Rita Meher and the Tasveer Film Festival and Market have been awarded the 2025 Mayor’s Film Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film, the City of Seattle announced on Thursday.
Asian Crossroads at SIFF 2025
The Seattle International Film Festival is spotlighting a rich and diverse slate of Asian cinema this year as part of its Asian Crossroads program, featuring films from China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia, Mongolia, and India.
Seattle International Film Festival: Vision, passion, and inspiration from around Asia
Writers refer to “killing your darlings.” That means you sometimes have to get rid of something that pleases and/or satisfies you about your work—for the sake of the greater good.
Seattle International Film Festival: Dazzling visions from across Asia
Painters, poets, scribes, and filmmakers often have to make sacrifices for their art. But the lovers of art, the ones determined to be part of the scene as fans, sometimes go it rough for their own ends.
China, a complex nation, reflected in this year’s SIFF lineup
This year’s Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) selection of Asian films offers a kaleidoscopic view on China, a country known for its turbulent history immediately followed by its accelerated growth. While many of these films are part of SIFF’s China Stars, a program of films meant to promote cross cultural showcase and exchange, most will not be promoted in China.
Inaugural Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival
By Andrew Hamlin NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY Joyce Jeng, chief film festival organizer for the first-ever Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival, grew up watching Pixar features. She grew up in San […]
SIFF Partners with WASA to host second annual China Stars Showcase
The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)’s continued efforts to represent a diverse array of films from multiple countries include discovering many notable films coming out of China.
Angkor Awakens — A chilling, tearful, and hopeful survey of a nation
I wondered how the film could go on from the killing. And after watching awhile, I wondered how the country of Cambodia could go on from the killing.
Malaysian filmmaker Andrew Gooi brings “Kakehashi” to SIFF
Chef Nobuo Fukuda never quite felt like he fit into the rigid confines and strict culture of his family in Japan.
Sam Choy’s Poke to the Max hits big screen following brick and mortar
The Poke to the Max food trucks that brought the Hawaiian poke by lauded “Godfather of Poke” chef Sam Choy to Seattle’s shores, is now on the big screen and at its new brick and mortar restaurant in Hillman City.
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