Short reviews of three documentaries about creative people stuck — due to war, personal turmoil, or prejudice — at home.
Category: Festivals
Movie Festivals around the world
SIFF 2021 Check In: How’s your fest going?
Well, it’s halfway through SIFF and here at The Sunbreak we’re neck-deep in films from horror to comedy, short animation to feature …
SIFF 2021: Some short reviews
Reviews of All Sorts, Potato Dreams of America, Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street, Super Frenchie, and Too Late.
SIFF 2021: Riders of Justice, Ladies of Steel, The Spy
Three feature films out of Scandanavia, each dealing with death, peril, and crime in very different ways.
SIFF 2021: East of the Mountains destroyed me
The opening scene of East of the Mountains is not something I will ever be able to forget. Ben Givens, a retired heart surgeon and widower of a year, is in his Seattle home, holding a rifle (a family heirloom, we learn later), determined to end his life.
SIFF 2021: What to expect in the week ahead!
We’ve had a whole weekend to sup up all the delicious morsels that SIFF has laid out for us, how’ve you fared …
SIFF 2021: Mogul Mowgli
Riz Ahmed’s newest is semi-autobiographical, but it’s also imaginative, sometimes fantastical, and distinctly cinematic.
SIFF 2021: It’s baaaaacccckkkk!
Y’all ready for this? I can hardly believe it, but it’s finally here. After missing all of 2020, the Seattle International Film …
The SunBreak at SIFF 2021
A handy index of all of this year’s SIFF coverage.
Roundtable: It’s Happening Again — SIFF is Virtually Back for 2021
After being one of the first festivals of 2020 to go into hibernation when confronted with the uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Seattle International Film Festival is returning in (mostly) virtual format for 2021. Running from April 8-18 (early and abbreviated for SIFF, but still a long festival by most standards), most films will be available to at-home festival goers through their screen of choice. We chatted about our first reactions to the virtual festival, suggested strategies for approaching the program, and make some quick picks.