SIFF is wrapping up this weekend and there are only a few more days before it’s all done. Eight films are in the Documentary Competition and I’ve seen them all.
Category: SIFF
Seattle International Film Festival
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Summer’s Camera, Cloud
Surveying a couple of polar opposite selections from SIFF’s Asian Crossroads program.
SIFF 2025: Picks through Closing Weekend
The in-person portion of the 51st Seattle International Film Festival is past its halfway point and is barreling toward closing weekend. Featuring 245 films playing in theaters around town until May 25th (and several making online encores the week after), there’s still plenty of time to catch our city’s biggest film festival in the company of other cinemaniacs.
We share some film’s we’ve seen and are eager to recommend as well as a few that are still at the top of our watchlists.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Wrapped up in Books (BLKNWS, The Librarians, The Safe House)
Over the weekend, I caught up on a few films playing in competition, all connected in one way or another with books.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Come Closer, Diamonds, Hanami
I grouped these three films together as they have one key factor in common, incredibly strong female characters. While each lead is completely different from the other two, they all have a power that captivates you on screen and keeps you invested in the story from beginning to end. I recommend seeking out all three as you make your way through SIFF.
SIFF 2025: Boong
Boong (Gugun Kipgen) is a precocious kid that lives for getting into playful trouble, more annoying than harmful, with his best friend Raju (Angom Sanamatum). He’s too smart for his own good sometimes, but he knows what’s important.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Northwest Connections Documentaries
Although “International” is right there in SIFF’s name, each festival also showcases a series of films made or set closer to home. This year’s Northwest Connections program includes five films. Here, we review of the two documentary features that’ll play throughout the festival: Suburban Fury and Wolf Land.
SIFF 2025: SunBreak Index
An ongoing annotated list of all of the SunBreak’s coverage of the 51th Seattle International Film Festival, which runs from May 15-25 in person and May 26-June 1 online.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Some weird features
SIFF prides itself on its selection of offbeat films and for that, I am thankful. Man cannot subsist on documentaries about indigenous water rights and unfairness in the Mexican penal system alone. I don’t know if these are going to be the weirdest movies at SIFF (Fucktoys and Spermageddon issue some promises in their respective titles I expect them to deliver on), these are some of the notable, uhh, unique offerings so far.
SIFF 2025 Notebook: Northwest Connections Features
Although “International” is right there in SIFF’s name, each festival also showcases a series of films made or set closer to home. This year’s Northwest Connections program includes five films. Here, we review of the two narrative features that’ll play throughout the festival: Evergreens and Monarch City.