone | Michael Gabriele | USA | ||
| Somni | Sonja Rohleder | Germany | ||
| Sweet Juices | Sejon Im, Will Suen | Australia | ||
| Tahnaanooku' | Justin Deegan (MHA Nation, Arikara, Oglala, Hunkpapa) | USA | U.S. | |
| Tango for the End | Tango za Kraj | Lazar Jovanović | Serbia | |
| Technical Support | Kris Lefcoe | USA | ||
| Tennis, Oranges | Sean Pecknold | USA | ||
| The Day the Sky Darkened | Gökyüzünün Karardığı Gün | Barış Kuzey Yılmaz | Turkey | World |
| The Guardian Lion and Budaixi | 石獅子與布袋戲 | Hsieh-Cheng Tsai, You-Cheng Lai, Shih-Peng Chang, Shao-Xuan Weng, Min-Xiang Zhang, You-Xun Lai | Taiwan | |
| The Influencer | Lael Rogers | USA | ||
| The Key | Rakan Mayasi | Belgium, Palestine, Qatar, France | ||
| The Key Within | Henry Kaufman | USA | U.S. | |
| The Lost Season | Kelly Sears | USA | ||
| The Lovers | Carolina Sandvik | Sweden | ||
| The Queen Vs. Texas | Emil Lozada, Raemonn James | USA | ||
| The Queen’s Flowers | Ciara Leinaala Lacy (Native Hawaiian) | USA, Hawaii | ||
| The Rainbow Bridge | Dimitri Simakis | USA | ||
| The Rising of the Sap | Susie Jones | United Kingdom | World | |
| The School of Canine Massage | Emma D. Miller | USA | ||
| The Shell Covered Ox | Boi de Conchas | Daniel Barosa | Brazil, USA | |
| The Snip | Ben S. Hyland | United Kingdom | ||
| The Ugandan Quidditch Movement | Ben Garfield | USA | ||
| The Waiting | Das Warten | Voker Schlecht | Germany | |
| The Waves Call You | Te llaman las olas | Ana Verde | Puerto Rico | World |
| Torrent | Aidan Kiyashka | USA | ||
| Trial | Tommy Heffernan | USA | World | |
| Unpaused | Yiheng Yao | China | ||
| Untitled, Jackson Heights | Armon Mahdavi | USA | ||
| Vakaraitaka | Fenton Lutunatabua (Fijian) | Fiji | North American | |
| When We Sleep | Alanna Johnson | USA | ||
| Who's There? | Ryan Doris | USA | ||
| Winding Path | Alexandra Lazarowich (Cree), Ross Kauffman | USA | ||
| You can’t get what you want but you can get me | Samira Elagoz, Z Walsh | Netherlands, Finland | U.S. | |
Documentary shorts
[edit]| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | Premiere? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chasing Time | Jeff Orlowski-Yang, Sarah Keo | USA, Iceland | ||
Awards
[edit]The 2024 Seattle International Festival had jury and audience awards.[14] There were also festival awards from other organizations.
Juried Competition Awards
[edit]Jurors served several different juries. For feature films, there were juries for the official competition, new directors, new American cinema, Ibero-American, and documentaries. There were two short film juries, one for narrative films and another for documentary and animated films.[15]
| Award | Film title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Official Competition Grand Jury Prize | Gloria! | Margherita Vicario | Italy |
| Official Competition Special Jury Prize | Sugarcane | Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie | USA |
| New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize | City of Wind | Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | Mongolia |
| New Directors Competition Special Jury Prize | Young Hearts | Anthony Schatteman | Belgium |
| New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize | We Strangers | Anu Valia | USA |
| Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize | A New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway |
| Documentary Competition Special Jury Prize | The Ride Ahead | Dan Habib and Samuel Habib | USA |
| Ibero-American Competition Grand Jury Prize | Through Rocks and Clouds | Franco Garcia Becerra | Peru |
| Ibero-American Special Jury Prize | The Major Tones | Ingrid Pokropek | Argentina |
| Wavemaker Award: Best Futurewave Feature | Empire Waist | Claire Ayoub | USA |
| Prodigy Camp Scholarship Prize | Newman's Block | Hudson Hillin | USA |
| Narrative Short Grand Jury Prize | The Shell Covered Ox | Daniel Barosa | Brazil |
| Narrative Short Special Jury Prize | Essex Girls | Yero Timi-Biu | United Kingdom |
| Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize | The Waiting | Volker Schlecht | Germany |
| Animated Short Grand Jury Prize | Madeleine | Raquel Sancinetti | Canada |
Golden Space Needle Awards
[edit]These are audience awards.
| Award | Film title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Film | Sing Sing | Greg Kwedar | USA |
| Best Director | Ghostlight | Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson | USA |
| Best Performance | Ghostlight | Keith Kupferer | USA |
| Best Short | Jellyfish and Lobster | Yasmin Afifi | United Kingdom |
| Best Documentary | Porcelain War | Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev | Ukraine/USA/Australia |
Additional awards
[edit]| Award | Film title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Seattle Film Critics Society Feature Film Award[14][16] | I Saw The TV Glow | Jane Schoenbrun | USA |
| Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision, presented by Women in Film Seattle | Black Box Diaries | Shiori Ito | Japan/USA/United Kingdom |
| Award | Recipient | ||
| Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema[1] | June Squibb | ||
Acquisitions
[edit]Gallery
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Kuznikov, Selena (March 27, 2024). "Seattle International Film Festival to Open With 'Thelma'; June Squibb Honored With Golden Space Needle Award". Variety. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ a b c Moy, Kristina (April 17, 2024). "Seattle International Film Festival lineup, tributes, more". FOX 13 Seattle. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ a b c d McMillan, Candice (May 9, 2024). "What To Watch: 10 must-see films at SIFF 2024". Seattle Refined. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Hutchinson, Chase (April 17, 2024). "SIFF Unveils Full 2024 Lineup". The Stranger. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
- ^ Macdonald, Moira (April 17, 2024). "SIFF 2024 announces lineup, welcomes Jean Smart back home". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 27, 2025.
- ^ Cameron, Peter (April 20, 2024). "Recap: A Somewhat Nifty SIFF 2024 Launch Party". Nada Mucho. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ "SIFF 2024 Roundtable: Festival Exit Survey, Golden SunBreak Awards". The SunBreak. May 21, 2024. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Macdonald, Moira (May 31, 2024). "SIFF 2024 wraps, with an attendance bump over last year's edition". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ "SIFF & Chill". SIFF. May 18, 2024. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Macdonald, Moira (May 3, 2024). "What to see on Seattle's indie film screens this month". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Davis, Brangien (May 2, 2024). "ArtSEA: Seattle International Film Festival turns 50-ish". Cascade PBS. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ Wilson, Gemma (April 30, 2024). "SIFF 2024 celebrates 50 years of Seattle's homegrown film festival". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ a b Carson, Lexi (May 19, 2024). "Seattle International Film Festival Awards Top Honors to 'Sing Sing,' 'Gloria!'". Variety. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
- ^ "Meet the Jurors". SIFF. Retrieved March 31, 2025.
- ^ Bis, Josh (May 19, 2024). ""I Saw the TV Glow" wins SFCS's inaugural SIFF 2024 Award". Seattle Film Critics Society. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2024 Seattle International Film Festival.
- Seattle International Film Festival 2024 playlist on YouTube
- Happy 50th to SIFF! Seattle International Film Festival reflects on nearly half a century of cinema on YouTube
- "2024 Awards". Fool Serious - Going into the dark to see the light. May 20, 2024. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
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