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2011 Seattle International Film Festival
You Are Here is the first feature film by internationally acclaimed Toronto-based video artist Daniel Cockburn. Funny, disturbing, and thought-provoking, it pushes at the boundaries of cinematic storytelling -- while creating a deep and strange emotional connection with its cast of characters as they negotiate an absurd and cryptic world&hellip…
2010 Seattle International Film Festival
American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi is about Condoleezza Rice, an extraordinary but little-understood woman who rose from segregated Alabama to become the most powerful woman in the world. Incisive and shocking, this is the first retrospective film on the Bush Administration. It overturns the popular misconception of Rice as a yes-woman&hellip…
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HARVEY MILK filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman make an ambitious leap to narrative film with this hybrid of live-action drama and animation. HOWL divides its focus between the real-life obscenity trial of the eponymous poem by Allen Ginsberg (James Franco) and the epic poem itself, which is brought to life&hellip…
2009 Seattle International Film Festival
We Live in Public is a film that displays the negative effect of internet overuse. It also address social media questions like, Why Facebook is bad? IndiepixFilms provides the best place to buy Indie movies and download Indie movies. Consumers can easily download indie movie from Indiepixfilms.com. Where to download indie films? Indiepix&hellip…
MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE filmmaker Lynn Shelton works with a cast of indie favorites--including BAGHEAD's Mark Duplass and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT's Joshua Leonard--for this comedy. Old friends Andrew and Ben add a new wrinkle to their relationship when they go to a commune where an amateur porn festival is on the agenda. But rather than&hellip…
The city streets explode into violence when "The Man" kills Black Dynamite's (Michael Jai White) brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but these days Black Dynamite only answers to one boss -- himself. When "The Man" ices Black Dynamite's brother&hellip…
Long before YouTube, there were the brilliantly insane, no-budget movies of underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. Creating stars out of their friends and family with just consumer-grade cameras, the teenage Kuchar brothers went from the 1960's New York City underground film scene of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger to become&hellip…
During the second half of the 20th century, William Kunstler was one of the most admired attorneys in America--and one of the most hated. Kunstler was a man who thrived on controversial cases; in the 1960s, he specialized in defending clients who ran afoul of the law on civil rights and free speech issues, and he spoke on behalf of Martin&hellip…
Already bent by the demands of his home life – fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage – a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. Everything Strange And New is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times. &hellip…
Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense, a documentary film series, looks at the Jazz music scene today. through interviews, performance footage, and the voices of the musicians themselves, we explore this music and the divergent influences that are shaping the world of Jazz at the begining of the 21st Century. Never before has jazz&hellip…
What is a Push Button? Is it the future? A relic of the past? A little of both? Push Button House investigates the process of creation and creativity of Adam Kalkin, an architectural pioneer whose work strikes a delicate balance between art and architecture. Push Button House is a behind-the-scenes look at the build and installation of&hellip…
A family secret revealed impels a man to travel cross-country seeking the truth&hellip…
2008 Seattle International Film Festival
Sita is a goddess seperated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw&hellip…
Set in Eberswalde, Germany, just outside of Berlin, Szmolinsky is the story of Karl and Inge. After Karl is contacted by the North Korean government to send his "German Giants" over to Pyong Yang, he is harassed by local animal rights activists. Szmolinsky offers a look into one chapter in this extraordinary story. &hellip…
Winner - Special Jury Prize(Best Documentary Short)
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a&hellip…
2007 Seattle International Film Festival
Indie pix's Sentenced Home was NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY AWARD FOR "OUTSTANDING INFORMATIONAL PROGRAMMING - LONG FORM" Picked for broadcast on PBS's famed Independent Lens series, SENTENCED HOME is a gripping documentary exploration that humanizes the United States' tragically flawed immigration policy. This wrenching and emotionally&hellip&hellip…
New American Cinema Special Jury Prize
An aspiring novelist tries to kill off her protagonist - on the advice of her ex-lover/professor - with real-world repercussions. Meanwhile, an unstable used car salesman tries to cope with the death of his wife and the subsequent silent treatment of his young daughter&hellip…
Lena Sharpe / Women in Cinema Persistence of Vision Award
Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing&hellip…
Women in Cinema / Lena Sharpe Award
Using the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle, THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK takes the viewer on an emotionally charged journey into the heart of Darfur, Sudan, where an Arab run government is systematically executing a plan to rid the province&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary
With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary
Groups across the Globe are screening The Trials of Darryl Hunt. With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…
2006 Seattle International Film Festival
With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…
Groups across the Globe are screening The Trials of Darryl Hunt. With footage culled from a 20-year period this documentary tells the tale of shocking racial bias in the American South as the murder trial of Darryl Hunt winds to a terrible conclusion&hellip…
2005 Seattle International Film Festival
This artistic black-and-white film unfolds in two parts, each in a different construction site in Argentina. The first half of the movie takes place on the rooftop of a tall city building where a gigantic mechanical crane gracefully skims the skyline. The second site, 300 kilometers away from the first, is alongside a barren, dusty road&hellip&hellip…
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With the advent of the WWF (and later, the WWE), female wrestling entered a new phase in its popularity, with the top stars in the game earning considerable amounts of money, and taking up the sport professionally. This film takes a look at the trailblazers of the sport--the women who bucked tradition and decided to become wrestlers in&hellip&hellip…
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Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro's MURDERBALL is an inspiring documentary, which proves that physical limitations are no match for the human spirit. For the determined quadriplegic men who participate in the dangerous sport of "quad rugby," it's more than just a game: it's a chance to prove themselves in a much bigger way. With&hellip&hellip…
The Ultimate songwriter's songwriter, Townes Van Zandt had a profound impact on generations of muscicians from Bob Dylan to Norah Jones, yet he avioded the commercial success enjoyed by many of his fans. Many musicologists think he was more influential than Dylan His influence can be found deeply etched&hellip&hellip…
This lavish production from director Anders Ronnow Klarlund involves an epic battle between two warring factions after a great emperor dies. Klarlund painstakingly crafted the film over a four year period, rendering his characters in puppet form, and uniting a strong and patient crew who delicately guide the movie towards its conclusion&hellip&hellip…
Trinogamous? Mariage-a-trois? Monogamy, but with more than one person? How does one talk about the unusual relationship between Sam, Samantha and Steven? After all, in Three of Hearts this is one of those stories you WILL want to talk about. In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, the oldest son of a mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome&hellip&hellip…
The work of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler has delighted cinema-goers for the greater part of his astonishing life. Two Oscars, for WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF and BOUND FOR GLORY, are just the tip of the iceberg, for Haskell has worked with many of the all-time greats in the business. Some of these figures--most notably&hellip&hellip…
LA SIERRA is an intense, unflinching documentary about several young people living in Medellin, Columbia. The town is perpetually caught in the crossfire between two warring factions--the guerillas and the paramilitary forces--and the film explores the burden of life during wartime with a personal and deeply unsettling focus&hellip&hellip…
Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative, Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to life with jolting authenticity. Overlord, impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer&hellip&hellip…
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With The Ninth Day, director Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum, The Legend of Rita, Circle of Deceit) creates a moral thriller that "succeeds in illuminating an almost unimaginably dark story" (The New York Times). Inspired by the true tale of a dissident priest's temporary furlough from Dachau, The Ninth Day transforms an ethical crisis&hellip&hellip…
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2004 Seattle International Film Festival
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
This new and embellished version of the 2001 theatrical release, which was a cult hit, offers twenty minutes of scenes that were deleted from the original, sound improvements, new songs (such as "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS), and new special effects that give insight into Donnie's world and his theories of time travel&hellip…
Andrew "Large" Largeman (Zach Braff of TV's Scrubs) is returning home to New Jersey for the first time in nine years to attend his mother's funeral. A struggling actor in Los Angeles, he's been living under clouds of medication prescribed by his psychiatrist father (Ian Holm). After drifting through the funeral with the same emotional&hellip&hellip…
THE CORPORATION is a well-organized and deeply fascinating documentary about the growing prominence of large global businesses, and the way that their decisions are impacting the world. The film shows how corporations have ballooned in size and power since the industrial revolution, and explains the laws and loopholes that allow them&hellip&hellip…
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Effortlessly blending drama, nature documentary, and ethnographic film, THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL weaves a magical tale about a nomadic Mongolian family who reunite a rejected baby camel with its mother. When a mother camel refuses to sustain her child, the keepers of the camels often reunite them in a ritual with folk music and&hellip&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Film
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FACING WINDOWS is a haunting, romantic story of love, history, memory, and politics from director Ferzan Ozpetek, the Instanbul-born Italian transplant whose gay-themed films STEAM: THE TURKISH BATH and LE FATE IGNORANTI earned him a&hellip…
In the tradition of WAKING NED DEVINE and THE MATCHMAKER comes John Irvin's THE BOYS AND GIRL FROM COUNTY CLARE, a charming Irish musical comedy. Set in the late 1960s, the film tells the story of two estranged brothers who reunite in County Clare to face off against each other in the country's biggest Ceili competition (a fiddle-based&hellip&hellip…
IN THEATRES: NOVEMBER 12, 2004 (LIMITED) Using ambient sounds, white-outs, and dizzyingly abstract photography, WHO KILLED BAMBI? instills fear into its viewers with its disorienting atmospheres. Before any perturbing action takes place, there is an air of something essentially wrong, and that unexplainable feeling is downright creepy&hellip&hellip…
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Starring French cinema legends Carole Bouquet (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (UN AIR DE FAMILLE), director Cedric Kahn's thriller, based on a novel by Georges Simenon, features dry humor and Hitchcockian suspense. The relationship between Antoine (Darroussin) and Helene (Bouquet) is deteriorating. Helene spends&hellip&hellip…
Best Actor
Iciar Bollain (Flores de Otro Mundo) directs a multiple Goya Award-winning drama about a terrified housewife (Laia Marull) who flees from her abusive husband (Luis Toscar) after his outbursts begin to grow increasingly violent. Pilar (Marull) moves in with her sister (Candela Pena) and begins the difficult work of building&hellip…
Jury Award for Best Documentary(Winner`)
Take a captivating and compelling road trip led by Jim White through the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coalmines, truckstops, juke joints, swamps and mountains. Along the way you'll meet musicians including the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, 16 Horsepower&hellip…
Fourteen year old Henrietta, Henri for short, longs for everything she doesn't have. Looking down a road that turns bad instead of right, Henri and her mother Kate are forced to move in with her grandmother in a leaking shack on the edge of town. Henri is hell bent on finding a way out. At the same time, Henri meets a boy at school, Chat&hellip…
2003 Seattle International Film Festival
Fast-motion footage of clouds passing and daylight shifting over architect Louis I. Kahn's most famous buildings shows the true beauty of his monumental work. Designer of the Salk Institute, the Exeter Library, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the Capital Complex of Bangladesh, Kahn dedicated his life to his work, and kept his personal life&hellip&hellip…
In Hollywood, screenwriting failures are so common that bars in the city are strewn with down-on-their-luck writers drowning their sorrows over broken dreams. Documentary filmmakers Mark Brian Smith and Tony Montana begin their movie in such an establishment--a Hollywood bar called J. Sloan's. OVERNIGHT focuses on 25-year-old J.Sloan's&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Golden Space Needle, Best Actress
Golden Space Needle, Best Actor
A troubled young man in his twenties is released from prison only to commit social atrocities. He rapes a severely disabled woman who clearly cannot defend herself from the attack. Oddly enough, the woman ends up falling in love with him, and it turns out that&hellip…
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2002 Seattle International Film Festival
Winner of the Grand Prix Technique at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao Hsien's MILLENNIUM MAMBO is a strikingly beautiful film set in Taipei's hot nightclub scene. The remarkable Shu Qi stars as Vicky, a lost soul who hangs out partying with her friends, smoking nonstop, and dancing and flirting. She lives with Hao-Hao (Tuan Chun-hao)&hellip&hellip…
In this fascinating and bizarre documentary about five obsessive film buffs living in New York City, directors Angela Christlieb and Stephen Kijak take us inside the lives of their subjects, showing us their homes, their day-to-day calendars and schedules, and talking to them about the art of being compulsive filmgoers. Jack, Eric, Harvey&hellip&hellip…
Aspiring filmmaker Dude Schmitz (AMERICAN MOVIE's Mark Borchardt) is in desperate need of money to finance his next feature film. After he blows a lucrative opportunity to interview pop singer Britney Spears for a local television station, he discovers Angel Benton (Robert Stephens), a gay Britney impersonator. Together with his brother&hellip&hellip…
2001 Seattle International Film Festival
Twin brothers Oxide and Danny Pang make their first feature together with this raw attack on the senses. BANGKOK DANGEROUS is like Pop Rocks candy: it leaves a funny taste in your mouth and the stinging pop is strangely alluring. It's a unique mixture of kinetic editing, textured visual sensuality, and aural assault. It's so incredibly&hellip&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
In August 1914, seasoned British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton embarks on his third excursion into Antarctic territory, planning to cross the Antarctic continent on foot--something no other explorer has attempted before. Only a day's journey from his final destination, Shackleton's&hellip…
Based on the true story of Thailand's 1996 national volleyball champions, this comedy follows a team of transgendered players that wins its way into the competition. When Coach Bee, a new female coach, steps in to take over a team, she wants to choose her own players. Her first move is to select Mon, who was previously left off of the&hellip&hellip…
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In the second installment of the DEAD OR ALIVE trilogy, Takashi Miike references the namesake film, but presents a very different film. While still loaded with indiscriminate violence and black comedy, DEAD OR ALIVE 2 becomes a bit more sentimental. Sho Aikawa and Riki Takeuchi return to play the main characters, but this time with a&hellip&hellip…
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After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, "Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even if they aren't Chinese." The Chinese have been living in Japan for centuries, but&hellip&hellip…
New Director's Showcase, Special Jury Prize
This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens&hellip…
Mak is a drifter who returns to his wife, Nak, from war. Before long Mak begins to realize that his wife and son are not quite as they appear to be, and he gradually becomes aware of the painful truth. A haunting ghost story based on a Thai legend, with a unique style and look. Winner of four awards at the Pan Asia Film Festival including&hellip&hellip…
Felix (Sami Bouajila) is an HIV-positive thirtysomething homosexual. In this film about family and the discovery of self, Felix is first seen jauntily riding his bike. When he gets laid off from work and starts cleaning out his dead mother's house, Felix uncovers some old letters from his father, who he's never met. The discovery takes&hellip&hellip…
2000 Seattle International Film Festival
Audience Award(Runner Up)
This extraordinary documentary is the story of 78-year-old Tobias Schneebaum, a seemingly mild-mannered man who has lived an amazing life. Schneebaum grew up in Brooklyn, studied to be a Rabbi and a painter, and in the 1950s decided to travel to Peru. There, he journeyed deep into the Amazon to live with&hellip…
New American Cinema Award
British writer-director Brian Skeet's (THE MISADVENTURES OF MARGARET) second feature is a mixture between LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! and THE BIG CHILL, and is based on Peter Cameron's novel of the same name. Marian (Deborah Kara Unger) and John Kerr (Jared Harris) are expecting an old friend, Lyle (David&hellip…
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Golden Space Needle Award, Best Film
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Director
This festival favorite from China tells the touching story of a father whose oldest son leaves him. He remains in Beijing, raising his retarded son and running the local bathhouse. When the elder son mistakenly hears that his father has passed away&hellip…
With SUZHOU RIVER, director Lou Ye has created an intense, jerky visual and narrative style that captivates viewers and pulls them into the mystery of the film's dreamy, alluring tale of love and mistaken identities. The narrator--the voice behind the camera (literally) who occasionally sticks his hand out in front of the lens to spraypaint&hellip&hellip…
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PSYCHO BEACH PARTY was scripted by playwright Charles Busch (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit VAMPIRE LESBIANS OF SODOM), adapted from his 1987 play of the same title. Florence Forest (Lauren Ambrose) is a perky but unfulfilled teen. After witnessing the antics of a gang of strapping young surfer dudes at the beach one day&hellip&hellip…
When Janice Beard (Eileen Walsh) was born, her father died of a heart attack during the birth, causing her mother to fall into a 23-year depression. After graduating school, inexperienced young Janice jumps into the work force, determined to earn enough money for her mother's treatment. She takes a job as a secretary for a London automobile&hellip&hellip…
1999 Seattle International Film Festival
Pinki and Kraut are a pair of Serb teenagers who begin as simple petty thieves and work their way up into the heart of the Yugoslav underworld. As war surrounds them in Bosnia, the boys become increasingly callous and violent, ultimately overthrowing their mentor, a powerful black marketer, before turning on each other. A savage and powerful&hellip&hellip…
1998 Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Actress
An electric directorial debut (seven years in the making) by New York artist/musician/model/actor Vincent Gallo, BUFFALO '66 combines the experimental techniques of the French New Wave and the realistic grit of seventies filmmakers such as John Cassavetes, resulting in something inventive&hellip…
1997 Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here.
COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's "don't ask, don't tell"&hellip…
New Director's Showcase Special Jury Prize
In this political comedy, filmmaker and star Elia Suleiman returns to his Palestinian homeland after spending 12 years studying film in New York. What follows is a series of vignettes expressing the director's personal views on the quality of contemporary Israeli-Arab life. Suleiman won&hellip…
1996 Seattle International Film Festival
Hans Peter Moland directs this bleak thriller about a jaded urban writer named Henrik Larsen whose taste for adventure and adversity makes him leave his cozy Oslo flat for a perilous Arctic adventure. He joins a fur trapping expedition with two other men, a crude, foul mouthed hunter named Randbaek (Skarsgard) and a scientist named Holm&hellip&hellip…
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1995 Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces&hellip…
New Director's Showcase, Special Jury Prize
This title is on moratorium and currently unavailable.
An eerie psychological drama based on the true story of two sisters, Christine and Lea, who were maids in a provincial French town in 1932 and gained fame when they brutally murdered their cruel employers.
Christine and Lea&hellip…
1994 Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Director
Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to filter through. Bad Boy Bubby (Nicholas Hope) is a 35-year-old manchild, confined his whole life by his domineering&hellip…
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
An amazing documentary about an incredible woman, this film traces Leni Riefenstahl's life from her beginnings as a German action movie starlet through her career as film director on such Nazi epics as "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" and beyond. The 91-year-old subject, hailed as&hellip…
1990 Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Director
When attendance at a church's annual Passion Play flags, a troupe of young actors is hired to stage a newer interpretation of the teachings of Jesus. While their newer, more modern version brings the house down, it also brings down the condemnation of church hierarchy, creating a strange&hellip…