Hey Seattle! How’s your SIFFing? I hope that all of the passholders and diehards have been paying attention to those little videos playing between films to stay limber and avoid frequent moviewatching injuries because there are still two more weeks of films to watch. Dropping out early due to exhaustion, fatigue, or other consequences of unpreparedness would certainly be disappointing. For those who have mastered line zen, found the ideal seat in each theater to optimize subtitle reading, and who plan to continue their diet of popcorn and izze, a few SIFF selections from your metroblogging pals to consider for your festival agenda:

American Shopper [siff] - Perhaps the most surprising part of American Shopper is that it is not entirely fiction or mockumentary. Instead, it chronicles a Hungarian’s quest to develop a competitive sport around supermarket cart athletics. Follow along as an actor, a town full of people hungry to claim a $10,000 prize for “aisling” prowess, and a wide-ranging collection of experts, struggle to make one Hungarian’s dream of more engaged consumerism a reality. Thursday, June 07, 9:30 PM, Harvard Exit; Sunday, June 10, 1:30 PM, Harvard Exit (J)

The Banquet [siff] Flashy martial arts play a role in director Fen Xiaogang’s lavishly staged reshaping of Hamlet, but the heart of the film is a tale of suspense and revenge set in an unnamed kingdom in 10th century China where diverse warring factions are brought to the table for a spectacular feast of drama and intrigue. Thursday, June 07, 9:15 PM Neptune; Theatre Monday, June 11, 9:30 PM Lincoln Square Cinemas (ZG)

The Boss of It All [siff] - Lars von Trier takes a break from his trilogy of U.S. exploitation to make an office comedy? Why not! An actor is hired to improvise the role of an information technology company’s chief executive so that the operation can be sold to foreign interests without revealing the true owner. Shot in “automavision” — a sort of computer-controlled imprecision technique [bbc] — to break the director’s control-freak habits. Saturday, June 09, 7:00 PM, Egyptian Theatre (Gala Screening) Wednesday, June 13, 7:00 PM, Lincoln Square Cinemas (J)

Dasepo Naughty Girls [siff] - Depending on your state of mind, this candy-colored South Korean high school sex comedy could be a hilarious trippy adventure in moviewatching. Thrill to singalong karaoke, ridiculous plot elements, and a possible message about social class inspired by an internet webcomic novel. Monday, June 04, 9:30 PM, Neptune Theatre; Wednesday, June 06, 4:15 PM, Egyptian Theatre (J)

Hula Girls [siff] In what looks to be an endearing and charmng tale based on real-life events, residents of a Northern Japanese coal-mining town in the 1960s struggle to transform it into the home of a luxury spa that will bring in the tourists with money they need to survive. The plan turns out to be a lot more difficult than they imagined. Things are looking bleak until a group of young women learn the hula under the tutelage of a dedicated Tokyo dancemaster. Thursday, June 07, 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre; Saturday, June 09, 4:00 PM Lincoln Square Cinemas (ZG)

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema [siff] - We may be living in an era lacking in rockstar philosophers, but at least we have psychoanalyst and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek [wiki]. Sophie Fiennes directs a three part documentary, in which Žižek gallavants through wide swaths of film history encompassing Chaplin, Hitchcock, Lynch, the Wachowski brothers, and Lucas to find out what all of these films say about love, desire, and freedom, and what we think about them. Friday, June 08, 9:30 PM, Harvard Exit; Saturday, June 09, 11:00 AM, Egyptian Theatre (J)

Sharkwater [siff] - In often gorgeous and sometimes sickening footage, Rob Stewart’s performance protest film documents underwater beauty and the brutal practice of destroying sharks for the sole purpose of harvesting their fins. Stewart’s lifelong adoration of sharks brings him below the surface to swim in their company and onto a boat employing guerrilla tactics to keep the seas safe from unscrupulous fishermen. With devotion that seems to border on the delusional, it’s hard to watch this an not imagine that under slightly different circumstances this footage might have ended up, like Timothy Treadwell’s encounters with Grizzly bears, in the hands of Werner Herzog. Nevertheless, the destruction of the ocean’s population is reaching catastrophic levels and those fighting to protect these uncuddly predators (savingsharks.com) are in a worthy uphill battle. Friday, June 08, 7:00 PM, SIFF Cinema; Sunday, June 10, 11:00 AM, SIFF Cinema (J)

Sweet Mud [siff] Why are there so many “coming of age” movies? One reason is that while we’ve all got to grow up some time, it happens differently for each of us. This film, a black comedy about a young boy’s journey to manhood in a 1970s kibbutz in Southern Israel, takes a unique look at a unique growing up in which the hero of the story learns that what some would call utopia isn’t a place for everyone. Wednesday, June 06, 7:00 PM Neptune Theater; Thursday, June 07, 4:00 PM Neptune Theater (ZG)