In its 12th year, the Seattle Turkish Film Festival (STFF) will bring the Seattle audience together with the most distinguished films and directors of Turkish cinema. All screenings will take place on November 15-17th, 2024, at SIFF Cinema Uptown.
We are also excited to celebrate the gala together with Night Wave at KEXP on the 16th!

Schedule of Events:

STFFContemporary 2024 Selection

5:30 pm: Sleep of the Crow - SIFF Cinema Uptown

Tunahan Kurt - 2023 - 1 hr 22 min

Winner Best Film (Ankara Film Festival)

Best Actor, Music, Cinematography, and Audience Award (Adana Film Festival)

A quiet, calm person working in a mine transfer facility, who struggles with sleepwalking, murders his wife in his sleep. He manages to conceal the incident as a suicide. With the guilt, the fear of doing the same to his son, he tries to find a new family for his son while teaching him lessons about life.

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7:15 pm: Fate - SIFF Cinema Uptown

Nadim Guc - 2024 - 1 hr 30 min

Winner of Best Film and Best Actress (Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival)

After losing her husband, Sultan, who is afraid of being left alone, tells her children that she wants to remarry immediately. However, her children do not find this appropriate, as only one day has passed since their father's death. Her son Nevzat, who has a traditional perspective, believes that no one in the small town will approve of this. Although her daughter Reyhan tries to respect her mother's wish, she thinks it is a decision made too soon. Despite her children's objections, Sultan does not give up on her desire. While searching for a suitable spouse, she also enters into business ventures, doing everything that people said "a woman cannot do."

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9:30 pm: Sayara - SIFF Cinema Uptown

Can Evrenol - 2024 - 1 hr 38 min

Presented by Scarecrow Video, in collaboration with Seattle Turkish Film Festival.

Sayara is a young woman from Turkmenistan who works as a janitor in a gym in Istanbul. When her older sister is brutally murdered, and her killers are released due to “lack of evidence”, Sayara decides to take justice into her own hands. At a time when the number of femicides and perpetrators who go unpunished continues to rise in countries like Turkiye and Portugal, Turkish director creates “Sayara”, where a lethal Sambo fighter takes care of business when the judicial system fails.

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STFFFantastik 2024 Selection

9:30 pm: Sayara - SIFF Cinema Uptown

Can Evrenol - 2024 - 1 hr 38 min

Presented by Scarecrow Video, in collaboration with Seattle Turkish Film Festival.

Sayara is a young woman from Turkmenistan who works as a janitor in a gym in Istanbul. When her older sister is brutally murdered, and her killers are released due to "lack of evidence", Sayara decides to take justice into her own hands. At a time when the number of femicides and perpetrators who go unpunished continues to rise in countries like Turkiye and Portugal, Turkish director creates "Sayara", where a lethal Sambo fighter takes care of business when the judicial system fails.