21 feature films will receive their world premieres at this year's Seattle International Film Festival including the controversial O recently sold by Miramax Films to Lions Gate Films because of its scenes of shooting in schools. Also unspooling in Seattle will be new films from Alan Rudolph (Investigating Sex), Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World), Campbell Scott (Final), Michael Polish (Jackpot) and Scotland's Peter Capaldi (Strictly Sinatra).

The festival, one of the longest in the world calendar, runs from May 24 to June 17 and has a host of movies on show for the forthcoming event including US premieres of two Cannes pictures - Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh's The Anniversary Party and Wisit Sasantieng's Tears Of The Black Tiger.

WORLD PREMIERES
Film (Nationality) Director
- Animal (Argentina) Segio Bizzio
- Dirt Boy (US) Jay Frasco
- Exploding Oedipus (US) Marc Lafia
- Farewell To Harry (US) Garrett Bennett
- Final (US) Campbell Scott
- Finder's Fee (US) Jeff Probst
- Ghost World (US) Terry Zwigoff
- A Helluva Thing (US) Karen Leigh Hopkins
- Investigating Sex (US) Alan Rudolph
- Jackpot (US) Michael Polish
- Juilliard (US) Maro Chermayeff
- O (US) Tim Blake Nelson
- Rennie's Landing (US) Marc Fusco
- Second Coming (US) Darren Campbell & Steve Rees
- Strictly Sinatra (Uk) Peter Capaldi
- Tortilla Soup (US) Maria Ripoli
- Treading Water (US) Lauren Himmel
- Viva Las Nowhere (US) Jason Bloom
- Webcam Boys (US) RADD
- WillFull (Australia) Rebel Penfold-Russel
- Wisecracker (US) Fenton Bailey

US PREMIERES
- The Anniversary Party (US) Alan Cumming & Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Attic Expeditions (US) Jeremy Kasten
- Bang Rajan (Thailand) Thanit Jiynukul
- Bangkok Dangerous (Thailand) Oxide Pang, Danny Pang
- A Banquet At Tetlapayac (Mexico) Olivier Debroise
- Borstal Boy (Ireland) Peter Sheridan
- Crimson River (France) Matthieu Kassovitz
- Disco Pigs (Ireland) Kirsten Sheridan
- Escape To Life: The Erika & klaus Mann Story (UK) Andrea Weiss & Wieland Speck
- Fugitives (Spain) Miguel Hermoso
- Hotoke (Japan) Tsuji Jinsei
- I Love Beijing (China) Ning Ying
- Ignorant Fairies (Italy) Ferzan Ozpetek
- Inugami (Japan) Masato Harada
- Jalla! Jalla! (Sweden) Joser Fares
- Joint Security Area (South Korea) Park Chan-Wook
- Kisses For Everyone (Spain) Jaime Chavarri
- The Left Side Of The Fridge (Canada) Philippe Falardeau
- Liam (UK) Stephen Frears
- Love Inventory (Israel) David Fisher
- Manhood And Other Modern Dilemmas (France) Ronan Girre
- The Melancholy Chicken (Czech Republic) Jaroslav Brabec
- Mortal Transfer (France) Jean-Jacques Beineix
- Moscow (Russia) Aleksandr Zeldovich
- The New Country (Sweden) Geir Hansteen Jorgensen
- Parsley Days (Canada) Andrea Dorfman
- Peaches (Ireland) Nick Grosso
- The Rain (US) David Beatty
- Le Ral (France) Christophe Ali & Nicolas Bonilauri
- Ring O (Japan) Norio Tsuruta
- Sandstorm (India) Jagmohan
- Seance (Japan) Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Tears Of The Black Tiger (Thailand) Wisit Sasantieng
- That The Women Live (France) Laurent Becue-Renard

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