The Stranger’s recommendations for every slot in the festival. Links go to that film’s capsule on SIFF Notes Online, the most comprehensive guide to America’s biggest film festival.

TUESDAY MAY 29:

2 pm, Pacific Place: You have no choice. The only film in this slot is Hounds, which SIFF did not screen for the press.

4:30 pm, Egyptian: Assuming you already saw the fascinating and beautiful documentary Manufactured Landscapes (Pacific Place at 4:30 pm—director Jennifer Baichwal will not be in attendance, but I did an interview with her yesterday which you’ll be able to read [or listen to] when the film opens theatrically in July), you should see the Lolita tale Summer 04, starring Martina Gedeck of The Lives of Others.

7 pm at Northwest Film Forum: Skip the Anthony Hopkins movie and see Ghosts of Cité Soleil—a doc about impoverished people sure to raise the ire of you Life in Loops haters. Ghosts is a look at the circa 2004 lives of pro-Aristide gangsters in the sprawling slums of Port au Prince. The film is unabashedly glam and deeply horrifying.

9:30 pm, SIFF Cinema: Jen Graves loved the predictable yet electrifying father-son story Salty Air. This is your only chance to see it in Seattle proper—the next SIFF screening is on the Eastside.