In Even Hell Has Its Heroes, Clyde Petersen’s feature documentary, the Washington animator and filmmaker opens a mesmerizing, 108-minute portal into the many layers of Earth — the Olympia...
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Alison Jean SmithSeattle is a city that wears its Scandinavian heritage proudly, and so it’s only fitting that Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF)’s Nordic lineup is such a standout this year. In particular, two films from Denmark, Superposition...
Filmmaker Emin Alper, director of several award-winning drama films, cites An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a doctor’s crisis of conscience, as a chief inspiration for his narrative film Burning Days (Kurak Günler)...
For many Seattleites, Aurora Avenue has for years been synonymous with prostitution, drug trafficking, and general urban decay. For those unfamiliar with the region, it’s a stretch of Highway 99 running from the city’s north to south...
Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) 2021 runs virtually from April 8 to 18 this year and features 220 films from 69 countries! Given its broad range, REDEFINE has done the hard work of sifting through the catalog for you, with a focus on...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Oh, North Korea. The mechanics of filmmaking are lost upon you, are they not? You may have read about it — which is why you probably attempted to control the script of Under The Sun and escorted the filmmakers to a number of pre-determined...
At the start of The High Sun, Jelena (Tihana Lazovic) and Ivan (Goran Markovic) sunbathe at a lakeshore, playing instruments and wrestling flirtatiously in the sunshine. The unfettered young couple seems like it has no worries in the world —...
All May, posters have abounded in Seattle’s historically gay-friendly neighborhood of Capitol Hill, advertising Transgender Arts Month. Lumped within that was Translations, a five-day Transgender Film Festival, now on its eleventh year. In...