SIFF Announces 2022 Line-Up
The 48th annual Seattle International Film Festival starts on April 14th and AMC Theater at Pacific Place will host a variety of festival events and screenings from April 15-24. Tickets and passes are available now at siff.net.
Enter a realm of movie bliss with a mind-blowing line-up of international and indie films from around the globe. This year’s festival will screen 262 films representing 80 countries. If you’re looking for fashion films, don’t miss Quant, Neptune Frost are Finlandia.
SIFF announces lineup for 48th annual Seattle International Film Festival
262 films with 28 World, 24 North American, and 9 U.S. Premieres make up this year’s hybrid festival.
SEATTLE – SIFF announced today the complete lineup of films for the 48th Seattle International Film Festival, to be held April 14-24. This year, the Festival will screen 262 films representing 80 countries, including 107 narrative features, 41 documentaries, three archival films, two works-in-progress, and 107 short films.
The lineup includes 28 world premieres (15 features/13 short films), 24 North American premieres (17 features/seven short films), and nine U.S. premieres (four features/five short films). Some 60 percent of films were created by first- or second-time filmmakers; nearly half (43 percent) were created by women or nonbinary filmmakers; and roughly two-thirds (59 percent) currently have no U.S. distribution and may not screen commercially in the United States.
Films will be screened at venues across the Seattle area, including SIFF Cinema Uptown, SIFF Cinema Egyptian, SIFF Film Center, AMC Pacific Place 11, Majestic Bay Theatres, The Paramount Theatre, Ark Lodge Cinemas, and Shoreline Community College Theater. SIFF also will make more than 100 feature films and shorts packages available for at-home streaming on the SIFF Channel.
The festivities kick off April 14, with our Opening Night screening of Navalny, a tense and riveting documentary directed by Daniel Roher following the attempted assassination of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny will screen at 7 p.m. at The Paramount Theatre at 911 Pine St. A block party will follow just outside the theater on Pine Street.
Closing night will feature Call Jane, a film that reveals the complexities of abortion decisions in the context of the late 1960s when virtually no options existed for women facing life-threatening pregnancies. Call Jane is directed by Phyllis Nagy, stars Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, and Chris Messina, and will screen at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. A closing-night gala will follow at the Museum of History and Industry at 860 N. Terry Ave.
Additional highlights showing through the Festival’s 10-day run include The Duke starring Oscar® winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren; the U.S premiere of Inu-Oh directed by Masaaki Yuasa; the feature follow-up to Dean Fleischer-Camp and Jenny Slate’s popular short, stop-motion mockumentary series Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; documentary and 2022 Sundance Award Winner Fire of Love; and others streaming both in person and on the SIFF Channel.
“Film creates conversation; a conduit to greater understanding and empathy across the planet, while never shying away from entertaining and making us laugh. Our incredible programmers have curated the very best of cinema from around the world, in many genres,” says SIFF Artistic Director Beth Barrett. “As we launch our first hybrid Festival, with both in-person and virtual screenings, we can’t wait to share these films we are so passionate about.”
A variety of film and event passes are on sale starting at $250. All passes (except for the Secret Festival Pass) include access to all virtual screenings on the SIFF Channel. In addition, the SIFF Film Pass includes advanced seating before ticket holders, as well as admission to select preview screenings.
Individual tickets go on sale to the public March 31. Tickets for individual screenings are $15 ($12 for SIFF members and $14 for seniors and students). For information on all event and screening packages and tickets, please visit siff.net/passes.
SIFF would like to thank Ingeniux, Wongdoody, Hyatt Regency Seattle (Official Festival Hotel), Rev (Official Captioning Partner), BECU, Chihuly Studio, The Seattle Times, The Stranger, KEXP, KING 5, Tito's Handmade Vodka, The Walls Vineyards, and the National Endowment for the Arts for sponsoring of the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival.
About SIFF:
SIFF is known for our international festival that takes place in the late spring each year. For more than 47 years, SIFF has delighted moviegoers with films from all regions of the world and all genres of film. In addition, SIFF offers year-round arthouse screenings, curated mini-festivals, cinema events, and education opportunities - to keep up with them, visit siff.net.
Media contact: Jaclyn Graham | (805) 952-5104 | Jaclyn@InjoyStudios.com
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