The 2012 Seattle Film Festival Line-Up is the Best I’ve Seen in Years

By Brad Brevet

  • 360 (dir. Fernando Meirelles)
  • 419 (dir. Ned Thorne)
  • 11 Flowers (dir. Wang Xiaoshuai)
  • 170 Hz (dir. Joost van Ginkel)
  • 2 Days in New York (dir. Julie Delpy)
  • 38 Witnesses (dir. Lucas Belvaux)
  • 4 Days in May (dir. Achim von Borries)
  • The 5,000 Days Project: TWO BROTHERS (dir. Rick Stevenson, Kevin Klar)
  • 5 Broken Cameras (dir. Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi)
  • 6 Points About Emma (dir. Roberto Pérez Toledo)
  • Abu, Son of Adam (dir. Salim Ahamed)
  • Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (dir. Allison Klayman)
  • All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (dir. Adam Curtis)
  • Alois Nebel (dir. Tomás Lunák)
  • The Ambassador (dir. Mads Brügger)
  • American Addict (dir. Sasha Knezev)
  • Any Day Now (dir. Travis Fine)
  • The Art of Love (dir. Emmanuel Mouret)
  • As Luck Would Have It (dir. Alex de la Iglesia)
  • The Atomic States of America (dir. Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce)
  • Bad Brains: A Band in DC (dir. Mandy Stein, Benjamen Logan)
  • Badlands (dir. Terrence Malick)
  • Beasts of the Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin)
  • The Beautiful Game (dir. Victor Buhler)
  • Bel Ami (dir. Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod)
  • Bestiaire (dir. Denis Côté)
  • Best Intentions (dir. Adrian Sitaru)
  • A Better Life (dir. Cédric Kahn)
  • Beware of Mr. Baker (dir. Jay Bulger)
  • The Blindfold (dir. Garin Nugroho)
  • Bol (dir. Shoaib Mansoor)
  • Bonsái (dir. Cristián Jiménez)
  • Brave (dir. Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews)
  • Breathing (dir. Karl Markovics)
  • The British Guide to Showing Off (dir. Jes Benstock, Dorigen Hammond)
  • Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (dir. Ryan O’Nan)
  • Bull Runners of Pamplona (dir. Aubrey Powell)
  • Bunohan: Return To Murder (dir. Dain Said)
  • Camilla Dickinson (dir. Cornelia Duryée Moore)
  • Can (dir. Rasit Çelikezer)
  • Carrie (dir. Brian De Palma)
  • The Central Park Effect (dir. Jeffrey Kimball)
  • Chapiteau-Show (dir. Sergey Loban)
  • Charles Bradley: Soul of America (dir. Poull Brien)
  • The Chase (dir. Arthur Ripley)
  • Chasing Ice (dir. Jeff Orlowski)
  • A Checkout Girl’s Big Adventures (dir. Pierre Rambaldi)
  • The Chef (dir. Daniel Cohen)
  • Choked (dir. Kim Joon-hyun)
  • Citadel (dir. Ciarán Foy)
  • City World (dir. Brent Chesanek)
  • Cloudburst (dir. Thom Fitzgerald)
  • Coal Miner’s Daughter (dir. Michael Apted)
  • Coming Home (dir. Frédéric Videau)
  • Compliance (dir. Craig Zobel)
  • The Convoy (dir. Alexey Mizgirev)
  • Coteau Rouge (dir. André Forcier)
  • Countdown (dir. Huh Jong-ho)
  • Cousinhood (dir. Daniel Sánchez Arévalo)
  • Cracks in the Shell (dir. Christian Schwochow)
  • The Crown Jewels (dir. Ella Lemhagen)
  • Crulic – The Path to Beyond (dir. Anca Damian)
  • A Cube of Sugar (dir. Reza Mirkarimi)
  • Daas (dir. Adrian Panek)
  • The Details (dir. Jacob Aaron Estes)
  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (dir. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frederic Tcheng)
  • Diaz – Don’t Clean Up This Blood (dir. Daniele Vicari)
  • The Do-Deca-Pentathlon (dir. Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass)
  • Dragon (dir. Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
  • Dragon Pearl (dir. Mario Andreacchio)
  • Dreams of a Life (dir. Carol Morley)
  • Duck Beach to Eternity (dir. Stephen Frandsen, Hadleigh Arnst, Laura Naylor)
  • Earthbound (dir. Alan Brennan)
  • Easton’s Article (dir. Tim Connery)
  • Eden (dir. Megan Griffiths)
  • Either Way (dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson)
  • Elena (dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev)
  • El Gusto: The Good Mood (dir. Safinez Bousbia)
  • ELIMINATE: Archie Cookson (dir. Rob Holder)
  • The Empty Home (dir. Nurbek Egen)
  • Ethel (dir. Rory Kennedy)
  • Everything and Everyone (dir. Tracy D. Smith)
  • Excision (dir. Richard Bates Jr. )
  • The Exorcist (dir. William Friedkin)
  • Extraterrestrial (dir. Nacho Vigalondo)
  • The Eye of the Storm (dir. Fred Schepisi)
  • Family Portrait in Black and White (dir. Julia Ivanova)
  • Fat Kid Rules The World (dir. Matthew Lillard)
  • Finding North (dir. Lori Silverbush, Kristi Jacobson)
  • The First on the List (dir. Roan Johnson)
  • The First Time (dir. Jonathan Kasdan)
  • Five Star Existence (dir. Sonja Lindén)
  • Found Memories (dir. Julia Murat)
  • Four Suns (dir. Bohdan Sláma)
  • The Fourth State (dir. Dennis Gansel)
  • Free Throw (dir. Court Crandall)
  • The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
  • Fuck My Wedding (dir. Nicolás López)
  • Fugly! (dir. Alfredo de Villa)
  • Future Lasts Forever (dir. Özcan Alper)
  • Future Weather (dir. Jenny Deller)
  • Game of Werewolves (dir. Juan Martinez Moreno)
  • Gayby (dir. Jonathan Lisecki)
  • Gimme The Loot (dir. Adam Leon)
  • The Glass Man (dir. Cristian Solimeno)
  • God Bless America (dir. Bobcat Goldthwait)
  • Golden Slumbers (dir. Davy Chou)
  • Goodbye (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
  • Grassroots (dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal)
  • The Great Bear (dir. Esben Toft Jacobsen)
  • Guilty (dir. Vincent Garenq)
  • Hail (dir. Amiel Courtin-Wilson)
  • Headshot (dir. Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
  • Hello I Must Be Going (dir. Todd Louiso)
  • Hemel (dir. Sacha Polak)
  • High Ground (dir. Michael Brown)
  • The House (dir. Zuzana Liová)
  • How to Steal 2 Million (dir. Charlie Vundla)
  • How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France)
  • Hunky Dory (dir. Marc Evans)
  • I Am Not a Hipster (dir. Destin Cretton)
  • The Imposter (dir. Bart Layton)
  • Innocence (dir. Jan HÅ™ebejk)
  • The Intouchables (dir. Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache)
  • The Invader (dir. Nicolas Provost)
  • The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick)
  • Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas (dir. Sue Corcoran)
  • Italy Love it or Leave It (dir. Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi )
  • I Wish (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
  • Joan and the Voices (dir. Mikayel Vatinyan)
  • John Dies At The End (dir. Don Coscarelli)
  • Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (dir. Matthew Mishory)
  • Justice For Sale (dir. Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen)
  • Keep the Lights On (dir. Ira Sachs)
  • Keyhole (dir. Guy Maddin)
  • Killer Joe (dir. William Friedkin)
  • Kill Me (dir. Emily Atef)
  • King Curling (dir. Ole Endresen)
  • Kiss Me (dir. Alexandra-Therese Keining)
  • Klown (dir. Mikkel Nørgaard)
  • Kryptonite! (dir. Ivan Cotroneo)
  • L (dir. Babis Makridis)
  • Là-bas: A Criminal Education (dir. Guido Lombardi)
  • L’Afrance (dir. Alain Gomis)
  • Las Acacias (dir. Pablo Giorgelli)
  • The Last Christeros (dir. Matias Meyer)
  • The Last Friday (dir. Yahya Alabdallah)
  • The Last Man on Earth (dir. Gian Alfonso Pacinotti)
  • The Last Reef 3D (dir. Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas)
  • The Law In These Parts (dir. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz)
  • The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (dir. Davide Manuli)
  • Legends of Valhalla: Thor (dir. Gunnar Karlsson, Toby Genkel, Oskar Jonasson)
  • Liberal Arts (dir. Josh Radnor)
  • Lipstikka (dir. Jonathan Sagall)
  • Little Toys (dir. Sun Yu)
  • Lola Versus (dir. Daryl Wein)
  • The Long Ride Home (dir. Tom Wright)
  • Lost in Paradise (dir. Ngoc Dang Vu)
  • Lost Years (dir. Kenda Gee, Tom Radford)
  • Love Free or Die (dir. Macky Alston)
  • Loverboy (dir. Catalin Mitulescu)
  • Lucky (dir. Avie Luthra)
  • LUV (dir. Sheldon Candis)
  • Madrid, 1987 (dir. David Trueba)
  • Marina Abramović The Artist is Present (dir. Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre)
  • The Mexican Suitcase (dir. Trisha Ziff)
  • Mirage (dir. Jung-ho Yang)
  • The Mirror Never Lies (dir. Kamila Andini)
  • The Monk (dir. Dominik Moll)
  • Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson)
  • Mosquita y Mari (dir. Aurora Guerrero)
  • The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On (dir. Drew Denny)
  • Mourning (dir. Morteza Farshbaf)
  • My Brother the Devil (dir. Sally El Hosaini)
  • My Dad is Baryshnikov (dir. Dmitry Povolotski, Mark Drugoi)
  • My Sucky Teen Romance (dir. Emily Hagins)
  • North Sea Texas (dir. Bavo Defurne)
  • Nosilatiaj.Beauty (dir. Daniela Seggiaro)
  • Old Dog (dir. Pema Tseden)
  • Only Yesterday (dir. Isao Takahata)
  • The Orator (dir. Tusi Tamasese)
  • Oslo, August 31st (dir. Joachim Trier)
  • Otelo Burning (dir. Sara Blecher)
  • The Other Dream Team (dir. Marius Markevicius)
  • Overheard 2 (dir. Alan Mak, Felix Chong)
  • The Painting (dir. Jean-François Laguionie)
  • Paul Williams Still Alive (dir. Stephen Kessler)
  • People Like Us (dir. Alex Kurtzman)
  • Pink Ribbons, Inc. (dir. Léa Pool)
  • Policeman (dir. Nadav Lapid)
  • Polisse (dir. Maïwenn )
  • Price Check (dir. Michael Walker)
  • Prime Time Soap (dir. Odilon Rocha)
  • Putin’s Kiss (dir. Lise Birk Pedersen)
  • Queen of Versailles (dir. Lauren Greenfield)
  • Rebellion (dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
  • Recalled (dir. Michael Connors)
  • Red Road (dir. Andrea Arnold)
  • Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings (dir. Jade Castro)
  • Rent-a-Cat (dir. Naoko Ogigami)
  • The Revisionaries (dir. Scott Thurman)
  • The Revolutionary (dir. Lucy Ostrander, Don Sellers, Irv Drasnin)
  • Robot and Frank (dir. Jake Schreier)
  • Roller Town (dir. Andrew Bush)
  • Romancing in Thin Air (dir. Johnnie To)
  • Rose (dir. Wojciech Smarzowski)
  • Rouge Parole (dir. Elyes Baccar)
  • Sacrifice (dir. Chen Kaige)
  • Safety Not Guaranteed (dir. Colin Trevorrow)
  • Salt White (dir. Keti Machavariani)
  • Save the Date (dir. Michael Mohan)
  • The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America (dir. Jeff Kaufman)
  • The Sex of the Angels (dir. Xavier Villaverde)
  • Sharqiya (dir. Ami Livne)
  • Short Life (dir. Scott Levy)
  • Silence: All Roads Lead to Music (dir. Haider Rashid)
  • Simon and the Oaks (dir. Lisa Ohlin)
  • Sin Bin (dir. Billy Federighi)
  • Six Million and One (dir. David Fisher)
  • Sleepwalk With Me (dir. Mike Birbiglia)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (dir. Robert Guédiguian)
  • The Sorcerer and the White Snake (dir. Tony Siu-Tung Ching)
  • The Source (dir. Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos )
  • The Squad (dir. Jaime Osorio Márquez)
  • The Standbys (dir. Stephanie Riggs)
  • Starbuck (dir. Ken Scott)
  • Starry Starry Night (dir. Tom Shu-Yu Lin)
  • Step Up to the Plate (dir. Paul Lacoste)
  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey (dir. Mark Cousins)
  • The Student (dir. Santiago Mitre)
  • The Substance: Albert Hofmann’s LSD (dir. Martin Witz)
  • Sunny (dir. Kang Hyeung-chul)
  • Superclásico (dir. Ole Christian Madsen)
  • Take This Waltz (dir. Sarah Polley)
  • The Tall Man (dir. Tony Krawitz)
  • Tatsumi (dir. Eric Khoo)
  • Teddy Bear (dir. Mads Matthiesen)
  • Tey (dir. Alain Gomis)
  • Thale (dir. Aleksander Nordaas)
  • Three Quarter Moon (dir. Christian Zübert)
  • Toomelah (dir. Ivan Sen)
  • Trial on the Road (dir. Alexei Guerman)
  • Trishna (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
  • True Wolf (dir. Rob Whitehair)
  • Two For the Road (dir. Stanley Donen)
  • Under African Skies (dir. Joe Berlinger)
  • Unforgivable (dir. André Téchiné)
  • Unit 7 (dir. Alberto Rodriguez)
  • Valley of Saints (dir. Musa Syeed)
  • V/H/S (dir. Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence)
  • Volcano (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson)
  • War of the Buttons (dir. Christophe Barratier)
  • We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (dir. Brian Knappenberger)
  • Welcome To Doe Bay (dir. Nesib Shamah, Dan Thornton)
  • Welcome To Pine Hill (dir. Keith Miller)
  • Wetlands (dir. Guy Édoin)
  • White Camellias (dir. Russell Brown)
  • Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods (dir. Christian Ditter)
  • Wiebo’s War (dir. David York)
  • Winter Nomads (dir. Manuel von Stürler)
  • The Woman in the Septic Tank (dir. Marlon Rivera)
  • The Woman in the Fifth (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
  • The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake (dir. Herman Yau)
  • Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (dir. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan)
  • Wrinkles (dir. Ignacio Ferreras)
  • Wuthering Heights (dir. Andrea Arnold)
  • Xingu (dir. Cao Hamburger)
  • Year of Grace (dir. Ventura Pons)
  • Your Sister’s Sister (dir. Lynn Shelton)
Brad Brevet

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