38th Seattle International Film Festival to Spotlight 24 World Premieres

Local filmmaker Lynn Shelton's latest, Your Sister's Sister starring Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass will open the Seattle International Film Festival, ushering in the 38th edition of the late spring event which will feature 273 features and 187 shorts from 75 countries. The lineup includes 24 world premieres along with 25 North American and 16 U.S. debuts. 180 of the total do not currently have U.S. distribution.

Highlights include Salma Hayek in As Luck Would Have It; Tobey Maguire, Laura Linney and Elizabeth Banks in The Details; Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon and James Marsden in Robot and Frank; Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, and Michelle Pfeiffer in People Like Us; Jason Biggs, Cobie Smulders, and Cedric the Entertainer in Grassroots and Frieda Pinto in Trishna. The festival will conclude June 10th with the North American premiere of Daniel Cohen's culinary comedy The Chef.

Additional Gala presentations:
Fat Kid Rules the World (dir. Matthew Lillard, USA, Whitewater Films)
Robot and Frank (dir. Jake Schreier, USA, Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Lola Versus (dir. Daryl Wein, USA, Fox Searchlight Pictures)
As Luck Would Have It (dir. Alex de la Iglesia, Spain, 6 Sales)
Starbuck (dir. Ken Scott, Canada, Québec, eOne Films US)
Gayby (dir. Jonathan Lisecki, USA, Wolfe Releasing)
The Details (dir. Jacob Aaron Estes, USA, The Weinstein Company)

Special Presentations:
Brave (dir. Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews, USA, Disney/Pixar)
Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood (dir. Daniele Vicari, Italy, Fandango Portobello)
The Last Reef 3D (dirs. Luke Cresswell, Steve McNicholas, United Kingdom, Giant Screen Films)
People Like Us (dir. Alex Kurtzman, USA, Dreamworks SKG)
Trishna (dir. Michael Winterbottom, United Kingdom, Sundance Selects)

Feature Premieres

World (24):
419, dir. Ned Thorne – USA
American Addict, dir. Sasha Knezev – USA
The Beautiful Game, dir. Victor Buhler – USA
Camilla Dickinson, dir. Cornelia Duryée Moore – USA
City World, dir. Brent Chesanek – USA
Duck Beach to Eternity, dirs. Stephen Frandsen, Hadleigh Arnst, Laura Naylo – USA
Earthbound, dir. Alan Brennan – Ireland
Easton's Article, dir. Tim Connery – USA
The Empty Home, dir. Nurbek Egen – Kyrgyzstan/Russia
Free Throw, dir. Court Crandall – USA
Fugly!, dir. Alfredo de Villa – USA
Grassroots, dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal – USA
Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean, dir. Matthew Mishory – USA
The Long Ride Home, dir. Tom Wright – USA
The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had With My Pants On, dir. Drew Denny – USA
Recalled, dir. Michael Connors – USA
The Revolutionary, dirs. Lucy Ostrander, Don Sellers, Irv Drasnin – USA
The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music That Changed America, dir. Jeff Kaufman-USA
Short Life, dir. Scott Levy – USA
Sin Bin, dir. Billy Federighi – USA
The Standbys, dir. Stephanie Riggs – USA
True Wolf, dir. Rob Whitehair – USA
Welcome To Doe Bay, dirs. Nesib Shamah, Dan Thornton – USA
White Camellias, dir. Russell Brown – USA

North American (25):   
4 Days in May, dir. Achim von Borries  – Germany
6 Points About Emma, dir. Roberto Pérez Toledo  – Spain
170 Hz, dir. Joost van Ginkel – Netherlands
The Blindfold, dir. Garin Nugroho – Indonesia
Chapiteau-Show, dir. Sergey Loban – Russia
A Checkout Girl’s Big Adventures, dir. Pierre Rambaldi – France
The Chef, dir. Daniel Cohen – France
Coming Home, dir. Frédéric Videau – France
The Convoy, dir. Alexey Mizgirev – Russia
Diaz - Don’t Clean Up This Blood, dir. Daniele Vicari – Italy
Dragon Pearl, dir. Mario Andreacchio – Australia
The First on the List, dir. Roan Johnson – Italy
The Fourth State, dir. Dennis Gansel – Germany
Fuck My Wedding, dir. Nicolás López – Chile
The Glass Man, dir. Cristian Solimeno – United Kingdom
Joan and the Voices, dir. Mikayel Vatinyan – Armenia
Kill Me, dir. Emily Atef – Germany
Là-bas: A Criminal Education, dir. Guido Lombardi – Italy
The Last Man on Earth, dir. Gian Alfonso Pacinotti – Italy
Nosilatiaj.Beauty, dir. Daniela Seggiaro – Argentina
Otelo Burning, dir. Sara Blecher – South Africa
Prime Time Soap, dir. Odilon Rocha – Brazil
Remington and the Curse of the Zombadings, dir. Jade Castro – Philippines
Sharqiya, dir. Ami Livne – Israel
Silence: All Roads Lead to Music, dir. Haider Rashid – Italy

U.S. (16):
360, dir. Fernando Meirelles – United Kingdom
Coteau Rouge, dir. André Forcier – Canada (Québec)
Countdown, dir. Huh Jong-ho – South Korea
The Crown Jewels, dir. Ella Lemhagen – Sweden
Everything and Everyone, dir. Tracy D. Smith – Canada
Hail, dir. Amiel Courtin-Wilson – Australia
The Last Friday, dir. Yahya Alabdallah – Jordan
Legends of Valhalla: Thor, dirs. Gunnar Karlsson, Toby Genkel, Oskar Jonasson – Iceland
Lipstikka, dir. Jonathan Sagall – Israel
Lost in Paradise, dir. Ngoc Dang Vu – Vietnam
Lost Years, dir Kenda Gee, Tom Radford – Canada
The Mirror Never Lies, dir. Kamila Andini – Indonesia
Salt White, dir. Keti Machavariani – Georgia
Starry Starry Night, dir. Tom Shu-Yu Lin – Taiwan
Tey, dir. Alain Gomis – Senegal
Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods, dir. Christian Ditter – Germany