Seattle International Film Festival Awards Top Honors to ‘Klondike,’ ‘Know Your Place’

The Seattle Worldwide Movie Competition closed its forty eighth version on Sunday by asserting its prime honors, presenting awards at a ceremony on the Hyatt Regency Lodge in downtown Seattle.

“Klondike,” a movie following a household that lives on the tumultuous border of Russia and Ukraine in 2014, was awarded the grand jury prize throughout the pageant’s official competitors.

“For a piece each tragically prophetic and common in its influence, a ferocious and formalist imaginative and prescient of struggle that fuses humanism, black comedy and horror right into a searing and authentic imaginative and prescient, we award the Grand Jury Prize to Maryna Er Gorbach’s ‘Klondike,’” stated the jury, composed of Angel An, senior director of acquisitions at Roadside Attraction; David Ansen, lead programmer on the Palm Spring Worldwide Movie Competition; and Matthew Campbell, inventive director of the Denver Movie Society and the Denver Movie Competition.

“Know Your Place,” a drama following two teenage Ethiopian-People partaking in an odyssey throughout Seattle, was awarded the Golden House Needle viewers award for finest movie, rising victorious from a pool that noticed over 20,000 poll submissions. “Know Your Place” additionally earned the grand jury prize for the pageant’s New American Cinema Competitors.

“This drama is a deep dive right into a Seattle subculture that has hardly ever if ever been proven earlier than with such intimacy. Character-driven and of the second, it takes us on an sudden journey of discovery, and reminds us of the day by day hardships of residing on the margins in America,” stated the jury, composed of Thelma Adams, creator and movie critic; Andrew Carlin, director of theatrical distribution and gross sales at Oscilloscope Laboratories; and Invoice Guentzler, senior director of acquisitions at Gravitas Ventures.

The 11-day pageant started on April 14, screening 263 movies throughout in-person occasions at at-home streaming by way of its personal channel.

“As we celebrated our first in-person pageant in three years, we have been so thrilled to deliver nice movies and new voices from throughout the globe,” stated Beth Barrett, SIFF inventive director. “Creating these experiences that deliver audiences round movie, each in cinema and hybrid, allowed us all to attach, to be taught, and to make our personal world slightly larger. We’re constantly impressed with filmmakers’ talents to inform their tales, even below tense circumstances, and to seek out and meet their audiences.”

See the total checklist of pageant winners beneath:

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST FILM

“Know Your Place” | dir. by Zia Mohajerjasbi

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST DOCUMENTARY

“The Territory” | dir. by Alex Pritz

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST DIRECTOR

Horacio Gomez Alcalà (“Finlandia”)

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST PERFORMANCE

Dale Dickey (“A Love Track”)

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARD – BEST SHORT FILM

“Lengthy Line of Women” | dir. by Reyka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome

LENA SHARPE AWARD FOR PERSISTENCE OF VISION

“Sweetheart Deal” | dir. by Elisa Levine and Gabriel Miller

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Klondike” | dir. Maryna Er Gorbach

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“Navalny” | dir. Daniel Roher

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“Fireplace of Love” | dir. Sara Dosa

SIFF 2022 IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITION – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Chic” | dir. Mariano Biasin

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR ORIGINALITY OF VISION

“The Sacred Spirit” |dir. Chema García Ibarra

SIFF 2022 NEW DIRECTORS COMPETITION – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Lonely Voices” | dir. Andrea Brusa, Marco Scotuzzi

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“Moneyboys” | dir. C.B. Yi

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“Tug of Warfare” | dir. Amil Shivji

SIFF 2022 NEW AMERICAN CINEMA COMPETITION – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Know Your Place” | dir. Zia Mohajerjasbi

SIFF 2022 DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Radiograph of a Household” | dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani

SIFF 2022 OFFICIAL COMPETITION – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

“Darkish Purple Forest” | dir. Jin Huaqing

WAVEMAKER AWARD – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“She” | dir. Eva Li

SIFF 2022 SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS – LIVE ACTION SHORT – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Rachels Don’t Run” | dir. Joanny Causse

SIFF 2022 SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS – LIVE ACTION SHORT – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“El Carrito” | dir. Zahida Pirani

SIFF 2022 SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS – LIVE ACTION SHORT – SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

“Tank Fairy” | dir. Erich Rettstadt

SIFF 2022 SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS – DOCUMENTARY SHORT – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Lengthy Line of Women” | dir. Rayka Zehtabchi, Shaandiin Tome

SIFF 2022 SHORT FILM JURY AWARDS – ANIMATED SHORT – GRAND JURY PRIZE

“Love, Dad” | dir. Diana Cam Van Nguyen

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTING

“Moist” | dir. Marianne Bergeonneau, Lauriane Montppert, Mélina Mandon, Cloé Peyrebrune, Elvira Taussac