Seattle International Film Festival

2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSons of DenmarkUlaa SalimDenmark four years into the future. After a major bomb attack in Copenhagen radicalization and ethnic tensions are running high, and a racist leader is leading the polls.19-year old Zakaria is afraid, wanting to do something.Amazon2019 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesAfterlifeWillem BoschAmazonFor SamaWaad Al-KateabAmazonTel Aviv on FireSameh ZoabiAmazonX.Károly Ujj MészárosAmazon

2018 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe GuiltyGustav MöllerA police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.Amazon2018 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesLeave No TraceDebra GranikAmazonSadieMegan GriffithsAmazonSee You Up ThereAlbert DupontelAmazonThe Last SuitPablo SolarzAmazon

2017 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerAt the End of the TunnelRodrigo GrandeA paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.Amazon2017 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesA Dragon Arrives!Mani HaghighiAmazonAfter the StormHirokazu KoreedaAmazonGookJustin ChonAmazonIn SyriaPhilippe Van LeeuwAmazon

2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerSpy TimeJavier Ruiz CalderaAdolfo, a thirty something security guard, is going through a bad patch. Not only his lifetime girlfriend has just to finished with him to be a guy with no ambition but, moreover, he ...Amazon2016 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesSand StormElite ZexerAmazonThe InnocentsAnne FontaineAmazonThe Night StalkerMegan GriffithsAmazonThe Olive TreeIcíar BollaínAmazonÞrestirRúnar RúnarssonAmazon

2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerMe and Earl and the Dying GirlAlfonso Gomez-RejonHigh schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.Amazon2015 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesA Second ChanceSusanne BierAmazonCorn IslandGeorge OvashviliAmazonEisenstein in GuanajuatoPeter GreenawayAmazonLambRoss PartridgeAmazon

2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerBoyhoodRichard LinklaterThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.Amazon2014 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesIdaPawel PawlikowskiAmazonLife Feels GoodMaciej PieprzycaAmazonLittle AccidentsSara ColangeloAmazonTangerinesZaza UrushadzeAmazon

2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerHorses of GodNabil AyouchA fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.Amazon2013 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director Nominees7 BoxesJuan Carlos ManegliaAmazonIn the ShadowDavid OndrícekAmazonJînReha ErdemAmazonMuch Ado About NothingJoss WhedonAmazonOut in the DarkMichael MayerAmazonScrapperBrady HallAmazonShort Term 12Destin Daniel CrettonAmazonStories We TellSarah PolleyAmazonThe Forgotten KingdomAndrew MudgeAmazonThe HuntThomas VinterbergAmazon

2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerBeasts of the Southern WildBenh ZeitlinFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.Amazon2012 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director NomineesEdenMegan GriffithsAmazon

2011 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Director WinnerThe WhistleblowerLarysa KondrackiA drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.Amazon