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

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 PÃ©rez 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. TomÃ¡s LunÃ¡k)
The Ambassador (dir. Mads BrÃ¼gger)
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 CÃ´tÃ©)
Best Intentions (dir. Adrian Sitaru)
A Better Life (dir. CÃ©dric Kahn)
Beware of Mr. Baker (dir. Jay Bulger)
The Blindfold (dir. Garin Nugroho)
Bol (dir. Shoaib Mansoor)
BonsÃ¡i (dir. CristiÃ¡n JimÃ©nez)
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 DuryÃ©e Moore)
Can (dir. Rasit Ã‡elikezer)
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. CiarÃ¡n Foy)
City World (dir. Brent Chesanek)
Cloudburst (dir. Thom Fitzgerald)
Coal Miner’s Daughter (dir. Michael Apted)
Coming Home (dir. FrÃ©dÃ©ric Videau)
Compliance (dir. Craig Zobel)
The Convoy (dir. Alexey Mizgirev)
Coteau Rouge (dir. AndrÃ© Forcier)
Countdown (dir. Huh Jong-ho)
Cousinhood (dir. Daniel SÃ¡nchez ArÃ©valo)
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 SigurÃ°sson)
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 LindÃ©n)
Found Memories (dir. Julia Murat)
Four Suns (dir. Bohdan SlÃ¡ma)
The Fourth State (dir. Dennis Gansel)
Free Throw (dir. Court Crandall)
The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin)
Fuck My Wedding (dir. NicolÃ¡s LÃ³pez)
Fugly! (dir. Alfredo de Villa)
Future Lasts Forever (dir. Ã–zcan 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 LiovÃ¡)
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 NÃ¸rgaard)
Kryptonite! (dir. Ivan Cotroneo)
L (dir. Babis Makridis)
LÃ -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 AbramoviÄ‡ 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-FranÃ§ois Laguionie)
Paul Williams Still Alive (dir. Stephen Kessler)
People Like Us (dir. Alex Kurtzman)
Pink Ribbons, Inc. (dir. LÃ©a Pool)
Policeman (dir. Nadav Lapid)
Polisse (dir. MaÃ¯wenn )
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 GuÃ©diguian)
The Sorcerer and the White Snake (dir. Tony Siu-Tung Ching)
The Source (dir. Jodi Wille, Maria Demopoulos )
The Squad (dir. Jaime Osorio MÃ¡rquez)
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)
SuperclÃ¡sico (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 ZÃ¼bert)
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. AndrÃ© TÃ©chinÃ©)
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. RÃºnar RÃºnarsson)
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 Ã‰doin)
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 StÃ¼rler)
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)

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