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| Melissa McCarthy in Spy, which will open SIFF on May 14 Photo: 20th Century Fox |
The festival - which is the largest and most highly attended festival in the US - will screen 450 films representing 92 countries, comprising 193 features (plus 4 secret films), 70 documentaries, 19 archival films, and 164 shorts.
The films include 49 World premieres (23 features, 26 shorts), 51 North American premieres (33 features, 18 shorts), and 18 US premieres (7 features, 11 shorts).
Kevin Bacon will be presented with the festival’s Career Achievement in Acting Award and interviewed on stage in conjunction with Cop Car. Screenings of classics Footloose and Diner will also be held in celebration of his body of work.
This year, SIFF also celebrates the 25th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation with 12 films, including Caught, Rebel Without A Cause and The Red Shoes
Other highlights include Pixar’s Inside Out directed by Pete Docter, Sundance Dramatic Competition winner Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Nathan Hendrickson's The Hollow One.
The competition line-ups are below:
New Directors Competition - To be eligible, films must be a director’s first or second feature and without US distribution at the time of their selection. Winners receive a $2,500 cash prize. A Blast (d: Syllas Tzoumerkas, Greece/Germany/Netherlands 2014, North American premiere); Bonifacio (d: Enzo Williams, Philippines 2014, North American premiere); Corrections Class (d: Ivan I. Tverdovsky, Russia/Germany 2014, North American premiere); Liza, The Fox-Fairy (d: Karoly Ujj-Meszaros, Hungary 2015, North American premiere); Love, Theft And Other Entanglements (d: Muayad Alayan, Palestine 2015, North American premiere); A Matter Of Interpretation (d: Kwang-kuk Lee, South Korea 2014, North American premiere); Morbayassa (d: Cheick Fantamady Camara, Guinea 2015, North American premiere); My Skinny Sister (d: Sanna Lenken, Sweden/Germany 2015, North American premiere); Short Skin (d: Duccio Chiarini, Italy 2014, North American premiere); Under Construction (d: Rubaiyat Hossain, Bangladesh 2015, world premiere); Vincent (d: Thomas Salvador, France 2014); Waterline (d: Michal Otlowski, Poland 2014, North American premiere).
New American Cinema Competition - Films without US distribution compete for the FIPRESCI Award for Best New American Film. The winning film will receive a $2,500 cash prize and a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium edition. Chatty Catties (d: Pablo Valencia, USA 2015, world premiere); Circle (d: Aaron Hann & Mario Miscione, USA 2015, world premiere); Fourth Man Out (d: Andrew Nackman, USA 2015, world premiere); Front Cover (d: Ray Yeung, USA 2015, world premiere); Good Ol’ Boy (d: Frank Lotito, USA 2015, world premiere); Happy 40th (d: Madoka Raine, USA 2015, world premiere); Me Him Her (d: Max Landis, USA 2015, world premiere); Those People (d: Joey Kuhn, USA 2015, world premiere).
Documentary Competition - Winners receive a $2,500 cash prize. Cooking Up a Tribute (d: Luis Gonzalez & Andrea Gomez, Spain 2015, North American premiere); Dreams Rewired (d: Martin Reinhart, Thomas Tode, & Manu Luksch, Austria 2015, North American premiere); The Glamour & The Squalor (d: Marq Evans, USA 2015, world premiere); The Great Alone (d: Greg Kohs, USA 2015, world premiere); In Utero (d: Kathleen Gyllenhaal, USA 2015, world premiere); License To Operate (d: James Lipetzky, USA 2015, world premiere); Mountain Spirits (d: Singing Chen & Kuo-Liang Chiang, Taiwan 2014, US premiere); Paper Tigers (d: James Redford, USA 2015, World Premiere); Romeo Is Bleeding (d: Jason Zeldes, USA 2015); Sergio Herman, F**KING PERFECT (d: Willemiek Kluijfhout, Netherlands 2015, North American premiere); War Of Lies (d: Matthias Bittner, Germany 2014, US premiere).
For details of tickets and the festival's full line-up visit the official site.
