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Seattle International Film Festival

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    Golden Space Needle Award

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    Best Director

    • Kelly O'Sullivan
      Alex Thompson
      Winners
      • Kelly O'Sullivan
      • Alex Thompson
      • Ghostlight
    • Sean Wang
      • Sean Wang
      • Dìdi
      2nd Place
    • Pascal Plante
      • Pascal Plante
      • Red Rooms
      3rd Place
    • Shiori Itô in Black Box Diaries (2024)
      • Shiori Itô
      • Black Box Diaries
      4th Place
    • Shuchi Talati in Girls Will Be Girls (2024)
      • Shuchi Talati
      • Girls Will Be Girls
      5th Place

    Best Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Porcelain War

      7.1 (1.3K)
      Brendan Bellomo
      Slava Leontyev
    • [object Object]

      Black Box Diaries

      7.5 (3.9K)
      Shiori Itô
      2nd Place
    • [object Object]

      Sono Lino

      Jacob Patrick
      3rd Place
    • [object Object]

      Luther: Never Too Much

      8.1 (944)
      Dawn Porter
      4th Place
    • [object Object]

      The Ride Ahead

      7.2 (24)
      Dan Habib
      Samuel Habib
      5th Place

    Best Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sing Sing

      7.6 (25K)
      Greg Kwedar
    • [object Object]

      Ghostlight

      7.6 (6.7K)
      Kelly O'Sullivan
      Alex Thompson
      2nd Place
    • [object Object]

      Bob Trevino Likes It

      7.5 (3.6K)
      Tracie Laymon
      3rd Place
    • [object Object]

      Green Border

      6.4 (7.4K)
      Agnieszka Holland
      4th Place
    • [object Object]

      Red, White & Brass

      7.0 (454)
      Damon Fepulea'i
      5th Place

    Best Performance

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Ghostlight

      7.6 (6.7K)
      Keith Kupferer
    • [object Object]

      Bob Trevino Likes It

      7.5 (3.6K)
      Barbie Ferreira
      2nd Place
    • [object Object]

      Woodland

      5.9 (144)
      Brigitte Hobmeier
      3rd Place

    • Moloka'i Bound

      8.5 (18)
      Holden Mandrial-Santos
      4th Place
    • [object Object]

      Ghostlight

      7.6 (6.7K)
      Katherine Mallen Kupferer
      5th Place

    Excellence in Ensemble Acting

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sing Sing

      7.6 (25K)
      Colman Domingo
      Clarence Maclin
      Sean San Jose
      Paul Raci
      Sean Dino Johnson
      Jon-Adrian Velazquez

    Short Film Competition Award - Special Mention

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    Narrative

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Essex Girls

      6.8 (67)
      Yero Timi-Biu

    Short Film Award

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    Animation

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Madeleine

      7.6 (35)
      Raquel Sancinetti
    • [object Object]

      27

      6.7 (1.2K)
      Flóra Anna Buda
    • [object Object]

      Tennis, Oranges

      7.6 (39)
      Sean Pecknold
    • [object Object]

      Bug Diner

      6.6 (341)
      Phoebe Jane Hart

    Documentary

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Waiting

      7.5 (41)
      Volker Schlecht
    • [object Object]

      You Can't Get What You Want But You Can Get Me

      6.3 (24)
      Samira Elagoz
      Zoe Anne Walsh
    • [object Object]

      Grandmamauntsistercat

      6.6 (26)
      Zuzanna Banasinska

    Narrative

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Shell Covered Ox

      6.6 (26)
      Daniel Barosa
    • [object Object]

      Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy

      7.0 (80)
      Khozy Rizal
    • [object Object]

      Cantata

      7.5 (14)
      Dave Fox
    • [object Object]

      Make Me a Pizza

      6.9 (64)
      Talia Shea Levin
    • [object Object]

      Buffer Zone

      6.2 (75)
      Savvas Stavrou

    New Directors Competition

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      City of Wind

      6.6 (521)
      Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
    • [object Object]

      Ama Gloria

      7.0 (922)
      Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq
    • [object Object]

      The Burdened

      7.0 (762)
      Amr Gamal
    • [object Object]

      Excursion

      6.2 (438)
      Una Gunjak
    • [object Object]

      A Journey in Spring

      6.8 (150)
      Tzu-Hui Peng
      Ping-Wen Wang
    • [object Object]

      Solitude

      6.9 (543)
      Ninna Pálmadóttir
    • [object Object]

      Young Hearts

      7.9 (6.4K)
      Anthony Schatteman

    Ibero American Competition

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Raíz

      6.0 (136)
      Franco García Becerra
    • [object Object]

      Sujo

      6.8 (1.2K)
      Astrid Rondero
      Fernanda Valadez
    • [object Object]

      Holy Mother

      5.9 (132)
      Antonio Chavarrías
    • [object Object]

      Igualada

      7.3 (68)
      Juan Mejia Botero
    • [object Object]

      The Major Tones

      7.0 (115)
      Ingrid Pokropek
    • [object Object]

      Memories of a Burning Body

      6.5 (413)
      Antonio Chavarrías
    • [object Object]

      The Quiet Maid

      6.1 (1.2K)
      Miguel Faus
    • [object Object]

      Saturn Return

      6.5 (1.3K)
      Isaki Lacuesta
      Pol Rodríguez
    • [object Object]

      Valentina or the Serenity

      6.7 (74)
      Ángeles Cruz

    New Directors Competition - Special Jury Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Young Hearts

      7.9 (6.4K)
      Anthony Schatteman

    Grand Jury Prize

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    Best Feature Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Gloria!

      6.5 (1.1K)
      Margherita Vicario
    • [object Object]

      All Shall Be Well

      7.2 (967)
      Ray Yeung
    • [object Object]

      Critical Zone

      6.0 (646)
      Ali Ahmadzadeh
    • [object Object]

      Dìdi

      7.3 (14K)
      Sean Wang
    • [object Object]

      Evil Does Not Exist

      7.0 (12K)
      Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
    • [object Object]

      Sugarcane

      7.0 (3.6K)
      Emily Kassie
      Julian Brave NoiseCat
    • [object Object]

      Love Machina

      6.9 (26)
      Peter Sillen

    Special Jury Prize

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    Best Feature Film

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Alya

      8.8 (162)

    New American Cinema Competition

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      We Strangers

      5.9 (50)
      Anu Valia
    • [object Object]

      The Black Sea

      7.3 (131)
      Derrick B. Harden
      Crystal Moselle
    • [object Object]

      Bob Trevino Likes It

      7.5 (3.6K)
      Tracie Laymon
    • [object Object]

      Mountains

      7.0 (214)
      Monica Sorelle
    • [object Object]

      Rats!

      6.4 (250)
      Carl Fry
      Maxwell Nalevansky

    • Moloka'i Bound

      8.5 (18)
      Alika Tengan

    Documentary Competition Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      A New Kind of Wilderness

      7.6 (1.4K)
      Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
    • [object Object]

      Fragments of a Life Loved

      7.0 (68)
      Chloe Barreau
    • [object Object]

      Grasshopper Republic

      7.5 (27)
      Daniel McCabe
    • [object Object]

      Hollywoodgate

      6.9 (630)
      Ibrahim Nash'at
    • [object Object]

      Porcelain War

      7.1 (1.3K)
      Brendan Bellomo
      Slava Leontyev
    • [object Object]

      The Ride Ahead

      7.2 (24)
      Dan Habib
      Samuel Habib
    • [object Object]

      So This Is Christmas

      7.6 (92)
      Ken Wardrop
    • [object Object]

      So Unreal

      6.8 (31)
      Amanda Kramer

    Documentary Competition Award - Special Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Ride Ahead

      7.2 (24)
      Dan Habib
      Samuel Habib

    Grand Jury Prize - Special Mention

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Sugarcane

      7.0 (3.6K)
      Emily Kassie
      Julian Brave NoiseCat

    Ibero-American Competition Special Jury Prize

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    Special Jury Mention

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Major Tones

      7.0 (115)
      Ingrid Pokropek

    Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Black Box Diaries

      7.5 (3.9K)
      Shiori Itô

    Youth Jury Prize for Best Futurewave Feature

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    • [object Object]

      Bob Trevino Likes It

      7.5 (3.6K)
      Tracie Laymon
    • [object Object]

      Dìdi

      7.3 (14K)
      Sean Wang
    • [object Object]

      Pigsy

      6.0 (29)
      Li Wei Chiu
    • [object Object]

      We Can Be Heroes

      9.2 (22)
      Alex Simmons
      Carina Mia Wong
    • [object Object]

      Why Dinosaurs?

      9.2 (23)
      James L. Pinto
      Tony Pinto
    • [object Object]

      Young Hearts

      7.9 (6.4K)
      Anthony Schatteman

    FutureWave Shorts Competition

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    FutureWave

    • [object Object]

      Torrent

      Aidan Kiyashka

    Seattle Film Critics Society Feature Film Award

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      I Saw the TV Glow

      5.8 (40K)
      Jane Schoenbrun

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