Seattle International Film Festival

In 2022, the Seattle International Film Festival will be a hybrid Festival experience, with Festival films screened at SIFF Theaters and venues throughout the city as well as virtually on the SIFF Channel, making the Festival available to its wide variety of avid film lovers. Running April 14–24, 2022, the Festival will present the best in international and independent films from around the globe. Historically, the Seattle International Film Festival is the largest film festival in the United States, presenting more than 400 features, documentaries, and short films to an audience of over 138,000 each year. SIFF is consistently ranked as one of the top festivals in North America, and is an Academy Award-qualifying festival for short films. SIFF started out as an event aimed squarely at Seattle filmgoers, renowned for their strong support for independent cinema and their sophisticated, maverick tastes. Through the years, Seattle audiences have proven themselves to be remarkably astute judges of a film's theatrical strength in the American marketplace. This, in turn, has made SIFF a great testing ground for new films. Our emphasis on keeping the Festival an event aimed first and foremost at filmgoers, provides the films themselves with the kind of genuine audience response that has attracted the participation of so many filmmakers and film distributors.