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Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF is an official Academy Award® qualifying festival in short film animation and short film narrative. We screen over 120 short films in our ShortsFest weekend, many of them award winners from around the world.
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34th edition
2008 | 22 May - 15 June

Awards

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Selected short films

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Edition details

Best Short Film - Jury Prize

New Boy

Ireland | May 2007 | 10:53
Director: Steph Green
 
25

Grand Jury Prize - Animation

The Pearce Sisters

United Kingdom | 2007 | 9:27
Director: Luis Cook
Image from The Pearce Sisters
 Rating
15

Grand Jury Prize - Narrative

Rewind

India | 2006 | 8:00
Director: Atul Taishete
 Rating
2

Auf der Strecke

On the Line
Germany | 2007 | 29:45
Director: Reto Caffi
A department store security guard is racked by guilt after not helping the victim of a fight in the subway.
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 Rating
26

Ha'Modedeim

Mapping
Israel | 2007 | 15:00
Director: Asaf Saban
Two survevoyor workers, working during memorial day on the construction of the separation wall, unaware of the different segment's of Israel absurd re...
Image from Ha'Modedeim
 
1

New Boy

Ireland | May 2007 | 10:53
Director: Steph Green
Based on a short story by Roddy Doyle this poignant and comedic short film deftly captures the experience of being the new boy in school through the e...
 
25

Night Vision

Canada | Jan 2008 | 24:24
Director: Phillip Barker
Images of sublime surrealism conjure places beyond the surface of the natural world. Picture yourself on a boat on a river…
 
1

The Pearce Sisters

United Kingdom | 2007 | 9:27
Director: Luis Cook
Lol and Edna Pearce live on a remote and austere strip of coast. When the sea offers up a handsome but half drowned man they do their best to resuscit...
Image from The Pearce Sisters
 Rating
15

Rewind

India | 2006 | 8:00
Director: Atul Taishete
A bunch of three gambler thieves , one of whom is blind, have managed to crack a safe. The Safe has diamonds worth a million, but then greed takes ove...
 Rating
2
Short film types screened
Fiction / Live action
Animation
Documentary
Experimental
Music video
Competition and rewards
International competition
National/regional competition
No cash awards
No screening fees
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Related news

The details have been announced for the 2009 edition. | more...
12 September 2008
Rewind has received a new award at Seattle International Film Festival. | more...
16 June 2008
The Pearce Sisters has received a new award at Seattle International Film Festival. | more...
16 June 2008
Information on this profile is provided by the event and/or compiled from available sources | Profile updated 15 Jun 2010