SIFFcast

SIFF Programmer Maryna Ajaja leads a spirited conversation between four dynamic directors about cross-cultural issues and changing visions.

Featuring the filmmakers of Bebia, à mon seul désir (director Juja Dobrachkous), Charter (director Amanda Kernell),

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (director Teona Strugar Mitevska) and Motherland (director Tomas Vengris).

SIFF Programmer SuJ’n Chon leads a roundtable discussion with documentary filmmakers Cassandra Jabola, Benjamin Schwartz, and Mariem Pérez Riera. They talk about capturing the legacies of Amy Tan, Chuck Connelly, and Rita Moreno: all virtuosos who mastered the art of being audacious.

With a sudden shift to consuming all of our media at home, the interaction with online film communities has skyrocketed. How do you find new films to watch? How did you share films that you loved with others? What role do film festivals play?

Hear from Gemma Gracewood (Letterboxd), Lilly Riber (MUBI), and Lela Meadow-Conner (Film Festival Alliance) on how their teams built, grew, and are able to maintain interactive film communities. Moderated by Beth Barrett, SIFF's Artistic Director.

Take a deep dive into the natural world captured on film as SIFF Programmer Faridah Gbadamosi chats with directors Alexis Gambis (Son of Monarchs) and Chase Ogden (Super Frenchie) about their new films.

SIFF Programmer Tracy Rector sits down with Emily Cohen Ibañez (Fruits of Labor) and Christopher Kahunahana (Waikiki)to discuss the process of shaping narratives that counterbalance prevailing stereotypes and presumptions of the settler colonial gaze.

SIFF Programmer Dustin Kaspar chats with directors Chen Ming-lang (The Teacher)and Chen-ti Kuo (Final Exam), Producer Yi-Sen Ko (Get the Hell Out), and distributor Eric Chou about their cinematic visions of Taiwan.

Presented in partnership with UW Taiwan Studies Program.

SIFF Programmer Megan Leonard chats with Marion Hill, whose jazzy feature debut 'Ma Belle, My Beauty' explores a Franco-American polyamorous relationship.

On today's episode of SIFFcast, we present another roundtable from Festival. SIFF Programmer Marcus Gorman speaks with filmmakers Christopher Winterbauer (Wyrm), Wes Hurley (Potato Dreams of America), Albert Birney and Kentucky Audley (Strawberry Mansion), Ana Katz (The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet) and Iuli Gerbase (The Pink Cloud)about the ways their respective teams created heightened cinematic worlds without blockbuster budgets.

In another recorded roundtable from SIFF, directing duos Celine Held & Logan George (Topside) and Kelley Kali & Angelique Molina [I’M FINE (Thanks for Asking)] chat with SIFF Programmer Faridah Gbadamosi about turning their lenses onto themselves to give a voice to the unhoused.

From women’s rights, Indigenous artists, and culinary traditions to the mystery of ancient stone spheres, this SIFF roundtable digs into four different and profoundly revealing realities in today's Latin America.

SIFF Programmer Hebe Tabachnik moderates an illuminating conversation with the directors of Criollo (Pablo Banchero), Rebel Objects (Carolina Arias Ortiz), Fly So Far (Celina Escher) and

The Song of the Butterflies (Núria Frigola Torrent).