The Seattle International Film Festival is a massive event that spans eleven days. We’ll be posting about it through the marathon of movies. To help you keep track, here’s a page with all of our coverage linked in one place.
Roundtables & Festival Overviews
Festival Picks, Tips, and Tricks: Top selections for the 2022 festival along with a time-tested set of tips and tricks for navigating it like a pro.
That’s a Wrap: Discussion of the festival, awards, along with our picks for best of narrative features, documentaries, and acting.
- Best Narrative Features: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Hit The Road and Everybody Hates Johan, Flux Gourmet, Warm Blood, Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Best Documentaries: The Pez Outlaw, Navalny, Cat Daddies
- Best Performances: Maika Monroe (Watcher), Ensemble (The Innocents), Laura Galán (Piggy), Marina Redžepović (The Staffroom), Adèle Exarchopoulos (Zero Fucks Given), Gwendoline Christie (Flux Gourmet), Karen Gillan (Dual)
Interviews
Reviews of SIFF 2022 Films
- Alien On Stage – SXSW 2021
- Call Jane – Sundance 2022
- Cha Cha Real Smooth – Sundance 2022
- Cop Secret
- Daughter of a Lost Bird
- Dual – Sundance 2022 / SIFF 2022
- Everybody Hates Johan
- Execution in Autumn
- Fire of Love – SXSW 2022
- Flux Gourmet (x2)
- Girl Picture – Sundance 2022
- Hatching
- The House of the Snails
- I Love My Dad – Sundance 2022
- I’ll Show You Mine
- Inu-Oh
- It’s Just a Phase, Honey
- Juju Stories
- Know Your Place
- Linoleum – SXSW 2022
- A Love Song – Sundance 2022
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
- Midday Black Midnight Blue
- Navalny – Sundance 2022 / SIFF 2022
- Neptune Frost – Sundance 2022
- The Olive Trees of Justice
- The Path
- Petite Maman – Telluride 2021
- Piggy (Midnight Roundup)
- So Damn Easy Going
- The Staffroom
- Sweetheart Deal
- Talking About the Weather
- The Territory – Sundance 2022
- Warm Blood
- Wild Men
- Wildhood
Previews
Opening Weekend Preview: Picks for Opening Weekend through the middle of the festival
- FYC: The Good Boss, Hockeyland, Dual, Resurrection, The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic, Kaepernick in America, Ahed’s Knee, Zero Fucks Given, Miss Viborg, Everybody Hates Johan, Cop Secret, Piggy, Flux Gourmet, The Olive Trees of Justice
Closing Weekend Preview: Picks through Closing Weekend
Everything We Saw
| Chris | Jenn | Josh | Morgen | Tony | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahed’s Knee | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Alien on Stage | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆½ | |||
| The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Buffalo Soldiers Fighting on Two Fronts | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Call Jane | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆½ | |||
| Cat Daddies | ☆☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Celts | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Cha Cha Real Smooth | ☆☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆½ | |||
| Cop Secret | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Daughter of a Lost Bird | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Dual | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆ | ||
| The Duke | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Everybody Hates Johan | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Execution in Autumn | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Fire of Love | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ||
| Flux Gourmet | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆☆ | |
| Framing Agnes | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| The Ghastly Brothers | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Girl Picture | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Hannah Ha Ha | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Hatching | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Hinterland | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Hit the Road | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆☆ | |||
| The House of the Snails | ☆☆½ | ||||
| I AM DB COOPER | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| I’ll Show You Mine | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ||
| Inexorable | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| The Innocents | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Inu-Oh | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆½ | |||
| It’s Just a Phase, Honey | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Juju Stories | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Know Your Place | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆½ | |||
| The Last Film Show | ☆☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Linoleum | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆☆ | |||
| A Lot of Nothing | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Marcel the Shell with Shoes On | ☆☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆ | ||
| Midday Black Midnight Blue | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Miss Viborg | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Montana Story | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Navalny | ☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆½ | |
| Neptune Frost | ☆☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Nothing Compares | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| The Olive Trees of Justice | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| One Second | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Out of Sync | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| The Passenger | ☆½ | ||||
| The Path | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Petite Maman | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| The Pez Outlaw | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Piggy | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Resurrection | ☆☆☆☆ | ||||
| Riotsville, USA | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| So Damn Easy Going | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Speak No Evil | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Spin Me Round | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | ||
| The Staffroom | ☆☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Straighten Up and Fly Right | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Sweetheart Deal | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆½ | |||
| A Tale of Love and Desire | ☆☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Talking About the Weather | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| The Territory | ☆☆☆☆ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Vera Dreams of the Sea | ☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Warm Blood | ☆☆☆☆½ | ||||
| Watcher | ☆☆☆½ | ☆☆☆☆ | |||
| Wildhood | ☆☆☆ | ||||
| Zero Fucks Given | ☆☆☆☆ |
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